The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-06-15
rwo rNAueURAL AppREssEs.

the sacred precincts of Independence Hail. boldly unfurled
the dark flag Of intolerance and prescription Judge Con-
rad is poet as well a Politician and In those produe-
tons in which his heart spoke sincerely he has ut
tered the deepest COMBINATIONS Of all such opinions he
has publicly endorsed II is due history that
should briefly trace his course connected with the
adopted citizens Of the United States NOT indeed in
hict upon him personal assautfor there is much in his
intellect and in his private department that admire
but TO point out the devious which all
pursue who thrown at the head of party bound by
creed and controlled by considerations except those
growing of the selfish and debasing expeiency Of the
moment
The Philadelphia Evening Argus of Tuesday the 18th
instant, gives extract from Mayor conrads inaugural
speech at independence Hail. from which we take the fol-
lowing;
spoke length of the responsibilities connected
with the discharge of police duties and said that careful
thought, since the election had satisfied him Mat police
force DO efecre, be composed Ohod Of kaopn
this country tCheers upon cheers lasting
several minutes and dying only TO be renewed again
with greater yigor."l
When Judge Conrad made this announcement he was
within few feet Of that hall from which, nearly seventy
eight years ago. another inaugural proclaimed to the
world He stood within the presence of the memories Of
shouts which welcomed his proscripve exclusion Of all
adopted citizens recalled the of that immortal bell
and the Thanksgiving which, like the cry Of the Mosem
when the Muezzin calls to prayer, broke out from the
heart of people for the first time fully introduced to free
dom His eyes turned, doubtless, TO the very door
whence the inaugural of July A. ire was enunciaed to
the civilized world How his hearers would have recoed
from their indecent jubilee had that door opened while yet
4. I,;t;
and exhibited their eyes the convention which made and
proclaimed the Declaration of Independence! Who were
the patriots that Judge Conrad would have recognised in
that group of illustrious men? There were Benjamin
Franklin Benjamin Rush. and Robert Morris all of Penn
sylvana; there were Francis Hopkinson and Richard
Stockton of New Jersey; there Thomas Jefferson and
r. Henry Lee, of Virginia; Samuel Adams and John
Adams Of Massachusetts, and their brethren in the great
cause and among the why they declared them
selves free and independent Of the foreign oppressor
the following:
He has epeavored prevent the population of these
Sates for that purpose obructing the laws Tor the nat
urazaon foreigners refusing to others to encour
age their migration hither and resisting the CONDITIONS OF
appropriations of lands"
This was the tone such have named against
the British King Judge Conrad's inaugural adopts in
pudated by them The party of intolerance assem-
bled in Independence Hall their aly to the pro-
scrptions of the very King whom orehers denounced
and disayowed in the midst Of ceremonies the most imposing
and solemn the most sublime and holy, that the world
has seen since the death of Saviour But not
only did such sacred memories fail rebuke these zeal
OTIS but the recollecons of such foreigners as Lafayette
who came here invited by that Declaration and the re-
membrane of Montgomery Of Dekalb and kosciuskoi
had all been oberated like many hiGeous visions and
their places supplied by dim hopes of the future when the
fires of intolerance be gnted anew and the sword
and the brand take the place of Christian charity
and republican equality
The consistency of the party shown BY the in
augura their leader and his former doctrines sa vol
for profitable reflection Intolerance in this country
has assumed many shapes, but has ii been bold
enough TO the full It's designs until this
day Religious fanacsm is the accepted and chief
element in this organization, and have that
Judge Conrad that political Acknowledgement is
TO be the lot OF all born in the United States 50
far as he can effect il That American citizens should
stand by and applaud such avowas is saddening enough
but that he who does hesitate to make them should
forget his own record passes our comprehension.
Such spectacle however is in proper keeping with the
tone and temper of this covenant with intolerance
II will hardly be believed that the following eloquent
passages taken from speech delivered in Philadelphia
the 9TH fully 1884, by Judge Conrad the present mayor
that city, before thc Philadelphia Repeal Association
With such views in print and notorious TO all men, he was
accepted the candidate of party pledged TO intolerance
and prescription and with these glowing sentences burn
ing in bis memory he did hesitate to become the
candidate and the leader Of such party The truths he
uttered before his boody instructions now and he
thinks OF them doubtless with than emotion Of
shame II he has deserted them however Others viii read
them and In reading them win him In his present
position with amazement and with sorrow:
q Of those who would cherish national Sab
baths. Properly spent, they aire pid holy political
charity dirns brotherhood The Of human right
and teach thai country parcnfaf
al her sons, Of laero cline class Jrcrep and
their hoJpnsss demands nc orcrcise II federation aud 10
sras,y tsireen on .eet. AID parties.
other festival celebrates nations birth On this
DAY risc. and throws IT, beams thousands
OF mics Of field, and wood and prairie and
greeted every hilltop with the peal o and hs
shout Joy The millions OF the land FORTH and all is
pride and triumph Here least SAYS tho stranger no
counterfeit But why Is all this Is u required by the
State does II celebrate the triumph Of government
struggling and defeated patriosf And what the
Look the OF the playing with the morning beam
and careering in the wide expanse uncheckod the
eaping its rocky barrier and shouting s joy in
Of everlasting tbundewhy do they rejoice See eagle
soaring etteress and fearless in the heavens why does he
forth his joy with hs wings he
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