The daily union., 1854-10-19
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Reoftons the Recent Electsons CasAolse AHeg,anoe Tie
Pope Dupro0ed-0Heal Essd-nee-D Decayosons Of Bah
9P decentralization g, Consul al Roru< commxnica-
ting ne Vie~s ef tis Pope 70 President Joeksonres
dent Jackson through TIE Secretary Of STATE to tAe Pope
Opinion q CAig Jastice Taney DC
AR EDITOR: trust Eay be pardoned for desiring a
space in the columns of the Union wishing to obrude
upon The public in any manner; STILL hope tbs; cAndor
and dispasson VIII bear with me while place before the
American people views and opinions entitled respect
emanating they do from honored for their learning
and patriotism and respected for their pey and virtue
great and free people distinguished in the Judgment Of
nlank nd for noble and generous impulses and exalted
above the rest Of the world through the nsrumenAy Of
free government will not surely PREJUDICE where
national honor is concerned where the great principles
of constitutional liberty involved without hearing
find its verdict without proof of impartial and unim-
peachable testimony To hereditary and cruel preju-
dice concede much and only deplore its existence and
hope that the great heart of noble people, whose sympa
tes go out every Of the world and to every
creature will purge itself Of element injurious to the
peace of families and society and disastrous the pub
lie good 10 which every other consideration Of trivial
Importance 1t is life merely bat the condition of
living that desirable and the lies alone
public tranquility and domestic peace II is in vain that
we have constitution and laws, the palladium Of
prosperity and safety the security of liberty itself
when large portion Of the people the humbles nd
vdual in the republic is disturbed threatened in the
quiet enjoyment of privilege blessing they guaran
ty TO them him The ostensble tokens Of freedom
and happiness and the security persons and property in
nation while conspiracy breahes its treason At the
night against the peace of one and executes
pose in open day and at the bao,box is the "whited
sepulchre heacherously pure, but filled only with cor
rupted loathsomeness and death
The results of the elections in Pennsylvania Ohio
\ tp1to
that the delrium of the day and ruling
scrts IFS sovereignty VIII all ponder and reflect for
ecion is always al hand when is too late and the die
is ,rrevocably cast But with great and free people
fecon and is always proper for standing in their
sovereign majesty, they will their erroneous
opinions and rindicate the integrity and justice Of great
and immntable principles from which by the passion
prejudice Of the hour they may have been diverted To
the majesty of the sovereign will always bow most re-
spec because it is in that repository alone liberty
live aad be perpetual With them, and with them alone
has every age and every cline been found alike in the
ness of the rugged mountain top and in the sunny vale
1t dwels with Kings, with courty cabinets, nor
within the sphere of corrupted and whitening aristocra
ces 5p soi the people de rhoIe people Of tile commonwealth
This the doctrine Of democracy rcpubicansm this
the genius of government as we have IT from Jefferson
and Madison and others, with slight fprR Of that con-
soidate astocatc system advocated and urged by Ham
on Adams and other federass All men, says Jeerson,
are and equal and possessed of certain inacn
ab, rgho be free and to be happy in the world under
common sky, in the bright rays Of common sun and
gentle moon refreshed with dew and rain alike the
mon gifts of the same impartial and Almighty God
TO undertake to define the amount anaJyse .he
dcodnn and heterogeneous elements that entered into the
that overwhelmed every opposition in the late
elections would be impossible 1t is very certain however
that various shades of antislavery men, from the
ultra aboions the moderate freesoiler Joined hands
antiNebraska men, while the know-nothing faction
swelled the volume Of nfauaton About the wisdom of
that policy that called into existence and organised those
Territories shall say nothing because even now they
themselves speak in manly tones in vndicaton of those
great republican principles that wrested from Brtah
King and has swelled soreregne to thrtyone; and
in few years when they added to the consolidated
glory flag they will call the blush, if there be
yet left the cheek of every political demagogue from
California Maine The sage of the republic that now
sleeps in honored dust AT his beloved Monticello
often burned in efhgy and hung by the cowardy polt
cal bgot be added the valuable possessions
the country which has wisdom and dscernment alone
could appreciate for the future Where is the traitor
that would reproac his memory dishonor him in dssth
by reflection upon that policy His present distinguish
ed successor animated by his principles and purity, to-
gether with the distinguished author OF the NebrasA bill,
have been also ANONYMOUSLY executed but few years
will the policy of the plan that has forever shut out
slavery from the national legislature free but abused
public opinion will generously sustain the policy Of an ad
musiraon that stands yet unappaed the exponent Of
one well the defence OF the exile in remote and inau
spicious seas
With these remarks Mr.. Editor propose pass to the
material point desire TO notice in this communication
shall examine in detail that inconsistent principle
and outrage upon every idea of common decency that
gests advocates in defiance of all law, human and d
vine the elevation and enfranchisement of the African
negro while il urges the proprey Of the disanchse
men and consequently the enslavement Of portion Of
white race the sole crime Of having been born
where their fathers were being pous votares of that
religion their proessed and by of which
civilization and Christianity succeeded the supremacy OF
barbarous paganm the cruel rites Of Druid worship
that religion under whose fostering science and liberty
have enriched and blessed the word and whose snthus
and devotion indebted for this continent to which
we proudly but forgetuIy apply the foreign CAol,e
America Yes America the home Of the free the asylum
of the distressed and oppressed world desire simply in
defence Of truth and in defence of large portion Of
our peopethe Catholic citizens in the United Stasesto
place before their Protestant friends and negbbors, with
whom they united by the sympathes of nature
and the kind Offices social and enlightened -I desire
to do duty that owe who loves my country, her
peace and her prosperity wish 10 cooperate with the
millions Of good anywhere in aayng iha. appre-
bension that political and unprincpled knaves have
cited in the minds OF generous and creduous peo
pie in reference their Catholic friends and the supremacy
Of the Pope the spiritual head Of that church We need
not fear people power TO which alone we are In
debted for our liberty For the truth of this appeal from