The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-09-10
The Campaign.

All the correspondence we have seen and published
is cheering We do doubt OF the election of Cas- and
Butler by handsome majority We have frequently
expressed this opinion, but with the condition that the
democrats should enegeticaly do their duty We again
lay before readers this morning. further confirmation
of the confident hopes which friends entertain in all
quarters But should deeply regret such publications
if they should be calculated produce an overweening
confidence in There is some danger in this
and think duty frankly state the fact and 10
our friends against apathy and naction We must
boldly caution friends to beware not TO fold their
arms and go to sleep but work in season and out of
season-to organize thoroughy-to form associations
TO circulate documens-to send forth their orators-to
rouse up the people, and to bring them TO the polls in
November.
1t is true the wings wanting in the enthusiasm by
which they were distinguished four years ago but is
equally true that there manifest signs that they
waking up, and that some of them actively at work
1t is true that varieties of acts-some intended for one
meridian, and for another-are published in this
city; and that an organized committee sparing pains
to scatter them the whole length and breadth of the
land under the franks OF members of Congress We begin
the attempts of their leaders and their press to rouse
up their tagging COHORTS to lash in the deserters and
bring back the abolition wings who have gone to the
barnbuners We see their apprehensions of Van Buren,
and their open attempts TO bring him into contempt In
word, acquainted with the whgs-ther reck-
essness, their desperation, their resources and it is i'm
possible not to that they daily concentrating their
power-operating sometimes silently sometimes openly
the Masses and bringing into play those devices and
humbugs which their favorte weapons of warfare
Would any but the most desperate party pretend to
cuse Fillmores gross abolition letter of 1888 be
guilty of the sophstry and deception of attempting to
offset by his shallow letter to Governor Gales of
Alabama Yet, such is the effort of the Richmond Wing
press Would any but the most desperate party pretend
to hold up Gen. Taylor at the North friend OF the
Provso and at the South its opponents
Democrats If you expect carry your ticket in No
vember, you must work for it. eternal vigilance is
the price of liberty" Labor is the lot of man. Energy
is the characteristic of successful politicians Remember
in that volume of Esop, which is Gen Tayors classic
that the swift hare beaten by the slow tortoise in the
race, because the hare conscious of the speed of her
foot went to sleep, and the tortoise kept continually
moving. We succeed gloriousy in the election of
our excellent ticket; but, them must be
tain of it. We should ourselves and, the dying
Jefferson exclaimed, still "Rouse the Committees"
Let us not be for moment misunderstood in this mat
We see no abate jot of sanguine con-
fdence of the election of Cass and Butler unless this
very confidence shall become assured and universal
among the democracy to paalyze its energy and its
ardor And surely this should not be- Remember that
the wings than three months ago proclaimed the
election of Taylor be certain The signs have indeed
changed immensely The results OF the August elections
in the west and in the south have fairly asonised the
country and the wings most of all Yet do not forget
that the wings have all along boased that owing to the
Van Buren, movement they in the canvass with the
hirtysr votes of New York assured beforehand This
assurance may be waxing weaker than it has been
before; but it is yet strong enough, in connexion with
the imperfect intelligence yet received from Vermont
impress upon every democrat in the country the impea
tive necessity of doing his whole duty to his principles
and his
Ohio.
PIaUA Miami county, Sept. 2, 1913
We are in strong wing district, (4th represented in
the late Congress by Mr. Candy Our senatorial and rep
resentave districts both strongly whg and have
consequently, whgery in its parity, without much
ceament of its peculiar features. The abolition vote
here is strong in the neighboring counties of
Greene and Warren but the wings have uniformly pro-
ious sense of the and, both before and since the
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