Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-07-15

I" woud Of the course cfM present .adninis-
" fration, AND WILL GIVE DIRECTION TO THE ONE
= WHICH SHALL sUccEED.''t
No comment Of ours could exaggerae the inten-
sity of this language.
Tn Of the government paper in this city
would ITO have imbibed from Gen. CAss him
self the same iment (unless indeed the Gene
raj derived itNom the Editor !; for, in introducing
TO his readers what he called the admirable" Let
ter of acceptance of the General, he said, in his
paper of the lst of June:
. It will be seen that he Mr.. CAss plants him.
self upon the noble platform of the resolutions
that were adopted at Baltimore. II was the plat
form on which James X. Polk placed HIMSELF
and which he, faithful to its fires, has zealously
and energetcally carried ou--true to all his prn-
ciples, and true TO all his pledges. These pria-
cipies cW again be adopted by the Republican
party of the Union, AND THEY WILL MARSHAL THE
WAY TO VICTORY IN THE COMING CAMPAIGN"
Butto the principles of" the platform of 1910 and
1874 are now added entirely new issues, as we have
already stated, and among them, first and most mo-
mentous, the principle, so distinctly expounded by
the Boston essayist, that WAR is a necessary in
strumen of civilization ana that, in substance, it is
our duty, through its agency, to ciuze, at present
only neghboring nations, but at no long distance
of time. the whole world This principle has been
avowed and sustained, in terms more or less clear,
by men Of the highest authority in the Democratic
party; countenanced, as far as Mexico was con-
cerned, by the President of the United States him
self, in his last annual Message and by the Reso-
lutions of the Baltimore Convention, which stamp
with all the authority of that body Cordially ap-
proved by Gen. CAss) every act of the President,
and, specially, above all, his Mexican War.
1t is indisputable that the Democratic Exposition
which we have quoted embodies, only in a form
more regular and doctrinal, the system that has
been ayowed and acted on by the PRESIDENT, by
his intended successor, General CAss, by different
Congressional leaders Of their party, by their fel-
low-movers at a distance, and by their common or
gans Of the press the propagators Of their prnci-
pies and purposes. Where any thing not before
openly ayowed is asserted in this Exposition, it
will be seen at glance to De in conformity logi-
cal and inevitable with that which had before been
laid down by the authority and with the consent of
this same anomalous " Democracy of Advance
Exposition says /" We the United States are vet
upon the threshold of social progress what is that,
in effect, but what must flow from the claim and cry
OF the party, that they are the party of the pro-
gress which progress is incessant and will be eter-
nal leaving behind to-day mere ignorance the
great truths which it invented yesterday, and sure
to advance tomorrow to fresh social discoveries
which shall reduce those of to-day to mere grovel-
ling and exploded superstitions Now, inasmuch
as this rapid progress y is to be endless, and as
twenty years, (the actual duration of Progressive
Democracy or, if you will, fifty or hundred
years, are mere invisible point of time in compa-
rison with eternity, it follows that the doctrine of
the party and that of the Exposition are identical
and that all The usurpations, the crimes, the absurd
ties, and the extravagances which the Oregon dis
pGte threatened, and in which the Mexican war in
volved US, mere beginning, have only gotten
us TO the threshold of that social progress" far
beyond which (though not there to sop) General
CAss is to lead us.
Bot the steps by which we have reached our
position are not yet removed !" that is to say, the
ladder by which Mr.. Polk climbed to power, he
did not cast down when he had got up: others NAV
still mount in like manner. In short, though we
have made peace with Mexico, we can 90 on breath
ing only doctrines of war against every nation,
firing The minds Of our people with the horrible
idea that carnage is ever the chosen instrument of
Heavens most benefcent designs. This is, though
seldom so strongly stated, and never before made |
an issue ina political canvass, no new Democratic"
doctrine. President Polk alleged, in his public |
messages to Congress, one Of his many motives
for the Mexican war, humanity, the benevolent pur-
pose of improving them and their Government
the war speeches in Congress, the articles in the
official newspaper in this city, at one time abound |
ed in the encomiums on the happiness which we
were to bestow upon Mexico, out of mere republ-
can charity. by subduing her: and finally, the
whole theory of !" Manifest Destiny" Of our over
running all this continent, and by-and-by the Old |
World, pre-supposed the assumption that our doing
so would be no interested, ambitious project, but
a sublime and sacred mission of infinite and end
less human good. The doctrine has, in the Bos-
ION illustration of it, only made one step more in
the Progressiveness which is the boasted charac-
ierstic Of the party holding it; has only been
turned from occasional into an historical one and
been decorated with the broader faaces of Phi
losophy OF Blood, which we have once before been