The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-11
THE UNION.
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
MORNING, OCTOBER II, ls4s.
"Breathes there man in soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said
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Who to himself hath said
This is my own, my native land y
The melancholy fact stares in the face, that the
leaders, almost without exception, of large party in
this country if destitute OF PATRIOTISM have at all
times shown themselves utterly incapable of that pure
and lofty sentiment imboded in the caption of this art
Gle Faction, it would seem, "ruled the hour" with
them, and country made subordinate to the lust OF
Office and love OF power Never within recollection
has this party, rather the prominent leaders of it,
espoused the OF their countrys government in any
contest with foreign power. Theirs has invara-
bly been wrong II was So measurably in the struggle
of these infant colonies for freedom il a much
greater extent in the war of 1872 called the second
of independence; il in the controversy with
France il has been with all Indian wars
so in the war with Mexico England, in addition to
these has been upheld by them in all her claims to
territory east and north of They have bitterly OPP
posed all enlargement of limits and consequently the
extension of institutions They opposed the pur-
chase and annexation OF Florida; the purchase and an
nexation of Louisiana; the annexation OF Texas; the
acquisition and annexation Of New Mexico and California
They have opposed the policy ofremoving the Indians
from time to time, fearing might result in the addition of
new States to the Union with political sentiments adverse
to their thus showing by unbroken and continu-
line of conduct hatany government was good enough
for them, and any country large enough, provided they
could get the pOrer 1T, and divide the sPoILs
Could this party rather these party leaders, have
been in the ascendant, Union would have been no
larger than the original thirteen" if it had not been bro
ken into fragme by petty eaouses and rival interests
Love of power and love of office, backed by their lau
dinous views of the constitution, would either have
l,t byt tho In,
stead as now, OF being the greatest republic that
existed we should then have been almost unknown. In
stead as now of being the bright spot which oppress
ed humanity looks from every cline, aien and sedtion
laws would have sat upon our shores, and at every sea
port with visage fierce and cruel to turn back the I'M
happy immigrant, to collect onerous fine, and, in
default of payment to make him work upon the streets,
cast him into prison.
Such is rapid sketch of the difference between the
two parties of country, rather between the democ
racy and the leaders of the old federal now whg) party
in regard to foreign questions.
This difference may be still further illustrated by look
ing at the two parties in the domestic measures they adj
vocate the policy they pursue, and the effects of those
measures and that policy the people at large On the
one hand we find the federal LEADERSHIP very who
have opposed their country in and taken sides with
the enemy in matters of negotiation involving our extern
sion-advocating system of calculated, if not
designed restrict the liberty of the citizen, precisely
they would restrict the limits of country and the
tension of our institutions Entertaining that disrust in
the capacity of the people for selfgovernment avow
ed by Mr. Hamilton and their early leaders, and more
Gently practised by their SUCCESSORS the whgs who
entertain like distrus but dare not avow it, they
ever seeking some new device by which power be
taken from the people and given to the few To
plish this they must make them believe that their plans
augh with good to the country, Notwithstanding the
evil of them is made plain that blind man it,
for bold as they are this enlightened age of progress
they could rot advance step without their consent
hence untruth alsehood and decepon-sophisy, false
argument and defamation, aided by all manner OF
rupton are brought into requisiton effect this They
not unfequenty succeed by OF personal charac
ter for truth and candor aruly won, and fraudulenty
sustained That the democracy have not been utterly
initiated is alone due to that immortal truth established
and made manifest by the fathers of republic, that
man is capable of self-government." If this problem
could have been dsproved, the wing leaders for the last
twenty years, and their federal pogentors, would long
since have succeeded In $780, by conceament by frauds
and by an enormous amount of humbugs and alsehoods
they gained temporary advantage, but derived no benefit
from the victory-Heaven ordaning otherwise in the
death of one and the refusal of the other to be headed"
by one of the distinguished leaders of their party.
Notwithstanding the history and experience of our
country are adverse all their
ing they know that the democratic have accom-
plished all the good enjoy-yet this party are
ever seeking to etter the people with great national
bank; TO tax their industry with high protective tariff
to bid for sectional interests in corrupt log rolling
thus squandering the money OF the people, under plea
of internal improvement They have been, in IA
vor of assuming the debts of the States due to foreign
capitalists chiefly and of mourning debt-the inter-
est of which we should not be than able to payo
be added to- yearly for internal improvements, &c. I'M
TIL like England our national debt should be national
wealth and like hers the hobed of an arlstocracy here
to be broken up only by violence and revolution.
On the other hand the democracy oppose all these
things They are against bank; protective tariff to
benefit few; works of internal Improvement by the
general government Unauthorized by the constitutions and
against assuming the State debts They in favor of
rigid construction of the constitutional favor OF
popular liberty They are for conhding all power to
the people, ard insist that their agents can have none
not found in The constitution, and should not exer-
else any when doubt existed until they had thought
proper to amend il in the manner therein pointed
out and had sanctioned or withheld it. In fact, the
democracy represent of the centrifugal as the fed
erasts do the centripctai tendencies IN our govern