The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-12-08
The Union OF the Republican Party for the sake
the Union and OF Principle.


We can bear defeat with equanimity, because we can
rally again, and turn the tide by the force OF princi
pies and the spirit of our exertons We can bear even
the ests and bes OF opponents when they pointed
with wit and directed by moderation But to hear some of
own friends rebuking each other, murmuring,
planning oihe of energy Of sincerity and still more,
10 hear OF the republicans OF section repoachng those
Of another with having sacrificed their duties to sectional
feeling hear friends in the North or the West
complaining of the derclc,on of the South from local
considerations and threatening that she had not stood
up with them, they will no longer stand up with her-ths
one of those things which the hardest to be borne
1t painful to any who loves the principles OF the
republican party and who the necessity OF its
pee unionin this moment of apparent defeat the
necessary than TO redeem the fortunes OF the day
We do not wish TO anayze the justice of these COM
plants We would bury them in oblivion quickly we
can We prefer drawing upon the wise counsel OF other
papers for the expression of their opinions sooner than
exnaate upon the subject ourselves We therefore lay
before readers the two following articles from papers
IN New York and in Maryland
From the Rome IN " Sentinel
The NORTH THE SourH.-It hns become quite com
mon OF late for the public press, and individuals in differ
ent sections of the Union, indulge in language of
inaon and in charges of sectional feeling towards each
called for by the facts as they appear to candid observer
The las! presidential affords many instances Of
ms KIND and we regret TO notice. since The result became
KNOWN an exhibition of similar feeling In quarters from
which we had expected better and wiser course
During the canvass through which we have just passed.
inere sed politicians ndu led, by motives which
can only regard selfish mercenary, encourage
sentiments OF luminosity towards our democratic brethren
IN The southern States They had engaged in plot to de-
feat the democratic national nominees, and their only cap
alton Of sectional feelings and eaioucs between the south
nand the northern portions OF the coniederacy But
lianp
away most earnestly be hoped that all who have the
welfare Of the nation heart, and who desire
u1nai character sustained and perpetuared, will the
Jolly and wckcdness OF INDUCING in which
not but engendcr unpleasant and Improbable sentiments
In the minds OF citizens IN both sections OF the Union.
Some OF coemporaries have fallen into the OF
charging that the South has acted in good ath and
election. With far greater proprety might our southern
friends charge that the North have stood by the
has aerod in the struggle through which have passed
shall We look FOL this DETECTION to the great States of New
and sold out by the very who all along have charged
nahe south was not true TO the democracy Of the Union
Whe The latter although her sons have fought noby and
OF the opposition
What States at the South considered reliably demo
Syc as rensyyan,a have cast their votes for Taylor
we know oil none Notwithstanding that the wing cand
sulions of the South Notwithstanding all his capital
based upon his exploits in the Mexican war and his
vesal popularity in the southern and southwestern States
that section OF the Union has noby sustained the cand-
dates OF the democracy by casting the Of the
Gen Cass has received the OF onchalf wbs the vote
OF half of the free States has been given TAYLOR IL is
singular fact that the thirty States equally divided be.
tween The two candidates. each receiving the electoral
heen and equal proportion OF northern and southern
States.
With these facts before them, who with proprety
charge the South with abandonment of the national
democracy for The benefit of local sectional Influences
his practice OF peteung chages of sectional anmosiy
can only be cngendercd by feeling the part OF those
making the CHARGE very nearly akin to that attributed
Lose against whom the charges preferred
That we should all possess less of local feeling
and affection for and neghborlng States, Is per
maps, not at alt surprsng but that sound democrat
can so far lose sight OF his duty the county, to the dem
ocrac party and to himself, to indulge IN the course
conduct of which have been speaking is to passing
strange While we should despise the who would be
false to the State OF his birth adoption, we would alsc
lhcucate sentiments OF friendship aad goodwill towards
every section of this glorious Union, and by liberal al
Wance for the views and sentiments of the citizens OF all
me states, endeavor to cement firmly the bonds Of