The daily union., 1854-11-22
Fyom the New Hampshire 0axeus
A KNOW NOTHING vICTORY-wHAT is TT

The intelligence received from Massachusetts, shows thai
the knownohings have made clean sweep Of the entire
State beating their advesares at all points and carrying
their entire congressional delegation The madness Of the
hour has been Irresistible and the ctors rendng the
air with their shouts of triumph When the flush of sue
is past they will ask themselves who stand
without do, what they have accomplished The old
soldier in the ballad of the battle Of Benheim could ex
plain what he had been lighting for
But twas glorious victory"
Now If this new so-ealed "Amercan' party have Sc.
cured triumph is triumph over truly American prin.
cples The victory if it be thing is protest against
the principles and policy OF the founders of the republics
denial of leading feature of the Declaration Of ndepnd
enee it moret protest against the doctrines upon
which the whole theory of selfgovernment rests II hS
practical declaration that for than tbrse-quarte
a century have been pursuing wrong road--that
statesmen, Legislators, people knew nothing-were
of gnoramuses and blunderers We marvel that The
news from their resting places the shades
the old tories Of the reyoluton and that they do not
ghostly procession salute with their "al hall the
candidates who rise in power the tramped mauife
toes OF the old 'sons of liberty"
The triumph of know w-nothingsm is the triumph of
tartan intolerance For the first time in the history Of the
country religion has been pressed into the service Of par
sans and her white robes rled through the mre of the
highways and byways. The alleged crime OF priestly in
reference on side has been rebuttedby actual pres
thrown into phrensy by old tales of racks
dungeons nqusitions, and midnight conspraces against
freedom, have skuked into dark holes and corners and
bound themselves by oahs carry out their plans
To such inconsistencies has this strange mania lsdI
If we look for the practical fruits Of this order Of
things find them in repeated violations of the public
peace--n murderous broils in great ctesin sacri
lege and ncendiarism
II is to celebrate such triumphs that guns now peal
I'M mn tuae NO in
array We can scarcely understand the alteration of
Judgment which produces such frantic demonstrations In
future days the records of these in the melancholy
history of popular delusions will almost sagger creduv
and require to be substanated by the strongest proofs
But there localities where the trumphs Of know
nothingism may well he celebrated hut few months
since the world rang with applause at the bodness
American officer who rescued from the clutches of despo
poor foreigner who claimed the protection of the
American flag in quarter of the globe That act
commanded respect for this country than any single
which had occurred for years. The foreign despo
who trembled at the power and independence thus
hibited may rejoice at the protest Of Americans
par excellence against that glorious achievement They
may rejoice the prospect that America longer the
ylum of the oppressed of other andsno longer refuge
for fugves from European tyranny When the patriots
of other lands have hitherto raised the revolutionary stand
ard they have felt that il defeated there at least
proud and free land whose hospitality and sympathy
awaited them. That hope has grown dim The de-
scenants of those whose swords few from their scabbard
defence of American liberty, when it was yet orlorn
hope may vainy seek for at the hands Of the
of the struggling patriots To have drawn breath in
foreign land is crime 1t is true that it the
crime of Laiayetteof Montgomery-of Pulaski-of
of the sgners of the Declaration But 1t useless to plead
their completely to know-nothings.
We have recorded the triumph of strange deusion
We do not for moment suppose it to be permanent No
the intelligence of the American people is too great for
bid the inevitable reaction of which the signs nume
Gus and cheering, even in this clouded hour. w.