The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-10-14


Gratis are, is that reason why the democratic party
should lose its name If love of the Constitution and
the Union be the qualities which belong alike to the two
parties, then these parties exist as they have always ex
from each other alone BY The differ
of opinion inherent in them. and which can DC no
more destroyed than the variety Of the human character
II you add equal quantities 10 the same things The reia
tons OF those things remain the same So with the
quality OF union. patriotism. or love oil the consiu
ton il allowed 10 be possessed equally by both the
parties, neither pretend TO acquire respect by the APP
preparation OF that quality to a new organization and a
1t would be as irrational as for set oil re-
formers to name themselves the Bible party in religion
and expect thereby TO extpate the various secls oil
Catholics and Pedestrians. formed by the difference OF in
depreciation which has been given to the sacred Scrip
lures So it is with the Union created by federal
constitution it can be the exclusive monopoly OF no
party, but the ouch-stone the standard to which
free and intelligent people subject the relative value OF
the employed by their public agents to make that
Union perpetual. Among these means, in Our day. the
wings desired national bank. high tariff general sys-
tenn of internal Improvements, and generally that consruc-
ton OF The constitution claimed by Mr. Adams in his light
house message which he deemed insulting TO suppose
that representative would allow himself to be pasied
by the will Of the people Democracy the other hand
has proposed 10 make that Union perpetual by fortiyng
that feature in system which guards the reserved
rights OF the Staes-which limits the federal government
to the sphere OF power prescribed by the plain terms OF
the instrument creating it-avoding national bank, a
high tariff and all other nsrumentaly calculated to
large the circle OF federal influence and lessen the agency
of the States and the people in developing the public
prosperity and increasing The force OF individual enter
prise Divisions OF opinion these great questions OF
public policy cannot be avoided, and ought not il they
could. They are founded in nature They are to our
system what the currents TO the natural world-the
condition of ife-and not to be monopozed by any To-
cality or name. We may differ as to the cacu-
lated increase the prosperity dependent on the life
giving virtues Of these currents, but to appropriate them to
our exclusive would be both impious and impotic
Regarding in this light the suggestion that the democratic
party may be absorbed by permanent Union party in the
South after the present crisis has been settled we treat
the ntimaton that Messrs Cobb and Foote will not here
after act with the democratic party, come into conven
ton with the national democracy select candidates for
the presidency vice presidency, chmercal If the
wings OF the South want name, let them take il.
They not unused to seek such change But let them
imagine that the democrats need it, will make this
sacrifice to make manifest their love of the Union. Demo-
crats initiating the liberal conduct OF General Jackson
when he recommended to Mr. Monroe The appointment
of Col. Drayton to the War Department, or wher
he took into his cabinet statesman who had, OF
some questions, in the OF his life, been sup
posed TO with the federalsts in the construction
OF the constitution, may take into their organization
those who have shown that in great crisis they cou
sink the partisan and nothing but their country but
infer from such liberal sentimens that they ready Il
give up their party name, and surrender the firm feunda
tons OF their political faith and consistency, would bs
to nvert the relation OF principal and incident, and &c
make the illustration of high patriotism and elevated
love OF country for the overthrow of those
| virtues
Nor would we exclude from the democratic convention
who have acted in the present canvass in the Soutt
with those who would have pre- vented, under the name
States rights, the acceptance OF The Compromise as na
settlement OF the slavery question, but YIELD in goot
faith to the Of the majority, and bow to the sover
eighty Of the people. We have done what we could Il
sustain the general views that Messrs Cobb ant
Fooe have and intend maintain hereafter the execution
OF the Compromise in all its parts as democratic duty
but this shall not prevent from communng with hos,
who differed from whilst that measure was vet in
transit legislative bill, question for the s,i6
cation and approval Of the people. When such differ
OF opinion, submitted the OF party are nc
longer discernibe applicable. and men return TO h,
general platform on which democracy has challenged
its opposite, whggey the competitor for the honor and
fame arising from party agency in securing the mos
good TO our common country, then make those er
ences no bar 10 fellowship.
These remarks seemed be called for at this ne
rod general many interroga,ories coming
in from various quarters Of the Union the general purpor
OF which displays an unjust apprehension that tn,
democratic party is to be merged in Union party w,
emphacally, No and tina, il 10 not in this sens,
we understood the union which has taken place OF The
democratic party in the South, and in all the other
tons OF country in the maintenance OF the Compro
mise as settlement OF the slavery question We claim
that Messrs Cobb and Foole good democrats stand
ing where Jefferson, Madison, and Jackson did
The Nashville Banner and whig