Washington telegraph., 1849-10-17

| and want the aid of the General Govern
| ment in securing the country these ad-
vantages. The Baltimore democracy let
in their western friends. and waive the
question of river and harbor improvement,
! as they waive free soil in the case OF New
York, and the tariff of 1876 in the case
of Pennsylvania. Here is third deadly
breach in the Baltimore platform. Does
not all this laxity of principle look very
much like the dissolution OF the Oemoc-
racy as a natSosal party!
Here we see the three fundamental ar
ticles of the creed of the national Demo-
Gratis, as set forth in the resolutions OF
their national convention. set at naught
by great sections of the party. The Rich-
mond elite give them all the go-by.-
Think as you please about free soil, the
tariff, and harbor and river improvements
-or any other subjects under heaven-
but just keep together and vote against
President Taylor? For what end? To
accomplish what good result! What
principles do you thereby propose to es-
tablish Or overthrow? What principles
do you seek to vindica;e by the recon
struction of the Democratic partys What
measures do you seek to vindicate? Is
It an object to oppose Gen. Taylor, because
he will not say in advance whether or not
he will veto the Wilmot provso? Both Sec
tions of the Democracy may mite on that
score, but it will be on very different
grounds. Is it an object to oppose Presi-
dent Taylor. because he will consent to
higher duties on coal and iron if the peo:
pie say they desire them, and will not
trouble Congress ON the subject unless the
people should manifest that 70 be their
will? This opposition can hardly be the
purpose of the Pennsylvania Democrats.
Is it an object to oppose General Taylor,
because he will consent to the appropria-
tiQn of the means of the Federal Govern
ment to the improvement of our roads
and harbors if the people desire it! We
apprehend that the great West is going
into no very violent opposition on this
ground. Is 1t an object to break down
the system of equalizing the offices, and
giving fair share of them to the Wings,
after their many years of entire exclusion
from all places of honor and consideration!
But the Democrats claim it 10 be a Dem
ocratic doctrine that the offices belong to
the dominant party, and ought OF right to
be distributed among them.
Waving, tLen, all these principles as
principles of no manner account, (or 9TH
erwse they could not be thus readily
abandoned, and We should like to inquire,
respectfully, what principles are left to
the Democrats as national party! None
bat what are known at Richmond as the
''loaves and fishes" to the Sweat-house
junto, and in the vocabulary of the Alba
ny regency as the "spoils of victory. =
The Democrats are to be kept together,
not by any common principles-for COM
mon principles are all abandoned-but
merely for the sake of providing for the
friends of the favorite grandfather of Vir-
ginia and the favorite grandson of New
York! The great Democratic statesmen
are to see all their great measures and
principles sacrificed, that the author of the
Shockoe resolutions and the nominee Of
the Buffalo convention may re- establish
the personal fortunes of Richmond and
Kinderhook! We believe that the But.
lers and Van Burens have had their day,
as we'll as the Ritchies and Denbys. the
Steyensons and Brockenbroughs.