New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-06-14

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turn his back and yield the whole field to
such occupants.
1t then becomes . question in tho ranks OF
what party to engage. And here the sin
cere and clear-headed man will not look 50
much atnames as at thing. If his instincts
are all democratic, if he would have the
power held and exercised by the people, if
he aim at the general advancement and ele-
walton of the masses Of the population, not
at the special benefit of any class or portion
of them. it does not follow that he will at
once adopt and forever adhere to one party
because it calls itself peculiarly democratic,
and pretends t. be progressive. All such
claims he will rigidly scrutinize; he will
Judge not from professions, but from the
great features and tendencies of party
policy; not because this man is on this side,
or that one on the other, will he hasten to
decide upon his own course but because he
is convinced that one line of action more
than another viii. in the long run, prove
more favorable to the independence, pro-
sperity, honor and growth Of the nation.
From such considerations as these an
honest and sound-minded man may enlist IN
der the banner of the Wing or Of the OPpo
sition, and we doubt not the great majority
in both parties are of that kind otherwise
one must despair of the Republic. For our
part, it is from precisely such considerations
that we are attached to the Wing Party
We believe its domestic and It's foreign pol
lev to be far better than that of the OPPOSE
ton. At home, we regard Protective Tar
iT as needed to develop the resources Of the
country, give our industry the appropriate
diversity raise the workers to state of
comparative well-being, and in a brief period
render America independent in the sphere
Of production and the useful and beautiful
arts. We believe also that the Federal
Government may and ought to improve the
rivers and harbors which are great chan
nels for the internal commerce of the
States, and that while it is bat the agent of
the people, elected by them and renewed
from among them, its sphere of usefulness
ought not to be limited to the functions Of a
National Police, and Accountant, but that it
has great positive as well as negative ends.
This we understand TO be Wing doctrine
and policy.
SO too with regard to foreign relations.
We are utterly opposed to that spirit of for
eign conquest and untimely annexation
which is cherished and favored by the OPP
position. We claim to be as thorough Ame-
ricans as any body, and believe as earnestly
that in due time this continent, and for that
matter the entire world, will be united in
one constitutional, republican federation.
But that's not to be brought about by unnat-
ural, barbarous, premature means IL ought
to come by the gradual process of peaceful
development, as pear ripens. To produce
it by conspiracy and war, seems to us rash,
dishonest, dangerous, unwise. And especi-
ally is it so when the transaction is made
the means of extending the area and en-
larging the power of slavery. What Anne
RIGA wants above all is peaceful and orderly
development. Things will thus come to
head more surely and more rapidly than
otherwise. That we take to be the leading
end of Wing foreign policy, and therefore
we support that party.
In short, we regard the general tendency
and scope Of Wing policy as more fayora-
bic to the independence, prosperity, power
and influence of the nation; more consist
ent with the welfare and the ultimate des-
tiny of America, than that of the Opposition
As regards the fundamental doctrines of Re-
pubLcanism, one party is as democratic as
the other. But the course of the Oppose
ton appears to US essentially revolutionary,
violent, negative. Now, revolution is good
where universal suffrage, popular education,
and democratic Institutions are denied the
people where they exist, revolution, or rev.
dictionary policy is folly, absurdlty. We
therefore oppose the Opposition with all our
might.
Now, the questions to which we have
above alluded are the sum and substance of
our National party politics; and but for
National politics, each State would have its
own distinct parties, without reference to
the others. The Tariff and River and Harbor
Improvement constitute the sole actual is-
sues on which the two greatpartes stand OPP
posed as National bodies. The foreign
question is rather latent than an actual
one the other two are sublects Of Jealous