Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-03-29
a. washington Union.

From the Washington Union.
,,, nr..aures NJ T,ex,ocracv--Its hour OF Triumph.
Never in the history of parties in this country has
the great democratic party of the nation occupied
prouder and more envable position before the world
than it does at this very moment All its great meas
ures of public policy have been adopted oy the peo
ple, and are now in successful operation. .
Twenty years ago Gen. Andrew Jackson: the TREND
of the people and the devoted patriot raised the
standard of opposition to that monster anu any vi
federalism and enemy to free insttutlons-tne Uni
ted States Bank Long and terrible was the strug-
rio Int the neople under the lead OF the immortal
Hero of New Orleans, triumphed, and the bank was
put down and annihilated. Then followed the strug-
gle for the establishment of new and better system
As one of the steps in the transition from the defeat
f the hank to the adoption of the present financial
system the State banks were temporarily employed
az financial agents Having within them the inhe-
rent rottenness of the paper SYSTEM they failed to
answer the purposes of the government and then
the independent treasury system, involving COM
nete separation of bank and State, and the recognl
ton of gold and silver the only currency known to
the constitution was established In the brief reign
of federalism succeeding the election OF zen Harrl-
SON. it was repealed, and again reesta blshed under
the administration of Mr. Polk Since then its sue
cess has been so signal and complete as to forbid all
attempts to dispace it. 1t has had the effect OF es-
tablshng sound currency both for the government
and the people. 1t has slmpllhed the system ana
reduced the rates of exchange. 1t has checked the
oIer-issues of the banks, and preserved them in a
healthy and sound condition. And now its success
has been so signal and triumphant that none, even
its worst enemies dare to wag their tongues against
it.
The success of moderate and liberal revenue sys-
tenn has been equally signal and complete. Thirty
years ago huge system of monopoly, under the
name of protection, by which capital was enabled
vastly to increase its profits at the expense of labor
was devised and adopted. 1t continued to wax In
SIZE and grow in strength for years. until its oppres
sions severely felt in section of the Union
as actually to menace its stability. Such was the
state of things which existed in Gen Jacksons Sec
ond presidential term; and then that noble patriot,
he had done in reference to the bank, raised the
standard of reform He then proposed more mode
rate and liberal system, which the commence
ment of the struggle for liberal revenue tariff which
led to the compromise act, and which has finally
suited in the adoption of the present. Now, in the
present system, the principle of monopoly is aban-
doned and the revenue principle in the collection OF
duties alone recognized That the present system is
perfect we do not affirm 1t may doubtless be I'M
proved by the further reduction of duties Perhaps
some articles, not interfering with commerce
with other nations, may be taxed little higher, and
in the of real necessity the part OF the gov
ernment several articles in the free list may be ad-
ded to the dutiable articles But the present system
recognizes the true principle prescribed in the
stution for the raising of revenue by duties i'm
portations and especially excludes the principle of
monopoly, so odous under all governments and par
ticularly hateful under popular government which
now in successful operation AS a revenue measure,
its triumph is most signal, exceeding even the most
sanguine expectations of its friends. So successful
is it, that its opponents dare not assal 1t directly
and only coverty and stealthily attack it, by recon-
mendng increase OF duties one CT two articles
and the re-adoption of the DID, exploded monopolst
scheme of specific duties.
The third great triumph of the democratic party
is in the of the principle of non-ntervention
with regard to the subject of slavery. That princi
pie was incorporated into the platform of the demo
cratic party by the convention at Baltimore in 1910
1t was substantially imbodied in resolution drawn
up or dictated by the late Sias Wright, of the
purest and most eminent statesmen whom this coun-
try has produced. At that period its application to
new territories was not contemplated but in the
late presidential election, the principle of such an
application recognized by Gen. Cass the demo
cratic candidate, and most lucidly untolded and en-
forced by him in his celebrated Nicholson letter.
That principle was repudiated by the entire whig
party North and South. In the South it was repu-
dated because it did not go far enough to suit the
wings of that section and the election of Gen. lay
lor advocated because he would go further, and
would stand as an impenetrable rampant of defence
for Southern institutions against the assaults of the
fanaticism of the North. And in the North it was
repudiated by the wing party, under the lead of MIR
Webster because it conceded everything to slavery
In the North the motto of the whig party, in the last
presidential election, was, "Taylor, Fillmore and
! Free SoiI.' Now, what sort of spectacle is there
presented to the world in the conduct of the leaders
of that party? 1t is the abandonment OF their own
dangerous sectionalsms, which were rapidly hurry
ing this glorious confederacy to destruction, and
the adoption of the platform of Gen. Cass and the
democratic party. Gen Taylor and his cabinet have
at last adopted it; Mr.. Clay has adopted it; Mr.
Webster has adopted it. In fact all the conserva
tive" portion of the wing party, who do not really
desire dissolution of the Union, have jumped upon
the platform of Gen. Cass and the democracy the
only ground upon which they save themselves
and preserve the Union.
| Thus is the triumph of the democracy complete
Thus Gen. Cass stands indicated before the world
from the foul aspersons of his bitter partisan oppo
merits the patriot and statesman whose farreachine
sagacity discovered and suggested the only principle
upon which the present dangers which environ the
country could be avoided and the Union saved. How
much more lofty and sublime-how much more to b.
enviedis the position which he occupies before
the American people aud the world, than that filled
by the man who succeeded to the presidency by tht
miserable, paltry and criminal frauds by which Gen
Cass was defeated AS the veteran statesman ap
proaches towards the setting of his life it she'd
flood of glory upon his head. And when he shall
depart, posterity will crown the great PAC1F1
GATOR in this crisis of his countrys peril and not thu
men who rush to his platform for shelter ant
protection from the pelngs of the very storm which
their own arts had conf ured up, to overthrow thu
now triumphant statesman.
The Bridge Case.
y We find the following card in the New York Her
aid from Mr.. Shultz, relative to the Bridge Case,
decision upon which was given short time since b,
the Supreme Court
GAS the public, far and near, have expressed
lively interest in my favor in this important case
lately before the Supreme Court of the United State