The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-01

How now stands the canvass' What progress towards
success is making in the ranks of party In what
condition of organization the great republican fami.
y of the Union this uncture' What evidences have
of that entire union, energy, and concert without
which the powerful of parties and the stronges,
and the resouie in hope, may be danger' Look
around you, friends and countrymen with an eye fully
awakened 10 that imperative sense OF duty which the
great interests of your government and country now de-
mand We ask you, mos, solemnly ask you, to remem.
Der the bitterness and magnity with which you have
been SO often visited in the direu conflicts OF the past
And can you expect escape them in the approaching
November great and mighty trial is before you The
scenes of other times reenacting Everywhere
all around us, in every State in every county, every
town and district the seeds of division and detection are
prousely scattered from the batteries OF the wing
concave in this city Every art that ingenuity can
nvent-every fraud that holds out the promise Of mis-
chief the deep laid sratagem that can
deude deceive mslead divide, and conquer, will be put
in requiston dslodge the ruling powers OF the govern
ment, and to rush us headlong into and uniried
schemes of national policy That time honored adage "e
we'll enough alone" is but sorry lecture to offer to
party seeking prostration, that they may revel in Off
cal spos And why should the current of our presen,
public affairs be interrupted Do we need prosper.
ity' The granary of every farmer is filled to overflow
ing Every effort of the artisan finds its ready reward
Every unow of the plough foretes the reaper of the
coming harvest. Every sound of the mechanics ham.
mer bespeaks that his tolls will not go unrequed The
East, the West the North, and the South, all are now
basking beneath the shade of peace and plenty. And
when before have the bounes of abundance been more
unsparingiy lavished upon our happy countryi When
in history has there been less of oppression
of the quiet of our people, more OF the comforts and
pleasures of life than universally disseminated
throughout prosperous land' The farmer and the
mechanic of the North, and the cotton-pante of the
South each participants in these diversified and
muated blessings. Every branch of industry is ostered
and encouraged, and the cheering smile of competency
and wealth lights up every countenance of people
Although Just out of war, in which our rights were
most trumphany defended, money plenty; and cities
and villages railroads and canals, marching onward
with facility and energy that nothing short of
vaed OF national prosperity could protect and ad
vance And why the sought-for changer Why reverse
the picture Why now commit ourselves to the storms
and waves of an unted ocean, and put at peril the very
life blood of the nation? Whence wing murmur-
ngs and complaints Every want is supplied, every ap-
petite assuaged None 60 hungry here and the constant
floods OF foreign emigrants now flowing in upon us
from every quarter of the world, fully attest that
is the land where want, and misery, and destuton,
such as fill the half of Europe with the cries of SUI
fering and the shrieks of the DYING unfelt and
unknown. And why-let here pause to inquire
why will our opponents still madly and wildly strug-
gle to throw the helmet Of power into the hands OF
one so little understood untred and unskilled
statesman, Gen. Zachary Taylor Why not let the old
hero rest upon the laurels he in war; without attempt
ing to give him the reins OF statesman Why, in the
face of all that exclusive non-committa policy which has
so fatally sealed his lips against open avowal of
his opinions why inquire of men of and udg
men those OF settled sentiments and views; men who
have lodged public question: sought to draw
the veil of oblivion their professions and principles
why appeal to such for that support which, if
afforded desired, may be turned their destruc.
on' And the honest freemen of this nation to be
thus trcked and deceived Are they to be thus hood
winked and led blindly to the slaughter Are they to
take everything trust and, without compass rud-
der allow themselves to drift passvely away upon such
of uncertainty Will they not peremptorily de.
mand to know his views and feelings on the prominent
public measures of the country before committing his
name to the ballot-box! 1t is time these things
pressed home upon him. Let him be called before the
nation, and before the world There is no possible ex-
cuse for his morbid silence The stake is too heavy-e
interests of the government too dearhe peoples rights
too sacred, to be committed to the hands and the
guidance of whose political creed and doctrines
no man in this country is permitted to understand