The daily union., 1852-08-18
Religious federation and the Democratic
Party.


' Party.
The great distinction between the two political organ.
zatons in this country is that the democratic party
based and conducted upon principle and the whg party
upon expediency All men who act upon certain just and
nfexbe rules in life expect frequently counter TO
prejudice and to bgotry II they are resoute in ad-
herring to standard of action they must not be
prsed if their purposes misepresented, their char
acter assaed and their sincerity openly denied If this
is with individuals, it is made manifest in
tended applied to great and controlling parties
Thus, while it is history that the democratic party has
been enabled to confer vast benefits upon the country
by practising upon the stern peceps Of its faith, the
volume that records the trumphs of its principles
also records the occasional overthrow of the party,
which, rather than yield them, for moment, cheer
fully encounters the bitterness Of defeat For adhering
to sound and well balanced monetary system, for in
stance the democrats have been considered the foes Of
credit and OF enterprise. For advocating broad and
impartial policy, by which all branches of la
Dor may be fostered alike, they have been assailed
as the foes OF domestic industry For standing by
the guarantees of the national constitution, they have
been denounced the tools and the advocates of slave
ry And yet in defiance OF these attacks, time and trial
have fully established the wisdom of their policy and
every instance that which at first aroused vrulen and
violent opposition has finally commanded admiration
from friend and foe by its consummate and its
saluary consequences
But while the democracy has steadily stood fast TO
fixed and radical faith in sunshine and in Storm the
wings, with equal consistency, have coured every fac
ton started into being by the bold OF the democ.
racy, and have veupon the advantages they have been
able TO gather by the temporary excitements that have
resulted from the application OF fundamental principles to
great national emergencies.
We have seen the wings obtaining power by their
consecutive affiliations with the hosts OF miserable CON-
binaons that have been rebuked and repuaied by the
democracy. Their chief elements of organization and of
have been, respectively the bank conservative,
anti-masonic, abolition, and finally native-American
factions If these had had no existence there would
have been whig party, powerless before the
country and contemplate in every aspect
The democratic party the party of religious toer aon
and, in all other where il has stood fast TO
principle at every hazard il has encountered frequent
defeat and constant denuncaton for its rmness on this
great question For long unbroken period OF years
from the moment when Jefferson unfured the standard
OF hostility TO the restricted ideas Of religious faction
iststhe democracy has swerved. The inefaceabe
record tells how, during this same PERIOD has been
with the wbg or federal party. They have taken ad.
vantage Of the attitude of the democracy on this great
question: and, by systematically and ngenously perver
ing to the country, have been enabled excite animos
tes and pejudices all the more difficult TO alay because
religious feelings have been stimulated and aroused
Thus, for years it has been the cry Of the wings and
their superseyiceable allies-tbe native. Americans
the democratic party has been courng the foreign and
the Catholic votes There is not community not a
township not hamlet, not neighborhood from Maine
to Texas, in which this charge has not been made for
years; and there thousands who have been temp
rarily mised by it from the ranks OF the democratic
party-thus, in many localities, aiding to give to the
wings occasional and most important victory over the
democrats
The democratic party has halted to inquire what
sect what class has been attacked by the foes of re-
igous oleraton II has always been enough for tha
party TO that the principle has been violated TO know
where its duty commands its presence. II natvism,
htst political and then religious has hunted the adopted
citizen and the Catholic. ii has been the pleasure and
the pride of the democracy to rush 10 the Defence no
matter at what cost or at what sacrifice. The same
would be its prompd,ude and the its courage il
morrow other classes other creeds were prosecuted
spring mission. II 10 be true to this mission is 10
combine against it the bitter hatred of the wings,
has been the heretofore, the consequences will be
borne with unmurmuring patience.
The whg party, however since General Seneral Scott
has been nominated, have discovered that although The
democrats have occasionally lost ground by being stead
fast TO great principle, they have, at last, and in the
aggregate, gained credit and power The disguise,
therefore. of opponents and probably the laugh
able one, is their assumption OF being the true advocates
OF religious oleraton and the only advesaries of native
Americanism But political antagonists are never
convinced OF the OF their ways until that is
thrashed out OF them. So long as nativism paid
them with large maioriies they were natives. So long
as abolition produced fair rate Of profit. they invested
their votes with the aboltons,s but when navism and
abolition got below par, and pointed at as the de-
formed and hideous OF heart burning and dissen
sion, dien the whig leaders filed od and we have
them proclaming liberaty TO the adopted citizens and
justice to the Catholics The intelligent voter will need
no further elaboration OF this subject TO be convinced
which Is the party deserving Of the support Of liberal and