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determined te fight no more political battles un- der their ancient name. If they can decently cast it oG. The name of Whig was once respectable as connected with thrilling events in our history but In such odiam have the doctrines of that party heeM held, that the appropriation of that name consigned tt to contempt and disgrace. The whigs are now endeavoting to assume the name of Union istl Every true friend of this Union mindful of the greatness and glory we owe to lt as people should deeply deploEe thts step-this new move ment in whig legeTdcmain, because also, bring that name into like contempt aad disgrace must be the Inevitable result of the completeness of the appropriation. It is however cousoling to re- fleet that this eleventh hour trick will prove failure, and that it will be regarded in its proper light; that is, as an attempt to hide decayed and odious principles, and bad and tottering cause. The whigs are driven to the wall, and this rev trick is rendered necessary by consciousness on tlser part that to ask fOr power whigs would be frutless; that to encounter the stern and unterr- fed democracy as whgs would be attended with certain defeat, and would only be reproducing for themselves the mortfcations of the past notifications to which they have been subjected whenever they felt disposed to try their strength as whigs.
 The very same men-unconpromlsin federal ist--bltter whigs-everlasting enemies of demo- cracy-the same men with the same principles and purposes now come forward not as whigs but in another name, one that will startle nobody; come forward with the hope of scducing unsuspecting democrats from their allegiance and time honored faith The object is to destroy the democratic and build up the whig Party-the object is to produce divisions in our ranks and then obtain an easy victory over us. The stratagem is too shallow to do damage; the object too manifest to deceive any one, and we call on all democrats lo be on thei. guard.
 This is no new thing. It has been part of the federal whig party from the beginning and has been developed year after year. Let us retrospect the mast and remember that Gen. Taylor claimed to be and ran as a o-party candidate for the presi- dency, and thereby secured the votes of enough weak and foolish democrats to elevate him to station for which every one ''and the rest of man. kind' acknowledged him to be utterly unftted, or to use the language of Mir. Webster, cit was a nomination not fit to be made." Was the admin leLIdtlOu Ot 0cu. Ld9iOt Ot Ap PHAy |ANiNNtCt On the contrary it was the most vindictive and proscrptve in the history of this government.- More removals from office were made under it, and in violation of positive pledges than under all the previous administrations put together. In fact no democrats were left in, nor were any appointed to office To be a whig was sufficient to obtain re- ward-the more violent, the better; but to be a democrat in the eye of that administration a crime deserving prescription. The democrats who voted for Gen. Taylor. soon saw how miserably they had been duped and repented in sack-cloth and ashes, and doubtless wisely determined to place no reliasce in whig professions, and now let them and let all guard against this new attempt at de- cepton, for whoever conideS in whig professions or promises will be deceived.
 The Whigs the Union party, indeed! Why the pretension is not merely laughable but 1t is lmpu dent in the extreme. The political history of our country will demonstrate that it is the whig party that has brought the Union into peterborough this confederacy to the yawning abyss.
 The democrats on retiring from power left the government to them, peoceful, happy, prosperous extending in territorial limits from ocean to "a country rich in agricultural, mineral and con- mercial resourceS-tapidly advancing in popula- ton and improvement and the Union strong and promising duration.
 Look at the picture now. In less than three years so wretched has been the policy of the par ty in bower, so weak and imbecile its measures when vigor and resolution were required; so vio- lent and illegal, when moderation was demanded, and so i'll adapted it's doctrines to the perpet- utation of republic, that the Union has been Sha- ken to it's centre, public confidence impaired and the growth and advancement of the country retard- ed. Is it possible then that the whig part whose policy would eventually destroy this Union should be entrusted with it's preservation Is quack who has prostrated hale and vigorous patent by futile nostrums to be entrusted with the deli cate duty of his restoration! Would you place the wolf to guard the flock If these things are contrary to shuman experience on what principle IS it that thewhgs claim to be competent to pre- serve a Union they have nearly destroyed, and what solitary reason exists why they should be entrusted with that sacred duty A thousand req sons exist against it, none for it. Moreover the question must be asked and answered, if in less than three short years they could introduce so much fatal mischief into our happy country and push the most glorious inheritance Of modern times to the brink of ruin, how many years short os two Presidential terms would be required for them to destroy ii altogether rendering dissolution of the Union inevitable. Their doctrines lead to It-ther practice and policy lead to it, and it is time to un derstand the matter and speak plainly.
 They are fighting for the spells Of office; for the power and patronage of Government, and are ready to unite with any party or faction which will enable them to effect that purpose. Where the aboltionsts hold the balance of power they affiliate with them They court tAe freesoilers
  and lave thus given importance to reasonable and dangerous faction that has resolved on the extirpaticn of slavery at the sacrifice of the con av1 tha Ifo;or