The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-03-25

OF The whig ground. There were noo--not one. bat
lwo--conyentons held ~ Baltimore last June. Each
made proclamation OF lis prncples-each nomina led lie
candidate The wing candidate accepted the nomina on
with the wing principles annexed" The democratic can
ddate accepted The nomination. and took his stand upon
the democratic creed announced by the Conyen
ton, as strictly in harmony with every act and word Of
his life Thus organized against each Other the two par
ties took the field The wings denounced and derided
the democratic platform. They abused and slandered
General Pierce in every form and by every device OF
calumnious obloquy The Republic took the lead in the
work No terms too coarse or TOO violent 10 ex-
press its opposition, both 10 General Pierce and TO the
prnsiples he represented. And now behold This same
Republic to all appearance mraculousy enlightened
BY the Inauguration ceremony. whisks sharply round,
and cries that it will change It's ground, but that
il soiI support President Pierce!
We trust neghbor is seross because It's talk is
quite too absurd TO make good Joke. The Republic
says Gen Pierce and the wings as one Il is rather
strong expression. The wing organ then soutly de-
MES that the wings have changed On the contrary.
they are as much wings In fact the Republic
hints that the Presidents Inaugural has made them even
more staunch wings than they before, Only
fac, has up in their and that is, that being
staunch whigs, they yet as one" with the dem
ocralc President. and mean now to support him
Just as heartily as they abused him FIVE months ago
This is the boldes dodge" yet II is Improvement
even upon Taylorism.
But there is sly innuendo in the Republics paragraph
to the effect merely that President Pierce is wing How
else, when "the wings have not changed can he and the
wings as party be "as one !" Now a, Baltimore in June
last the wings and General Pierce not one but
very decidedly as two. Will the Republic then, be good
enough to explain how the President Pierce who has
been inauguraled Washington, differs politically from
the General Pierce who was nominated at Baltimore
Does he represent now any political opinion which he
did not represent then is he less democrat now than
he was them Has he retracted anything he then de-
clared Has he said word in the ghtes. degree
moons stent with the Baltimore platform and with his
own letter OF acceptance approving the whole OF IL
Even the Republic will not perPeaie the absudity OF
openly pretending anything of the sort II contents
itself with asserting that. while the wings have not
changed--they and President Pierce are now :" as one.
Well, il is FIVE or<x months only since, on the autho-
,y Of Foss and Fogg, the Republic maintained that Gen.
eal Pierce and the aboltionsts were as one Really
the country may well be curious to what will be the
Republics ne1t declaration the Presidents position.
And now mark the fact, that the wing organ is driven
into all this nonsense and self-contradction simply in
order TO avoid the confession Of the plain and manifest
fact that the wAg party has just been beaten 10 death
That--jus that's the true meaning OF wing "acqu-
escence in the Presidents Inaugural That paper is not
whig paper II is not no-party paper. 1t is dem
ocrac paper-an announcement Of wise and statesman
lik democratic policy by democratic President. The
masses of the people acquiesce in because is in har
nony with their patriotic feelings and sentiments
and because they have already become convinced that the
partisan policy OF the wings is an error The vhig
leaders and journals acquesce in it because they and
feel the utter hopeessness OF opposition to it, That is
the plain truth in the and the best for the
Republic is frankly TO admit it. Then it will not be
obliged to trump up any more absurdy about "the
wings" supporting President Pierce without changing
their ground"