Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-11-17
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lected President of the United States. What
new convictions such fact forces upon US
To what policy the people have committed
themselves, and how, under existing circum-
stances, it is our duty 10 act. propose now
briefly to inquire
We believe that the entire Democratic mind
of the country gave its cheerful assent to the
first resolution of the Baltimore Convention
" Resolved, That the American Democracy
place their trust in the intelligence, the patri-
otism, and the discriminative justice OF the
American people, How painful, then, the
consciousness forced upon it now, that the
people have literally run mad " with a wild
and reckless enthusiasm for mere military re-
nown," and that they form no exception TO the
remark of Gen. Cass, that 8" from the earliest
period of the development of the pugmacious
pouer, mankind have been more or less the
passionate admirers of military renown. and
the dupes of military glory"
No man will have the impudence 10 say
that approval has been expressed Of any SIN
gle measure that formerly characterized the
Wing party. Bank, Tariff, and the Public
Lands, were never mentioned ; their names
were never heard in the late canvass. Wing
opposition to the Veto was hidden, in the IN
embodied form OF Wing enmity, and nicely
packed away between abuse of Cass and eu-
logy of Taylor It was the creed of the par
ty, that it was absurd for the people to decide
the election of President upon considera-
ton of measures, and long speeches were
made, and long articles written, to disconnec
Gen. Taylor and the old Wing party.
The election of Taylor, then, establishes
only this fact; that it is idle to resist the pop.
uarity of leader of successful armies i
forces upon the mind of the youth of this
country, the reflection that prominent civil
service, so far from assisting one 10 reach, raj
ses barrier to the attainment of political emf
neuce. That frugali:y in ones private affairs
and prosperity in financial matters, affords am
pie ground for the serious charges of pecua
ton and dishonesty. That an honest change
of opinion by patriot in civil life, is duplici
ty, while in the hero of battle the grossest in
consistencies are proofs and pledges of homes
ty. That the sanctity and chastity of the con
sttution is nothing, when weighed in the bal
ance with the dedication of the hero of Buens
VISTA Yea, see in the elevation of Zach
l airy Tay lor-who declared that the people hat
| rights, and then one short month after decla
red that he had made it rule to deny then
these rights-the germs of that spirit which
p, at some future day, may prompt the people o
\ 4boir 11o
tar of some military chieftan.
The Wing party and its candidate in the
r past contest, exhibited a political counte
Z nance which &C Janus faced - will but poorly
express A new God must be made as thei
; type. One whose fexiblity of feature, anC
; facility of expression, will enable him readily
: to assimlate with the characteristics and the
localities of the people or region with which
he is brought into contact deserving and ever
denouncing what four years ago they profes
sed and eXaIted--the word of abuse upon thu
lips, but the old love within the heart. Thei
. very position before the American people wa
lie. We wonder when we see our fellow
citizens, by the maorities which each mail re
: ports, stamping such fraud and duplicity wit!
the seal an temptation of success but vi
S look confidently 10 the same impurities which
caused this ferment to work its cure. WheI
e the private assurances of Zachary Taylor
given at the South with regard to the Wilmo
} Proviso, and the prirdte letters written for tn
: North, shall be tested by bill passed throug
Congress, the deceit practised upon the one Q
!. the other portion will send back the Taylo
= tide in most destructive ebb.
3 The high priests of the old superstition
e succeeded for while in protecting their de
j caying and unsubstantial Creeds from tn
$ spread of the divine religion of the Christian
n by an increase of those rites and mummerie
J whose splendors had so long imposed upo
: and kept in delusion the blind followers c
: Paganism. So our opponents, by torch-ligf
e professions, transparencies, Old lack
y comng,'' and manufactured anecdotes OF tn
: battlefield, may succeed for time in iostlin
e aside public opinion from its true direction
: but their fate in the end will be the same, an
! the history of each under different dates wi
= form alike chapters in the book of Huma
;, Errors
e We still proudly take our stand under tn
= folds of our great Democratic flag We loo
5. up to it, Not word of its bright notices
re not sentiment written on its folds-but whi
l. is yet dear to our hearts. Old New Hanove
g God bless her is by our side, and with a
n increased majority. Detection everywhere
l. but her old precincts, and her own Whining
ton, have told to the world that County
h yet to be found, loving principles better tina
n men. Honor again, we say, to the Democra
l. of New Hanover!
'r And now, Mr.. Editor, we are prepared t
J. yield submissively, if not cheerfully, to ii
'e voice of the people, for the forthcoming for
f. years, yet believing that the people will max
$ their way to knowledge of rght-that ii
e whole human mind, and therefore with it til
$ mind Of the nation, has continuous, e,
le er improving existence that the appeal fro
Is what we think the unjust decision OF to-da,
y must be made quietly, perseveringly, to II
e more enlightened collective wisdom of tom
TT row that submission is due to the popuI;
IL will, in confidence that the people, when
10 error, will amend their doings ;-consciou
J. in word, that the Union, which was const
(. tuted by consent, must be preserved by love
A DEMOCRAT.
II ORANGE SENATORIAL ELECTION.
e A friend writes to us as follows
- CHAPEL HILL, Nov. 10, 1913.
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