The daily union., 1854-11-25


natural result Of ths tyranny Of irresponsible power in The
hands of kings and OF emperors.
In the face of all these facts IL is certainly Of G
most extraordinary phenomena OF modern times, that tht
should have sprung into exstenec in the United States
political party whose only mode OF action seems to consist
of something akin midnight conspiracy the conspirslo
being banded together by oahs binding them to the per-
Torrance oftwo things the degrading 10 intelligent free
men which il possible conceive viz rs that they
will the blind senseless tools OF unknown and rr
sponsibe superiors and upon the mere dctaon Of such
masters think act and vote, utterly without any consc
entious determination of their own Judgments anr
manly exercise of their wills aud secondly that f
the purpose of thus giving effect to the dictatorship such
masters they will live and act in the continued practice
dupcity aud bad faith towards all such of their fellow
citizens as do choose enter with them into the dis
graceful conspiracy OF which they are at the same time
the instruments and the victims
What renders such phenomenon the more marvellous
is that the good men, they profess to beregious
they profess TO bethat ministers OF the Gospel
shoud by any possible obliquy Of mind become recou
eed what is in effect conspiracy also OF perpetual
hypocrisy for il must now be universally admitted ia
the absence of testimony to the contrary that the members
OF this association bound together by solemn
oath conceal only what they do in their midngh,
eba but the fact of their being members Of the
socation. minister of the Gospel soemnly swears that
he will lie the subject of his membership-le deib-
eraey lie constantly lie for the set and sole purpose
cheating and imposing upon his acknowledgement bis S.
low-men-nay, the very parishioners of his charge,
whom he is under the holies obligations to be preacher
and model of truth and sincerity in the face Of man and
of God Does not such association thereore Involve
its members in the violation Of all tho obligations
of freeman, gentleman, man of honor, and Chris.
tan Our habitual friend, the man in whom con6ds
our hopes and sorrows whom suppose to be hon
estly attached to to him, who processes all
occasions cooperate with brother In the affairs
of life public aud prvatethis friend Isl In fact member
of this association and in obedience to his secret
oath and his masters is systematic hypocrite liar
and cheat secretly engaged deceive to defraud
dshonor every moment Of his life Is 1t possible
conceive of thing vile immoral corrupt inmou,
than association which thus oblges to the violation
every principle of truth and of honor7
the people of the United States had been oyerun and
conquered by some foreign despot Louis Napoleon
France Nicholas OF Russia the conaueros had con-
fscaed the property of the conquered reduced the
slaves and their wives and daughters to shame they bad
devastated the country with fire and sword in the process
thus imposing upon it the barbarc yoke OF mercess and
relentless foreign soldiery if the soldiers and camp
lowers of such conqueror converted into the only
ireemen citizens and voters of the country if that
9ueror for the purpose of yeng upon the conquered the
manaces of his tyranny had struck the public press out
existence had suppressed all speech and debate had i'm
posed the penalty of the rack and the gaow upon all pub
lie assembage attempt at public discussion and cooper
alton lin such state Of things this it would be
cevable that the conquered and cnslaved people Of the
United States, should engage in midnight conspiracy
against tyran,s that we should meet them with
smooth faces but with rage and revenge in our hearts
that shou Id study and practise the arts Of deception
as to cheat them nced security until the day and The
hour should to rise to avenge ourselves
on oppressor and the liberties and independ
of the Union Such awful emergencies have occurred
in the history of nations and have served to justify
thing justify the organization of midnight conspr.
cies for the accomplishment of great political revolutions
fany such exigency Of unspeakable public calamity for
which midnight conspiracy and that alone afforded the
of escape existed in this country what going
around would be reerable adequate induce
men if not justification. But how petty, how miserable
how contemptbc the alleged inducements of the sys
tematic deception and midnight conspiracy which
rage like pestilence through the land wreched out
cast Scotchman named Sawney McSwsf, alias the "Angs
Gabriel" ha-crazy foreign vagabond, neither Aner
by birth, by naturalization, by any purpose
thought of sympathy with the United States wretch
ed Italian called Gavazz aposate priest and he, also
American, either by birth, naturazaton sympa
thes or another wretched Italian, Achli, likewise
apostate priest spewed ont from Italy into England and
then spewed from England into the United States
these are the men who here and at accept
ed by the sesupposed haters Of foreign influence among
the gOOu OF aPOSLeS VI
fh--tnat faith being the apothsosis Of ignorance
and anaticsm the new revelation of know-iothisisn.
If the members of this great conspiracy stood like
in the light of day and said We sick Of seeing
the ignorance and crime of Europe thrust upon us; m
weary of the selfsuccnt nsolence Of many pregner
who the moment they have landed upon shores set w
for the dctators and guides of opinion among de-
some protection for country against the inAdaig
and the radcas Of cass OF cmgrants and the stol
of theu. ders
this publicly and frankly, and proposed and invited co
operation against these evils with view to the goyeE
ment of America by Americans in heart there would be
nothing condemn, but much applaud in such stand
But is melancholy that what there is Of sembance
of good In the purpase of this organization Is nsutrasl
by the nmy aud the odiousncss Of the dishonorable
spracy by which itis sought be accomplished And
humiliaIg to the pride Of rghtthinkng Americana to
their counymen thus adopting the assassn carbonar
devices of renegade Italians and the insane intolerance Of
crazy scotchman, and call that, orsooth, Amsricansm
Such is the character such the origin such the means
Of action, of that party which is now sweeping
ilie c9anry II is apparently powerful sbecansJl pra
duces results but its power consists only in the fact that
II is oahbound association uSt anybody has ppwes
produce the result of assassination Of houss-burng
but that vitality consists of nothing spirit Of intol
worthy only Of the darkest Of the dark ags the
days of the torture and the nquson 1t has produced
results but those results iever-it Of lemsr
.aon on parr Of all such persons as have been be
trayed into yielding up their consonces and their wills h
the masteroonspirators When that fegert passSs away
it shortly must Its victims will look back upon the
conduct with shame and with sorrow and will Indignantly
off tjnd cf