The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-07-21
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
THURSDAY moRnISG. JULY al. 1888

VI VI W nbD1lt VI L. ONs
THURsDAY MORNING, JULY 81. 1858.
The whig Party and the Progress OF the Csun
The present semi animate condition OF the whig party
OF the country sometimes shows Us strange speetaeles
Someimss--as IN New York. for examPle-whiggey
seems 10 have fallen into lehaTgic stupor marvellous
y Ike death 10 Kentucky and Tennessee. the Other
hand, "a ptoacs sort OF galvanized activity which 10
after ALL but strange caricsiure OF heahiul and Wig
orous political organization IA other Slalesss Georgia.
for example III shelter, ITSELF like other old and doomed
offenders, under alias. and, following the lead OF
jenkins. proclaims itself republican.
IL is ia the second of these conditions found
in Kenueky--hat journals hatleriug themselves with
the belief that the wing party national organization.
is still alive and claiming 10 belong that Organization
play the queerest tricks upon their readers. ~
What, for instance, can be more gro,esque than the
following eomments-apparcnlly not al ell designed as
okewhich find ia the Louisville Courier speak ing
OF the address of the wing committee OF the Ashland
congressional district The Courier says of that ad
dress #6. ..HHa
IL shows that the real party Of progress in this country
has been the whiR party, Notwithstanding the fact thar the
ocofoco leaders have constantly and aoganty claimed
that honor for the democratic parry 1t shows that nearly
the whole OF what has been done stimulate the energies
promote the pendence, and develop the national
source. of the American people. since tho origin OF
present political ganzaons has been the steady and
consistent work OF the wing parry. II shows that while
loud prayers have been offered by the ocoocos, the
street ana in the market places for popular rights
The wings have been constantly engaged In good works
without which those rights would, this in al haman
probability, have been valueless"
The wing party the party OF progress Let US look at
that matter, in the frs, place, erroriay. Was The ac-
;.;,i ~ ~. AZ
it wing Was The acquisition of Texas
progress Surely il was not whig measure. Was the
acquisition OF California and New Mexico progress }
The wing party opposed it to the las. These events
with the settlement of the Oregon questionable work Of
democratic NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the main territorial
progress of country thus far II the wings OF the
Ashland district who read the Courier, the wing
address pufed by it, can believe them wing meas.
sures, or the results OF wing principles. then
only recommend the whis precincts of that district
Gs an eligible missionary station, and advise them
forthwith provide themselves with numerous copies of
Peter Parleys Political History of the country for gem
eral circulation in their vicinity
Bot the Courier maintains that in our domestic affairs
the whig party has mainly "promoed The independence
and developed the resources of the country" The vast
money power of national bank has moi usually been re-
gsrded part OF the independence OF the great business
interest of the country Was the overthrow Of thai pow
the work Of the whgsl The passage Of the wing ad-
dress which The admits that the tariff 1885,
opening new development 10 our commercial resources
and 10 our national revenue is progress on the past,
The votes do no, show it to be wing measure. The
principle OF protection as guide in tariff Legislation ia
admitted to be an " obsolete idea" The wings chung 10
it to the last until they overwhelmed by the ma
ona progress.
The address admits tina, the independent treasury has
proved itself TO be good enough regulator OF the
changesby leaving them 10 the laws Of radeand that
this too is q progress. Are the wings its fahersi
These the great steps in the internal and external
progress OF the country The wings fought agsns hen,
one and all Blu, it lie needless to multiply instances II
the whg party be the party OF progress where its record
on the statute book The progress OF the country has
gone over the repeal OF wing statutes till scarcely
one is left for monument. Again: If the wing party
be the party OF progress how shall account for its
present dlapidaed condition Its architecture has been
the architecture Of ruins Its elements are obsolete
IDEAS" and crushed and crumsled organization.
Not one-not a single one-of the leading thoughts
which sway the mind Of the country is of wing ORR
gin The wbs party shrank back from the work OF set
Ting the sectional controversy and LET, mainly democrat
&c HANDS the task OF pepeuating the Union. The wing
party never knew nor recognised the true idea of the
rights OF the States The wing parry, in foreign re-
lations never accepted the Monroe doctrine In word
The wbig party as soon as il recognised fact The ad-
miled and existing condition and exgences OF the coun
try, Ceased 10 exis, a national organic alton The old
bottles would not hold The VINE, and were broken
Anywhere the preence that the whg party is the
party OF progress would be utterly unfounded In The
Ashland dis,ricbe home OF Clay-it is simply rdicu-
ous. That great man himself lived long enough virtually
to abjure, and repudiate untitled to the new times the
partisan organization of which be had so long been the
soul He did not, like his great compesr from Massa-
chusets survive long enough 10 proclaim the wing or
ganzaion TO be dissolved; but he did live to protest
against the unpa,odc and retrogade 10 which the
wing party bal come a, last
The Presidential Election
We do not concern ourselves greatly with the Dues.
ton, Who elected President Pierce We ore contentsd
to hold that the united democratic party of nearly all
the States did that good deed We knop that all the
democrats who voted for him did so well knowing the ma
tionalty OF the platform which he stood and well
Knowing also, if they knew anything OF him, that he
and his administration would nHexi6ly maintain il,