The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-31

Daniel Webster and the Ola Issues.
Up TO this present writing have neglected TO saw
that the leading member of the old arstocrac school Of
Massachusetts, has again been holding forth at Fansu
Hall on the political topics of the day. and Try and
prove that although General Taylor's nomination wa.
one mot fit to be made" il has nevertheless fitted so
well the old issues and aahquaied notions of his party
as to afford ready choice of evils" among the round
toed Massachusetts federalists OF the old Essex un,o
stamp II 10 have been expected that the bank and
tariff questions representations of ruin TO manufae
lures, and all their concomtant evils, would long en-.
this have crept from behind the TO open exposure
and rebuke but the arch managers OF the wires hay,
up TO the late Faneui Hall harangue, cunnngy Gov
cred up their secret designs TO have escaped that d.
lection which the speech of Mr. Webster has alone e
fected
Mr. Webster starts upon the alleged positive Ger
ainty in case of the success of General Taylor that IL.
sub-reasury will be repealed, and the tariff put back o
something like that of AZ. Both will, in bis opinion
be sustained they at present in the event of the
election of the democratic candidate.
The huge catalogue of dreadful consequences es
pected to follow the success of the democracy is that
Cass and Cass Congress prevail, the Policy and meas
ures of the present administration will be continued and
the inquiry is eagerly pressed upon Boston audience
whether these ought to be rcpudiaed for Others
and here again follows the startling cry o the first time
raised believe since the opening of the present cam
pagn) of great depression OF induslrystagnaton in
busness-reduced demand for labor and uncertainty
it's reward 'and the sub treasury and the tariff The
runous causes of this deplorabe condition of things
They are borne down with this stale and ridiculous pre-
tension What depression-what stagnation ilet here
humby inquire In the very face of an unexamped state
prosperity we again hear this DID, stereoyped ding dong
of federal Massachusetts,, bawng ruin-depression-
retchedness-misery, among people never more
successful-never more prosperous or happy Old issues
are revved--old exploded notions renewed those for
the foreh time tried and prostrated in the dust
baptsed in Faneu Hall, and again brctgh out for
more shocking and disastrous death and burial. Ye,
again we have, in the very face of that high Of
domestic happiness and success, to which the eye Of The
whole world is now turned with admiration and WONDER
the miserable panic cry of restitution and wantoi stag
nation and ruin in all the departments of ndusry-an
this but twelve or fourteen days ahead OF great pes
Dental contest
Mr. Webster goes back the removal of the deposies-
to those times when ga paper currency" was among
to the halcyon days of that old strangled evathan
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or threatened TO swallow up, every business in this
country who meddled with it. He draws picture Of
ruin well suited to the panic times of the noted bank
veto of Andrew Jackson. He comes unsparingly down
upon our whole financial system, and remodes and re
mouds for yet another explosion, the old, sanderous
abuses heaped upon the head of him "whose like we
shall scarcely ever look upon again" The subreas
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -distress-these form
the burden of Mr.. Webster's song The financial
policy of the government, that successful system now
under the guidance of more energy and talent, more
clearness and dscernment, than ever before dist
,uished the head of the American treasury, is mos
ruthessly assailed by the high priest who ministers
the altar of Massachusetts, federalism. He pitches bak
upon precisely the issues that have been periodically
put trial in this country for the last third OF century
The old principles, the same old platform, are again
up in battle array, upon which the people of this Union
have SO often frowned-the same issues that have 81
often drawn out this celebrated travelling lecturer mI
open denuncation of the policy and measures OF the d
mnistraton of his country. And whence and from
what date does this last exposition Gomez Does go|
back to the time when he bated furiousy for high
protective tariff Does it take its date from the ball
cony of neighboring city, where he vehemently Wo
claimed that ''there were no Sabbaths in revolutionary
times~ Was it when his travelling coadutor loudly
shouted in front of the totteng columns OF Bddes bank
that "war, peslence, and famine would be preferred TO-
the success of Andrew Jackson'" Was it when, truck
ling to British power and seeking the smiles OF the Eng.
fish nobility, he madly exclaimed in the Senate hall OF
this nation that he would not lend his aid or give his
vote to certain public eff the enemy were
then batterng down the walls of the capitol"
1t is indeed painful to revert TO the heated discussions
the pas-o times when matters politically serious &C.
CURED among but unpleasant is the task they have
been directly invited by the orator himself. His constant
and unremitng attacks, and hsgross and wanton assaults
upon his opponents and their principles will everwhae
afford an ample apology to the independent press OF tbs
country for setting its mark upon such an antagon-N
sending the antidote after the poison.
We shall TO- morrow examine more infinitely some
Mr. Webster's positions, and expose his theories lie
manner they deserve.