Democratic banner., 1848-09-11
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
THE o R BEFORE Us.

among the wings and Van buren, partizanS
that the soId party issues are Obsolete
eNobody thinks now of a bank of the Unit
led States, Of a Tariff for protection, Of
Distribution, and so on. They are obso-
Ilete. Nothing of the kind is now in con-
.ltroversy."
We have heard this syrene ditty before.
We heard it in 1910. Then it filled up the
interval between song and cider, and many
good mn were deluded into the notion that
all these things were laid on the shelf, and
that some underlined and marvellous good
would somehow work itself out by the e.
lection of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too."-
They were elected, and then came the test
in respect to these old issues. A tariff for
prote ction, most unequally framed, most ex-
brilliantly taxing the common necessaries
of life, was reported by Willard Fillmore,
and passed into a law. A Bankrupt act,
relieving here and there a good man, but
enabling thousands of knavish Spectators to
r~epudiate by wholesale, was passed into a
law. A national bank bill-two of them
Indeed, were brought forward and crowded
Through Congress with hot haste-and only
prevented from becoming a law BY the veto
of John Tyler. This is the lesson which
the last eight years read us to 60 no further
back. He who will not heed it and be
wise, must even try his chances again;
though there is an old saying that sits nae
canny to tax twa rotten eggs out Of the same
basket"
What are the issues presented afhrma-
lively on our side and to us, democrats
The Independent Treasury-the thor
ough and eternal separation of Bank and
state, with the collection from abroad, and
payment among our own people Of all gov
eminent claims in Gold and Silver Coin.-
1t has been In operation four years and
worked well, has it not? Exchanges were
never lower or more even-coin never so
large a part of the circulation, no less to the
Ig%overnmunt through defalcationsA - while in
this city alone, in the payment of our troops
have teen disbursrd in the last five wees,
in specie. The Tariff of 1916, a law to
raise a revenue off importations of goods,
not to given one mans steam engine and
|spinning j%ennies, advantages over anothers
tlplough or anvil-this also has been tried
land works to charm. These great meas
lures mustbe maintained as they are.
Then consider friends, the issue (present-
led by our -sdversaries,) upon the Justice
lof the Mexican war-a war begun from
necessary self defence, prosecuted with
Wonderful energy. and closed in brilliant
triumph! They say that it was a dishonor-
liable and daBnable war Of aggression and
conquest condemned of God and human
lily, and instigated by the Vaccinations Of
the Devil. They say that u national
name is disgraced, our flag soileG, our brave
soldiers who have fallen for their country,
worthy TO be remembered only as armed
bandittii How shall all this infamous scan
dsl be rebuked? How shall history-the
History in which the heroic deeds of the
last two years are to live-bs set right
BY the potent voice of public opinion--by
1.-THE judgement which each man shall render
at the ballot boxes. Had Madison and the
,|gallant Republican supporters of the late
war with Great Britain,go down before the
calumnies Of the federalists-th peace pat-
riots Of hatday-would it not have figured
10 history as condemnation of the war for
'Jree trade and Sailors rights!P" Would
not our young men have been fought to lean
strongly against their own country to dis
trust their justice and integrity--to falter
and fall back when called upon to defend
her? Should we not have invited aggress-
ion and become a by-word of contempt a.
mong nations? Exactly that issue is pres
ented now, in respect to the Mexican war.
Permit the opponents cfthis war to triumph
no matter under whose name-Tayler's or
Van Buren's--snd you cannot doubt that
lthey will CLAIM it as a popular condemnation
Iof the war. Who surround Taylor-who
are the champions of his cause? CDrw1n,
with his bloody hands-red indeed with
blood shed I'M consequence OF the protrac-
ton of the war by means Of the traitorous
course, he, and such as he, pursued!-Ford
lcoldblooded as he is crafty, who would not
vote a dime for tia relief of sick or woun
lded volunteers!-.such are the mea who
have taken possession Of Gen. Taylor as an
ldpciM6k candidate And Oh the other
hand foremsst ef Van Ruree's partizsps,
are Giddings, and Lewis and Chase, whose
rank opposition to the war, differs only from
that of Cnrwin and Ford. in that II snrinca