The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-14
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.
Correspondence OF the Union.

DETROIT, (MIoHIsASO October A. 1915.
Here in the home of General Cass everything looks pros
porous and cheerful for the democratic pary The Old
statesman and frontier soldier is the patriarch of the place.
and though the whgs have put themselves expense
Of building Rough and Ready cabin, they have not
yet been able ill it, neither with theif partsans
with the lookers-on, who to the sport. Pov
dence itself does not 10 smile upon them for,
the Luildng finished than It's roof and part Of the
walls fell ia with Tremendous crash-iouunatey hurting
nobody there in which is the usual state
OF the premises.
You will in the wing papers tremendous parade of
their meetings. but from three four hundred persons
all they could muster, while Col Morgan and The
Hon VIM. Allen, OF Ohio, addressed four and five times
that number duiing the most ncement weather of the
You may look upon the JVo!pernes being thoroughly
welded to Cas- and Buer the State of Michigan being,
no doubt good for 5000 majority, all the Dragging and
Boosting of adversares the contrary
nave not, on my whole pilgrimage conented
faces than among the regular democrats OF this place
while both the wings and the Van Buren, aboonists look
as bleak and cherries as If they had the ague In vain do
the wings cry for help the barnbnners in vain do the
latter expect support from the wings: the period OF t-
ton is at an endreason must again sway The
Van Buren abotionlss perceive that they have been i
ed that all hee embraces of the wings have remained
sterile and that the election they will not be able
In any State, approach the number votes cast for
the regular democratic ticket. On the other hand the
wings still more sick of their bargain with the Van
Buren, aboitons who diminish instead OF adding to The
whig force They have enough Of the doubeedgod sword
IN New England, and would gladly be done with it in
every other State of the Union.
The of Horace Greeley the whg fold comes too
late for the wing aboonsts but quite sea son for tho
Pan Buren, abolonsts, who expected omnibus ride
the country They but they have been
hoaNed, and crowds returning their first demo-
cratic love. The Van Buren, movement is settling down
everywhere. IL has hitherto been sustained principally by
the wings and will in the end be entirely dependent on
whig support Van Buren, may have stood godfather to the
party and he be goodnatucd enough call it his own
child but the wing leaders in New York know more about
IT, though decent respect for the opinion the world NAV
induce them TO keep the
General Cas- lives here in the same plain old frame
house which he has Inhabited for years surrounded by his
family, and secluded from the would lie is The most in
different spectator OF the busy which animate
the Union; and from his domestic circle calmly surveys
the development and poges of country which has grown
under his parental and prospeed under his aen-
ton. He that has done much, and what did SO we'll
whose inscribed upon many bright pages of his
counuy's history may well look with composure on tho
angry passions Of politics. and abide TRANQUILITY the issue of
contest which add nothing his fame, and deuact
nothing from his merit. PILGRIM.
p S. The Central Railroad of the State of Michigan is
finished to within Is miles of New Buffalo its western
terminus 1t will no doubt be completed next spring. and
be powerful means of increasing the wealth and pros
pery OF the State. p.