The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-03-24

| The old Democratic Guard not dead.
The wings did not display forbearng spirit towards
MIR Polk to Justify them in complaining OF the present
structures of the democratic press Scarcely had the late
President taken the oath of office, before they commenced
a furious upon him. Why then, can they
pec different from the democratic press' The
democrats opposed General Taylor upon the strongest
grounds They suspected his want of civic qualifications
for the highest office in the world In age of the most
astonishing progress, they desired 10 of great
aainnenis, OF enlarged experience, who had
hdence in his qualifications. placed at the head Of
the enerprsing and progressive nation in the uni
verse. They found no such in Gen Taylor They
opposed TO taking soldier, who had been in the
camp for forty years and who conscious of his
defects They asked for his principles The people had
right to know in what he would conduct their
government But Gen. Taylor expressed opinions and
frank enough admit that he had not had The time
to study these subjects and TO form any opinion upon
them Under the advice of his friends he declared that
he would not be President of party but would act as
the President of the people And yet sooner is lie in
power than he selects his whole cabinet from one party
and these gentlemen decided, to say ultra wings
Two of them decided protective tariff men. His in
augual is brief; generally vague; but far as it can
tona executive powers at the feet OF Congress- His ap-
ponments with two three exceptions also run in the
same party channel; and threatened by editors,
who would TO possess of his confidence, with
wide sweep of democratic Office holders and subs
tuition of wings. Whilst these signs are manifesting
themselves scarcely be expected that those who
resisted his election shut their eyes to what they
see or seal their lips to what they hear For these rea-
hay hest in of. tha
marks in the Raleigh Standard
From the North Carolina Standard March 81
THE NEW ADMlSsraATIoN.-We take occasion in
form neighbor OF the Register that have not
caught the scent" of opposition to the admins
uation, either from the Washington Union from any
other quarter We not in the habit of taking the cue
it is called, icom any We have already ia former
numbers of this JOURNAL pressed opinion the
means by which General Taylor elected, well
relation to the policy he will probably pursue ahd that
opinion we have Thus far seen TO change.
The idea advanced by General Taylor in his inaugural
aud sought by wing Journalists morally be stereoy ped
into the public mind that in his Interpretation of the
ution he would be governed by the action of Congress
and the decisions of the Supreme Court. is simply absurd
He takes the oath preserve, protect, and dcend that
constliuonnot as Congress the Supreme Court may
understand it, but he with all the lights from every quar-
before him. may understand it, As coordinatc branches
OF the government they bound exercise their peculiar
powers and they entitled 10 his unquaf fled respect
but he has also his powers and his duties from which there
escape. Does he for the for Congress
And is he tho representative of the American people,
armed with the right to forbid well the right
mend sit down quietly and permit those bodies think
for him II so, then is his oath mockey and the Office
he holds useless sinecure.
We repeat it, shall e-judgc the new admintra
ton, condemn it in advance We hop, may prosper
because the interests of the country all love we'll
nseparaby identified, for four years least with its policy
and its But it only prosper, beg leave
say by exertng its energies keep things they are
and 10y accommodating itse the present condition
things preserve and perpetuae but it cannot inn
prove, except and the of may aid it
TO do
IT, however it should violate its solemn pledges in regard
partyism and appointments office, and should at
tempt a revival of those odious wing measures which the
people put under their feet in defeating Henry Clay in
lSil shall oppose it, from the first letter the last line
and shall labor with thousands of Others for
its discontinue and overthrow. The old democratic
guard" il dead yet sleeping. Upon the sounding
first of danger, its ranks viii again be
shaed and its banners flying; and proting by the expe
rience of The past, the time marches forth
the enemy viii go forward without divisions discord
| and therefore to victory.
Bat aside all this the Register does well to lecture
regard towards the administrn ton
How has tha paper treated Mr. Polk During his whole
term while he establishing the very measures which
whigsm knows better than to touch, and WHILE by
his manly conduct and superior craftsmanship he was
eicng the applause of millions here at home, and ee.
waiting the American in foreign eyes, the Register
denounced him, without proof, u demagogue and
surper, and resored every bring him and the
great party which sustained him into odium and contempt
Was that LIBERAL Was just Was it such course as
dnleran press-whose duty il is refine and raise
up and vug irize and degrade the public mind
ought TO have pusueda We shall initiate that paper in
this respect We shall approve when can, and con-
denim when and any other course, in our opin
ion, who what may be the object concerned
is unjust the people generally and injurious the very
cause which is sought to be promoted and sustained
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