The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-25

u mas assumed some new guiser, anu hhue So"e '" "
but is the spirit which developed itself FUZZY
under the rule of the elder Adams 1t seeks now as 1t did
then, a stronger government" 1t is in search OF the
cemenng powers OF central influence 1t dstrusts the
wisdom and prudence of the people 1t seeks by an up
lifted governmental to guide those questions OF the
relative conditions of production and consumption, I'M
port and export the raising and the distribution OF re
enue the internal police and government OF the public
domain and the construction of the true powers OF the
constitution, which have, from that important epoch,
formed lines of separating policy and placed democracy
at the nadir and federalism at the zenith OF eonstrue-
tionin or political lattudnariansm. Its tendency is
habitually to distrust and crcumscrbe government
of the people, and place great reiances on selected
classes of men who, possessed OF fiscal power, Affect
superior wisdom and comprehension in the discovery oil
new checks and balances in the Interpretation and adj
of affairs Yet, when these affairs are COM
med their hands by the people, as they were IN lsao
what scenes of wild political riot, fiscal experiment and
public extravaganza did not behold! Who has for
gotten the shackes with which they bound down agri-
cultural labor, by high tariff Who has forgotten the
wild gee of official patronage by which they aimed to
perpeuate their power in the distribution, among them
selves of the whole class of official ocebearers, from
the highest to the lowest, Who has forgotten the ex
raordinary policy of adding to the Juror OF spos, by
bringing ,cole STATES into the vortex and proposing to
divide among them the avais of the public lands' Who
has forgotten or will forget, their false and repeat
ed attempts to banking from its proper custody in
the power OF the States and striving to make the United
States treasury gigantic Office of discount and broker
age'
Four years experience of the development OF these
principles in their hands, convinced the people that they
had been deceived by false promises, and in 1874 they
restored the administration to democratic hands.
But another and more determined effort is now
making TO wrest back that power which they had 80
grossly abused between March al and March AS Yet
who is so weak as to imagine that they have changed
their principles of actionhat they have taken lower
seat by the side of the peopethat they have become
convinced of the ntidemocratc influence OF high tariffs
of governmental banks-of the distribution of the
proceeds of the public ands-and the whole list of corrupt
ing and demoralizng measures by which the public Off
ces were in effect, set up TO the highest bidder, and
struck down to those who shouted loudest for the reign
of federalism and exulted most arroganty the dis
comfted friends of democracy Who believes it we
repeat Not one not man, who has calmly considered
the operations of the government administered under
the fixed and limited principles of the constitution.
"A lie w new ISSUES W NC W oHO VI
two factions OF the mixed wing party, who oppose
the democracy But the great mass OF that party appear
to have been so hopeless of in submitting plat
form of their principles for the decision of the people,
that they offered none whatever at the nomination of
their candidate And whom did they nominate at this
convention, in which no principles laid down for
their government An officer in the army-a man OF so
little energy aptitude, that he forty years in
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who has only within few years been promoted to the
command of division, without ever having exercised
the functions of civil Office in his whole life. A
against whom there is no objection in the line OF his pro-
esson, the head of his troops; man. not hair
of whose head would we touch-not leaf would
we take from the wreath Of laurel which adorns
his brow; but who, like Galba, is called, with
his sword in his hand, to take the chief rulers
seat; who is merely military man, and nothing
ese and does not profess to know the principles Of
the government which they have selected him TO admin
iser There is but one legitimate conclusion to be drawn
from such selection 1t is evident that the wings wanted
no man the head of their government who could not be
by wirepulles, to whom they could not say,
"Do this, and do that" and j. should be done. The
more profoundly ignorant he may be OF the principles of
the constitutions of the great and leading interests of the
country of the true of the prosperity of agrcu
ture, commerce. and navgaton of the policy of bank
ing tariffs revenues and exchanges, the better for them
The more obscure these vital topics to him the less
he knew in fact of the great and intricate circle Of the
commerce and of the GLOBE of the varied and
systems of the policy of foreign nations, of
the great workings OF the progress of civilization among
men, so much the more completely would he subserve
the purposes of that party, and the louder and
to Zachary Taylor The explosion of gunpowder not
not not fitness,
the by which the for such candidate
is sought to be promoted To VOTE, and not to THINK is
the act which fellow citizens called perform
And whom does such oppose Whom have
the democracy selected to be their standard bearer
Lewis Casa man also known in early life in
the armies of his country, at when it was
invaded by land and by foreign enemies; man
who stepped boldly forward when the savage scaping
knife welded on frontiers-when British ships
hemmed in our spreading shores, from Casne to the
coasts bombarded, our
towns sacked in many places. and capital set in
flames. At this period he soldier; but his ripe
civic talents gave him still higher claim to his countrys
regard AS the executive officer of vast frontier terri
tory, he exercised controlling influence on its prosperity
Under the auspices of Gen. Jackson, of the greatest
of our rulers, be presided the War Department at
period of great difficulty, and with the highest credit As
American minister at the Court of France he foed the