The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-04-11
The Position OF PARTIES.

TO be fought upon the old party issues Though the
wings may attempt to evade them) with one or two
new collateral questions superadded, in which the ad
vantage is wholly and vastly the side of the democra
cy The wings will go into the canvass with the oppro-
brium and discred heavy upon hem of having opposed
the wal and the cause OF their country and the
quent extension OF her territory and her free institutions
They have also been true to their party nsncts-in-
stncts at with all the tendencies OF this peope-in
their manifestations Of coldness or at least of ukewarm.
ness, towards the glorious effort for freedom now in pro-
gress in revolutonized and republican France
The name OF Gen. Taylor seemed for time TO hold
out to the wings chance OF escaping from the doom
OF defeat involved in their party creed But this hope
has substantially passed away Every man who watches
the signs OF the times has before this that with the
wings, as party, Gen. Taylor has no strengthened
this, for the best reason in the world for with them
as party, he has continually avowed that he would
have nothing to do. He will if they nominate him
but he will give party pledges Without party pledges it
is impossible for the wings bring up their party strength
to support him. Especially is this out of the question
when Mr. Clay has so manfuIly and so boldly
on strong party grounds ia his Lexington platform Still
more is 1t out of the question when in Gen Scott the
wings have at once distinguished general and strong
party man. And most of all is the cordial support of
Gen. Taylor by the wings out of the question: when it is
not ascertaned that he agrees with them the tariff ques
on the constitutional treasury question: the veto ques-
on, the internal Improvement question, the Proviso
question-this last at least far the northern wings
are CONCERNED The wing convention cannot nominate
General Taylor without efectuay dissoiving their
party. Ii they nominate him, they will lose the
whole north 1t is far more likely if they must
take military man, that they will take Scott Yet in
him their shrewdesl leaders want confidence They
doubt his discretion If they take him. they will be de-
eaed Their best chance is with Clay and that is not
good There is odor of defeat about the very
name Yet there never moment when Mr. Clay
popular with the wings as 1nhiss than now ;
because fully and completely than now did
he embody and represent all their party principles The
consequence is inevitable of them prefer
defeat with him, to victory under another leader
and will give other leader anything like cordial sup
port
The wings fond of dwelling upon the dissensions
of the democracy. This is not unnatural because in
these discussions lies their only hope Yet, in all this
they reckon without their host There is no dissenson
in the democracy worth speaking Of, except in the State
of New York-and there, we believe and hope the
light of and cordial harmony is breaking in
Unless we are much misnformed, both Hun in Albany
and Havemeyer New York. to be successful in the
coming municipal elections in those cities. If So this
will be beginning of better things, and we shall
not be surprised to the New York democracy
rally in mass upon the nominee of the Baltimore
convention The leaders OF section of that de-
mocracy may be violent in their language before the
vass opens; but when the recognised, admitted and in
dsputabe candidate of the national democracy comes
before their section for their of the rank and file,
the leaders who may be disposed bolt and to persuade
others to bolt will find that they have hard and peril
Gus task upon their hands. 1t was one thing for the
wings to prevail in State election 1t will be another
and very different thing to persuade democrats to let
them have the victory, when the question shall be be
tween the nominee at Baltimore and the nominee at Phil
adelphia as President for the next four years
And yet upon this chance hangs the whole forlorn
hope of the wings If the New York demo racy turn out
in mass, the wing battle is not worth fighting, with any
candidate they bring into the field be he half wing
or whole wing. If the insane dissenson in New York
shall continue, still, when the weight of the newlyai
med States considered, the democratic chance is the
better of the two Never than at the present
ment had the democracy to be proud OF its party
position Its tariff has worked with almost
expected success, and has vndcated for ITSELF with
unlookedfor rapidly, unprecedented popular favor
The wing bank scheme is not only admitted TO be
obsolete "-it is oiious. The constitutional treas
ury has saved us from the commercial madness
of 1885, under the influx of British gold in lsl7.
1t has saved us from widespread commercial panic,
amid the recent frghtful pressure OF the money
ket in England and the present financial derange-
ment of France. The policy of the democracy has,
moreover and most OF all, probably brought to glo-
rious conclusion just and most glorious war; and,
in so doing, has opened new realm on the Pacific to
republican civilization. Such party policy, working
to such results, the people will not sacrifice nor over
throw.