The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-11-30

No 2.--Ihe 1reseM.
IN nv first communication glanced eursorily til,
bright picture which the past presents to admirine
,s Of the beauty ordemocracy and her successes My
resent intention is TO take view of the present-hs
crescent so full of interest pregnant with events
otable as period in which ali shall be saved all be
lost
n was on the st Of March 1918 that Napoleon pressed
nv the audaeity Of his eaptors and Europe large
,ped from the island OF Eba and again planted his foot
lnon the soil Of France The Bourbons few and their
government fell like houses of ashes before his approach
u Paris His descent upon the continent became the
arum bell the nations and it then that eonfede-
rated Europe forgetting national ealousies and anmosi-
tics rswore their former hatred of each Other end raised
the united standard of destruction to BoDaparsm Every
action became fused together and by the fusion the effort
4, overthrow Napoleon who had again. by the universal
suffrage of France seated himself upon the throne of en-
ue al the Tueres became successfu one at Waterloo
Thus far the parallel applicable to the present OF the
dsmocracy holds good The democratic party has had
her Beruadottes her Mara and her bloody Butchers
bs likewise has always had and still possesses her Ma
rional Guard The fusion Of Vienna has already taken
Mace and in some of the States Waterloo has been fought
and democracy defeated But unlike the Waterloo of Bel
rium aud unlike the National Guard Of Waterloo the
DAY is only lostthe Guard is not annihiated the de-
moeracy still exists supported by the dear-bought prnei
niles of the revolution the true of the faith still hold
though truth crushed to earth yet will she speedily
rise again under the benignan warmth Of the of de-
mocraey
The political reaction which has taken place in several
Of the States recently holding elections but resultant
the weiefned laws of Nature It was to be feared The
overwhelming maoriies that rolled the of democracy
forward in 1852 were of themselves momenous warning
of what might follow The expectations of sagacous
have bat been realized in the natural repuson that has
Mao. Z is he nd Rut nner oupd Il
but the precursor of another until all the motions shall
finally become equahle and natural. II, after the
onishng results that marked the election of General
Pierce such revulson succeeds in two years what it
NAV be inquired will be the reaction, reasoning from
the postulae in two years from this time after
such headlong victory by the fused votaries of iss
ias and it's 2 Can they, who have reaped the adj
vantage of the reaction accruing from 1852 expect be
more successful in 1856 when the reaction resulting from
1854 shall come, than who witness overthrow
through that of the first? Certainly Entrenched
behind the buwarks of the constitution, and the true
genius of country democracy IN her present position
nav proudly fold her and smile the puerie attacks
which are being made upon her by the motley hordes
whose only principle like that of the semibarbarous Cos
Jack yietory without any weldened idea Of its
That the defeats of the democratic party will be
present and prospective benefit to it. the practsed eye
cannot fail to discover They be the healing bas
to all dissensons in ranks They win serve TO open
the eyes of friends the nobility of their party and
their principles They viii US up to full display of
those energies which latent in body. They will
teach again that by unity alone certain Of sue
cess by unanmity of action by the democracy, alone
the republic be regarded in any wise safe.
1t il true that during the last years Of the present
administration a majority in one branch-the popular
branch--of Congress will probably be opposition. But
such an opposition 1t will be mixture more homogene-
than that sung of by the witches the heath and
whose principles far revolving than the ingredients
Of the boiling cauldron of the same fraternity.
To the present, then, must the democracy look. The
present is with us--the future far away Let US now
strike hands for uninu of heart nniaa as santirn
Of action consider the present the day in which
We are 10 labor Let the whole party, every of it,
feel that the safety of those neverdying principles of free
dom which have been bequeathed TO our keeping by Wash
ngon Jefferson Madison, Jackson and Polk either TO
be fought for now and preserved forever that all future
efforts on part may prove hootess Let grid on
srmor and fight to-day if there Tomorrow and
when the future time shall dawn upon u.s. victory will he
already perched upon banner,
There ID title fer democracy 70 lear IN Tie present aspect
Of affairs if she viii but be herself Indeed with
the determination pervadng her ranks to at fall
duty there much yield hope of glorious future
Our recent defeats will rally at once to the
cue of our principles Even recent trumphs in few
localities North and West the combined forces of
enIess enemies be to every democrat assurance that
The true leayen Is in the lump from which, like the follow
Roderc Dhu victories sure to eventually spring
forth in mighty forcea we-sprng of peace and happ-
ness our people, strangely agiated 10 cannot
be otherwise and although caumny and vitperaiion may
still assal him. yet around the Executive our sympathies
and support will be thrown like Gordon of granite The
assaults Of the opnosiion shall surely rope aAd though
snr ranks have been divided we shall at last to man
ay to his aid in his noble efforts to administer the
upon the basis of democracy BY this course
shall weaken enemies strengthen ourselves, and
display the world the happy tendency Of the principles
which actuate our hearts and emboiden our exerons
WASHINGTON, Nov 81, 1854. H. II. II.