The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-06-10
THE LATE ELECTION.


The victory is indeed of the most signal that have
e,er taken place in Philadelphia. The new city may
he said to be whig in all its branches The results
nounced yesterday, form the subject Of almost universal
congraulAtion Our democratic friends perfectly be-
wdered They calculated upon such consequences
when they at last yielded TO the force just opinion and
supported consolidation. Indeed, the democratic party
in Philadelphia has been reduced to mere fragment-ln
qarer.
If our n.ghbor did not know that the whole of the
paragraph when penning it, we have over
estimated his intelligence put too high value upon
his regard for the truth In what way is the democratic
party reduced to mere fragment" in the city of Phila
depha2 The vote for Mr. yaux the candidate of the de-
mocracy will reach 2000 and yet this is what the lnqu
very modesty and truthfuy calls mere fragment
1t must be recoleced too that Mr.. Vauxs vote OBJ
tanned strictly party nomination. II was no ANAL
gamated poll He the candidate of the democracy and
that issue alone he supported There was pan
derng religious bigoy TO sectarhn preudices to Sc
political associations, to pseudomora movements for
aid in the campaign, There forging of letters to
suit certain parties alteration Of speeches to sit eas
upon the somachs of all the guests at this feast of faction
ssths festival of political conspirators None of these
practices resortcd to by the democracy They stood
upon their old party PLATFORM and poed $1,000 votes
against all the storm Of whg capital of native fanatcism
of temperance qualification and of knownothing treason
If this be reducing the democratic party to mere frag-
men" the Inquirer is welcome to the merit Of the dis
covery.
But where is the whig party? win our contemporary
show us even the fragments of the proud and defiant
whg party of the city and county, II has been absorbed
by the factions it has warmed into life and being 1t has
bent the knee Baal and is object Of scorn
and deron Each year the farce Of making nominations
is gone through with, but the candidates subject the
revision Of the supreme power The scales held in
other hands and the whg party be satisfied with the
balance Point if you can, to the whg vote have
to the solid coumn-2l 900 strong-of the constitutional
democracy, who masters, the people, and
not obliged to sacrifice their manhood their rights
American citizens upon the altar Of religious intolerance
or anti-American preudices2 When this be done,
then shall be prepared to hear whg journal talk Of the
democratic party being reduced TO mere fragment
The assertion Of the Inquirer, that the "nev city may
be said be whg in all lis branches will not be echoed
by its colaborer the Sun and Register The former calls
the triumph outpouring of Americanism," while the
latter boldly asserts that it is not whig victory is il
claimed such by the wings themselves The whg party
per nowhere in the fight and that its position at the
present time II is myth without life vitality
thing be used when occasion requires and If garruous
when the victory is won it the province OF old age and
coming dissolution and therefore must be overlooked In
that light disposed TO view the outpourings of
whig contemporary But for the sake Of respect
let Of the fagmentary character Of the
democratic party in this city from the Inquirer.
EreniHg Argus