The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-06-23
The Fatal Fault Of WINK Policy.

The poison that has always been the chief redient
OF whig policy, and hence the gradual but inevitable
cause Of whg defeat, has been disyas and igsars OF
s people Beaten, broken, and almost annihilated da
ring long course OF years. they will not, for they
not. themselves of This chronic disease in their
creed While they profess TO progress they cannot burn
out the eanker that their yals. II is probably
the only Interchangeable element in the wing creed II
this that destroyed them ia their hot but hearess
war upon Jackson II was this that overthrew them
in their adhesion TO grea. bank 1t was this
that prepared the way for their discontinue on the
Texas question. aud the recent war question: and
on the acquisition of California, and on The tariff
of 1916. Even in victory this seed OF their coming
defeat is only dormant that may The completely
vindicaie lis power 10 destroy. Their most impress
sve lesson in running General Scott against General
Pierce Their very first step in that canvass, Ike their
very last, ignored their assumption of knowledge ofpop
ular feeling and they fell finally amid catastrophe OF
disaster without parallel in any contested election
since the constitution was formed
And now, true to the past they are at work again pre-
pairing 10 give another evidence of their unconscious
tachmen TO the defect which destroys them. Blind
TO the future policy of General Pierce-bn TO the
popular attachment 10, and the popular confidence
in, his character and his courseihey throw themselves
madIy into the breach. and conduct wild and wanton
warfare upon his administration because of certain APP
pontmenis which he has made Again they msunder
stand the people Again they insult their intelligence
Again they show their of confidence in the uds.
msnt and the patriotism OF the American masses There
is truth which they have yet to learn, and that
to their bitter cost This republic is not controlled by
individuals, but by great IDEAS The people ask for more
wholesome food than personal disappointment ALREADY
the bane Of time lnasmuch hundreds OF thousands
do no, ask for office do they participate in the cha
grin OF those who seek and find not and long as hon
est men, guided by good motives and bound high prp-
cpes, are called into station, the public mind satisfied
sustaining food Of great measures, looking great ends
and no less wisely preparing against the results of bad
measures than sagaciously anticipating future destiny
and armng the country for all coming perls and
sibes. We live in age OF elevated and inspiring
truths We look forward mission of grand and in
government has been entrusted duties of overwhelming
magnitude and before all these considerations every
thing else is either selfish secondary Not that the
President cannot justify TO himself and to mankind the
sincerity and the proprey of all his acts, but that he
stakes himself upon merely personal issues bu, await.
the verdict of his countrymen upon the ennobng princ
pies of his creed when applied TO the questions that will
shortly receive his consideration. The people with
him in these reasons and il high time that bis oppo
nents should act upon the knowledge which they car
now obtain without money and without Price