The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-08-18

The pefmanence OF the present form of government rs
our only guarantee for future safety So far, we have
succeeded beyond the anticipation OF the most sangunt
Trend OF man. his inspires hope that any change oil
government may be amendment There is experience
enough however in the history of France to teach
lesson OF caution There IS everything in the history
OF the republics OF Greece, ancient and modern
force lessons OF prudence and moderation; and the
whole structure OF society and framework of our govern
ment with the blessings it has brought, the boundess
prospects which have been unfoded before It's magnf
cent career under the influence and sanctions of its in.
stutons, invoke all true to the maintenance OF ils
organism and the perpetuty of its principles
Yet, this iuDcture OF affairs, the constitution
openly assaed, and secretly conspiracy is spreading
which is TO strike at its strong foundations, built on the
blood, the hopes, and patriotic devotion of the former
times. We are at the edge
Faclis descensus Avern
SEED revocare gradum, &c.
The constitution must be defended-he Union must be
perpetuated This defines the duty of republicans, and
points to dangers we must meet and avert The posi-
ton of the South has placed her in hostile attitude
against constitutional encroachment This encroach-
ment from factions bred in the bosom of cenous-
ness or overwee9lng seshness Let these causes and
parties be restated lst protectonists 3D. bankers 3D.
internal improvement 4th, assumptionsts of the
State debts including dstribulonsts of the treasure Of
the general governments 5h, antireners 9th, abolition.
sts 7h free soil men; Sh, barnburners territorial
restrichonsts Some future occasion 10 show
the particular manner in which each of these parties
sails the constitution and make manifest 70 the public
mind the dangerous tendencies involved in their union
and political sympahies For the present, the
southern the distinction between free-terrtory men,
territorial resctioniss, and free soil men, Free ter
riiory those who advocate the Wi!mot Provso
The free soil party contend that shall have more
than 100 acres and that all shall have 100 acres of
land The first blow which all these factions must
make is at the veto power When that is broken
down, nothing stands between them and their Ill
innate objects but a simple, perhaps accidental
jory, or one obtained in some fatal moment on
the "balance OF power principle. Some corruption
which may take barnburne into the House, and make
him, or a who will beforehand agree the surren
der of the veto power the pageant of President, will
be seized upon TO accomplish the matricidal purpose
The power has double aspect 1t tribunitian
and conservative power When it is nterposed to pre-
the rights, labor and interests of the citizen direct
ly from encroachment, its exercise makes the President
tribune of the people; and this has made Jackson i'm
mortal When exercised to restrain the usurpation and
encroachment of the general government the rights
and authority of the States ii is then conservative OF the
compromises upon which the Union formed, and its
immediate effect to preserve and pepetuate present
form of constitutional freedom. will make applica-
ton of these principles | leave it to the judgment of
your readers to say whether they willing pursue
political policy which will divide people of this
Union geographical lines, and which, by the destruc
ton of the veto power, will surrender the constitution
with all its glorious recoectons of the past and its
bright antcipaons for the future. to the chance of
orty, whose purpose of destruction is already proclaim
ed NORTHWEST
WHEELING, August, 1913.