The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-07-11

must with you, regard the contest in which we are
summoned 10 do battle with feelings Of deep anxiety
Your State must exercise po@erful influence in thai
contest, and should be wanting in psopriely were 10
address you in the language OF incentive Quite
you need no spur to pek lhssde OF your purpose
ia The discharge OF your duty Yet may say. that out
OF your State The democracy regard with very deep inter
The issue OF the battle you about SO gorously
commence "a However gahlany he wings are sustained
You that centre. and in lis preservation is involved
only your honor but the credit OF the party and the
safety OF the country.
Fortunate il is for us that with the leaders who have
been chosen for us is found thai combination of excel
ence in conduct character, and principle, which slmu-
ates every democrat TO the exercise OF his full power and
stgmazes his lukewarmness unreasonable and ungeH
erous. No country has produced truer pathot, no
party better man, than franklin Pierce He comes TO
US from that branch OF the democratic school everywhere
admitted as second 10 no other 10 the purity OF its prn
clples, The integrity OF Its purposes aud The nhexlbe
brmness OF It's followers And while General Pierce
points 70 the school for the Of his political
creed The school points 10 him illustrating The excel
ence OF its system. Sludiously abstaning from gen.
era nolorety he has avoided for place, but
never Stunned the struggle for truth Jealous in every
manner to promote the honor OF his conaty and content
with the reward OF hrs conscience he Withdrew himself
from the gaze OF his counymen. but could not separate
himself from their warrnest affections. And when hls
cOuntrymen sought him, private citizen al his home in
Concord TO govern the destiny OF this world in itself
there was shown principle which grows even brighter
by comparison with that period in the history OF
Rome, when, prompted BY noble impulse, she turned
her gaze for ruler 10 the cottage Of the farmer, and
forced Cincinna,us To- yield the rens of his plough
that he might assume those of an empire.
cannot regard the wing party equally fortunate. No
willing than 10 render General Scott all the
credit TO which his military achievements enlile him
But the time has not yet come when cheftain may
throw his sword in the balance For Chief Magistrate
other qualities essential besides those necessary for
campaign or battle. believe that General Scott and
his party utterly mistaken in their conception OF the
true spirit and end OF institutions And that the
wings feel this TO be the sentiment of the people OF the
United States is conclasively shown in the adoption of
their platform, in which they siudousIy conceal their
real principles, and adorn themselves with the shreds
and patches Of the democratic creed So cuously eo,
these assorted, that if did not know the fact, we
should be puzzled 10 say whether they who gather
der this piebad banner democrats deserving the sub
stance Of their faith, and covering their treachery with
the shadow, penitent wings by this device endeavo-
ing to gain admission TO ranks and by small begin.
nings preparing to unite in swelling the chorus Of the de-
mocracy
Most heartily do desire that you will succeed in re-
moving those causes OF angry difference and contention
which have 80 much distracted people. Coniden,
am in the hope that your will achieve much,
if not all, that the true lovers of their country desire
And admire and advocate the principle which prompts
you rather TO look with hope to the future than
ton. which would be idle. at the past
Very respectfully, your fellow-ctzen,
A. G. MAGRATH