The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-07-14
The InteIIIgencer's =" Campaigning"

The democratic party evidently destined to receive
succession of terrible blows from series of monster ar
cles-real projected by the In
elligencer, the first of which fills only six columns of
that sheet of Tuesday last The scope of these man.
moth ucubrations is show the people that they ought
to vote for General Taylor instead of General Cass and
to the end that the democracy may know at once the
worst that is in store for Them and what they must stand
up against, cite, fair specimen of this first arti
cIe the following terrible and brisng passage:
''The Book of God and his unarmed sodiers-the apos
ties, saints, martyrs, and missona reshave made and
making the world Christian Mahomeanism only pros
eyted by slaughter. So OF civil conquests the Assyran
the Egyptian, the Peran the Macedonian desposm the
Roman aristocracy the Saracen and Turkish suans the
Tartar and Mongo emperors, the Russian Czars; Napo
leon the Spanish Portuguese and British kings have
all history, been the great conquerors And what have
free Saes-as Athens, Thebes, Achaia the Italian
republics or Switzerland, or Holland, or San Marino-
conquered 7"
After an argument so pointed, direct and pertinent as
this who hesitate hereafter to oppose Gen. Cass Re-
ally we putt to the integencer's compassion that it is
cruel and unusual punishment thus to compress the
whole of ancient and modern history together into par
agraph and buffet down the democratic party with it
with loaded budgcon We can stand anything in rea-
son; but to have Assyra, Egypt, Persia Macedonia,
Greece, and Rome, with Turkey, Spain, Portugal and
dozen small republics besides, all thrown the
head of party which does number much more than
twohrds of the country. is rather much for human
endurance Will not the Inteigencer be lenen enough
in future to exercise little moderation in its collection
of historical "reminiscences or rather in its citation of
proper names?
But the above outburst by exhausts the In
tegencers fury AS if under the influence of the dog
star, which begins to rage with hydrophobia and
other rabd affections in its beams, the whg organ
wrotfr enough, after running through several sweet
varieties of its political vocabulary, such BIAS
phemy" blood thirstiness,' 'infenal MALICE" &c.,
&c., to come down finally upon the democracy, with
a more smashing blow, and catching up in its rage
our friend Greene of the Boston Post, (whose tact
and ability have, in truth, given the wings small
provocationD it seeks to make an end OF hun al
once, by holding up him and his journal something
little worse than Cannibal! Here is the proof of
what say in the Intelgencers terrible ractoraton
of the passage which quotes and garbles from the Bos
ton Post We commend this passage the attention OF
our friend of the Post, and if he survive we shall
be glad to see his reply. We exhort him to be Of
good courage under the attack; for if the propositions
which the InellSencer quotes from his articles are to
be regarded Cann'baiism them for our parts we are
constrained to believe that the Cannbals are nd mean
prciicients in the philosophy of history
1t is difficult under the strong indignation which every
sentence of this fragrant ocofocosm in one &c
stop within any reasonable bounds of commentary, but we
entreat the attention of the whole country the mrou
and Goddess language of some further sentences Besides
intoxicating a blind atalism, stupid and slavish ~
any that the lying prophet OF Arabia ever taught they
brea tbe-and breathe it without the redeeming pride o
and honoa spirit of carnage as barbarous as that
the early Norwegian whose banquet held splendid in
r al. ot. Tho
TO drink Of of the Feejee islander, who think
he has many souls in him he has eaten bodies OF h
adversaries CANNIBALIsM hardly be than this
"It hard find of ,chch good has not groun
men, unconscious instruments in the hands o.
God are obedent the great law of power; and ever
when blinded by circumstances, and filed with the lowes
passions, working out the great results his laws de
| mand" He who forces his way with the torch
of civilization and the sword into degraded countries
opens the way for the glory and moral elevation OF future