The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-28

not of gigantic intellect enlarged experience tho
roughly experienced all the departments of govern
ment. Why they shuffed aside, but because the
principles they represent must be shufed aside Ii Clay
was nominated, they must brink forward his system /;
and so with Webster, and so with Mclean. So they
have taken up one whose principles no mortal man,
aye, and no wizard can possibly divine, (laughl
because they dare not come forward with DECLARE
uon OF principles, and dare not bring forward man
whose election would even imply declaration of
them This is the explanation, and the only expla-
nanon OF their conduct. They thereby confess they
would result IN rum Their principles had been
demned by the people over and and over again
They knew it well the people OF the United States un
dersand perfectly and they conceded that these meas
ures and principles, which they dec AIRED pregnant with
rum had been IN fact pregnant with prosperity; and
therefore in fact renouncng all the principles they have
heretofore maintained they now come forward, and do
battle for what! for what politically speaking, they do
not aad not tell. They secrete their intentions so
of them by hooks of steel! This is the position in
which they stand They bring forward a man whose
political principles are unknown. They abandon their
old professions They substantially submit entirely.
Why break down their old platform if they can stand
upon III They admit they have been deceivers OF the
people for half century. and then come forward and
be only greatness of glory. When they have de-
clared all must end wrong all has ended right Cheers)
Men who they said were leading you into error they
confess were leading you into truth They admit that
you were always right, and they were always wrong
And now they recommend you to follow those who
always wrong, and desert those leaders who were
always right Laughter and cheers.) You are asked
to desert old paths, TO dismiss those who have led
Tor half century, to lay aside all the old charts which
had proved be rue and to take up the men, and follow
implicitly the blind guides, who have tumbled into one
ditch after another and with whom, you follow, you
will also be led into the ditch.
There being no issue between the TWO parties, the
wings, by their confession, being always wrong,
they dare not make fight at last They come for
ward and present candidate in opposition to who
has been fairly selected long known, and worthy to be
the candidate of the democratic party (Cheers) There
also starts up another party and presented with
third party candidate Is there any reasOn-havIng
settled that the democratic party is right and the wing
party wrong-why we should depart from the general
track and take up either Van Buren, or Taylor' How do
they come before us? We sometimes NEE! with the idea
travelling abou in newspapers, that the South under
taking to dictate to the democratic party, that she has
imposed upon candidates. and that this is the
supposed dication and put down. Is there anything
like fact the shadow OF fact in this charge against the
democratic party fhe South In 1910 the democratic party
him and who deserted him The North deserted him. New
Hampshire and Illinois, only two northern States voted
Tor him, while North Carolina, Virginia, Alabama MIS-
souri, and Arkansas, five southern States stood by him.
The North struck him down--the South stood by him.
Ii any State could be said to have done il, it New
and Ohio 1t any sectional feeling that produced
the result In 1874, there any disposition to force
southern menu Mr., Polk. it is true, was southern
man, but did the South come into the convention with
an intention of forcing Mr.. Polk, any other man. upon
the party The whole of the South voted for north
during six seven ballots; then. it being evil
of two-thrs, ii upon the suggestion of Sllas
Wright, of New York, that Mr.. Polk was nominated
The South had no disposition al the time to secure the
nomination of southern man. New York, Pennsylva
MA Ohio, and New Hampshire, united upon Mr. Polk
and consequence of that union, secured for him the
% NV was mot urged 0y the South out by the
have been so, because there Is it right, them for
the North turn round and make this charge against
the South? In 1S4s, southern voted for "A south
ern canddate-not one individual man The whole
Souh-all, without exception, voted for northern
they did not say we will have this man rather than an
other. Just one-ha Of the southern votes given
to Lewis Cass The South was considered as standing
strictly neutral.
majority of the northern votes preponderaled for Glass;
and that turned the scale The northwest asked for
from that section the northeast had President three
ierms-the northwest but one month. Mr. Cass was
little advanced in life than the gentleman from New
Hampshire, and therefore must have his turn now II ever
The Candidate of the northwest had majority OF the
votes in "A, and this may have been the reason why
majority of the votes OF The North went for him The
South having been equally divided acquiesced in the
suit So far from there having been any dicaton, the
whole matter was one OF northern selechon and the South
Cheers2 For the last elg, or ten years
land. Who made it The wing party! In the wing
convention at Philadelphia all the northern wings voted
for southern men--at Baltimore all southern democrats
the other way If southern had taken this course in
the democratic convention, there might have been some
Tor them, for they were IN majority in the south
ern States But the wings from the South being IN
minority in their own States, forced upon the wing
party of the North southern man! And while the party
kept up this cry, they swallowed the pill They made
a great many wry faces, however. (Cheers) am
not going to resent the wrongs of my wing friends
let them take of their own attaIrs-but when they
talk of their wrongs and yet let minority force on them
southern against all their professions, it will not DO
for them charge with yielding to southern dctaon
All the North the wing party preferred different
man to the nominated were Tor Webster, some
for Clay, some for Mclean, and some for other men,
majority OF the North did prefer Taylor, and yet they
were compelled TO acquiesce. Why! Their southern
allies required it and southern candidate selected,
after all that had been said upon this subject by these
gentlemen. If anybody has occasion to complaint 1t GER
tanly not the democratic party for any attempt to die
tate by southern democrats. Whether the wings ought
compla it is for them to settle among themselves
shall not trouble myself about it. (Cheers)
General Cass, then, has been fairly nominated by
full convention in which every section represented
There was attempt to impose upon the convention
candidate upon sectional grounds.
So, in the resolutions which adopted, no atera-
lion has been made in the platform in regard to sectional
questions since 1910 In that year, the resolutions IN
regard slavery which stand in the Buffalo plat
Wright, and approved by Mr. Van Buren,. They were
the platform in 1870 They were adopted IN lS4i, anu
again in lSts Mr. Van Buren, has no reason to com
plain This convention at liberty to prefer any ON
entertaining the principles and did not ex
pect desire to change the issues, take up some ne"
form OF controversy. -
The wing party present man who is mere soidier
Why did they not go for some other man eNcep'
Taylor? The truth is, there can be but one answer
while they the old are settled they sun desire
to smugge in some of those old issues under the color oil
an uncommitted candidate. They bring forward man
who is not committed by long adherence to unpopular
measures and by means OF the glitter OIL epauiets anu
the sound OF the military trumpet, eY nope 70 elecl nun
They have not perfect confidence that he Will approve OF
thar but they willing to take their