The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-06-26
For the Union.


For the Union.
Ons-man Power.
board 20
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From the day when Adam sat upon the green hills o
paradise in fix leaf xpressbles brief as school boy
tale TO the present moment heaven EARTH and hades
and majority OF the ladies, have been favor of the
one man power This is singular fact and should no
pc forgotten by the Second Washington"may the Lord
keep his Inemofy gteen"as the latter end Of pea time
approaches. One man power is equal to one-eghth oil
one morse power-ergo eight men equal to horse
Or IN other words, the Second Washington and his cab-
net are fully equal 10 Old Whitley strength to say
nothing OF that curious affair called the intellect We
have often been amused at the sage remarks made by
deaagogues and sImpetons upon the evils of the
potter. These Solons of the cutters went below
the surface Of anything in their lives excepting venson
pasty or dish OF bdttermilk. II they had they would
have seen that after all oneman power does the bust
cabinet Suppose the Second Washington, the State,
and Nary vote for Mr.. Lincoln of Illinois, for Com
missioner of the General Land Office, and suppose the
Treasury. Var, Post Ofce, Attorney General, and
same Office; does not any that Buerfield
gets ms ONCE by one rofe-o wit the vote OF the Home
Washington, armed with all the panopy of the "heroc
ageP' Here Is one-nan .power with vengeance, and
that, too, at the expense of consistency and the consttu
uon Had the Second ashngton, who is alone author
ized by the constitution TO make appointments, with the
advice and consent of forty senators, appointed Mr. But
terhed, 1t would have been the eyes of these poti-
cal wiseactes, fearful exercise of the power.
AS 49, however it is all right in the opinion of those
who do not know, or do not desire to know the differ
ence between right and wrong. Another example: Sup.
pose treaty is made with foreign government, and
that treaty is submitted to the Senate by the Executive
and out OF 60 senators but 80 vote for its ratification does
not every one that the foreth man--one man-has
defeated the measure, and that oneman power here is
felt for good for evil both at home and abroad So in
the Supreme Court of the United States Suppose case
involving the rights OF "a citizen under the constitution
comes before IT for decision, and the court found to
stand Tor the citizens claim, and five against it does
not the fifth judge-one man-consrue the constitution,
and take away rights by word that may be Invaluable?
so IN grand inquest: Suppose IL jurors declare bill
to be true bill and the 18th juror sits in his chair, and
mus by silent vote In the negative throws out the BILL
lets crime go UNPUBLISHED and defeats the ends of Justice
does not the one man power present itself here We mag
carry the principle through martial conventions
vesres, associations clubs Dorcas societies. pleasure
excursions and every other kind OF assembage and the
most important issues in each body may. and will proba
Sy be decided by the vote OF one man woman or child
Massachusetts by one VOTE and that was ascrbed
himself. Here was one-man power We recoect
Texas was admitted to the Union by vote in the Uni
ted States Senate. Here one man power. We rec
oect that the Bank of the United States created by
one vote in the Senate that the black tariff of 542 and
the blacker bankrupt bill, carried by small maori
i
was elected President after many balolngs Aaron
Burr, by vote and that many people think Mr. John
Quincy Adams was elected President over Gen Jackson
BY the vote OF the gallant Prince Hal OF the West.
One man power! Why in every hive there is queen
bee, upon whose shoulders rests the existence OF the
hive In every ant hill there is bully pistlire who
there is one old gande, whose faintest squawk"
Is law, and gospel too and in every rookery there is
one bully rook 10 cav down all opposition. and whose
cav is the of every effect In the early days
rpror nISed hU had No
cabinet, kitchen or otherwise: the twelve OF Galilee
never gave advice but obeyed the instructions of one
superior intellect without question. The household
hearth, unless in state of anarchy knows but man
power and in spite of all that the great wing party
say or do power sticks out feet in every thing
IN the earth, and under the earth, and the earth.
The Second Washington shows this occasionally when
he orblds the poor laborng to 90 with his tin kettle
through the public grounds his way to his aborthe
poor fellow having other time to visit the magnificent
park supported and adorned by the work OF his hands
and the sweat OF his brow or when he forbds the poor
iy dressed citizen from approaching his presence at
daily evee to complain OF the arrogance OF power or the
OF public agents. We love man OF the
people who feels for the people somewhere else than in
an Allison letter, whose good Deeds like primroses in
the path OF beauty spring up to adorn the melancholy
turnpike of civilized life, and whose sympathy occasion
ally the hand glide into the pocket and scatter
from thence few golden images OF liberty and spread
eagles among the miserable and the suffering.
We understand that the rumor, that the Second WASH
ngton went fishing the banks OF the canal the other
evening and caught large green frog wants conhrma-
lion The exclamation SAID to have been male BY him
on that occasion, "Good Lord who ever saw fish with
such tail I" is also in the category We shall
therefore have nothing to do with giving publicity to this
matter until fully advised by some OF the
boys who there present. and who loaned him pole
10 bob with.
The decision of the cabinet in relation to the expedi
ton to be after Sir John Franklin, by the american
rulers is rather sorry affair." and gives universal pain and
disgust To wait for law of Congress the explorers
of the northern boundaries OF country from perIshng
and then make code OF laws for California without law
to appoint architect public buildings against law,
and then change his title TO superintendent OF one build
ing al the same payto appoint clerks and messengers IN
the departments against the express statute and
take the money from appropriation made for another
purpose 10 pay for before even that Appropriation IS or
be available, and then to pause for law in errand
OF mercy, with home squadron on our shores dong
nothing but catching cholera hurricanes, and yellow fe
in southern ports, when their noble spirited officers
John Franklin and the pole home together bah! 1t
makes sick it does honest Christian to hear
hypocrite shuttle prayers and humble confessions with
his red hands and his pockets full of tear stained gold
When the Second Washington sailed out from the
of Louisiana, expected to Washing
ion in very deed True we had been led to believe that
he somewhat more compact in his timbers-with
shorter spars and greater breadth OF BEAM but still we
expected to find the quarterback well olcered the
pass true, and the pinnacle lanterns burning bright Alas
alas how have our expectations been realized Like a
wreck upon the waves OF angry ocean, with the sails
tatters, the yards cock b the sides leaking, the
crew forsakng the hulk the officers flung from their
posts, and the commander in brown study wondering
whether it is constitutional to the vessel crew,
while all hands giving orders, and none are peace
the Astor House rioters, behold the
bark, the commander and the ward-room officers sink
ing in the waters and hzzling out amid the shadowy moth
ingness OF the "HEROIC AGE"