The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-02-19
THE UNION.
A Glimpse Of Returning Good Sense

Glimpse OF Returning Good Sense.
After all that has been said and DONE il cannot be be-
ieved that the wings OF Massachusetts the lnea de
scendants OF the Essex unto of federasts OF 1901
the worst men living When Timothy Pickering and
others OF that juno lost power, nearly fifty years ago
they were disposed to attribute their failure the folly
and the nordnate vanity OF the President who support
ed his authority and his dignity by prosecutions under
the sedluon law by muzzling free press and mpris-
onlng democratic printers, and all who presumed TO
speak OF HIM disrespectully. Hamilton and Pickering
came under the dspeasure OF the President In freak
OF passion, Mr. Adams dismissed Pickering from the
office OF Secretary of State Alexander Hamilton, a let
ter dated August $780, just the of the presidential
election in which the elder Adams the federal
didate for second term, said " His presidency, (NIr
Adams's0 in my opinion, has been Heterogeneous
compound OF right and wrong of wisdom and error.
In another letter. noticing the repeated charges which
Mr.. Adams had made upon Pickering and others, that
they British faction in this country" Hamil-
ton pronounced the abuse " wicked and cruel calum-
ny" With the wors, administration that the coun-
try ever saw, from 1896 to 1900, the "scsptre de-
parted" from lot OF Massachusetts, politicians, who
undertook to rule the country with rod OF iron
through the alien and sedition laws, passed for
the purpose of sitting discussion and crushing opposi
ton. Loss of power, in the election of Mr.. Jefferson,
however, afterwards united the conflicting ele-
ments and from that day to this the of the Essex
uno, and their descendants have opposed every great
measure of the democracy OF the Union which has been
proposed For nearly fifty years there has been
time when the federal press of Massachusetts has not
gone of at the start against every honest and patriotic
proposition intended to benefits to the people
There has been period when the federal politicians of
Massachusetts, have not been ready to manufacture po
ical capital out OF any difficulty in which the country
could be involved There never has been an aggression
made upon American rights by Great Britain, or
the governments friendly to her, that not paated,
excused or denied by the leading federal politicians of
Massachusetts,. The federal party, led on under
aproest of one hundred and SIXTY Unitarian eegynen,
the first sympathisers with Mexico The federal
Legislature OF Massachusetts, first multiplying by resolution
the constitutions and declaring that State to beout OF the
Union if Texas should be annexed, afterwards pro-
nounced the war, which own constituted authorities
had declared to exst by the act of Mexico" to be I'M
just, unconstitutional, and wicked
The first to do violence to truth and PATRIOTISM as
Massachusetts, wings have beenas might have been ex-
ected of the party there goaded desperation by the
dsapponments OF nearly half century-t will not be
wonderful to find candid practical men of that party and
the readers of the Union that there are thou
sands of Massachusetts federass who do not appear 80
wicked home inspection their malicious political
principles would ndicate who will be first and foremost
to return 10 a sense of Justice
The Newburyport Herald is wing paper established
far back the administration of the elder Adams in
all that time, are informed, the paper has continued
in the management of the family of its original founder,
the late Ephraim w. Allen, who died scarcely year
since. That paper was opposed to the annexation of
Texas and has disaproved of the of the ad-
mnistration in relation to Mexico AS evidence how.
ever that violence has not entirely got the better of IFS
Judgment present the following extract from late
number of the Herald If the whg members of Congress
will disregard democratic facts and arguments, can they
not be induced TO pause when they shall read the follow
ing from Massachusetts, wing paper, printed within the
very district of the ancient Essex unto and for many
years the faithful exponent Of the principles of Massachu
sets opponents to the democracy
eve will go far the farthes in stopping the war
heneper proper had that erieo rH consent TO
it. But the oltquoed remark must be borne in mind that
though one party may make war, it takes to make
peace. Suppose army Withdrawn from Mexico, and
her ports given ups ought not to be certain do
ing this that Santa Anna and his associates will not refuse
make peace! Suppose they recruit their armies and set to
oork their ports fitting ont pipatees against COM
uerce We ask what will those who recommend with.
drawing armies from Mexico and giving up her ports
propose to do then! We pause for reply!"
Yes true enough, what would become of Massachu-
sets ships freighted with the
productions of Massachusetts ndustry--if our troops
were Withdrawn from Mexico, and the Mexican ports
swarmed their prvaeers in the Mexican gulf and over
the Pacific ocean? Will not Messrs Winthron and
Ashmun, and even the ardent Mr. Hudson, pause before
they shall precptae their constituents into the jaws of
such a dilemma?