The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-24

Two weeks msre-Are you ready The great contest
| before us--This day two weeks the die Win
| The day of election is close upon But few more
papers from this press the great battle Of
parties will be oonsummaied Our warning voice has
been often heard amid the din OF the conflict nor can we
give tone 10 the deep impulse we feel in the
cause, while single danger surrounds or single hope
sustans We have asked how stands the question -
how goes the , and venture still to press the
inquiry. Have friends and co-laborers everywhere
looked calmly and with over The battlefield: and
has that examination convinced them that all is right and
well within their bordeTs' Are all of our friends in
readiness for the great trial awaiting them conscious Of
the justice OF their and invincble its support
We have called upon the country to awake action
to scan the plots and articles Of political opponents
to search into their midnight schemeso expose their
secret crcalarsto head of all their garng falsehoods
and TO frus,aie all their deceptive plans for betrayal
ere they npen TO maturity. We have them and
known them long
We have charged upon adYersaries that their chief
reliance Tor upon divisions and dssen
Sons. We have charged them with eyading an honest
avowai OF their opinions the great public questions OF
the day; with lodging all responsibility; with skuking
from all investigation; and all charges have been
founded In TRUTH and sustained BY that high record
dence which challenges refutaon, and puts all cavil al
defiance Yes, wings of the United States have brought
serious implications upon you-numeIous charges against
you-and we shall continue them
We charge you sal with UNFOLDING and defending
candidate for the presidency who dare not avow his op
ions; who denies that he has any, that he eper
should have any he PLACED ne ereeipe chair of
the government
We charge you with advocating the claims of man for
the presidency whose numerous letters though intended
wholly noncommia, perfect tissue Of evasions
and contradictions
We charge you with having brought forward man for
the first elective Office in the world, scho ever soed be-
cause he did not kaop holc TO vote
We charge you with having candidate for the presi-
Monterey in April lsa7 pretended that he was no aspi
serve his country" bat in military capacity
We charge you that Gen Taylor in his letter to James
w Taylor 10 May following, observed that he had mot
biles of such Office while the same time he was
plotting his schemes and maturing his plans for his own
nomination al Philadelphia
Wectarge you with that extraordinary act of Gen Tay
or and for which you acknowledge yourselves polit
withdraw his name should Mr. Clay be the nominee OF
the Wing National Convention"
We charge you, and through You the wings of Con-
gress with tactous opposition to the late Mexican war
with voting many OF them, against army supplies with
saying everything and doing everything in their power to
embarrass the administration, and bring our country
and It's executive head into dsrepuie.
We charge you with and malignant attempt to
arrest the action of the President in his laborous and un
firing efforts bring diff rulties with Mexico to sue
cessful and honorable termination.
Weoharge you with Threatening Mr. Polk with impeach-
men after you found him esolutely determined 10 ress,
to the last all the vndcve menaces thrown out for his
intimidation.
We charge you, while prosperity nexampled in the
history of the world is smiling around every freemans
hearth, and peace and plenty gladden. every home, with
seeking pull down an administration under whose gui
dance and every department of industry successfully
fourishes and prospers.
Wsesargs youwth endeayoring to effect such change
in the policy and of the government as to put to
imminent hazard present state of prosperity and
happiness.
We charge you with an ilibera and virulent attack
not only upon the head Of the administration but upon
the heads of the War and Treasury Departments through
whose untrng industry and consummaie ability the arm
and the snews Of war were promptly supplied in time Of
great difficulty and peril.
Weeharge you with being the aders the advisers and
abeors of all that dark fanaiical spirit which would put
the knife the throais of the whole people OF the South
strip them of all their constitutional rights and light the
very flames of civil revolution in their midst
We charge you with now tanning those fires, and en-
kindlng those hames-with openly warning upon the
stution, whose letter and spirit you would blot out from
the records of your country forever.
We ohargs that your candidate for the vice presidency
the you now hugging to your bosons with the
ardor and devotion OF brother is now, and has
BEEN one of the chief priests that minister the altar
of abolsfiosu, committed 10 IFS faith, devoted to IFS
principles and active in lis dissemination.
We charge you with sowing the seels Of dissension and
dsunon-wiih connving aand encouraging, at this
very moment unprinciped New England capitalists, the
money gods of federal dynasty attempting to corrupt
the public suffrage of the people by sending money and
means TO PENNSYLVANIA snatch the votes Of that pow
erfu commonwealth from the hands OF the democracy
and TO give over that great State to the man without
..opinons or principles to guide and govern him.
We charge you with making war upon our republican
ins,itutions-with trampng the national integrity
with placing your country in eopardy-wiin building up
dangerous counting native Americans 10
your aid and support, while affecting to love and adore