The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-11-29
From the P.nnsylvtn
PRESIDENT PIERCE AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

PRESIDENT PIERCE AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
There is nothing succeeds like success says French
proyerb.
If the administration of Franklin Pierce had been signal
lied by repeated victories of the democratic party owing
causes wholly unconnected with his action enlogy
would have been considered too extravagan for his
it's But the recent sustained by party have
given certain degree of pnusiby among the upthnk-
ing the charges of those who attribute the blame the
President himself The most noisy of his assaians is
the New York Herald band guerilla force, which is al
ways neai in the battle and joins the victor with view
to booty and SPOTS.
We think it demonstrabe that tns at reverses of the
democracy attributable which anteaas the
present administration The muddied higher
up than March, 1859 In the most rapid survey of the
leading of the last four five years the politician
may discover the elements work. which have been quiz
city and gradually developing themselves, until they have
broken into resistance to the democratic party in the
practical form of knOw-nothngsm This secret organize
ton natural consequence of the preceding
of the public mind the siege of Sebasopo of the
tration of the allied armies the Black No Fres
dent however wise could have averted it, No admnsra
ton however able could have prevented it. The forma
ton of the naye-Amegcap party many years ago
premature 1t had reason for its pxistenc nation
al party, the which produced it being almost purely
local Founded exclusively upon blind hatred for per-
not born SOIL it could appeal with hope of IA
vsrsh hearing only to the eaousies Of native orkmen
for their competitors from abroad As this competition
felt only in the large cities the native American party
could extend itself beyond their limits The discus
sons Of the last six eight years between the Protesants
and Catholics the questions Of school fund.- the Bill in
public schools the Of church property &cdscus-
sons iafamed into zeal by the position Of the Catholic
church in the revolutionary events in Europe Subsequent to
l847have given to religious differences importance
they before held in country Sectarian seIos
have been Numbered from pulps-secarian conlro
verses have drawn the best talent of the land upon
plstfoym-sectaran litigation has occupied courts and
press has groaed with tales, novels romances and
stories illustrate the horrors Of convent and monastery
life and the unrepublican tendencies of the Catholic church
The state of feeling thus created allied itself naturally with
the hatred of naurazed citizens which distinguished the old
natye-A mercan partya hatred stimulated into intense
activity by the late increase in the number OF immigrants
for not Catholics mostly forsgpers2 Proestants APP
pretended the loss Of American Liberties from Catholic i'm
migration. Natives apprebended the same from immigra
declaration of the coalition was only question Of time
For years the storm has been impending In 1852
was kept abeyauee The compromise and its APP
pertaining issues then absorbed the public mind the
whgs were anxious to gain the Catholic yoie for their
candidate General Scott who understood TO be not
only an admrer of the rich Irish broguep and sweet
German accent but cherish decided preference for
Mother Church herself The election of General Pierce by
m overwhelming majority settled all the old issues and
eft the party free TO manifest its strength With the
exception Of the Nebraska excitement it has had the field