The daily union., 1854-11-25


gogaes and political spsculators called with
his honored fathers in another world And here ended the
cnAper IN which be recorded the triumph of banks
ana bankers tariffs and nabobs and the general elevation
OF the rich and depression Of poor Tyler saved the
country from their unhallowed hands
Another four years from ls45 witnessed the noble dis
play, again, of democratic ability govern, under the
sure @gis OF democratic principles Every portion Of our
country then poured forth haleluahs of rejoicing the
general happinesSi glorious war; ingoriousy thrust
upon Us oy foreign nation, fought glorious erm
hauon ensued and half continent and the gold mines of
the world We're bequeaihed through agency And
the world has felt for the better the wonderful influence
OF that epoch Our flag planted the far-of sands
oil ihe Pacihc and where wilderness then cities and
men now flourish The rising sun now greets the stars
ana stripes In the morning the Atlantic and bids
he short adieu at evening the far-o placid Pacific
In ls4s whiggery, through military efervescence
which 1t before had contemned, once more put forth her
feeble pinons and by peculiar of fortunate
circumstances landed General Taylor in the presidential
chair From hence be removed by the Divine fiat in
the moment when he about to draw down upon the
republic through his still living advisers-and the sin
thereof be upon their heada the of civil and
tional war.
The successful General thus removed was to be sue
ceeded by the weakness of innocence and the duness of
ignorance Tin all matters of government) in a man who
ITO his credit be it sad did noble act) with all the
force of Websteran satesmanship and the scientific at
anments of Everett brought only puerility and folly
our foreign intercourse and his country thereby the
dunce-bock Here she until the of March A. 1853
dawned, and inaugurated a revolution in the national
affairs. 1t was peaceful, but momentous The living
strains of the inaugural it went forth from the
Presidents lips, sped with the wings of the wind and
worked immediate results in all quarters. The naughty
Austrian felt the touch of their fire in the distant port
Smyrna; the pirates of the South Mosquito have
beneath it and the swarthy Spanard fierce and deadly
he is acknowledged them under the rown of Moro Castle
and in the halls of the Escural
No government has produced more noble deeds in
the space of time than has the administration of Gen
Pierce But they have been accomplished by the pen
the swordby steady purpose, not vain boasting From
the hearts and heads of statesmen treaties have
mated that have set rest many yexed and dangerous
questions and gallant sailors from the coast oficy
Labrador the distant shores of China have this day
rejoice successful democratic policy The government
has been successful in all but thingt has failed in
none. The feuds of healed and will
be until He who formed all things shall again present Him
self TO earth with the usherng in of the millennium.
Thus from the FIRST have the principles of democracy,
like wesrrng of life flowed on glorious in victory and
noble in defeat for threeourths of century. In power,
it has given happiness to the people and dispensed
blessings the world In defeat she has only slept like
the strong man. last in might and scatter her
enemies the winds. Nor has her slumber been
long Four years is the greatest period No longer time
could she recne from her proud task of carrying forward
the destiny of the republic And thus may it be; and
thus will it be- long the dauness hearts of the
democratic masses beat they do now and have
done responsive to the spirit of patriotism.
WAsHINGTos, Nov. 81 1854.