The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-05-13
POLITICAL.


The Democratic National Convention.
On Monday the 22d of this month, the national con-
ventlon As TO assemble at Baltimore to select candidates
for President and Vice President of the United States
In that important Convention all tho Sases VIII be repre-
scented by delegates and TO their wisdom hfm-
ness. and Cancellation the great majority OF the people
comprising the democratic party OF the Union, look with
confidence for result that is to give TO the country
democratic President for the next term
The responsibility thus devolved upon every delegate
grave and imposing He is TO ACT not for himself but
os MS f0My grS aa should influence his decsoa
Ne hold now, we did in lS44, that to nominate
with unanmity is to eect and the motto then given TO
the convention by distinguished of Virginia,
no more, should again be our watchword and guide
|" UNION SUCCESS.
We stand now, did then, on the same national
PLATFORM bound TO no section, pledged to no man, only
asking for fair nomination. and ready TO devote all our
energies to the support OF the nominee of the convention
seems to us that this is the spirit which every delegate
should carry into that convention
The party stands, IN this respect much better than
did in 1874 Then there was strong and almost fierce
division upon men a majority of the convention
instructed or preudged with reference to particular
candidate, whose denomination had been opposed by
large portion OF the party, and whose selection it
felt would be defeat. II was of those which
sometimes arise, where party organization, by extreme
diligence of the active few in preliminary meetings, had
brought about result not in unison with the sentiment
Of the masses, who. ii they do not always attend TO the
selection of delegates to make nominations, the main
body of the democracy who make the President at the
polls, and without them nomination is defeat
Our opponents looked to this state of division as their
strongest hope OF success, and it well nigh throw
ing the administration into hands that would have turn
ed back the dial Of progressive democracy for half gen
Grafton. The delegates of A. with strong sense and
high patriotic purpose after fairly measuring their local
strength, yielded the sectional and personal preferences
that have only severed on those who united
in principles and the result was triumph of the cause
and consolidation of the great measures which had so
long agtated the country and been held doubtful in the
nationa! legislation.
all the personal dsappointmens that may have followed
The declaration OF principles put forth by the Baltimore
convention are now the settled policy OF the country.
Texas has become an integral part of the Union Oregon
has been adjusted the assumption of State debts is for
gotten and the deficient States have restored their credit
and redeemed their pledges, by their honorable and
unaded efforts Europe, that then tainted with repu
diaton, seeks the safest investment of its surplus
wealth in American securities tariff of revenue has
taken the place OF the bounty law OF AZ, and whig
in Congress dares venture to disturb it. national bank
has become literally obsolete idea, and the separation
of the moneys of the government from banking institu
ons by the great balance power of Independent
uy has earned the country safely through all the money
pessures and the commercial distress of Europe The
national credit outruns fourold, the demand for nation
distribution of the proceeds of the public lands has given
place to liberal legislation in aiding the aborng man to
acquire home in the soil; policy which the democ-
racy bound still further develop in opening new
sources and facilities to enterprise and industry without
capital.
And in the good faith of adhering to the compromises
was originally made and could only have been made,
and can only be continued by leaving to each State
the entire control OF It's local institutions.
the States, and not to Congress- the policy avowed by the
Baltimore convention of 1914 has been faithfully adhered
to, and we doubt not will be again reamed by the
ventlon OF lS4S, alike avoiding all attempts, either
extreme, to involve the democratic party in pledgng Con-
gress either to establish slavery where it does not exist
or to abolish ii where it is sustained by local laws
That policy, upon which alone national party and a
national union can stand, was thus happily affirmed by
the conventions of 1910 and 1884, viz: THAT all efforts
of the abotionsts others, made to induce Congress
TO interfere with of slavery.
steps in relation thereto are calculated to lead TO the
all such efforts have inevitable tendency 10 diminish
the happiness OF the people, and endanger the stability
and Of the Union and ought not to be coun
Upon this national platform OF Intervention the
democracy of every section OF the Union can again meet
and again triumph and in this broad principle, Wimo
provisos anWilmot provisos absorbed, and be-
come unmeaning and worthless. There is a chart here
that will carry the convention safely through all the
fcts OF local opinions that it may have to encounter
Now all that the democracy want 10 continue the pro-
gress of honest and enlarged legislation harmony with
the principles OF the fathers of American liberties the
development of the resources, intelligence and just po
litical power OF the who labor and especially
with the mighty advancement OF the practical sovereignty
of the people that has just reused the Old World from its
sumber OF despotism, is the selection by the Baltimore
convention OF firm fearless, able steady hand TO guide
the helm, and not only hold the ground we have gained
upon opponents, but steadily move onward in the
course Added to the great civil and the pre-
servaton of the Union, which have hitherto wisely
been the of the democracy is the national honor
be sustained either by concentrating honorable peace
and perectng its guarantees of indemnity for the past
and security for the future which happily prom
Used U.S. if that fails through Mexican obstinacy and
wing sympathy, to press the war to a close with
energy that will make peace by enforcing our terms of
adjustment
There are many able men prominent before the
try to DO all this, # the democracy will but unite
either of Them and here will be the test of union and
success. Unlike the wings, not embarrassed by
candidates who offer themselves to the convention and
insist upon nomination upon any TERMS who threat
en- against the field if do nominate them
The democracy recognise such claims and disregard
all such intimidation. They will allow no man, or set
of section of country to dictate terms the
ventOn to force candidate upon them by threats Of
deserton, if the battle not TO be fought under their
special leader The democracy will take up and support
their candidate, not because he wants the Office but be-
cause they want him for the office.
Who shall be the man. Woodbury. Cass Buchanan,
Dallas Waker-north, west or SOUTH Shall it be his
location or his principles and his capacity and integrity
TO carry out those principles to combine the strongest
without?
These questions the convention will answer We
shall not anticipate that We only ask that it
may be emphatically and untedly given-that we may
have candidate not hastily but deliberately selected II
is an experiment safely wisely to be repeated of
going out of the range of candidates placed before the
convention by all the indications OF public sentiment to
select not before thought of by the people The re-
suit though eminenty successful in measures, has not
been so successful in preserving the unity of the party
And now the great question of the renovation,
the vitality the energetic union of the national dem
ocrac party, which is to receive its impulse from the
Baltimore convention.
That body of men will represent the national demo.