The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-09-30

charge the Democratic party OF the State o
| New York. makes occasion to say, that the Eve
ming Post IL not an organ OF that party, and il
not 10 be regarded as Democratic press. W.
are ex tremeiy indispo-ed to say anything thai
may disturb the entire harmony which prevails
in the ranks of the Democracy of New York
and which, if properly Improved, promises a
brilliant victory in the Slate this fall, and the
speedy restoration OF the Democratic ascendancy
in the Union, il among the fruits OF such vic
tory We believe it will promote snch result,
to remind the Union of historical fact or
two. aud to oifsr it a word of advice in return
for the many counsels il volunteers to the De
mocracv of our State.
The Evening Post sustains the principles and
candidates Of the New York Democracy, and
we believe enjoys the confidence of its members
to some extent. So far as this makes Demo
cratic press, the Post Is one But II was not
established by political contributions, Is not
sustained by party patronage or Legislative Jobs
nor have its editors erj yed the benefit OF pecu-
mary loans from prominent Democrats II
these are necessary to Democratic press, the
Post not only yields precedence to the Wash
ngton Union but can lay no claim TO rank as a
Democratic press We may add, that u the Post
ia not entitled to rank as a Democratic journal,
then the Democratic party has no Journal IN the
CITY of New York now, nor has it had four
ff,hs Of the time for the last twenty-five years.
Thus much in regard to ourselves.
A word or two in regard to the Washington
Union, and the ltness of its attempting to ad-
wise the Democracy of New York as to the
course which it should pursue and the papers it
should conide in.
At the great election of 1914, Mr.. Polk re-
ceived the electoral vote of New York, without
which he could not have been elected President,
and SiIas Wright was ELECTED governor Of the
State. The Democratic ascendancy IN the State
and in the Union was complete. AT this au-
spicipps season the able d'tor OF the" Wash
ington Globe" transferred his Rress 10 new
hands, and the Washington Union came into
existence. II pleased the conductors Of that
print to take into their official charge the poll
tics OF our State, and the unhappy Consequences
which rapidly followed were the division and
pro.trs.ion of the Democracy Of New York,
and the triumph of their adversares in the State,
and In the nation. We do not stop to conside.
whether these disastrous results flowed directly
from the protectoratc which the Union assumed
We simply say they followed directly after it.
The then editor Of the Union was equally
unfortunate in the management OF his own
affairs He recently surrended the Union" to
its present conductors, and returned to Virginia,
az he has publicly declared in the columns of
that print, on the verge of bankruptcy.
The present propretors Of the Union come
from Tennessee, and his assistant editor quail
fed for its present duties, in part at least, by
serving for several months, and Immediately
before his accession In the editorial chair of the
Nashville Union" Althouh the editors Of the
f" Washington Union" are Southern men, they
seem to have incurred much i'll will from sone
of the ablest and truest Democratic statesmen
and papers of the South, whilst at the same
time we cannot perceive that they have gained
any great favor, or permanent strength at the
North In the mean time, the Democracy Of
Tennessee, who were in power when they left
that State, have been 80 weakened by their
departure, or by other causes, that Tennessee
has passed into the hands of federalism. Under
these circumstances, we respectfully suggest
whether il may not be within the compass Of
possibility that the Democracy Of New York
are at least as competent to manage their own
affairs. Individually and collectively, as any of
the editors of the Washinton Union are or
have been. to manage them, in their behalf
and, if it wouid not be deemed gratuitous in
reference, (like that we are doubling the wis
dom OF we would go further. and intimate
that while the Democracy Of New York are
thus engaged, a most inviting field of labor is
opened to the editors Of the Washington Union
in the restoration of the Democratic ascend ICY
in the State from which those editors came.
We might be deemed uncivil, and should run
into the very error we are excepting to, if we
indicated the mode in which, as it seems to us,
this desirable result might be secured in Ten
nessee, with the greatest advantage to the har-
mouy and success Of the Democracy of the rest
of the Union.