The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-07-07
The whig Party and the People.


The New Orleans Crescent harmless little wing sheet
which We sometimes open at leisure moment takes great
umbragc very trite remark made by US some days
ago in regard ito that dsusi and ignorance Of the REQ
pie" which has consigned The wing party 10 its presen,
doom After indulgng in scurril;ty which has not
poin, or wi, enough 10 make II worthy OF notice. the
Crescent proceeds 10 comment upon remark follows.
in strain which clearly shows that the daylight in poll.
dies does shine into the Crescent Office
II with difficulty that abstract whig p,ry from
that intimate xion with popular feeling popular
passion in which, and by which, have always 1t
vitszed and peserved-rough which it has worked and
developed Iought and conquered, been koowp. and felt,
and oafod There Is some trouble 70 rs IN wing how
parry that the people should exhibit distus
ignorance of The people how should look upon hi.
lex as traitor, his eye as fool, and hts coward
We must be Psrdoned this tensciy Of disbelief little
while, moreover, account of our recollection, oil this
Harmon, Clay, and Taylor csmpnE gins, which
markedly popular than that have occurred in this
nstioni and reconoc'iug them, do where the
-dissrust or ignorance came in play"
II the whg party has been "vitazed and preserved by
an intimate connection with the popular feeling and pas.
slon" how does il happen that in government OF the
people the wing party has not originated one important,
law the statute book OF the coun'ry' How does
happen that wing administrations, especially those re-
fered 70 by the Crescent regarded by the people as
blundefs Of policy, 10 be corrected and wiped out OF
our history inst as fas, possible How does il
happen. il the wing party has been so keenly sym.
Taibeuc with the people that every great step of
national progress which has made the country
what 1t is, both in It's territory. its policy, and
ITS destiny, has been taken by democratic adminstra.
'ions and in defiance OF the violent and virulen,
wing opposition IL The wing party is such an admra
Ny popular perry, how does il happen that the spas
modic eor, Of the wings just is to get rid of their
odous and disccded party uamei If, in hne the vhis
party al The South ia much in sympathy with IN.
people there, how does II happen that, while Galphinism
and Gstdnerism adorn their their
ration in the last canvass thoroughly identified il,
.eli with the aboli,ioni.m OF the North
When the Crescent shall have answered these qucs-
tons, which cannot deny to be quite pernen, to the
matter IN hand, and when shall have further erpsin
ed Why the wing party. though "vitaized by sympathy
with The people. now quite dead and almost buried
then will be lime. and before for the Washington
Union TO notice It's lame and impoen attempts al abuse
and Islander, which we, in common with all the leading
democratic presses OF the country have had the rood
fortune 10 receive at its hands as certificate that we
have not been wanting in our duty a, a democratic
Journal
cssse SvuNonuOn OF vermont.
The democracy Of Vermont me, in convention a, Mont
pelier on The 2ai ut The convention wa. called 10 or
der by Hon, D. A. Smalley, chairman OF The State com
mee, and hnai'y organized by the appointment, Of Han
David Noyes as president Me..rs Edward Jaet and
William Haywood, j., as vice presidents. and Me..,.
James 7. Thurston and N. H. Eaten as ,ecre,a,;.. A
committee TO nominate State ticket, having been appo;,,
reported TO the convention the following nomination.
which were unanimously confirmed:
"For Governor-John s. Robinson, Of Remington
For Lieutenant Govenor-JeHersoo r. Kidder OF Ran.
dopb
For T'easur'r-John A. Page, OF Montpelier"
Mr. SAKE, from the committee on resolutions. submit.
led The following report which, after able remarks from
Mss.r' SAKE. Smaey, Spaldipg, Reed Mott. and 9th.
ere, was unanimously adopted esEuas# .s..tst
Resofrsd. That we cherish with undated ardor ,be
OF the greatrsppbican party the Union which
educng us theories to successful and approved prao
oe and by establishing its leading measure. as perm,
ana popular institutions OF govsrpment, ba. sisn.ily
ton. - f'f'''v " "o IA
N'op'o, That we heartily approve of the doctrine. 40,
n "a 'he Residents inaugursl sddres. a. eminepty