The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-03-25
1he President and the wings.
The REPUBLIC Of Yesterday discourses as follow.


"n its the Union refers half depo-
rnRly halEexungly, to the acquescence of whig jour
nails the policy of Gen. Pierce far his views have
been developed Bot it alleged that the acquescencs
OF wings this regard proceeds upon an abandonment of
prime pie their part They fad that upon the great
that touched in the Inaugural they and
General Pierce They appreciate the lbealty
which led him commence his official career by prac.
teal Reputation of bitter craftsmanship and they are read
in return render him support in the execution ola policy
that with the interests OF the country They
feel that IL he afford to office without refer
strife which preceded his attainment OF IT, they
also can without difficulty dshenor meet him on The
broad platform OF principle, and sustain him in carrying 1t
full operation He has not gone back to the deuge for
party and ongogoen party issues and they are not
disposed smple upon his example In all this however
there is nothing that warrant the Union ia speaking
peousy contemporary Of what u IS pleased to call
the predcament OF the opposition There nothing In
this implies indifference to principle on the part Oh the
whgs hstcan justify press which desires TO be regard
Cd . an organ of its party in by insult TO drive
into poxiti, On gonistlc the administration The
wings changed their ground In any respect ana
neither party national interests require them 70 change
that they may the better wage war OF optosioh 70 he
President II at any future time his policy shall differ from
propounded in hi. Inaugural the Union will hod wing
journals doing their duty without any fear OF its mimic
thunder Till then they prepared TO cooperate win
him Of their ability; thankful. meanwhile,
the President gives aid comfort 10 the mar
row and lscscus spirit which finds vent through the edi-
,oials Of our cotemporsy"
The sense Of the above paragraph we take TO be, that
the yhes like General Pierce for President, and nou
whou, changing their ground in any respect mean to
''mee, him the broad platform of principle" and ren
der to him their supportw
The declaration Of the Republic, applied IL 10 to the
whig leaders, and to the wings party is oil itself
sufficiently astonishing to those who remember the
events and the language OF last summer, in which the
Republic itself bore conspicuous part But J, becomes
altogether more inexplcable when viewed ~ the con-
nexon in which the Republic introduces 1t. we said
on Wednesday last in substance, that the democratic
policy as announced by President Pierce IN hrs lnau
gura il 80 manifesty in accordance with the prevailing
popular sentimen, make partisan opposition to
il very difficult if not hopeless The Republic quarrels
with our view of the matter-denes the truth of
.lI.oaon-and then adds that /" the wings" such. do
no, mean TO change their ground, and yet ~ to
supper, the PRESIDENT
We beg TO inquire of our Contemporary the dots
of this conversion of the wing party into sup
norers OF Gene<al Pierce. II looks rather sudden
We remember period not very distant when the
wbg party did not occupy just that ground. We re-
member time when support Of General Pierce by the
whs party would have been incontestably "a change