The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-06-17


the term Barnburners, have used the term ''Hunk
ers, simply brief distinctive epitheti and wish
to be distinctly understood combining the remarks
which shall now make concerning the Atlas to that
journal alone We wait for further developments before
say anything in of the of that section
of the democratic party in New York which adhees TO.
and susains, the Utica organization We do not yet be-
lieve that throughout the State they will fall in
any considerable numbers, 10 unite with the national de-
mocracy and to sustain the national democratic ticket
We have what cannot but regard reliable in
formation, that this of cooperation and union
WILL Notwithstanding the present temporary excite
ment, be adopted by almost the entire bulk of the
democratic party in NeW York city; and we have,
as we conceive, good grounds to hope that the same
general result will, long, appear throughout the
State The grounds of this our conviction will appear
in the of the observations which propose to
make concerning the Atlas itself They may be summed
up however, briefly in the general statement, that, in
our judgment, the of the New York democracy
not prepared to follow the Atlas, and its few coadu-
tors, into plain and papabe abandonment of their
ancient and cherished principles and policy.
We say abandonment of their cherished principles
and policy; for the Atlas in its recent assaults upon the
administration, has placed its opposition distinctly upon
grounds in which the policy and political principles and
measures of the administration not involved. The
complaint of the Atlas is Of the distribution of the loaves
and fishes" of office. This complaint have answered
We have shown, from the record, that the policy of the
administration in this respect has been policy OF Impair
TALLY between the two sections OF the New York de-
mocracy and that while the section opposed to the
Atlas has often represented that its fair claims were dis
tlo othar IN of
to speak, has certainly found no just of
complaint,
But now in reply to the Atlas we take higher ground
We aver that this administration placed in power by
the democracy OF the country including both sections of
the democracy of New York, as the representative of
settled and determinae line of public policy, to which
the whole democracy, and especially the democracy
of New York, fully and absolutely pledged
that this line OF public policy has been most ably, and
faithfully, and trumphanty carried out in the whole
series of great measures which have made this admins
raton historical and glorious and that, therefore, the
Atlas, in its present attitude OF opposition to the admins
a,ion and to the democratic candidates. who now stand
upon precisely the political platform, is false to its
principles; and that, in placing this opposition upon
the merely personal grounds which it alleges, it makes
issue before the country which true and sound
democrat can countenance or approve.
The resolutions of the Baltimore Convention of 1914
drawn up $780, Gas appears, by Mr. Gillet, the
fdentia friend of Sas Wright, and cordially approved
by that llustrous statesman were, the motion of Mr.
Benjamin F. Butler, in 1914, reafirmed by the Conven
ton, the creed of the democratic party These resou
tons were in full harmony with the previous we'll
known opinions OF the nominee of that Convention. The
resolution concerning Oregon and Texas added to
the list and adopted by the Convention, though pre-
sented by Mr., Butler The Atlas cannot deny that all
the great and leading OF this administration
have been framed and carried out fully in pursuance of
the principles thus embodied in the democratic creed and
cordially sanctioned by the collective democracy of New
York
What measure in the public policy of this admins
traton can the Atlas object to Is il the Tariff of 1916
Is not that law fully in harmony with the principles OF
the democracy and not its enactment and successful
working great and signal triumph of the democracy
under the present administration Is the Constitution
al Treasury The paternity of that measure is with
Mr.. Van Buren,. Under his auspices it was established
for a year, then swept away and no sooner had the
present administration into power, than pressed
the restoration of that great with the utmost
energy and the most complete Has the Presi-
lent failed to stand sterny up to the democratic creed
in relation to Internal Improvement? Does the Atlas
find any vacillaton wavering this point in the
veto messages? Will the Atlas the policy of
this administration in what remained for it to do in the
Annexation of Texas? Surely it cannot deny that the
democracy of New York were pledged to that policy
at Baltimore, and that the President was as fully
pledged to it, by explicit declarations of his opin-
ions before he was brought into the canvass as a
candidate Does the Atlas condemn the policy OF the
President in relation to Oregon 1t knows full well
that he accomplished in regard to that territory what his
predecessors through six administrations had sought in
vain to accomplish that he gained all that they had asked;
that the controversy would have been adjusted upon
terms vet more favorable us, but that the Senate, his
constitutional advisers had both in speeches and in votes,
taken ground incompatible with that favorable ad
ustment and that finally, the President even before the
treaty had been signed true to the whole spirit OF the
Oregon resolution adopted at Baltimore submitted it
10 that body for its previous advice before lending any
form or degree his countenance to its conclusion Will,
then, the Atlas aege that the with Mexico has not
been on our part just and glorious war; Will it alege
that the administration has swerved from the true line of
democratic policy in its prosecution, or that has not
been prosecuted in such manner and with such results
upon the prowess of gallant army and the military
foresight and craftsmanship of government! Has,
in conclusion the Atlas anything to allege against the
conditions of peace which we have at last obtained from
ax;co la treaty. not such an one as the honor and