The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-06-24

The Moral Power ~ ths Two Parties.
The moral power OF any party is in its opinions Ex
eep, in SO far party represents opinion. it is mere
faction. The time has been when the wing party seemed
to feel this truth Those wing journals which in 1910
and sia placed the OF the wing candidates at the
head OF their columns stereotyped Just below those
names declaration Of principles which they ascribed to
Mr.. Clay, and which, among other points, embraced
National Bank, Protective Tariff, general system OF
Internal Improvements, the Distribution OF the Proceeds
of the Public Lands, and the Abolition OF the qualified
Veto Power What has become of this wing platform
now 1t has disappeared Not single wing journal in
the country ventures to adopt il Thus the whole
wing press makes confession, either that its previous
opinions were wrong and must be given up
ensb or else that being still true and cherished as the
creed of the party they are withheld from he public eye
in order to cheat the people.
If the wing national convention is good authority to
be wing at this time is to be without political creed
It be in favor of the election of General Taylor and
to be in favor Of nothing else 1t thus person.
atty; for among all the public men who have ever ap
peared in this country. General Taylor u.s. upon his
showing least of all the representative of any political
system whatever. Politically speaking, he has neither
faith nor works He is not identified in his whole past
any one political opinion If we to take his Allison
letter alone might indeed infer that he had planted
himself upon the platform Of substantial abolition Of
the veto power, and that thus the whgs in urging his
election, entering upon crusade against that i'm
portant element of our federal constitution But on
this point he contradics himself, and leaves everything
at loose ends for throughout the whole series of his
letters, and particularly in the letter addressed the
editors of the Richmond Republican written only two
days before that to Mr.. Allson,) he processes his
determination, if elected, to administer the Executive
Office in the spirit and mode of earlier Presi-
dents !" and it must be observed that, in the admin
saon of the first and greatest of these, occur the most
remarkable and the most questionable instances OF the
of the Veto Power which have ever appeared since
the constitution framed In this view of the case
them is clear that Gen. Taylor upon the whole of his
corespondence-and his correspondence his whole po
tical life thus farcannot claim represent even one
political opinion Indeed, is the unexamped peculiar
lty Of this correspondence, that only represents its
author ready accept but, in fact does accept the
nomination OF every party in the counry-frs OF the
independents then of the Natives, then Tin the letters TO
Mr.. Wood and Mr.. Muhenberg) of the Democrats, and
then lin the letter to Mr.. Stewar) of the wings! We
defy opponents to produce single precedent from
the history Of any nation which any party before the
wing party of to-day, has found itself reduced to the
desperate necessity of taking up for its leader public
man in such position
But this is not all. AS if still to complete
and crown the utter humiliation Of his political sgnif-
canoe, General Taylor, Tin his letter TO Mr. Smith, of
January 3o0 while expressly conserving to be the candi
date either of wings democrats, natives, declares in
terms his immutable" determination not to be brought
forward by them as the candidate of their party,
sdered the opponent of their party doctrines What,
then, upon General Taylors showing, is the moral
power or the political meaning of his nomination
He claims to have political opinions. He claims
that he is therefore ready receive anybodys nomi
naon and he adds that he will not represent the opin
ions even of those who do nominate him. Any voter,
therefore, who rghtfuly belongs, in his opinions, to
any party in the country, cannot but feel, upon the
strength of these declarations, that party man.
ting for Gen. Taylor he is throwing his vote away.
Thus appears the incontroverble truth OF Mr. Aliens
declaration, that by the nomination Of Gen. Taylor the
cg party cas dissolved" Thus appears. too the mani
fest proprey of the course taken by the Wing General
Committee of New York city, poaponing indefinitely
their ratification meeting until they should learn from
their nominee the terms upon which their nomination was
accepted.
But if Gen. Taylor has thus done all in his power to
disqualify himself to receive the support of any party,
and to dissolve the party which makes him its champion
it be also conceded that the wings have done all
they could to aggravae the faseness of his position
When they tried military chieftan in lS4O, they
took in Harrison who found difficulty in
adopting their creed, and who would take no nomi-
nation but theirs But-more important than
this-they then took military who had gained
his laurels in which they at least protested APP
prove. What would have been thought of the spec
acle presented in ls4) if the wings, when nominating
General Harrison, had in the breath denounced
the war of 1912 "a against Coda for
savery"-an atrocous murder and robbery! Yet this
is the very spectacle which the wings present now.
They PROSTATE themselves before their IDOL and then
the very deeds which have made him their idol They
reve the with Mexico, and then shout for President
Taylor the mpersonation of that war Senator Cor
win 1--WE it stately is to take the stump for the
very whom he exhorted his Mexican friends TO
WELCOME WITH BLOODY HANDS AND BosPITABLE
CRAVE" Truly, indeed, has been said that the whg
party distruss the capacity of the people for self govern
ment. What confidence they have in the people,
whose intelligence, and whose instincts even they thus
venture to outrage and to scom'
Contrast with all this the attitude of moral power
IN which the democratic party before the people