Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-10-21

ncongruty and to wear in spite of the deron Of enemies
the honest shame Of friends. II cunning part of this
device to cast upon the opponents Of this new Democratic
party the coeatve term which, IN old times, had existed OF
the Federal party, and accordingly, sir the whole line of
newspaper batteries by which The party defended
opened upon the Wings incesan fire, in which every gun
loaded with the charge OF Federalism From that period
date the birth of this extraordinary nondescrp, the
Democracy, and the miracle Of Mr. Madisons Identified
ton and The identification of his friends with the old Federal
party Of 1916. This has brought about strange meta
nophoses BY the legerdemain OF this operation Mr.. Cay
Mr.. Sergeant, and Mr. Crendea-and name them only as
descriptive Of whole party in the countryold tried, and
approved champions of the Democratic cause have to
be- without any fault Of their own without the slightest change
Of opinion conduct and equally without their know
ledge consciousness they have be Federasts and
Mr.. Buchanan, Mr. Hubbard and Mr.. WALL and thousand
Others equally DID, tried and approved Fedoraists whether
without any consciousness Of the change will not say have
to be genuine authentic, and undoubted Democrats
Certain is sir that the gentlemen have first named stand
to-day all political doctrine, in all convictions Of the value
Of defined Government policy, precisely where they stood 10
1876 In jot have they changed Whether the others
say much am not concerned to nqure. The party
TO have been guided by that dexeous Pecept
nounced in the ballad
{" If cannot alter things
Why, then, we'll change their names sir"
Ever since the of this feat, the Democracy
have been much at loss to find their principles
aphet discover his father The whole OF the
party from that day this, has been Of experiment
We have them in the Of twenty years. on both
sides Of every question, either of doctrine policy AT one
time they bank afterwards against it First against
the substreasury then for it as to the tariff the peculiarly
Of their position is that they have been for it and against
all the tme-for and against at the moment they we've
tor internal mprovements-dg them-and for them
again in Short in quite peplexy upon this point Then
again. sir they for the distribution of the proceeds Of
he public lands, and then against them They have been
for State banks and against them They have claimed to
be the friends Of hard money SYSTEM and the enemies OF
paper money, the very moment when they Were locking up
the coin OF the country and flooding the land with paper
Their clumsy Subreasu, which they have erected last
they find impossible to manage and are themselves in daily
violation Of the law Of its existence Is It wonder sir that
such party should be constantly building platforms Is it
wonder that such party should be angry at US because
do not build as many as they dol
Sir there is one thing which they have been invariably
true and that the encouragement and extension of the
Executive power ofthe Government Ia that they have been
consistent with all their past history They have pursued this
with eager ZEAL which time has not aboted crcum-
stance diverted from its object In this they have been unre-
mingly and the original principles Of their
organization The veto power has been their hobby-heir
ready aid in every time oneedthe darling OF their thoughts
It is their avore threat in Congress against any and every
party denounced measure which the people have gathered
force sufficient carry through that body the staple Of
boasngs Of Congress- how ecacous the veto Is TO
the people from their own representatives In the history
Of the veto-beore the Democracy had shed their Light
upon benghed couny- had been used in forty years but
eight times that is, average, once in five years. and
them only upon questions and considerations which
obtained for it full acquiescence not party
grounds In the succeeding eighteen years. marking the
period Of the illumination, it has been used in one
form another; that is, in the direct application Of it,
indirectly by tpockeing-to use the common phrasethe
bills Of Congresstwenty three times eleven times by the
fiat veto, and twelve times by the Pocketng process This
too always with perhaps one or two exceptions upon party
grounds II has been used repeatedly upon the ques
ton Notwithstanding that the people have, and over
again. elected representatives to the legislation
in Congress- and upon which the President had submitted to
the country all his objections. Thus showing that the veto
persisted in, after the country had passed its matured
judgment upon the subject in question.
This has been particularly exempfed in the Of the
river and harbor bills of several successive years.
Again, s the Executive has been sustained by the party
only in its veoes but conspcuousy in the
compacency with which has been allowed dictate he
legislation Of Congress. |; may be truly affirmed that be-
tween these two forms Of directing the Executive influence,
Congress has lost much Of It's Independence in the last
twenty years to render body Of less freedom OF will
than the legislatures of either France England. Sir
during those twenty years there has scarcely been great
and important OF legislation proposed by the Wings
and carried by the voice Of the people, through their repre-
sentaves that has been frustrated by the There
the regulation Of the currency by bank there
the distribution Of the public lands there the improve
mens by roads and canals the protection the rivers and ha
bors Twice the tariff vetoed, ard only suffered pass
in si2 from apprehension that revenue would be granted
ia no other FORM
On The other hand the Executive, by force Of lis
WILL and against the opinions Of the people, and in some
against the direct OF Congress until the party
better drilled compelled the adoption Of the most i'm
porant which have been carried into effect and
under which the country has suffered its msortunes
Amongst these To the specie circular, it called
and the subsequent adoption Of Congress- after that body
had rejected il the Subtreasury which stands in the
category the annexation OF Texas; the with Mexico
the issue of Government paper, exchequer bills &c and
the tariff Of 1916.
In both Of these lists you may recognise the most sicni
measures, for good and evil Of the last twenty years
the first invariably frustrated by the nteposon OF the Exc
cutiye the latter invariably carrd ny it. Now sir, is the
exercise Of this royal pTcrogsve that attracts the unmeasur
ell conmendation Of the Democracy il is this
feature of public administration that than thing
ee, embodes and untes the Wing party against IT, Which
Of the two parties has the side Of the people in this contest
Yet in the face Of controversy such this, and OF such
history this General Cass that letter OF acceptance Of
the nomination 10 which have referred, goes out Of his way
to cast reproach upon the Whg party, and TO sgmatze it
with charge Of infdey to the great OF free
ment 1.-The Wings do not believe the capacity Of
for self government the import Of his remark "and
therein they mainly distinguished from (the De-
mocracy) who do believe in il That's the starting point,
at which the two parties dverge The Wings the nea
descendants Of the old Federal paywe come in direct line
contest with Gen. Zachary Taylor
Who twas General Cass If ancient memories to be
trusted he himself Federa the black cockade in
the days when that badge; elected TO the Lega
ture Of Ohio Federa and only changed his when
he found profit in IT, such is the early story Of Gen Cas
who has undertaken to deme whole party in the United
States by what he maniesy regards pointed opprobrum
deduction OF their political origin from The cradle in
which he himself What niere of