The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-11-22
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The Democratic Party aad the Fa'ure.

The Democratic Party aad the Fu'ure-
The New York Globe, leading Van Buren, journal,
says, lis words, He democratic party must
come together" meaning. suppose, that those who
formerly acted with the democratic party, but who IN the
late contest went out of that party and united with abo
tionsts and wings In the support OF Mr.. Van buren,,
must again act with the democracy OF the Union. we
entertain doubt that many OF the supporters OF Mr.
Van Buren, at heart good democrats, and will u-
maely prove themselves such. Not few were taken IN
by sheer trick and deception while others were carried
away by the impulse of strong feeling IN what they
garded as the cause of human freedom These delu-
sions have had their day, and have worked out Their
natural result the defeat of the democratic party OF the
State, If not of the Union. II is very proper to ask
what is to be DONE Can those who were once
united in effort and in principle again harmonic IN heT
views and action for if they can, the democracy will
again triumph We believe this result Will and can be
Effected not by compact, but by the honest workings OF
the democratic mind Democrats, those who worthy
to be called SUCH although msled for time, will not
long remain asunder but will unite and be them selves
again This, however, cannot be done by contrivance
and much less any principles, for we must stand
by the old democratic landmarks, and eschew all others
These with but few exceptions have thus tar secured
the ascendency of the democratic party and Its policy
and position cannot be changed tor light or transient
causes. There 49, then, short road TO the result sug
gesed by the Globe and if that paper and its friends and
coadutors throughout the State DESIRE 1t may easily
absolute necessity of renqushng the organization-ha
at least abolition conceding the rest to be democratic,
under which the supporters OF Mr. Van buren, were
rallied.
1t is of utterly impossible that the democratic
party, that party which pervades the Unongreat at all
times and not less great in heart and principle though
with diminished numbers in this its hour of defeat,
that party embracing the entire democracy Of thirty
sovereign States have operation as 1t has no
fellowship with abolitioniss This organization, then,
stands in the way of speedy union of the democratic
Masses and the Globe and its friends must see, that the
that organization is abandoned the better Tor the
country and all interests But this half abolition organ
zasn is not the only obstacle TO harmonious union OF
all who are truly democratiche peculiar doctrines OF
abolitonsm must not be thought of parts portions
of the democratic Greco, each must be left to feel and
think as he may the subject of slavery, and the Will
mot Proviso not be considered of the articles
of democratic faith If the Globe and its friends dis
posed to remove the impediments to which we have
ferred the democratic masses would very soon be as
they were, united and unconquerabe-and at the next
trial OF strength. triumphant But whether these obsta.
together They cannot long be kept asunder by the
efforts of newspapers leaders, however they may de-
sire to widen the breach and make it permanent True
democrats when they think cooy of the result of their
divisions will draw towards each other and thus
bining against the common enemy, will be again sue
cessful.