The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-06-07
The wing and Aboii,lon,.t Coalition.

listed for many months and is now fact rather " be
accounted for than established The whig party pfoy~r
has not, since the overthrow OF Adams and Clay ses
able TO control the government In every far ercoar
it has been defeated by the democratic party. TIE
slant which il has sustained embtlere i sgzssf
the democracy until it became willing 10 eater jGo say
alliance which promised it revenge.
Besides, the interests of the wing parry @os ts "a
teres,s of the people they segregated o Ose os
the great body OF the community The Wing psrrY ~
based upon monopoles and oorpora.ons ard 8, as Ns.
ded to the money capital Of the eoinry. is grsa; oecS
Is 10 gain power, that the spois OF Office may bad To-
gether lis dlscordant elements, and empower By legs
lave enactments TO give advantage. the hodsrs d
money by prohibiting foreign competition in markets
that they may prey upon the great abOnx ints.esss
of the country, BY corporate privileges aaA hank
charters enable them manufacture. fictitious ezp.tz-
and purchase herewith and appropriate 10 themselves
an undue share OF the production Of the nation. The
Interests OF the wing parry the interests OF the
few, and il is forced enter INTO alliance with any
faction which will aid and assist il in us warfare
against the democratic party. The nconZruons materials
of the Harrison party OF 1919. comprising every shade Of
political belief, from ultra federalism strct Stae-rght,
nothing but vast coalition AMI the Taylor party
OF Isle, Win It's Jdnu--'dctl uCket-sln -ClaHeEH
STAKEHOLDER for Presden. and northern additions, for
Vice Prestent-wiih general political CREED. but ap
peang to the peadces OF every section and the inter
ests OF every ocallty-now abusing The Mexican war,
and caning through the SIMULTANEOUSLY OF ITS hor
rors and bloodshed-then carried away with military
fervor, laudng General Taylors proves the battle
field, and shouting irancaly for military cheitain-
presented such motley aspect 10 disgust the
leaders OF the ardcider orgies in $780, and the chief
musicians OF the wing clubh IN 1874.
The coalition spirit OF the wing party may be in
all its actions Not only does It's pebad character
dictate it, but the in which its legislative proceed
ings conducted prove it. In a minority all sub
jects, of its can stand upon their
merits This fact leads il call factions to It's aid, and
10 pander 10 local interests. Hence we find that wing
enactments have strange character. Disconnected sub
ecs brought together in the same laws and interests
having connexion with each ether, and principles
founded antagons, views OF the powers and duties OF
the federal government crowded into the same enact
ment, in order to bride and buy up and unite vote for
all, which no one OF them could obtain.
Such has been the character and conduct OF the wing
party since its first formation Such is its character and
conduct now The efforts OF the northern wings in past
years 10 supersede Bney in the affections of the abolition
party had carried them far, that they lost but ie by
the formation OF the free soil party When that became
strong the wings would have been willing under any
circumstances to affiliate with it, matter wha, its
,nents nigh, have been They yielded up their organi
cation in Philadelphia in order TO gain the native Ameri
can vote in 1874 They did the same thing in ls4s, in
order to en;rap democratic voters and all the
Union the wings abjured their creed, and threw away
y 4 IL
dupe and deceive the people In Isis the whg party had
nothing 10 fear, and much to hope from princi
pies Its leaders in the North claimed freesolism
their property, and they asserted tina, then title
rendered perfect by ,wen,y6v years exclusive posses
sion II was no barrier to men like William H. Seward
and Jacob Collamer who have superseded Bney in the
affections of the aboiionisls and who reap the po
lhca benefits Of the social agita,ons OF Wendell Philips
Lloyd Garrison, and Abby Kelly 1t could do injury
party which had for years stood with extended
wde Turing the aboonists, by every seductive Device
TO their brotherly embrace.
There was one feeling which the whole whg party
North and South had in common with the abotonis,s
Both feared the veto power lodged in the hands OF the
President. That power had been used to break down
the efforts of the wings to iasten upon the country
system OF policy which the people would not sustain.
Bank, tariff, internal Improvement wastefu and extrava-
giant expenditure, had all felt It's force Wing coalitions
and congressional combinations could not reach the
President He the representative Of all the States
and of the whole peopenot of particular districts and
local factions and he had often hwated with the veo
measures which had been concealed from the people,
and brought forward in the national legislature after the
people had deposited their ballots, and when they could
not be heard Therefore the wing party hated and fear
ed the power The aboltoniss hated and feared
for similar reason. They knew that man Of their
party could be elected President of the United States
And they knew that while there was any power in the
government which could thwar the action of coalition.
formed majority of Congress- their infamous and ncenda
ry doctrines could be put in practice Here, them
was common ground upon which the whole wing party
could stand side by side with the abolonists And
there was another. The wings and the aboiionsts had
both opposed the annexation of Texas and they both
opposed the into which the United States had been
forced by Mexico writer, endorsed by the National
lntegencer one high in the confidence of the whg
party, had advised his political friends before peace
concluded, and when the armies the field, TO in.
sst in solid body against territorial indemnity. in order
TO present issue on which southern Shareholders and