The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1848-11-15
From the Albany Atlas
THE DISRUPTION OF THE DEMOCRATIC
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TIE New York organ OF the slavery. admins
tration at Washington, proclams, coolly, this
morning, the election OF Gen. Taylor, by an over
whelming vote both popular and electoral But
il does not explain how the administration at
Washington was thus defeated and rebuked in the
person of its chosen successor. 1t is as silen,
about the disembowelling of the Democracy as
about the evisceratiOn Of the Canal Bank.
When Mr.. Polk found himself, to his astonish-
ment and to that of the whole people, at the head
of the national administration, he became inflated
with new ambition. He recognized in the really
great men who helped his election, only rivals.
He reg arded Calhoun, Benton, Wright, with iea-
ousy. The universal sentiment which attributed
to the latter and the powerful democracy Of New
York, the cause OF his election, he resented with
the petty vanity OF paltry nature He framed
his administration with view to the prostration
OF the New York Democracy aud its chieftain
HI inveiged the representatives of New York
into support OF his measures by pledges that he
uuscrupulousy violated. He took to his cabinet.
the bankrupt dependents OF the monied arstocra-
cy, squandered his patronage on the Conservative
faction, and the title oil enemy to Sias Wright
was warrant for an appointment. He plunged
the country into war, and into debt thus increas-
ing the patronage OF the government beyond all
precedent.
The expenditure of money and patronage,
coupled with the $500 900 of Bank punder of
his chief emissary here, though it broke down the
Democratic party OF New York, did not enure to
the erect benefit OF the Presidential aspirant.
but was finally turned over to the account OF his
intended successor.
What has it profted? What have the disruu
ton of the Democratic paaty Of New York, the
overthrow and death OF Silas Wright, the
prohigae squanderng of governmental patron
age, the plumber of the Canal Bank and the con-
tributions eXacted from others, the Hundred Mil.
lions of Debt, the immense standing army off.
cered by party dependents, the sectional test got
up against the North, the prescription OF faithful
officers, frauds OF the Baltimore Convention. the
frauds and arguments OF the government organ
amounted to
Borne down by the ght OF popular indigna.
ton and the gravitation OF It's own profligacy
the administration has sunk into depths where i,
finds death, and hopes tor oblivion but where the
retrieving hand of Justice will bring up its re-
maius for judgment.
New York, Pennsylvania the East, the grow
ing West, and even the South, have combined 10
cast it down. II, perchauce, State, like Ohio,
seems to dissent from the unanimous judgment, it
owes the mercy, to the disdain of those il most
injured, the freemen OF the North.
When the returns fully in, we shall be en-
abled TO see in detail the disastrous consequences
OF his first experiment TO break down this State,
and TO cast it out OF the Democratic association,
We mourn the result-we have deprecated the
inevitable cause, and resisted it with all our
power. Let the consequences be on the heads oil
those whose interests required that this State
should be outraged, whose insane vanity led them
TO suppose that they could rely on the power OF
money and patronage and do without New York ,