Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-11-18
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, ls4s.
THE WING TRIUMPH.


aen', we offered some reflections on the impor
ace OF lhe contest, and some congratulations to on
readers ON the happy result of it. The subject il
however, 100 full of interest TO require apology 70
briefly resuming it. Indeed, il is hardly possibl
.or any refiecting person to estimate too highly tn
importance of the issue which the people of tn
United States have just decided, or the magnitude
OF the interests which hung on that decision. Pro
portlonate, therefore, must be the joy of all thos
who enrolled themselves on the side of the Whit
candidate for the Chief Magis,racy of this grea
country. For ourselves, we confess that when VIZ
look back at the long train of evil consequences
which have flowed from those elections which gave
ascendeacy to the antl-national principles and the
aggressive, belligerent, proscriptive, and jaco-
Snlc career of the selEstyled Democratic party,
and contrast them with the pacific, just patriotic,
tolerant, and conservative principles of the Whig
party which have now SO signally riumphed, we
regard the result Of the with feelings akin to
4iose which must fill the bosoms OF men who have
gust escaped from city overwhelmed by an earth
quake. The antagonist principles Of good and evil
were ii desperate conflict. A dark and portentous
future awaited the triumph OF the one; bright and
cheering prospec! is opened by the victory of the
other. Let us, however, look more in detail at what
we have escaped on the one hand, and what we
have gained on the other.
General CAss, the Democratic candidate, was the
supporter Of the existing Administration, and stood
pledged TO carry out the policy of all the Demo-
cratic Administrations from 1929 down. This po-
DIZZY has consisted
In making war on the business of the coun-
try--denouncing the very foundation of commerce,
and invoking bankruptcy and ruin upon all who
trade on credit the vital element of all trade in free
Governments
In making war on the currency of the country
by the establishing of the Subtreasury-the system
of the dark ages and of despotc Governments only
and giving one kind of money for the Government
and another kind for the People:
In making war Oh the industry of the country,
by refusing 10 it all protection, and exposing it to
the competition of the pauper labor Of Europe:
In denying to the Government any constitu-
tional authority to apply public money 10 public
Improvement; in denying to it in fac; almost every
attribute OF good, and narrowing its functions almost
10 tie sole powers of taxation and war:
In applying the Executive Veto TO laws the
most salut2ry; and assuming for the President the
right and duty of negativng bills upon mere mo-
tives OF cxpediency, and arbitrarily setting up his
single opinion a sufficient warrant for multiplying
she will of the People as expressed through their
Representatives:
In bringing into existence the an,i-socia prin
-ciplc Of prescription, converting the power of APP
pointmcn! into cruel and tyrannical engine Of " re-
wards and punishments," and administering the
Government on the slavsh doctrine that {" TO the
victors belong the spo,ls; all alike detestabe and
al war with the genius of free Government.
In addition to these general principles OF action
of the Democratic Administrations, the reign of that
party has been marked by disregard of interna-
tiona justice and of the still graceful quality
OF national generosity. They first wrested from
weak, and, though errlng, yet hardly responsible
neghbor, large district Of her territory; and then,
On The pretext of coercing the payment of
mass Of private claims, good or bad, made cruel
and desoating war upon her to force from her yet
larger portion of her country thus bringing upon
ourselves the loss oil thousands of valuable lives and
miIlions of treasure, which, had it been deemed
constitutional to apply to the improvement of our
country, would have made the desert blossom as
4he rose.
Had General CAss succeeded TO the Presidency
he was not only bound to carry out the principles
svowed and practised by his Democratic predecss-
sors, but, animated by the aggressive spirit and
Lllrs. for territorial acquisition which have dis.
Gngushed them, he would in all probability have
attempted some scheme Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT which
might have brought upon US another foreign war,
and possibly have endangered the peace OF all chris
tendon; for, when once begun, no one can tell
whittier and how far war may extend.
All the interests Of our country, therefore, foreign
and domestc--;s internal prosperity and its peace
with the rest Of the world-were involved in the
question whether the candidate of the Democracy
or his opposite, should be placed in the Execu-
i've chair. II was question whether these mis-
chiefs OF misrule should be sanctioned by the
people and perpetuated indefinitely, or that the
whole series Of runous and dishonoring Democratic
principles and practices should be rebuked and dis
owned by the country. For the honor and true
glory and prosperity Of our nation, we thank God
this has been done. The stake was the veal
or wo Of vast and free country, with all the ele-
rnents Of greatness within il if wisely developed.
In Tho placion IF General VAyIoa we believe that