The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-04-30
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IMPROBABLE AGAINST
THE ASSAULTS OF FORMER FRIENDS AND PRES
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ENT FOES. -
About in every decade Of years some over-wise
refomer makes his appearance full of the idea that the
world is about be destroyed and that he has been sent
by special Providence to mankind before the
rophe takes place good deal Of 10 never-fal-
ing result Any theory that peruse the mys-
terous volume Of the future with the spirits
of the departed to with superhuman infu-
ences excite less apprehension or Of
interest Repeated failure does the imitators Of
these impotor but the farce is regularly per-
severingly prosecuted at stated periods
Not quite rreverent the frequent prophecies made
under many formidable auspices by certain politicians
that the democratic party is the Of dissolution ;
nor is the alarm excited by this prediction very general
because in this least the repeated dsapponmens
Of those who have about the work Of breaking up
breaking down. the democratic party gone far to
convince tine country that that organization not nvioa
BILE is completely imprcgnabc But with all this instruct
i've experience there not wanting distinguished asp
rants for the glory Of destroying great old party
Col Thomas H. Benton has become, by common con-
sent the apostle upon whom the wings and abolonists
rely overthrow their stunch aud undaunted stal
wart old adversary, and he devotes himself with
to the task Long ago he proclaimed the wing idea Of OPP
position to democratic National Conventions From one
step he has boldly proceeded another In he was
the most perseverng opponent of the compromise
in 1852 he supported President Pierce with protest
against the Democratic National Convention and the plat
form which that convention proclaimed and now in 1854
him translated to the House Of Representatives the
accepted leader factions against which he warned
posterity with memorable coquence and energy during
the administrations Of Jackson and Van Barren and in the
memorable extra session the hundred days. Of ls4
Crowdng around his the present day we see
the old friends of the Bank of the United States the old
enemies of the independent treasury law, the maig-
nant prosecutors Of jackson while in the van oil
this hybrid organization hear the voice of Thomas
Benton proeaiming hostility TO Democratic Conyen TONS
and repeating the objections democratic principles
which he himself has hundred times refuted Opposed
to him. and to the sections gathered around him. we
behold the democracy who appauded and
him during his years of devotion that organization and
to that creed which he himself well knows there Ia no
power under God put down.
If Colonel Benton wil allow us to cali his attention 4,
the masoleum in which the politicians who fell lighting
against the democratic party lie cntombed he viii the
lesson not unworthy his Where are those who like
Colonel Benton now have taken up against the
that bonored and trusted temr "The places that knew
them know them more forever" They are almost
forgotten Of all There one OF them alive Tex
cepting those who have been adopted by whgs who is
not as much out Of the public eye IL he were dead
Meanwhile the party they sought bctraythc party that
had elevated and cherished only be by them
that party goes on with increasing power principles
moro and necessary to the interests Of the country its
supporters devoted and its trumphs more complete
Those who have left its ranks more eectua in ar
resting ITS progress than the drops which old Ocean Rngs
from ms name upon the sands Of the capable OF
decreasing his mighty volume Of delaying his unpMns
ing
IT Colonel Bpton bad not previously realized this !
wholesome and historical truth, be must have felt lie
full force in the House OF Representatives on Thursday
last when his speech Of the previous Tuesday under
the searching but criticism Of Governor Smith
tho able and fearless representative from Virginia Long
win that be remembered To sec Thomas IT. Benton
who in the flower Of his public life the idol of his
friends feared by the foes Of the constitution up as
an example to all ambitious Of excelng in good
causeto see him quoted against himself floor Of
Congress upon question involving tho issues
indeed painful novelty II he forgotten
moreover, that when Colonel Benton on Tuesday
stood up for the Missouri Compromise as a bargain
binding upon all the country, the answer to this
position was taken from his early efforts but from his
very speeches This extraordinary fact appeared
Thursdaythat since 1852 at which time Colonel Benton
had formally denounced the Baltimore platform, he has
formally changed his mind II is useful how and
why In 1852 he denounced the Missouri Compromise Of
1920 and the tariff compromise OF 1882 order make
good his indignant reputation Of the Compromise oil
1850. Since that time however the northern wings and
aboltonisis who then occupied Colonel Bcntons ground
that il pecessary now position and
to make Of the Missouri Compromise which fov thirty