The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-01-28
ZION: WASHINGTON SATURDAY MORNING. JANUARY % 1854

and pronounced his inaugural and recollect. TOO
'he simultaneous complaints OF these national demo
efalS we reeoilecl the eager disposition OF the great
mass OF The democratic party TO stand by the admin
isuauoni and We cannot forget the discprd these
national deSpeats brought into the ranks OF the party.
ana the ooloquy they heaped upon the President
ana ms cabinet and friends We recollect the time
when inc administration needed all the support OF the
party mai placed il in power defend il against charges
as uhiounded as dshonorabe and calculated to create
dstrust between the different sections OF the country
and we recollect who Joined 10 the cry of free soers
and aoolllonists for their own selfish purposes We
recoliect when in this State il required united front OF
democrats TO sustain the party against free soiism.
cofdance with the views of the administration and to
insfait liberal principles upon State constitution
ana We fecollect, with shame and disgust, those
men calling themselves democrats who stood up and
denounced the administration and every democratic
measure-and we thank the ingenious fend who
marked them with the bitterness of sarcasm and
dsrs'on-' national" We have yet to learn the de-
vouon 70 their party or their country which they
have displayed in any hour OF peril. We have YET to
learn the stimulus which free and liberal institutions
have received al their hands, the strength which has
come to the party from their counsels, the charm thrown
around democratic principles either by their eoquence or
by the example OF their lives But everywhere we see
them joining all enemies of The administration to embar-
and obstruct it. Even now when the party stands
ready to endorse its foreign and domestic policy when
his principles have found their declaration and defence,
they denounce and condemn it,
A Sams--Ls no Nan be Caught
Wa ,Ip 4 & a..
this Commonwealth should be found willing TO follow
such lead. Even the confusion Of intricate and
heated political campaign is hardly enough to account
for such phenomenon, until consider the allrac-
tons which assumed honesty OF purpose has for
the community When we remind ourselves of the ease
with which The most conscientious may be turned
from the right path by the Misrepresentation OF igno-
rant and bgoed knaves then conceive OF the atrac-
tons which the crudity and grossness OF those traitors
to the democratic party, who hide their designs beneath
false show of principle, may have had. Aud that they
have been and are false. every man must see who will
contemplate the and dasardly attacks they make
upon individuals composing the party and their utter
initiation of in their devotion TO men. There
never was more contemplate, cowardly, malignant
purpose than that declared by the "naiional democrats
OF Massachusetts, when they attack and stab the admin
traon by Misrepresentation and false charges to excite
the suspicion and discomfort OF section OF this Union
Their aes wings and solers, have right to these
weapons by legal inheritance which every democrat
despses And earnestly look for the time when
these pseudo democrats Of every and shade, will
ceve the popular rebuke they richly deserve, and
from which nothing but their nsgnihcance viii save
them. We glad TO members OF Congress opening
their eyes 10 This "deuson and snare OF national de-
mocracy" 1t nothing but reachery and all men
will find II is cloak for selfish pariisans which
is growing daily more and more transparent
TRUE DEMOCRACY.
The democracy which supports Stae-rights with in.
elIigence and discrimination which respect for
flag, and lberalzes principles of trade and
mece, and guards internal interests and enarges
borders and rests upon the eternal principles of pro-
biy ard honor and deyoes itself 10 The establishment of
mutual confidence, harmony, and peace throughout the
Union by sacred regard for all interests and all obga-
ons under the constitution, and opposes agitation when
brings danger und oppression in its train, has bot one
glowing, shining, and expressive name, requiring no
modification, no expeiive. And this name we accept,
and call the party 10 accept, leaving all disappoio
men and dsafec'ion, and bgoy, and treason, and self
sh stupidity TO and in lis den OF darkness
and namy with its name. whatever il may be, a syno-
nym Of political mprac,icab,y, dishonesty, and dis
grace