The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-01-01
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policy may have all changed bat the principles
TO define which that line drawn, arc immutabls
As the rock -nbbed mountains They can change
they exist in the nature OF man. In the principles OF
government and they must survive in Some form TIL
both shall TO be All other organizations for party
purposes but temporary, local. sectional or aoci.
dental This alone will endure. This alone is founded
nature and necessity and to this standard all party
movements must sooner or later conform The funda.
mental principles OF federal constitution
TALLY democratic The doctrines OF that party have
codinsly preserved them pure and strengthened them.
without weakening or endsnge rng the rights OF the
States If seriously jeoparded. believe the democ
racy will that noble instrument from peril and
the imminent the danger the greater will be the
cesson of its force from the honest and the patriotic OF
the other party to sustain it. Faction and discord may
denounce and assail it, and threaten to nufy It's OBJ.
legations or dissolve its elements but they the
clustering storm. beating against rock which il can
neither level nor remove. They may spend their blind
fury upon il in vain. AT times, good and firm men
may irembe for its safety but experience
may content for II is stronger than both faction and
discord combined Of course It's strength the love and
attachment of the people, who love the equal freedom il
and the strict and impartial justice it dispsnses to
all We shall to this interesting topic of these days
at our earliest convenience We are sure our readers
must regard of the deepest Importance their rights
and their happiness The following extract from edi-
,oria in the Albany Argus expresses fully and accu-
ratey own views of the democracy, that sanction
and transfer it to our columns;
From the Albany Argus.
SKcTIoNALIziNa DEMOCRACY THE Oswego Pal.
adnm, under this head, reiterales its advice, heretofore
alluded TO in this paper that The democratic party the
North must and ought to aboonze or seconnlize itself.
If it ever expects to . beat the wings"
We need scarcely repeat the that the democratic
party can do no such thing, and still maintain its Identity
and even existence as party never was and never can
become a sectional party, without becoming extinct lts
nationality constitutes It's vital principle To yield up that
essential quality would be TO give up the ghost, There can
Ss ns as or he as ss e%
York OF in contradistincton the de
q ~ Virginia or AabaMs The democratic party
purity and IN It's distinctive principles in every State and
d s i mds o. s
Emneny catholic in its and in territorial extent i,
can have no fellowship with seelionasm in any Of is
Gratis and yer plant themselves on sectional or geo
graphical ground ,ha r to the sssd or
themselves from it. and become factionists They stand
democracy Of the Union, and attitude Of hos
Utility to its principles and lis organization 1t is imposs
They 20 from il; and not being with il or Of it, they
are, in the language Of inspired truth. against it,
This acknowledged formed the basis OF
effected Syracuse last fall The democ acy Of the State
there represented, discarded sectonalism in all its shapes
and phases II planted itself the high national and pa
rioc grounds which the democracy Of the Union nccu
pied in 49, 40, IA, and AS and fought Tor those
orabe contests, and which II has the proud sat s.
faction of seeing at least partially recognised the
ground OF national policy and national obligation by it.
whig opponents The Syracuse Convention did than
this endorsed the measures of adjustment and
peace, which, in spite of abolition or "hee-so" oppos
lion, have done much towards uanqulizng agitation
and restoring fraemal relations and synpathes between
North and South recognised these measures as happy
settlement of the disturbing question, which had fear
fully convused the Union and congratulated the
people that these dangerous and disturbing
end.