The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-09-08
lJTY OF WASHINGTON.
FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 8, Is4s.
rns Despair of the yvhigs-Its Causes.

80 any one of which mi ht account for the fact and all
bieb in combination, of force sufficient 10 pros
rate any party which has ever appeared in this country.
Tho frs, great disadvantage under which the wings
or labor appears in the fact that they take the field in
,o,on TO all the great measures, both of foreign and
onesic policy, which have sgnalized the present ad
;o.raton 1t is too late to dispute that these meas
. have made the country eminently prosperous 1t is
IN late TO dispute that they have crowned the American
name with new honor They have established on basis
,,uaable henceforth in It's principles, commercial
D financial sy stems-thus finishing the work which the
.uocracy. under the lead of General Jackson, began
twenty years ago. in the old hero's upon the bank
n the aocious tariff of 1928. In foreign relations
bs same democratic policy has rescued from the tena-
os grasp of England the most valuable portion of Ore
oo and conquered in just from Mexico the vast
regions of New Mexico and California In gaining this
mighty accession to territorial wealth and resources
we have wrenched from England her last cause of quar-
. rel with u.s. and we have made manifest to Mexico and
to the world that the only policy which it is expedien
for any nation pursue towards us, policy of JUS
ce and of peace Against results like these it is hard
almost hopeless, for any opposition party to struggle
before free and intelligent people The wing party
show their OF this fact in their manifest fear to
make any broad issue of principles before the country
the present time.
In the second place. the wings find themselves as
party crushed down under the odium of opposition to
their counlrys They have reviled their country's
cause They have checred on the public enemy. Their
speeches and pamphlets have given to that enemy his
Arguments and his watchwords. Foreign journals have
quoted whg denuncaons for the purpose OF casting foul
tishonor the American Against such course
political action the heart of patriotic people burns
with Indignation By such course the wings of 1872
neither more just, nor more necessary more
glorious, advantageous in its result than has
been the war with Mexico, made their very names by
word and reproach in history, and fell, as party
rise more. The last two years have witnessed the
same great political crime, and are now witnessing the
sane punishment.
Nor has the whig craftsmanship in this great conro
versy between our government and Mexico been any
more acceptable to the mind of the country than that
moral which has thus done its worst to sully the
glory of On the vital question of our rghtful ter
rora expansion and the growth of free civilization
the wings have arayed themselves in seadas opposition
10 the best and highest aspirations of free people The
wing party has utterly failed to comprehend, or least
show in its action that it comprehended the grandeur
of the great crisis through which history has Just
passed Towing eyes, there has been nothing inspiring or
eevatng the extension of republican fgovern-
men along the shores of the Pacific. The Wings have
fought desperately against the spread of that system of
confederation, which is the pride of our nationality and
the main hope of freedom throughout the world Now that
this mighty augmentation of our national power and re-
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whg party have proclaimed their resolve to cast it
away as burden and !" The whole mind of
our people rises up in revolt against policy so repug.
nant to national pde and so derogatory to our ma
donal Institutions The American nation is not prepared
trust men who practically protest against the spread of
American self-government as an evil and wrong and
who would sgmatise just reparation and indemnity as
lust of conquest and plumber!
Nor the country prepared to see with more patience
the open attack upon the constitution of the United
States which the wings are now making in their as
saults upon the Veto Power The people are not will
ing thus to abrogate at the call of party any per-
ton of their constitution Reverence to that sacred
instrument is our loyalty.-a loyalty nobler and ruer
than monarchs or courts have won. The masses
go for the constitution as it Isl and least of all
are they willing to remove from it single check
upon the legislative power which its trainers deemed
needful and sautary The people feel that it quite
easy enough for Congress to legslate with the
qualified veto. We have quite as many laws passed
now, session by session, the people desire to
passed AS guard against hasty and nconsiderate law
maklng-as balance of power between coordinate de-
Iarunents OF the government-as means of combining
the vast array of interests embodied in every Congress
within their constitutional sphere-and the appropri
ate voice and action of that peculiar constituency made
up OF the people numerically and Of the sovereign States
which IN its double character is alone represented by the
President, chosen he is by the electoral college-as
The appropriate voice of this peculiar constituency,
quite different from the constituency of the House
or OF the Senate-the veto power is cherished by
The people, as being now, in fact, what it was in
Us origin OF old safeguard of popular rights; and
hey find alike strange and unwecome the spectacle
Oh set-syled conservative party raying TO display
'her conservatism by ruhlessly plucking down so i'm
porant pillar of their constitution
But if the issues of the whigs-both those which are
avowed and those which kept in the back
sround-are thus fitted to bring down overwhelming de-
lea upon that party, the which it has taken in
It's own organization for the present canvass is, per-
maps, still more plainly suicidal The great of the
wings in this canvass may be summed up in word
meg hare sOwn all their movements an utter contempt
Of the intelligence of the people! 1t is libel on the
popular intelligence that the wings have gone into the
canvass without taking any ground whatever the
seaueson of slavery, and without any declaration of