The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-11-09
From the Baltimore Argus.
THE PRESIDENT AND THE COUNTRY.

States The of reasoning pursued reminds of
cause assigned for the Goodwin Sands by the peasant
who accounted for that growing obstruction He said that
d" the Salisbury steeple" for she had heard nothing
| of the Goodwin Sands until the seepe was built and
therefore the Salisbury seepe the of the Good
win Sands
We belong TO the democratic party, only from
tachment its principles but because of the opn-
ion that its organization is best adapted the advance
ment of the present and future prosperity of the whole
country. But while we members of that party,
not its retaiHers and should upon sufficient cause
ecise right 10 crtcse freely the action of its chiefs
less than of its subordinate The freedom Of per-
sonal opinion which allows Of such latitude Of censure
makes support duty whenever il is required and de-
served We propose to-day, in the very of party
adversely as it is ondly regarded by ancient enemies
and false friends to review calmly and dispassonaey the
grave charges of its dsorganizaton which brought
against the President aud his advisers before the great tr
! buna of the democratic party of the country.
1t has been said that the President committed vital
in the construction ofhis cabinet and in originating
permitting the taken afterwards in the dsribu
ton Of official patronage. The his cabinet is
pretended TO have been the selection of incompetent
One and ALL they possessed personal qualifications
fully equal the necessities of their several positions The
complained of and out of which, it is said grew the
division in ranks depended upon question of ca
pacy incapacty. Indeed it occurred before any adj
mnisirative act had taken place which could have
praise disapprobation for the cabinet its chief 1t
originated confessedy, in the selection by the President
of some of his advisers and officers from who
bitterly opposed by section Of the party 1t was in New
York the naked result of party schism No doubts
that if the President had selected Daniel s. Dickinson
his Secretary of State, but that the national democrats
would have remained faithful to his administration and
have been the loudest disclaimers in his behalf No
man doubts that if every of the opposite wing
had been prescribed it would have been regarded
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public Justice But will the party of the country, now
free from the pressing influence of personal sympahie
hesitate say that the President right in endeavor
ing far his action concerned TO destroy the lines
of division in the party which had by its joint action ele
waited him to power when by common consent it had been
then agreed that in national affairs these two divisions
should coalcsce and unite Had he followed the bent of his
political sympathies with the doctrines of the hards and
ostracised the sofs for their local politics and action
would he not have as eectually delivered the State of
New York bound into the hands of adversaries as it
be in the approaching election Could he have adopt
ed firer and more than to recognise both
sections, and invite both to the harmony in which
he desired to them exist? Was it unreasonable
that he should ask his appontee Judge Bronson, to
ercise the spirit of Cancellation that had marked
| his own conduct Was it strange, when his calm
suggestion with angry response from his sub
ordinate, and when it manifest that the purpose
the authority conded less for the ends of peace
moved the offending officer? No condemned this act
who regards it from Just point of view. Nor can any
one say that such removal true cause of offence
when it followed by continued confidence in others
of the political opinions with the removed officer
and by the appointment of such had stood in
relations of sympathy those with whom that officer and
his friends he'd acted If there anywhere it
in the generous unconditional offer of high and profit
able trust whose temper towards his personal oppo
nents unknown. But the motive of the offer wise
and honorable the Presden, responsible for the abuse
of his generosity, kindness, and trust
We do not however regard the present division of the
democratic party of the State of New York any sign of
the weakness OF the general democratic sentiment The
sections kept apart only by the Vaccinations of leaders
If we fail in the coming elections the of both dvis
ions will fifty estimate the conduct of those who, by the
machinery of conventions have prevented the conference of
the several parts of their multitude If they
have peace a M of their various leaders their
leaders will be afterwards saaold noaby, at the head of
the columns and their political death will insure their po
litical quiet They will sleep well.
But there mad pretence than for such journals
to aleae or defeats in Ohio Pennsylvania and in other
States have been oceasoped by the result already al
uded to. 1t has proceeded from two plain The
old wing party has been content to purchase further power
and existence by union with the abolition clques of the
country by alliance with native-American party
forming many of the States The prctext for the former
alliance the Kansas and Nebraska bill the pretext
for the latter Soul6's appointment.
! No man urge objection to the Kansas and Ne
braska BILL except that it takes from Congress- in great
degree the power 70 dissolve this Union by any practical
legislation against slavery No supposed that
law which insured this good result would prevent ogatoR
The agitation Of demagogue is dearest him when he
agtate and yet be responsible for result because
then in power out of it, he is stripped of his ele
of verbal mischief by having the opportunity to adj
Just that of which he complains.
If the wing party of the country knew to-day that
could repeal the KaDsss and Nebraska bill it would not be
done Its members content to make Of the passage
of the law as for agitation and they coalesGe with
the fanatics of the North and West TO that end alone The
tree is shaken it from the earth, which is the
purpose of the sncerer abolition allies but to gather the
fruit rs it falls There is intelligent whig among
the opponents of the Kansas and Nebraska BILL but must
admit that the fegriQIial condition of the country
required adjustment OF The question which had
been originally for the time determined by the Missouri
Compromise 1t needful prevent the of
base The spirit which had then made John Randolph
claim the Missouri territory the gift Of God to the South
had revived in the acquisition of territory and again
directed its eye9ns to the government of that already
attained The alternative OF free territory dissolution
presented in 1920 by Lowrie of ylyapia bad been
revived with fearful emphasis in the debates upon the
various bills passed by Congress in 1850. Friends and
enemies of these measures in that year. alike knew that
tho settlement oc 1870 could not in the altered condition
of affairs, remain permanent aijp5ment of the vexed
question In 1886 the triangle between the Missouri river
and the west line Of the State Missouri had been coded