The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-06-14
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

The present attitude of the democratic party cannot fail
to extor admiration from its decided adverse
res While the aboonists have shorn the wing party in
twain leaving the half entirely in the hands of the
northern fanatics and forcing the other half to take up
arms against its former associAes-and this matter
of sheer sedefencehe democrats have consolidated their
strength in one united body extending not single
ton but embracing both sections ofhe Union and co-ope
ting with all the zeal and efficiency which animated them in
the glorious days of political history The wings
of the North combined not only against the South but
against their former friends in the South So blndy have
they yielded the influence of fanxcsm that there is
a single wing in the North who has the courage TO
raise his voice for those who hunted down by flu
rious zeao and who much entitled his respect and
his support they his immediate neighbors This
of things exists for the first time and II is Of the
eatening aspects Of the present period We fully
sze when the northern whig faction with the
democratic party and ask ourselves how much the Union
would be worth IL the latter united with its whg
agonist and accepted the abolition creed unaltera
BILE and undying against fifteen sovereign sister
States or nearly onehalf of the confedcracy1 The mi
nent danger OF the public tranquility, and the napprecs
bic Importance practical and papable fact OF the dem
ocratic party the social and political interests
involved in the American Union, may be estimated from
this point OF view and the same time Observing
men have how steadily all the movements Of the wing
opposition have tended to sectional organization con-
fined to the North They have also noticed the sacrifices
and the nepdty OF the democracy Of the free States in
breasng the fnatioism which has toed with hcrcuean
power compel the democracy to cutloos from the South
and swell the ranks Of that northern movement which
embarked in Its career win stop at nothing short Of
the abolition Of slavery, matter at what sacrifice of
law and Of humanity. In word, constrained,
whether they viii not venerate and TO applaud the
democratic party not only for what II has DONE but for
what IL has forborne do There many evidences Of
the truth Of this beside the instructive events Of the pres
emit time
We take the broad ground that every whch the
wing party OF the North has made its certainly
have resulted in national humiliation and disaster IL the
democratic party had not thrown itself In the pathway
resisted and defeated each proposition in detail
il became manifest Had the present abotionized
whg party been strong enough would have defeated
annexation o. Texas and fe acquisition Of California and
IL was the efforts in that direction embraced the
great Of the working machinery Of the whig party
and tb~n the Of being crowned with
success. On other occasions, the wings have made
tremendous rush against liberal laws We have
them build up great bank and ay terrors'riek.n
before the ruin and the dsmsy It created The wing
| bankrupt law engine Of almost supernatural
mischief Wing tend.ncies-we bad almost said wing
practcesn favor Of profuse expenditures would soon
render the public treasury insolvent not sternly
checked Wing proclivy to make terms with any faction
how reckless and how abandoned has than
shaken northern society TO its foundations Each Of
these dangers has bsen met showed its head
its purposes have been disclosed and each
been corrected destroyed by the instructive ssgsc
and the strong hand Of the democratic party This brief
retrospect intended loss recall what IL may be
pleasant to many good TO sec than to show how
eloquenty the voice Of history vindicstes the claim Of
great party to the gratitude OF the country to
prove that what Is regarded surest buwsrk of
the public peace and the peoples safey--we mean the
democratic paryhas been the result not Of tho fidelity
and unsehshnes and patriotism and courage Of day or
of year but Of long, consistent and almost uninter-
rup'ed Of good deeds and Of uncacuang devotion
to principles which often demanded sefsscrfees and
quite as often throw those into minority who honestly sd-
vocated them
The democratic party stands kes great wa between OPP
posing dhosls extremes While exists the n6del asms-