The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-27

FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER II, Is4s.
The day and the houri To Democracy Of the
C~uutrvI

DENTAL battle OF the It'll proximo will have been fought
and There is no longer moment to be lost IN
hesitation delay Democrats The last hours IN which
YOU can work for YOUR cherished and time honored pn
cples are rapidly flying. and will soon be passed Never
before have you been summoned by solemn con
sid rations by migher motives, than those which appeal
TO you in the present rise man in your
strength and smte down the ballot box the corrupt
intrigues and the nsdious Vaccinations by which the
wing leaders seeking to cheat you of all that you
hold dear and sacred in the policy and the of
your country Meet the crisis like and like patriots
Make the welfare of your country your leading thought
by day and by night during the short period which inter
before the great issue is to be decided
Remember first of all, that upon the present canvass i.
staked the continuance the abandonment of that glo
nous democratic policy which, dunng the lifetime of
nearly two generations since the time of Jefferson, has
swayed the councils Of country and made great
republic the unprecedented exempar of national prosperi-
ty-the model of free govemmen,-he hope of free
dom--the admiration of the world
Remember, in the next place, that you now sum-
moned to what the llustrous Jackson achieved for
you in his victory the banded myrmidons OF the
party of monopoly of unjust privilege, and of consolida
ted and despotisng money power
Remember, too, that you invoked, you
prize the noble principles of the free constitution
which your fathers gave you, to save that sacred
instrument from the mangling and mutating blow
which the wing party are now striking upon il
in their assault against the qualified negative OF the Pres
ident upon corrupt legislation. Remember your ley
atty to your constitution as it is and put down the men
who are striking out of it, by acous agency and for fac
ious ends that veto power which Washington twice ex
ercisedwhich Jefferson, and Madison, and Monroe up
held and advocated-whch Jackson welded save the
country from the harry clutches of monster bank-and
which the wise and patriotic men who framed the con-
stituton unanimously agreed place in the constitu-
ton indispensable safeguard of the public liberty
and welfare.
Remember democrats OF the savehoding States
that your party and its candidates alone have placed
themselves upon the old ground OF equal justice to al
sections OF confederacy in the matter of that negro
slavery which has been inevitably handed down from
generation to generation among your brethren of thu
South Remember, that in this spirit of justice and
conciliation there is no safety for the Union!
Remember, democrats OF the sayehoding States, that
for you and your institutions there is safety in whig
councils-hat OF your has been sought to
carry into power the party which at the North has al
ways sympaihized with the aboonsts, and which now
in the language of of its chief organs embodies the
great Of the anti slavery feeling of the country
Remember that Webster has told you that the Buffalo
free-soiers have stolen their i-slavery corner.
stone" from the wings; and, above all, remember thai
in voting for the Taylor electoral ticket you vote
to place in the chair of the Senate, with the casting
vote OF that body now equally divided between slave
holding and non slaveholding States, Mllard Fillmore,
the avowed and pledged aboliionist of ls3s-whose
pledge to the Abolition Society of that day yet remains
unrecanted-and who more than any other one man in
the country responsible for those odous and nquitous
features Of the 81 black tariff" of 1912!
Remember, that in failing to up to the polls to
vote for Cass and Butler, you aid over the govern
menf OF the country IN time Of peace to the party who
opposed the government of the country time of ,car
Remember. when you vote, that the wing leaders have
proclaimed country to be dshonored and dsgraced
by our glorious and just war with Mexico-that while
that war was yet raging the wing House Of Representa-
hves, by strict party vote, sgmatized it uneonsi
tutional"--hat wing orators cheered our Mexican
enemies to proong its evils and horrors and invoked
them. in the language Of Corwin "to welcome" our gal
liant army with bloody hands and hosatable gravesr'
Remember, that in the judgment OF this same whie
party, our country in every controversy with foreign
nations, has been in the Drong and her opponent in the
right
Remember that the wings sustained the side of France
in the French indemnity question: against the lion hearted
patriotism of Jacksonthat they sustained the claim Of
England in the Oregon controversy, and the claim of
Mexico in the question of Texas; and forget not that
this ti-Amercan policy is traditional with the wings
that they opposed the acquisition of Louisiana and OF
Fonda; and they have always their faces as fins
against every looking the enlargement of our
national domain and the extension of our free civza
ton! .tls es.t
Remember. that in the very last Congress the whole
wing party in the Senate voted against the acquisition OF
any territorial indemnity whatsoever from Mexico and
that when the treaty of peace had given New Mexico
and California as such indemnity, two eminent wings OF
the House of Representatives (Mr Duer of New York
and Mr. B. Smith of Indiana) rose in their places and
proclaimed in the name of their party without contra
dichon, that those acquisitions calamity and
CURSE and that the wing party stood ready to "eompro
MISE upon the plan of casting them both away and Civ
ing them back to Mexico
Remainder, that in the Congress the wba partv
all the while claiming to be the party of peace delibe.
raely snoniered by strict party VOTE under the lead Of
Stephens Of Georgia, and Truman Smith of Connecticut
(now chief manager of the Tay or ntrgue the two bills
sent down from the Senate to carry into full effect the
treaty Of peace by running the boundary line according
TO its stpulations, and paying Also solemny s,ipu
lated the long outstanding and most just claims of our