The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-11-10
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
FRIDAY MORNING, NOV. 10 is4s.
The Result-so far.

We will not give up The ship. With the teegraphlC
dspatches received at late hour last night from Ohio
and from Georgia. cannot yet despair of the election
but we would not advise our friends 10 bet upon it,
The omens indeed seem to be pretty strong against us
and no very bright hope may remain that the wings have
MT elected their President and Vice President 1t is true
that the reports OF wing maloes hurriedly made up for
the telegraph and transmitted by ii from station TO station,
will doubtless be again, they in the late State
election of Pennsylvania very considerably down by
the official returns. More however, is known than was
needed TO force upon the conviction that the demo
cratic party standing and steadfast upon its
sacred pesproud of the glory and prosper
ywhch they have wrought out for the country and sure
that they will long again commend themselves TO the
judgment and the heart of the peope-must now prepare
itself to another struggle for their supremacy
Tie ascendency which our principles and our policy
Justly gave us in the government probably lost for the
time But that policy and those principles still remain
with u.s. as wse as true, patriotic as precious and
as sure of eventual triumph, they twenty years
ago. when the llustrious Jackson armed himself in them
TO do battle for the rights and the power of the people,
and to smte down the muniments of corrupt and cor.
ping legislation in which he found the party of prvi-
ege nrenched Since that day, the democratic party has
made its strong broad, bright mark, both abroad and at
home, upon the history of the country The world has
seen it, 1t speaks for itself Let every democrat look
back upon it, and from the sight draw strength to meet
the present crisis it should be met
For ourselves, bate jot of heart or hope"
Never confident than III the soundness of our
principles, have out of this battle all ready
should life and health be spared TO u.s. to go another
for the same good cause. We know well the influences
which have produced what to be our present de-
feat. We learn that for months our opponents have
been penetrating almost every precinct and township in
The States which formed the battle-ground of the can
vass, with all the means and appliances of secret but
complete organization. They have been at this work
for MONTHS while the democracy, confident in the
Justice Of their and its strength with the peo
ple stood by with folded arms Wing money has
been freely used Wing documents and wing emssaries
the eolporeus of politicshave found their way into
every nook and corner where vote to be gained
The result is before Rightly viewed it can have no
other effect than to up every democrat 10 new ex
erlons With the democracy is the permanent power of
this country wing triumph must always be but an
accident This tme if indeed it have been accom-
plished, it is but the accident of an accident Not
month will elapse before the people, recovering
from the excitement of the contest and their
bewlderment before shining military renown, will
wake up surprise TO the fact that for four years their
government is by their votes to be whig-at least
IN name. Let wing policy prevail in its councils,
and but few months will pass before the politi-
cal armament will show signs that yet another politi-
cal revolution is at hand To get the power of the
country, the wing party has disguised itself To keep
that nov IN tho and If
must n~hig tselffortunate, even if by so doing it
any reasonable chance of continuance and CO.
h0sion.
Even if defeated, the democratic party has
darker days than this-days, too the gloom of
which only added brightness to the splendor of the then
swiftly returning triumph! So it was when the half mil
tay and half bacchanalian tornado of 1910 swept over
the land Let net forget the lesson of that day. We
then stood frm-defeated, not daunted Frustrated for
Ae moment, but sure to rise again with new power
Then the Old Dominion stood just as she now stands
mistaken in her faith, mpregnable to the assaults
OF faction, erect. triumphant glorious! But them not
now among the four great central States of the
Union, Virginia stood alone! Pennsylvania and Ohio
did not then stand with her. and the Empire State
then ialtered from her own son-he man who now
Is doomed to behold her where she is and to remember
thai he placed her there But now, shoulder to shoulder
with Virginia stands Ohio and with chivarous South
Carolina stand the Star of the East and the Granite
State. 1t is glorious conjuncton-full of hope for
our cause. and harbinger of new day of union
and of victory.
BUTT is needless now to 60 into speculatons, which
the telegraph may in day or two show to have been
entirely premature. If it be true that have lost we
must prepare again 10 fight and to win The glorious
standard of party faith still over U.S. Its folds
are bright with great names of the past and of the pres
en and emblazoned with the record of grand achieve
mens and eternal truths. The eye of the people, for
moment diverted, will ere long again to its guidance
with trust and hope!
What though our masts be all blown overheard
Our anchors from their fast moorngs dragged,
ana hall our sailors buried in the flood
Yet lives our pilot still"
We well recollect that in the whwind of the defeat
II $780, these glorious lines were applied 10 Virginia
The great principles of the democratic party inscribed
lpon our banner by Maine, New Hampshire Ohio. Vir |
sna South Carolina and the other States which are vet
o come n-mese great principles "live our PHO, STILL
by Last Nights Western Mail.