The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-10-19
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the American ports upon is waters
The Verdict OF People.
The minor organ Of the administration, which seem,
to have the conscience Of the President more in its keen
ing than the old established oracle Of the party appealed
from the sayings Of the press to the polls for the voice Of
the people II placed the regency before that august m
buna and bid il pronounce the verdict which the peop,
should award to it, That issue has been met Election
has followed election since the 4h March-Stae after
State has voted-and moi single State has pronounced
in favor Of the powers that be. We have SO often exp
ated upon this theme that prefer to hear other presses
pronounce the verdict Of the people. The growing Chap
man OF the Indiana Sentinel declares, trumpet ongus
The democrats have elected governor In Tennessee ,
went for Taylor whigey by thousands they have carried
the wings out of their North Carolina secure
three oil the four congressman in Connecticut; allowed
taken ali to the mselves In Texas and vrInay wh,pS
their opponents In kentucky and yet the wing papers will
have il thit the democratic party Is" dissolved"
And since then. the triumphant procession Of repubG
canism is swelled by the elections Of Georgia. and Mary
land, and Pennsylvania, and Ohio; each Of these States
virtually repudiatng, along with old Virginia, the mem
bers OF the regency which the President has selected FROM
their borders.
Why these multiplied defeats Why this gathering
deluge which scarcely leaves them an inch Of ground
which to place the soes OF their feet! Il is because i'll
one word, an incompetent man has been elected BY s
political humbug OF a party which never eleconeen
upon the fair and open ground Of principle and argument
but for the last three presidential elections has cheated
the people by artu DISCUSSES and miserable tricks. T
were reminded few years since, BY one of their OWL
party, that "honesy the best policy" bu, they violated
10 ala hv
their candidate the hero OF which they had opposed
and denounced, when they knew that he was totally
fit for the high civil Office TO which they were elevan
him, and when they represented him as nopary Psd
dent, and made professions Of moderation and ganI
pledges against prescription, which they were Determined
that he should not observe. And now see the fruit.
of their deception They have placed at the head 81
great nation and In the most enlightened age Of lid
world soldier who is utterly unfit for the Office Wild
has brought around him an irresponsible caba to nd
his measures and who has violated the pledges which
gave TO secure the election. Is il wonderful that I'D
democrats who were seduced into his support shout
abandon his fortunes nay, that conscientious whs4
should desert him. and that some OF his own friend
should be soured and alienaied by the manner in wh
their merits have been overlooked, and inferior parasite
raised over tlelF neddb! NEW IWk NOuffcI ConI
fesses tina: more plumbers have been committed BY NJ
present administration than had fallen to the lot Of
of their predecessors The New York Mirror frank
says:
Thousand. of Independent Taylor men," moderate den
ocals and who called themselves swings, bu,
sLtra whgs,n have withdrawn their allegiance from u
administration because they think the wings have moi bs
the truth. and the facts they have turned
the recent elections
A writer for the New York Journal OF Commea
says:
The patronage of the Executive may be used in such
way strengthen administration, or in such
,kiifaly s.d|~ the lattr pa'Yoss.
Who can wonder, then, that the popularity Of III
President has decayed that his capacities decrsd
the appointments of his regency Denounced; and ID
general want Of confidence should infect the publ
mind' Who can wonder at the ridcule which Their 4
plomacy has excted-atthe sneers which produce
al the disrust which such misguided policy and mis
counsels have occasioned-at the defeat which cr
whelms them in every field As the Albany AguH
| ly remarks
"DIers riH IL emdf" 10 the question now conn
home to the wings, they receive the news from dids
States that have recently held their elections They de
IL perfectly unaccountable that the democrats shoah
soon after the incoming OF the present admnistsnn
have so completely swept everything before them,
there Is danger OF there not being wings enough h
| seed And some seriously debating whether the as
opf the old General IL, after ALL going 70 "psy expens
- rather discou,agng Il must DO admitted 70 Gepn
Taylor, his cabinet and the wing party generally ba
experience should have long since laugh, them that ge4
into power-as they generally do when they get inGn.
upon false issues, and promises which they expect ana
tend TO violate the first opportunity, they are ever d
ed "sbort term. BY such means as these, the w
may, at long Intervals succeed in attaining the asce
cy; but they always hold power by ffa tenure W
lack political honesty, and knowledge OF govemna
which soon becomes apparent 70 the people, and mF
soon Dust them tom Office. and Oil their places with
Gratis.
Since the day Of Gen. Taylor's Inauguration, the m
whigery has been a rapid decline. 10 spite Of The
strenuous exertious Washington and elsewhere, es
State that has since held election has administers
signal rcbuke 70 his administrator and these lessons
not TO "eaf" until the complete and full restoration
reigns Of government to the national democratic parry
the signs Of the times point that way and 10 TO DC
that the wings viii meet their inevitable destiny WIN
coming fortitude and resignation
/ A vscsncy Friltd.
We are bappv IN sfate that nj the lafe election IN