The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-04-10


place OF Frederick Knapp
John L. Tuihi TO be deputy postmaster at Lancaster.
Ohio. in place OF Benjamin Cornell.
William Bow, to be deputy postmaster at Fayetteville.
in the county of Cumberland State of North Carolina in
place OF John McRae. resigned.
Robert L. Glow TO be deputy postmaster at PRINCETON,
Mercer county New Jersey, in place of Abram Styker
The Position and Prospect or the Democratic
Party
The spring elections far heard from, in both sec
tons OF the counryn Connecticut, in Rhode Island,
and in Louisiana-are democratic triumphs. They show
that the already overwhelming numerical preponderance
OF the democratic party is the That party
now holds the federal government in all its depart
mens-legisatve, executive and judicial In all of the
thirty one States except four the party holds the
whole OF the public authority In two OF these excepted
Siates-Vermont and Massachusets--the wings hold
the State power and congressional preponderance by
plurality. not majority. In Tennessee the democrats
though they lost the State power had majority Of the
congressional delegation and in Kentucky they still have
the governor In all the other States everything demo-
cratc that wing and aboli,ionst coalition in Wis
eonsln has chosen wing governor BY the introduc-
ton of the elective principle in several States in regard
to the judiciary, that department of the State gov
eminent is now in democratic hands, Even the NUM-
cipal organization of majority of the chief cities
OF the Union is, like the rest of the existing gov
eminent OF the country, democratic. The large dem
ocrauc majority in both houses of the last Congress
will be augmented in the Such is the verdict of
the balotbox in the issue between the whig and demo-
cratic parties 1t verdict such has never been rem
dered before since old federalism quite died out in the
last administration of Mr. Monroe In fact the popular
majority of the democratic party never SO great in
any other party contest in the election OF President
Pierce.
In regard to the matters of principle and policy which
undere all party organizations, the for the democ
racy still stronger In regard TO the chief domestic
questions, the policy of the democratic party is the
law Of the land, and considerable party anywhere
expects TO change it, can be rallied against it, This
is already the TACT in all that large sphere of legislation
pertaining to the commercial pslcy of the country. In
regard to the public lands and internal improvements
amid greater dversites OF opinion among democrats the
general idea OF the democratic party appears equally prev
aent as the basis of prospective legislation The sec.
tona controversy has been composed upon principles and
in measures which the democracy stands pledged TO
maintain In word the whole existing policy of the
country in regard TO domestic affairs is democratic In
point is this clearly than in the now uni
versal democratic recognition of the rights OF the States
under the federal constitution.
In regard to the foreign relations OF the country The
is much the same. There is no one leading demo-
cratic idea in regard 10 foreign policy against which
consderabe party be rallied and which has not
in fact already commended itself general popular ap
probation. This true Of the maintenance Of our rigb,s
Il. ~. H.. a
right and the political safety and expedency of our terri
toral expansion To still greater extent is true as
to the principle OF the Monroe doctrine. On all these
points the senlu en of the democratic party as il exists
day is the sentiment OF the mass Of our people ire
speclive Of partisan organization The conclusive proof
OF this H. ha, the only two leading State papers OF the
wing party oi many years past which claim TO have
commanded general appreciation are, both OF lbem not
only approximations TO the democratic idea OF our foreign
policy but aso practical regulations Of the old wing par
t,an doctrine We REFER OF course to the Hulsemann
and Cuban letters.
The Of this present position OF the democratic
party both respect to the adoption OF lis creed and III
immense predomnance with the people, not Difficult, to
discover Apar, from the fac, tina, the democratic party
alone has approved itself able to rescue the country
from the evils and peris of sectional agitation it quite
nantes, that in the judgment OF the people the sam,
party has alone conpehended in It's domestic and foreign
policy, the true position and destiny Of the country
is thus clear tina, the democratic party while arayed al
the party of progress yet imbodes in itself the only real
conservative idea which ia practicable in our political sys
tenn To this be added the fac, that to The denocrac,
OF the Last city years plainly belong the orginaion ami
development OF every great political principle and
ure which has made our country what it s That parl,
sustained should in the Of in,rench tsel
in general popular approval and sanction was OF cours
| inevitable.
What then, is the Political prospect which the present
position OF the democratic party and the producn,
it, disclose to view The only case approaching to
parallel with the present state Of things was presented
have said, in the second administration Of Mr. Mon
roe. Then the opposition went for few year.
into utter absyance-gave up its old Issues and III
old battle. and ultimately reappeared to be defeated
after Rrea, struggle upon new tenets under a new
name. and in new form. This example suege.u
the idea that for the presen, no eHectual opposi
ton TO the existing democratic organization and admins.
,rauon can be attempted. In fact it is difficult TO .e.
upon what grospds at this time an opposition can rally
Despite the truculen language of few ultra whg Jour
nails II plain that such rally il now making con
siderable progress. II is equally plain that the policy
the President thus far has given new consolidation anc
unity to the democracy. II is also clear that th
policy is dra wing considerable support-pot hru
perhaps, not reliable in emergency but yet consider
ablefrom the ranks OF the national whigs Between