The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-08-14

We return thanks to those editors who have
copied into their respective columns article on the
SCIENCE PoLITcs" and especially 10 the Bath {bie
Times for It's complimentary illusions Our only object
writing ihese subjects is to correct certain fragrant
abuses that exist in the public mind and to do our hum
have the honor to be associated in the democratic party
TO continue the good work Of clevang the political
standard to it's highest possible attainment
II is our sincere conviction ths, the pursuit OF politics.
nightly understood, is OF the lofes and pues thai
can Occupy The human mind This IL the sentiment we
recognise with Just pride in President Pieces inaugural
and which earnestly aim 10 insli by unassumng
writings among all oouoirymsn The tone pervad.
ing the able documents and brave deeds OF our fathers in
the achievement OF American Independence OF the
highest moral character. They wroic, and spoke and
acted as they felt under the profound owledg
men,s OF higher power, without whose wisdom all
their eounses would have bcea ooiishness, and with
out whose strength all Their bravery would have been in
vain
Let any one for instance lake up the letters OF George
Washington and the speeches of Patrick Henry, written
and spoken during the revolutionary war How con
s,antly will he be struck with their frequently repeated
illusions 10 the dependence OF the struggling colouiss
on Divine providence Surely this was not mere form
In those distinguished fathers OF the republic II certain
y was not cant, for nothing could be further than that
from the grasp Of such great minds.
Look again, AT our Declaration OF Independence
What a solemn appeal does that make, all the way
through its immortal lines, 10 the need which those gall
Ian, old signers felt Of Heavenly interpretation II
in the purest element OF national morality well in
III. blood and flame oil battle that the Declaration wa.
b.pzed Before the armies OF the colonies The head
of each division OF the roop., IL read amid solemn
prayers. and with united appeals 10 the throne OF
nal justice.
immortality, bls.phemy, drunkenness, lewdness, vice
Of every kind was instantly stamped BY Washington.
,hen IN .umeme command With his stsrpest and severest
reproba ion And all through that glorious war, in the
and most Try ing hours Of the great conflict when
m. foo prints of tb. blood Of soldiers stained the
.novs Of New Jersey and their skeletons they died
of starvation in the rude camp, filed the deep grave pits
Of The Valley Forge the same all pcvadng spirit OF hum
nj. dependence on an Almighty arm s~elled the brave
bosom of Washington led him 10 the adiacen, in
n,.lns prayer and shed it's strens hening elevang,
inspiring influence upon all the patriots in struggling
| land.
| These are well known facts in our history They
have been presented before the people, and urged on
their attention time and again We should not addace
Them here we did not feel that they cannot be dwell
.pon too often nor deeply by our eonnuymen, espe-
feiallv al time when the OF our government
q, HON. are in some sense taking new drscuons, asi
when the mos, exciting national events threaten to bus,
upon from abroad
/ II ever there was time when our people should be
Invoked TO look above before taking any decisive step,
that time il now II is critical moment ~ the worlds
history Empires are being tossed to and FRO in the East
bike footballs in The Of games The gates Of the