The daily union., 1852-11-04
From the Boston Post, Nov. =.
The Presidential Election.

The Presidential Election.
No nation can present sublimer spectacle than tins
nalion does to-day its citizens, living in the wide re-
gon washed by the waters OF the Atlantic and rscinc
oceans will meet TO designate the hands in which lney
will place the immense responsibility OF their executive
affairs for four years and though they may be ever so
sharply divided as To principles and measures, ana meh
although the struggle OF eontending parties may nave
been seyereyet such is the conservative opera
lion OF those open saieyyaves OF Tree press Tree pun
lie meeting free discussion, free political acon na' an
stand ready quietly shesay Is bee Of such
thing forcbly resisting the potent judgment OF lhe
ballot box but all feel bound TO an absolute
in It's decree The men this decides for all agree shall
weld this power Where in the world is there such
spectacle TO be found , ,
This election will be for the seventeenth presidential
term For the first OF these terms, Tor Washington, only
ten States voted thirty States VIII vote to-day For
the first there sxynlne electoral votes Tor
the seventeenth there will be two hundred and ninety
six AT the first election, though there the fullest
confidence in the whom all minds turned of the
presidency yet there was great lack OF confidence IN the
constitutonin the prachcabllity OF popular eec.
ons--in the stability OF democratic institutions, and
among the patriotic and the clearest OF heads there
sincere dislrus and deep forebodng as to the u
ture. Ii a scheme-an experiment IN human
aarsa reliance the capacity OF the people as bold as
il fearful; and the conservative mind OF The country
mig well shrink from the great trial To everything
To the peopeto OIL al the old national anchors
OF hereditary power IN every shape and ignore nol only
nobility, for which America never hankered but also
every old link Of stabiliyo trust everything 10 the
chance of popular electionwas looked upon with nn-
affected dread by this portion OF the country; and 1t sbe
yond question that i, looked upon On incorporation OF
some of the conservative features of the British cons
tuition absolutely Indispensable to save the new order
of things from gulf OF anarchy. Another portion
however had taken in deeper daughs the iree,spoken
words and sound principles OF the advocates OF the good
old cause and, besides, had lmbbed TO the fuli that
grand idea that epublicansm the just and equal sys
tenn which God revealed in the Scriptures, and which
ought to establish upon earth and so this portion
of the country looking with much contempt on hered
itay legislators they would upon hereditary astrono
mers took hopeful view of the peoples capacity
TO select their agents They dreaded power. They had
felt its insoence, and were jealous OF It's accumulation
and perpetaaion and openly held that the only safe
guard perennial renewal by the hands that created
it, Such, it is believed is true representation OF the
great elements that existed at the first election OF Pres
dent of these United States.
To.day's great work will be done after an experience
of than sixty years, and the trial OF sixteen pres
Dental Only in all this time has there been
much fear entertained that faction would be so
bold thwart the deliberate will OF the American peo
pie expressed in their constitutional forms Ihs was
during the first election OF Thomas Jefferson 1t was,
however, but for few days that this fear was enter
tanned. II the federal majority in Congress had pur.
saed the advice of some and taken the advantage OF
on-eeclion 10 have placed one of their number in
power it is probable that force would have been used TO
have put down the usurpation, for the governors OF
Virginia and Pennsylvania stood ready to march sufl-
cient militia TO overthrow such usurpahon But such
rash counses received the assent OF the patriotic
among the federalists. and fortunately the line Of
presidential precedens rued by such
Far from III Twice the nation has mourned the loss OF
its chief executive by death But what the
quences All quietly, beautifully, did that government
whose workings much disturbed then vndicae
itself. Who thought OF civil disturbance What party
dared TO suggest the idea of overthrow There
change; anxiety felt interruption even for a
day OF the ordinary functions OF government occurred
The republic felt TO be sale And thus
sixty years of varied trial. to executive seecon has
served but TO justify and more the great constitu
tonal framework of the fathers of the republic.
To-day then, the people will constitute the
eenih presidential term and in the general order in
which they will do IT, and in the common submission
- the decision OF majority which will follow II, they
vll again present other nations, whose tong
borne down to the very dust by the burdens imposed
them by the outrageous peraphenaia of royalty, the
practical invitation TO go and do likewise, and 10 arise IN
their might and cast of the ugly inheritance. As for
Americans, there is longer doubt foreboding
for the sagacous these sixty of the order OF
this country compared with the years Of the dis
order of Europe that representative democracy the
strongest govern the earh because is most Just
government Whoever hears OF instances of shrewd
monaires investing funds under the detestable despot
ism of the boy emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
Who does not daily hear OF the funds OF unsettled Europe
seeking the security of republican America
To-days election, confidently believe, Americans
will ever feel double pride n for the of the peo.
pie expressing their preference for the candidates tha,
will support The democratic plairom, will evince their
patriotism and good sense IN sustaining those
that necessary preserve their constitution aud make
stronger their common fraternity