The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-06-08

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that the friends of constitutional government
took courage and elected man, who
pledged himself TO restore the administration
Of the executive Office to its pristine purity.
The election Of Gen. TAYLOR, il is urged
by the defeated party, was effected by CO.
ahtion Of their Disconnected elements with
the Wings, but the facts in the case do not
warrant any such conclusion. Gen. TAYLOR
was the representative Of tie Wings Of the
country, and Of their favorite views of pub
lie policy. 1t cannot be said that drop Of
water coalesces with the ocean, when il falls
into it. II is said with more propriety, that
it is absorbed in the ocean. So Of the dis
contented fragments Of the JAcKsoN-PoLK
party. Many Of them fell into the ocean
Of Whiggery and were absorbed while others
were driven away from their original nucleus
by the catastrophe which befel it,and laid sep
arate and apart, like globues o. quicksilver,
when the original mass suffers violent disturb
ance. The election of Cen, TAYLOR was eff
iected by the Wings Of the nation, whose nu-
merical power was increased by additions from
the defeated party. There were no coalitions
Of several mnorities, as in the time Of ADAMS
for the simple reason, that there could not
be any such result effected for want Of the
requisite elements. A great homogeneous
party--the Wing party, constituting at least
one-half Of the electoral body of the United
States, was in the field with its leader TAY-
LoR. There were dscontents in that party,
but not to very wide extent Their dis
content was more than counterbalanced by
the individual acquisitions from the party Of
coalitions. The government is, therefore,
now in Wing hands, and was placed in
Wing hands by the Wing masses. No
party of coalitions, bound together by the
cohesive power Of public plumber, now
administer this government They are a
party having but one object ip view
the good Of the country. They have
no sinister purposes to subserve, The
old Hero, now presiding over the nation,
executes, and will continue to execute, the
Presidential Office, as the President of the
whole people and not Of party, though he
entertains those views Of public policy, de-
nominated Wing. The country is now free
from the curse Of coalitions, in the Executive
department Of the government, and it is
blessing which we shall not be fully able to
appreciate, until the contrast between the
constitutional administration of Gen. TAy-
LoR and the coalition and usurpation admin
istrations Of the Jackson-Polk dynasty can
be deepened by the results Of experience.
That the effort will be made in 1852, by the
party Of coalitions, to regain power no man
has any doubt They will hope and now
hope to detach Wings from their allegiance to
their party, sufficient to give them a majority
again. They are at their old work again Of
coaescing with minorities in every State,
district and neighborhood. But the Wing
party is now in the ascendent, and we hope
that a Just administration Of the government
upon the principles Of the Inaugural will 50
satisfy the people, that they will permit it
to continue at the head Of affairs. At all
events, we think, the people are not going
very soon to submit again to the iron desr
potism Of the party Of coalitions.
The Union of yesterday, we perceive,
endeavors to fix upon the Wing party Of the
United States the stigma Of being party Of
coalitions, and It gives series Of events, in
which the Wing party were thrown into
majority, by additions from the party of CO.
alitions as proof Of its assertion. These
eventsiail Of afording the requisite proof, be-
cause, in every case mentioned, there were
none OF the elements Of coalition in exist
ence. With Abolitionism, the Wings new
er coalesced The offer was distinctly made
to them, in 1914, by the Abolitonists to CO.
alesce, but the offer was treated with con-
tempt and not even noticed. Not so with
the party Of coalitions. They entertained
the proposition, through the Aboitionists'
accredited organ, Mr.. BiRNEy, and the Goa
lition was completed in October, 1914.
The result was, the defeat Of Mr.. CLAY.
The whole life Of the party Of coalitions is
one series Of coalitions, They appear to attract
by their natural force, every discontinued
minority Of whatever character. They are al
ways ready for bargain and transfer
They yield everything, but the public plum
der. That they will not give up, or il they
promise to give it up, they break their
promises, The public mind is now so tho
roughly Disguised with the doctrine and
practice of the party Of coalitions, that we
doubt whether, they can ever get into pow
er again. Their face is so indelibly stamp
edw'th the corruptions Of twenty years du-
ration, that no honest man will ever trust
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