The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-08-20
For the Union.


Repe~ed in connenoa Vi The history Of the repolonR
resenafioa he onty bas,s Of freedoms and Me right Of eeey
citizen Of The &ateIhe eeeire franchise The only security
and guarantee 10 t,eefom, 10 life liberty and property
Digranchse~em and opposition 10 immigration The policy
81 ne hsng and PariidDlen, against vhich The patriots 9
he recoluion fought and against phch the dnoyac party
haee Arrays conteaded from is founder Jefferson
this day,-No ..
MR. EDron; In my previous numbers the subject of
AdtiueA A0eericsm" Kaou- Notliagisn have shown
om undoubed history that this abomnable system had lis
origin in the same source nurscd by the same mother
ana cfadled IN The same crib whence every scheme of
oppression and injustice has come with which England
had oppressed and with which she appears to pursue us
even yet To accomplish her ungody purpose of destroy
ing our liberties which she failed do in our infancy she
is constantly sending among her political and religious
lJ""ohcs, who, In connexion with misguided and
houghtlcss people appear determined destroy every lie
and il2ament that binds happy e1d social organization
together These ambassadors it were from his Satanic
Majesty court have been, and some of them yet among
us stirring up strife BY them the seed Of aoloasD and
religious intolerance has been broadcast over the
country, and unfortunately il finds soil ,rere gro,es
teH and promises rich harrea But God forbid that
land dedicated alone to freedom and true liberty and
eued by ayyrs blood should produce and propagate
plant SO unnatural and so fatal TO every conception OF JUS
ce and Of right aud surely destructive to liberty and
equality which give characteristic distinction among
the nations of the earh and in support and defence of
which would all fathers did for us offer up our
8 "ices, tortune and sacred honorp
/ But anaticsm and deusion will have their inglorio,s
day! From this deirum of nations, age people has
been exempt and mag MOI claim blessing that has been
generally denied the rest OF mankind Republics
have been and will doubtless ever be- the chosen hears
upon which political knaees play their tricks tho in
finite delight of the people
.With smooth dissimulation skilled to grace
devils purpose with an angels face"
The ancient republics particularly Greece and Rome
are sad evidences and lasting Of the power and
inexorablc revenge of demagogues They lived and i
umphed on the credty and abuse and corruption If the
popular heart that else had beaten long and healthy; but
which, under the fatal and corrodng influences that sur
rounded it, nngushed and beat tho pulse Of free
dom Greece had her Pisisratus and her Perces. and
Rome had her Aari her Sylla her Cesar and her Cat
line The temples of ancient freedom and the temples Of
ancient artthose trophies of centuries not resist or
mitigate the rage Of desperate directing the
troed energies of All abandoned rbble lost to every prn
cipe of constitution agd law Of order and of decency!
The first and paramount object 10 be obtained 10y bad
ia every country who aim at the destruction of the
existing order of things and consequently at the overthrow
of the sovereign power of the State is destroy the chc
sive force by which the citizens are dnd ought 10 De- sd
There is philosophy in this much there is IN the OPP
Grafton of the chemist who wishes 80 dissolve separate
the parts which compose material body To this end, he
calls to his aid sh9 powerful agency of dkal ac
wliq. apon application by virtue Of esablishsa aafer
affinity iasies tsc and eorries cs inc eeW and ten
der cords that lsssocd is rni oaa n,on mhch It's ry
isence depended!
No people aud government has yet escaped the cruel
eeibe and refoH of that philosophy whose aim and amb
ton seem to be to reduce maakiad TO
notonous level withaa organization faculties by which,
physically politically can alone preserve his exist
promote his happiness The body polite is the
great subject upon which is founded the ANATOMY Of
noIiti and which OudcE il n
liberty experiment to crafty his lust revenge at the
expense Mt least at the peril of what all should love and
veneraeour social, our national existencel
'Ts melancholy rejection, and painful beyond endu-
rance know and 10 feel that there those in own
county, tae hoppes M res greatest that ecer efsed who
are arrayed against what makes happy and
free and who determined if they obtain the power
to convert system of government acknowledging no dis
tnctons among men, and erecting no barrier against the
vrtuous ambition ana ability Of any, into the most cruel
and inexorabie desposm the face of the earha sys
,s of which the suspicion and jealousy Of The oriental
world would be ashamed most heartily ashamed
What most ridiculous Of al and places the abominabc
theory beyond the pale Of chny is that it recommends
itself and is urged in the Of religion and lby Gra-
cou. God to what unhoy and damnahe purposes the
sacred of religion and liberty converted How
many villain himself In thy pure and spotess robe
oh Religion and unle, thy ample folds how much of the
wickedness and vancs of heword is transacted FROM
beneath IL the asSa5sn dagger comes stcatnty ihd WIN
the word of God in hand the graceless zealo raises
the other against the throat of Ais Fellow who believes
doubts little or lsss than he docs Such is religion
for the mos, para among and wcre TO have Other
reflections but those that forced upon by tho practice
of tho world should be most wrechca creature among
the d and uaprinepled herd ht lie and cheat and kill
and steal that rob and barn, directly indirectly under
the sanciioq esnsuited and holy religion
such the liberty rather the dcspotsn OF faction
and such is the proposition that prescription makes to The
American people for approval under the new name OF
" kao,c-aohvNgis@ e
The fraud attempted BY theadvocaes of 'knownothng-
ism is the least ridiculous of its features 1t duc,res
itself ierican and thus young PERSONS Of good intentions
and honest hearts crgh in the snes Of the unprin-
cipcd and CRAFTY who hope to Ae benefited by system
with oness heart with every principle of justice
and honesty aud violation of the constitution and HAMS
of the country that every youth from Maine 10 Georgia
.oyos and for which he would lay down bis life But It's
everything Jat Imeean lis any yhins oct democratCiis
British in its political religious character have
shown in togn,er numbers Mr. Jefferson, the founder
and ,!her of democracy, well The author of the
Declaration OF Independence and founder of the republic
makes this specification IN accusation against the King
He has endeayoreG TO prevent the population OF these
States for that purpose obsruotng the laws Of nurasa-
ton of foreigners refusing to pass others TO encourage
their migration hiher and raising tho conditions of new
appropriations of and This tho language OF Thomas
Jciierson Will be told that he not patrio;2 Who
uW dqre san kG4 be Iisercan az heart! What
native An,ercan or lnow-nothng or modern demagogs
os fanatic viii rob him of his fame his immortal hon
and the undying that will live wleI,