The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-11-05
INTOLERANCE TRIED AND CONDEMNED.


In June of the present year combination composed
know-nohings and wings carried the city of Philadelphia
by average majority of some nine thousand votes
This was the first formidable essay Of the secret party IT.
doctrines were known ard its general purposes also but
there had yet been formal attempt to incorporate
these doctrines into system From June until October
however the new officials of Philadelphia unhesitangy
applied these know-nohing doctrines in the discharge
their official duties The councils followed their example
or rather strengthened the others hands Never
oppressive and despoc rule nexorably adhered to-
The decree of prescription broad and sweeping
as was was fulfilled and enforced to the bitter end Not
native-born who believed in the Catholic Church not
adopted citizen who believed in the Protestant Church
not the of adopted citizen; not citizen whose wife
Catholic; not one who had subscribed dollar to
the erection Of Catholic church Of all these classes
but prescribed without exception mercy OF the
many hundreds of officials elected by the councils
pointed by the chief magistrate Of the city all gov
erned by this and despotc standard But the
march Of these ntoean and alarming doctrines has gone
on how have the finances of the great city of Phlade
phia been conducted We refer to the voice of the
press Phladephato the almost unchaenged facts of
the Pennsylvania and the Arguso the sudous silence
of the whg papers when called upon to deny these facts
10 disprove hemto show that the debt of the city has
aarmngy increased and that the stocks of the
poraton gone down in the market while those of the
Stale have advanced Extravaganza has been the rule and
economy the exception. -Four months of this sad expe
rence have done their natural and their expected work
and the last October election, when the know-nohings
in The flush Of their newybegotten power and when
they looked forward to easy victory in the city of Phil
adepha the democratic party have gained compared
with the June election four thousand sir hundred and
sefsn uoes 1t sight to Protestant Irshmen
Catholic Americans adopted citizens of all nations and
cre business men, and national wings, all rushing to
the democratic party refuge and rescue from the
toruvng and pestent spirit Of intolerance and improve
dence.
When we see this organized and arrogant party looking
forward the councils Of the MISUNDERSTANDING in their
eager zeal power control Of the general gov
i,sewe may without injustice to the truth APP
peal their brief experience in great and populous city
like Philadelphia, as monument OF the proscrpive, In
tolerant and centous nature of their policy and their
purposes If Henry Clay and Daniel Webster still lived
among aud happened to be members OF the Catholic
church. nothing could them from being discarded and
DISTINGUISHED An rishman like the gallant Shields his
health still suffering from the wounds received in recent
conflicts would be rejected If John Bell George Badger
John NJ Clay ton, &c, &C. well known wing leaders, were
the sons of Irishmen Frenchmen or Germans their
doom would be written in advance for be understood
that up this moment there has been no exception in the
unsparng prescriptions of this new party AT least they
are impartial and the case of Joseph K Chandler
shows they do hesitate strike at the most deserving
and most esteemed citizens if they within their iron
and despotic rule. Nothing thus far has appalled, or
appeased them they pursue their victims with Unsuitable
vengeance and when they cannot justify they refuse to
plain.
u.s. for moment contemplate the contingency of an
organization in Congress headed and managed by these
influences thousand extravagant projects in every Con-
gress call for the exercise Of the utmost and caution
on the part Of the stern odshoned democrats who have
not vet forgotten the examples of Macon and Mckay We
have that for years past the democratic party of the
House of has been the conservative
the barrier against loose legislation How long will this
barrier be able to stand when acknowledged pours into
the national legislature majority composed of its disc
pies How long will tie public treasury be protected
when the progate example of Philadelphia improvdence
and extravaganza becomes the rule instead of the exce
tion2
However consider this party whether in its cruel
prescription Of creed and of BIRTH in its imitation Of the
worst features of legislative licentousness and exrava
eance or in its identity with the foes of the American
Union il commands and demands the strongest reprehen
sion Of the democratic party.
The personal and political friends Of Judge Douglas
November, which he has accepted.