The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-03-18
TIE ISSUE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.

The leading editorial Ia the National EsHgenc Of Sat
urday under the above caption furnishes additional evil
drnce Of the indispensable and unvapg hostility of It's
editors to democracy and Of their habuny covert and
iusdious mode of manfestng their opposition When the
issue was between the wings and the democrats the Iaei
gecsr took its positions with directness and main
tanned them more openly Tut always with afecation
OF moderation and candor calculated keep out Of sight
as much as possible the parsanhp which its
editors proessed 10 regard great evil When the issue
Is between democrats on the one side and ahoouss and
kuow-nohings the other the te1igsner sbaes none
of its anpathy democracy but deeming 1t polite 10
become the open advocate of its opponents seeks to
make lite dgn6ed conservatism available by injurious nsn-
uatons and false suggestions against the democrats by
Of giving to aboionism and acknowledged all the
sstapce in It's power Whilst 1t makes constant preten-
sons to Unionovug spirit Its experienced and talented
editors do more by indirect means keep up the jeal
ouses and discussions between the sections and there
by contribute more to the dangerous agitation which
threatens the integrity Of the conderacy than all the ont
spoken and violent appeals of the New York Tribune to
sectional passions and preudices Its assumed candor and
affected fairness constitute masked battery, from behind
which 1t plays its poisonous weapons Of HRuendoss and false
suggestions upon the democratic forces II matters moth
ing to the Igenccr that the old whig party Of which 1t
was the chief organ has been dissolved and separated into
frgments-t matters nothing that the most Of It's mem
bers are now found identified with new organizations
with which It's editors are ashamed to claim fellow
ship-it matters nothing that thousands upon thou
sands Of old-line wings have discarded the anpahy
to democracy instlled into them by the Ingeneer and
are now cordially and efficiently cooperating with the
democrats in their contest with abolitioniss and know
nothings-thc editors of the Istcgeacs jealous
and as implscabe in their hatred democracy.
All that we have said will be found exempfed and illus
trated in the following extract from the editorial before
referred to;
"THE ISSUE IN EEw HAMPsHInE-Our reports from the
New Hampshire election show that the democracy of that
state been again defeated although compared with
year. they have considerably increased their gov
ernor and added their numerical strength in the lega
This result Is Of course oyuly received by the dem
ocrac journals everywhere and the Uniou this city,
ferring to IL in erultsnt strain, says;
If the victory has been complee-wbob we are
permitted anopaethe Of PRINCIPLES
oined bg Intelligent, Intrepid, uacoHproising advocacy,
has been gnaiy Illustrated We are enabled 10 announoe
upon hc direct national presented in the Presi
dens recent messages Congress the New Hampshire de-
has poed larger vote than before IN the po
litical history OF the state
proper respect for the peculiar Of the
Union authoritative exponent Of the principles and
the democracy restraints from attemptn any euc
daon of national issues presented in the late ptesden.
a messages But evidence u the manner IN which par
san presses portray things sut their own views
and thus instead OF frankly stating their readers
constantly misleading them, append from
democratic Journals published in New Hampshire 10 show the
ground. upon which the % that state during the
late canvass sustained Of the national sucs alluded