The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-10-03

virtues and lofty patriotism and il hung for many long
years on the walls OF the House OF Representatives the pop
uar branch OF this government And yet this new order
OF the day would strike that staff from Its position and
tear its coors into atters because il tribute OF our
counrymen 10 the glantry of Ffeohd Do you forget
Pulaski who, on the fields of Germantown and Brandy
wine, his sword flashing like meteor in the sulphureous
light of battle shouted his brave comrades in broken
English, Foreards brudern, torpardsp Great applause
Do you forget your gallant Shields In your Mexican army
[Great applause Could you prescribe him No No
No Go 10 Mexico, that valley of the shadow of DEATH
where lie the bones of thousands Of countymen you
will lind the adopted citizen and the American who fought
shoulder TO shoulder buried together in the grave
Are you and would you forget their glorious deeds
And are they not good citizens Who build your turn
pixies assist in making your railroads and in digging
your mines The great proportion OF them foreign
population and would you prescribe them You may
RECOLLECTION many OF you have seen the play of the Lady
of Lyonsthat Claude Menote in ecstasy OF passion
seat to the proud Pauline bouquet of flowers accom-
panied by note, which returned with insult and his
messenger beaten Menote then addressing his moth
er, asks
Am hump backed-deformed-h ideous
:. lMeaoae. A coward-a THETA liar
g Meaoae. Or dull fool-a vain dwelling brainess
idiot?
q Widow. No, no.
'Me'note. What am then--worse than all these? Why,
| am a peasant
So in your pride you would treat foreign popua-
toni They not hideous, deiormed villains; but
they than all thesethey adopted citizens
hewers of wood and drawers of water. And for this
will prescribe you But il right Is il just2 Oh my
fellow citizens, such monstrous doctrine is enough TO
make the bones Of the fathers of the constitution rattle in
their charnehouses
Sir doubt have attached themselves TO these
antirepubican associations upon the deceptive showngs
of men who American only in and having once
entered within the circle made TO believe they cannot
withdraw without violating the obligation imposed To
all such say eefee from doomed city Look not back
upon the monstrous inquity cling close TO the consu
tiou and shield it from the hand of mpiey Your oath is
not binding, either in the sight of God In their
midnight cabals they plot the destruction Of civil and
ligous liberty They seek political power and care not
how they get it, In less than twelve months there will be
such scramble among them for power and place
in the history of this country There many
who have attached themselves to this organization
solely that they may be elevated into power. When
make this remark do not use it in general senseI APP
ply it to individuals that could in my State
They join this association for the purpose of accommodating
power They care whether the Union is dissolved
the constitution subverted, if the ruins of both they
crawl into power and place. They doates at the
shrine Of that
''- dark and fallen angel
Whose earth's Ambition
That builds its throne on treason straagem and murder,
The guiding star of solemn Empire
[Great applausel
Beware before il is too late You will grasp the Dead
seas fruit of ashes. lou will "woo goddess and clasp
cloud" Oh eat not of
OF that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste
Brought death into the world and all our woe,
With loss OF Eden
[Applause.]
have a word to say to my wing friends Who per-
chance have entered this secret organization and will
speak them in the language of that immortal who
occupies of the largest spaces in American history
that whom the hearts of the wing party chung
their leader and to whom the hearts of all the country
were drawn of his exalted patriotism and great
intellect refer to the honored of Henry Clay
TGrea applause In 1882 Mr.. Clay, the floor of the
Senate of the United States used this language
Dir. President there are some foreigners who always
rem i'm become
try whilst happily there Others who readily attach
patie, and adusrqus German readily mites with our
people, establishes himself upon Of our fat land fills
dant fruit which his diligence gathers around him. asays
ready the standard of his adopted country of its
laws, when called by the duties Of patriotism"
Would you prescribe the German? Again
ssThe gay the versatile the phosophc Frenchman ac-
commodatng himself cheeruly all the vcissudes of fe
Incorporates himself, without difficulty, in our society
Would you prescribe the counrymen of Lafayette?
Again :" But of all foreigners amalgamate them
selves quickly with our people as the natpes Of tie En-
eraid Isle In of the visions that have passed through
my imagination, l have supposed that Ireland was orig
nally part and parcel of this continent and that by
extraordinary convulsion of nature it was torn from inner
lea and, drifting the ocean, placed in the
fortunate vicinity of Great Britain. The ope,-lear
sdness the generous hospitality the careless and
uacdlcudting indifference about human life characterize the
inhabitants of both countries"
Would you prescribe the descendants of Emmett and
Montgomery
great expounder and defender of the constitution, who
passed life among you would not have done il and ask
my wing friends here to-day TO up and assist
supporting the constitution and discomiting traitors
Cheers
Sir in wing paper ia the city Of Philadelphia no
ticed statement that the administration at Washington
had made direct issue against w-nohingsm, know
not whether this is So but do know, and have the utmost
confidence in what say, that if they will all
their power for the discontinue of these assants of the
constitutions they will receive the congratulations of all
true democrats and true Amercansof all who believe
these associations at with the fundamental
doctrines of the democratic cre, d. Sir the head of this
government who stood upon the eastern portco of the
Capitol the 4h of March, 1853 and declared that
American citizen though thousands of miles away should
stand sovereign among soSereigns will be trump hapty
sustained in putting down asecret organization that levels
its blow at the constitution glory in il; rejoice
American citizen as man, and as democrat that that
flag (ponng the tattered flag before him. thousands
Of miles eway protected Martin koszta and brought him
in safety~upon American ggppnd or the deck of an Ameri
ship is American ground despite the irownng guns
from Austrian PORTFOLIOS. Applause And rejoice
still that the powerful American sentiment that
INDICATED the gallant Ingraham will be used with efficiency
by the Executive IN the protection of the constitution
aud the rights of all our citizens. Great cheering.
And now my fclowcitizens if these secret associations
are aiming these influences il they pernicous in
their results they unconstitutional ought not to
oppose them to the last2 We ought, and here to
conure you all the recoeetons OF the past by the glo