The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-07-13
THE COMING ELECTIONS COALITION.


their factions into grand coalition army for the com
ing conflict Under the drill of the New York Tribune
and kindred journals every ism to be Incorporated into
the new opposition PLATFORM so that aboltonist and
freesoler, socialist and know nothing, bankocrat and
womans-rghts advocate hgher-aw devotee and dis
unionst mobocrat and federalist id genus may
each plank in the diversified platform which he
can stand and in the strange medley to which
he dance the wires pulled The only common
bond of union among those discordan elements hostility
to the existing order of society and sound liberal and
democratic government Greeley is the type of the new
party and its fitting champion The wilder the vagary,
the absurd and ruinous the dogma, the blacker
the conspiracy the better it is suited to his purposes That
the turbulent and the anatca the destructive and revo-
lutionarythose who openly spit upon the constitutions
and declare the Union ga covenant with hell--should
embark in such polticoregious crusade with human
y on their lips and murder in their hearts, surprise
no rejecting mind; but it is indeed strange that any
RATIONAL ordcrlovng and good citizen native natural
zed should be inveiged into such conspiracy against
the wellbeing of the republic We know that there
only few-a very few--who have been can be hood
winked by such political gamblers where the game is
openly played but the attention of the country should
be aroused the dangerous character of the conte
plated coalition and especially to the more insidous
manner in which in some States it is sought to en-
trap the unsuspecting In the Northeast the design
to form such coalition is openly avowed In New York.
Connecticut and New Hampshire the potters have moved
forward with rapid strides In many other States they
know that to gain standpoint the hand must be
concealed until the intended victims completely in the
eshes and so other pretexts held therefalse is
IA. L. A
aimed at and tend to- the great resutthe over
throw of the constitution the equality of the States the
existing order Of government and the preservation Of
peace and aternal feeling The resistance to the laws of
the United States to the shedding of blood, under
the frantic counsels Of Phillips and Parker in Boston, the
Jerry at Syracuse the Chrstana murders the
lgious riots in Brooklyn and New York. and the church
burnngs Bath and Dorchester of the violent
exhibitions of this crusade whilst the theatrical burn
ing of the constitution by Garrison the Fourth of July
last the efgy hanging pending the KansasNebraska BILL
and the declaration Of the Tribune that all appropriation
bills be rejected and the government brought to
dead stand-stil unless those bills contain clause de-
priyng the settlers in Kansas and Nebraska of the right
selgovernment according TO republican and constitution
al cpIesarc equally direct and positive types Of the
same spirit and lead the results In oil coalitions
and turbulent outbreaks the tendency is give full sway
to the most anatical and reckless When is de-
roncd and passion rules the hour the most passionate
and daring give tone to the movement All who embark
in the mad enterprise are equally guilty with the frantic
leader who applies the torch hnsts the dagger Hence
the very outset whoever is tempted should look to the
ultimate tendency of the act the whole scope and
spirit Of the coalition into which he is asked to fall before
he yields up his political personal integrity to such
guidance Once fully in the meshes escape with honor is
next TO impossible.
We can pity sometimes, rash and sudden
act prompted by rrepressble gust of passion provoked
by supposed wrong but it is impossible to pardon de-
libete and carefully plan of mischief cold
bloodcd crime. The steady and undisguised plotting of
the Garrsons Cassius NJ Cays Greelrys and their
GATES the open and aboveboard schemes which they have
without excuse They the leaders and mastebuilders
of the proposed coalition If they succeed in
structing the framework in for the ensuing
elections they expect manage the discordan and de-
sructve elements they have been setting work for years.
clear the way for future The formation of
multitude of factions the stimulating of the most baef
passions the incubation Of ruinous ideas the destruction
of the best men, the elevation of the most reckless and
princped preliminary steps, the formal sowing of the
winds, out of which the expected whrlwind is to be
reaped.
We invite public attention to these matters now in order
that the patriotism of the country may extngush the
sparks scattered abroad before general widespread
ccnhagraton We have fears that any one Of
these mad schemes cam if presented sngly plainly gain
lasting hold upon the mind passions of the country
The danger is not there; it springs from the covert and
incessat and artu efforts to play upon the local preu
diccs of each neghborhood, and the anacsm of each
faction; to arouse ealousies and hatred on the part
of portion Of the people against another TO ere
ate sectional issues to ncte sectarian animoses to
enrnge the native and natnralizcd against each 9TH
era war of original nationaes among citizens Of
the same State and nation; to ns dislike or weaken
respect and for the laws and constitution
and to do this under preence of doing God service to
SOW broadcast as necessary preliminary, dstrust of all
the wisest purest most upright and experienced of
living patriots and statesmen not sparng even the nobe
of dead heroes and sages when the lessons they be-
queathed rise up in rebuke of such mad designs
is evident that the battle in the coming elections will
therefore, assume different shapes and require various
modes Of treatment according the enemys movement
different States In such States supposed synpa-
thze most with ee-soilism the abolition question will be
the prominent issue In some of the cities where the
Catholics have cahedras or churches the no
Popery cry will be raised In counties and towns where
the nauraized citizens constitute large portion of the
population, the old navist banner will be again unred