The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-04-30

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The Democracy OF Wisconsin In the fssId

The democratic party OF the State of Wisconsin The
convention was called to nominate the democratic cand
dates Tor the State offices, and for the legislature The
nominations Tor State officers follows:
For Recommendation Dewey of Grant county
For he"tenant gorono-John e. Holmes of Jefferson
county.
For secretary of state-Thomas MeIIugh, of Waworh
county sa
For hsasya--Josah C. Farohid, of Dane county
For attorney gensrai-James s. Brown, of Milwaukee
county.
We regret that have not space TO lay the whole of
the address of this convention before our readers If
describes in the following just and strong terms the posi-
ton and prospects of the State which now presents
herself for admission into the Union:
No longer pensione dependent upon the federal gov
ernmen voiceess and unpotentia province of The
OF indeed but not in a sovereign State by the act of
her people, who became sovereign and independent peo
pie by the actWisco claims her place among the as
ISOLATED sister soyeregnes OF the Union, and knocks
admission at the doors of the federal Capitol But yester.
day wilderness, the home of the wild beast and of his
scarcely less savage hunter the red those prares
and these forests, and to-day organised community
multiplying and TO multiply beyond any former experience
even in his Hemisphere of giant growth and blessed with
pure civilization any the above us shines upon
our young State stands forth amidst the sacred
oil States, equal IN natural advantages to and superior
to most already in her infancy, far from least among
In all the elements of political greatness, and giving
PROMISE it but do duty our successors in this
Eden OF the West, of rivalng distant day great
est and proudes sovereign unit Of This glorious coniedea
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Unembarrassed by debt aud unained by disaonor-not
feeble In numbers and strong in all the elements
power pure and free in all the peculiar purity freedom
OF western civzatonW presents herself for adj
mission into the Union, worthy of the guratvey as
signed to natons-n truth and indeed virgin State
Warned by the precpancy of those who have gone be-
fore her, she has waited for maturity and not assumed il
determined to lay untmely rreveren hand upon
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justification and her reward in the marked and unusual
tenton with which her advent is awaited by the oldest
States of the Union.
The address proceeds with able and searching re-
view of the position and character of the two great par
ties before the country We quote the following para
graphs. They are well worthy of attention: s
With uiaing interruptions, the democratic party have
directed the desnies OF the Union. Theirs has the
fortune to give statesmen TO the nation stability its ns
tnons progress its system, glory arms The pro-
gess of the American Union from infancy to this hour
in the of peace and in social and political
Iteration, has been, under Providence, work
and the pride of the democratic party United in its adj
herence 10 its great principles and undsnayed amidst all
political evuson the democratic party fulfilled its
mssiono of progress by steady advances all the great
measures of human amelioation, until has lately given
impulse to the cause of progress before which
cent adversaries yield in hopeless and helpless dsnay
Dvorcing the national government from the corrupt and
unconstitutional union with the money power ii has given
TO the nation constitutional treasury SYSTEM which in
despite OF the fears and execraons of the bank advocates
and of the actous opposition of the whg leaders, has
dcaed the great principles of financial economy which
twas founded; and while its operation has placed
currency and internal exchanges in state of unexam
pied prosperity under all the disadvantages enor-
nous expenses OF foreign has forever exploded the
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Interfering commerce from restraints disembarrass-
ing manufactures from the vcissudes political sys-
tern OF protection, which, in their admlra all things
transatlantic our opponents imported from England when
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learning the wholesome lessons of free from America
The democratic party has made approx
to free trade the times will admit of; and while this
measure has given unparalleled prosperity to our foreign
and domestic commerce, it has senced all the factious
forebodngs OF our opponents by wholesome progress in
the arts and business of and by keeping the
national treasury in state OF unwonted abundance amidst
all the drain of money required support our glorious
armies in the enemy's country.
he test oil the last three has exploded the financial
creed oil the wing party. national bank and high pro-
tective tariff have alike become obsolete ideas SUBJ
treasury and the tariff of 1916 have ceased TO be exper
ments they ratified in the annals Of experience
But not alone in the national affairs has the democratic
principle been actively work State after State has risen
in It's might TO the democratic ravinp cry of re.
orm reform OF the constitutional law govern
nent within its Legitimate sphere restore to the people
80 nch oil their inherent power, long usrped by the
peoples servants TO abolish class legislation and chartered
monopoly; to insure the fidelity OF the public agents by
bringing them in direct and frequent responsibility to the
peoples to avoid undue expenditure and TO simplify all eps
laon; IN fne to restraint simplify and purge the State
political systems reform Of the municipal law. 10 ast
out the system borrowed, and hitherto existing among
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picaed code, and to substitute AN American system in
Its stead, clear, simple and suited our political sys
tern to place the law itself within the comprehension
and the remedies of the law within reach of ALL under
Judicial system, simple, eicacious and RESPONSIBLE
Such have been the ends aimed the democratic party
in various States and already have the words of doom
been written on all old municipal abuses He can lii.
tie Judge OF the signs of the who cannot oesee that
yet little while, and all the ncongruties of the English
system will be banished from codes and with the
downfall of the last relic Of old colonial yasalage these
States will at length cease to be in anything Identical with
the old British provinces, and become their social and
political order in their municipal and judicial systems AT
length and forever thoroughly enranchised and American
lAfter some spirited and patriotic comments upon the
course of the two parties in relation to the warts lust
and necessary commencement part and its glor-
Gus trumphs-the position of the wings in relation to
that issue is thus presented:
In this opponents have been idle speca-
tors Acting in the beginning with impulse of patriot
ism which overlooked mere partisan anmosites, their
public declared the the of Mexico and Joined
our administration in its vigorous prosecution Soon
ed OF position new to he they have since expressed
the Mexican views of the controversy and have in all
ways sought to impede and embarrass the ndnistra ton
In the conduct Of the war Pfotractng the by emba
RAISING our arms and encouraging those of Mexico, they
boldly seek to dictate retrograde movement and in
glorious peace Such the principles and such the
tute OF the contendng paries they organize the APP