The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-10-01
THE WING PARTY-ITS ALLIANCES, ASSOCIA-
TONS AND INCONSISTENCIES

Union
THE WING PARTY-ITs ALLIANCES, AsSoCIA-
TI0NS, AND INCONSISTENCIES.
That the whig party particularly the North iden-
tilted with every ism and schsm of the day admits no
longer of single doubt however much the respecta-
BILE portion Of the party press may dscam unhoy
confederation because actions speak louder than words
and when words and actions speak together there is
longer room either for doubt or discrimination The posi-
ZION Of party in Pennsylvania is concusive its standard
nearer for governor hnognoing the mayor OF her
chief city is nothing Once the city of Broiherly
Love- It's the city of violence and blood the rendez
where the Of extraordinary patriotism and repub
cans assemble by invitation and met and received in
Independence Square 10y this whig or know moth
ing mayor who addresses them upon that holy ground and
under the venerable walls of the temple where true patriots
unard by the fire of truth justice and freedom
The armed egons and addressed in the Of
liberty of constitution, and OF law, and before they quit
its hospabe bosom they tried for outrages and crimes
committed against the peace life and liberties of the peo-
pie of that metropolis and stranger STILL he who halls
their arrival sits Judge between them and the violated
majesty of the Commonwealth, whose laws they ramped
under foot and the safety of whose citizens they placed AT
the mercy the mob This affair." together with the
ourages by murder and destruction of property
Newark questions upon which free and vrtuous peo
pie should soemnly reflect whether this reign Of terror
is to convert country into modern France or whether
shall be peaceful happy people, ~hose God as the
Lord"
The overthrow of the veteran, the able and eloquent
Chandler, because he devout Catholic, shows how
far the wing party identified and controlled by violent
faction whose hostility to constitution and to liberty
is now doubted by no mortal man 1t shows that the
ablest of the party-those who have batted upon
high and honorable grounds, when democracy met and
vanquished them heremust be osracized hea kaoi
notagsm selects and erites upon The shell When pro-
scripon triumphs there is safety The eloquence of
of
Themistoces the justice Of Aristides, yet the
pety of Socrates them against memorable con
scrption" Such is whiggery in Pennsylvania and such
the whg party for the most part throughout the country
The leading organ of the party in New York-the
Tribune-n its virtuous Indignation because the demo-
cratic party having always, well now maintained
the doctrine of equality and liberty all alike that seek
home upon our shores wherever born advocates the
doctrine of Jefferson opposed to the aiien and sedon
c prefers serious charges against the democratic press
throughout the country if abored to the vote
of the Catholic foreign portion of our citizens The
man of the Tribune writes thus
"Messrs Kncw-nothing Col there is not among
YOU who freely fearessy and thoroughly braved
Irish prejudice and Irish hostility for public good than
have done If catered for Irish votes, should
advocate liquor prohibition as we have done from the
first and shall do the last Nor should advocate
emancipation and the right of the colored equal
political privileges and franchises with whites On these
and many kindred points we have uniformly gone exactly
ct'oo9tc1iobs.
Whereupon, the American Ce propounds the following
pertinent nerrogatores Horace the classical leader of
the aboitionists liquor men, oo-aothiags rights
and socialists OF the North:
H. Did it, or did it not publish appeals the Irish vote
against General Cass in l84s because he refused put
his hands the treasury give aims toI Ireland during
the tnnine2
:" H. Did 1t, did it not endeavor TO excite hostility
among Catholics to General Pierce account Of the
New Hampshire test 2
I" H. Did H. did it not issue campaign tracts repre-
senting Germans and Irish what they owed General
Scott and how they all ought to vote for him?
When the Tribune these questions fairly it
may proceed with its lecture"
Certainly everybody knows the wing party and the
wing press did every thing the foreign portion of
the people from their allegiance and their political faith
Even General Scott himself cnnvassed the West and in sun
and rain alike expaated upon the charms of the 'rich
Irish brogue and the "cea German accent He did this
too, while he drawing his full pay, and getting
cents mile for travelling, out of the peoples treasury
The ioes and fashions of whiggery among the nov
elites of this age full of absurdi,ics and expedients
DEMOCRACY.