The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-08-16
Done at Washington the nineteenth day of April ammo
Don'ni one thousand eight hundred and fifty.
JOHN NJ. CLAYTON, n.sl
HENRY LYTTON BULWER. H. 81
THE OPPOSITION AND IT'S NEW NAME.


There is great pertnency in the following from that
opposition the democratic party almost unanimously
adopted the of the new nativism This is its usual
course and usual the democracy are called upon
take ground against such combinations. When has the
democratic party attered fwned upon sms of the
day. When has il failed to strike them down When
has it refused repudiae them2 There is but
swer TO these questionable furnished by ample
experience aud ndubable history has wavered
but has promptly opposed all such combinations without
stopping to think of the consequences On the other hand
the opposition to the democracy made up of the factions
and fragments of politics. and hence changing their
whenever any Of these factions becomes strong
enough control the In this process many amusing
transformations taking place but significant
and peculiar than that described by the Cincinnati En-
qurer; na
Snow CYCLE CoMPLETED,-A
little than quarter of century ago. the opposition to
the democracy assumed the form of the most violent hostility
to all societies War declared their part
against the order of Masonry of which of the best
in the country had been, and then members 1t was
declared be dangerous to the and institutions of the
country BECAUSE although avowedy not political in its aim
and objects they insisted it really that its members,
in concave unknown to their fellow citizens made
and unmade the high officials of the country The corrup
tons and evils OF societies then eloqueny
upon by the opposition and leaders, and the
people called upon own down and discountenance
of the kind Who that has the requisite age does
remember the anti crusade in the North and
which carried violently between the years 1927 and
1854?
''The most prominent wing leaders in public life
first attracted notorety and distinction by their denuncation
of secret societies. particularly such had political
dency. Anti Masonry having burned itself out whggery
like Phoenix from its ashes but it retained the great
est luminosity against political organization that
all secret in its character Time passed on and the presden
al contest of 1852 arrived when the old hostility wing
gerry to secret political societies again burst in all its
force One discovered to exist among democrats here
aud the circumstance every recoects made the
Of any quantity of wing clamor all the country
Their anti Masonic nvectves and datribes revived
wing sumper and whig editors rolled up their eyes in per-
feet horror and much political capital made out of it,
But now in 1854 how is it Those partsans who have
bawed themselves hoarse against secret political societies
themselves members of which, for its prescription inol
erance and fearful oath has parallel in history.
right about face in party tactics After
having eeconeeed for against secret political organ
zatons find the wings when they imagine their interests
will be SUBSCRIBED unanimously sustaining them Forgetting
their charges that such societies corrupt and danger
MEMBERS while their denuncaons fresh In the
of the public Did not say truly, that political cycle
had been completed, and that whiggery for quarter of
century the opponent of secret political societies. their
chief supporter?'