The daily union., 1854-12-16
NO COMPROMISE WITH FANATICISM.

Never has the democratic party been called upon to dis
charge ennobng duty than at the pres
ent time Having completed series OF measures when
are many pillars of the public prosperity and power
that party called upon to protect from the rude
hands of intoerant and ambitious men great principle
which has before been successfully assailed on these
shores This principle is freedom of conscience and the
equality Of the citizen secret combination, bound by
oaths and banded by the hope of Office threatens sacred
and vital element of our institutions in every State
in the Union Come what may, the democratic
party will meet this peril and contend against it to
the last Although the present movement against guar
antied rights and sacred obligations is the most for
dabe that has ever been made it has been preceded by
events that have fully prepared and armed the demo-
cratic party for the emergency. Whenever the ques-
ton of interfering with established rights whether of
States or of individuals and especially whenever the idea
of religious intolerance has been fordaby presented the
democracy have been prompt and foremost in opposition
to it, and ready to endure all the sacrifices and dangers
which too often encompass the pathway of the patriot
The last four democratic National Conventions united in
the following eloquent and emphatic pledge this SUBJ
ject We reprint it because while it is srkngy applica-
BILE to existing evils it shows the steady consancy of the
democratic party in supporting the important principles
unrelenunBly py SVnp'Ieu hosta Va 'a
incongruous fusion:
Resored That the liberal principles imbodied by Jeer
son the Declaration of Independence and sanctioned in the
constitution, which make the land of liberty and the
asylum of the oppressed of every nation have been
dna principles in the democratic faith and any attempt
bdge the privilege Of becoming citizens and the owners Of
the soil among ought to be resisted with the spirit
which swept the alien and sedition laws from statute
books"
AT this moment when many of the purest men in both
parties have been prostrated and prescribed by
spang torrent of prejudice and passion recur to this
resolution with high satisfaction Thousands of who
have the great whg party yielding to the secret
order whose midnight and oathbound lodges multi
piled all over the Unon will that the democratic party
makes terms with any such organization but that
the contrary the democratic party opposes and denounces
all prescription for religious belief account of the
accident of birth. These will doubt also that
their only refuge from this merclss prescription is in the
ranks of the democracy.
And what patriot will rally in support of such prn-
cples What democrat long be misled by the revolt
ing doctrines of secret political society? Who
that if this society lasts free institutions survive
clandestine political organization may be defended
protection from the and hareds of desposms
Against the naughty intolerance of Church and State
by yrans silent and secret conferences may justly be
sorted But organize such order in free country
like ours is to say that republcanism is failure
that equality of rights is heresy and that the whole
scope and design of these kindred States has been wrong
and crime. In word, know nothngism is rrever-
and blasphemous attempt to unsete the work Of the
fathers of the republic and to erect in its stead that stand
ard which has before been unured by the
;y
when these truths will be established and those who
cater to this monstrous prescription in the infatuated be
lief that it will be permanent party, will be taught thai
they have sadly calculated without their host Politicians
who leave the democratic party on this issue will find
that it will require years of probation TO from thai
fatal depression Even those they deceive will be thu
first to rebuke them after the deusion has passed
To such our history furnishes wholesome examples
Where are leaders who deserted the democracy thu
bank question: the tariff question, and the ndepend
treasury? Where the who deserted Jackson
during his iustrous administration? Rves, Ingham
Tamadge, and the restwhere they2 In retirement
or else waiting for development to put then
back power And yet these separated from the
democracy upon questions entirely and mmeasuraby sub
ordinate to that which is held out false light tc
the unsuspectng and the credulous Wo be upon those
who fail take warning by these stern lessons of tho
past
- HON MR. MACY'S POSITION