The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-04-05

the tools or the accomplices Of dark and deepad
spiracy Of pretended philanthropy.
Abolition in the principles II Is propagatng, and
the objects il has in view is essentially plant Of English
growth IL is foreign influence, and the most dangerous
that nsinuated itself into the United States It's OBJ
jecs openly and frequently ayowed aggravate
sectional preudiees and anpsthies to uproo the social
institutions Of half the States array different
that heretofore lived in harmony against each
other in of determination and the alternative pro-
posed Is the manumisson of the slave the dissolution
OF the Union. Yet with faction having these declared
purposes in view and esgned with foreign combination
chershing the objects this party calling themselves
native Americans protesting 10 be exclusively American
in their feelings and attachments, is acting in
cert and while protesting be exclusively animated by par
tiotc motives become of the powerful auxi
aries OF foreign influence whose objects avowedly
those we have just specified.
Ishis blindness or is IL sheer hypocrisy Is it possible
that merreasoning unacceptable of distinguishing night
from day, can for moment he seduced into belief
that they really aborng for the interests and happ
of their country performing the duties Of Amer
citizens while thus becoming of
ton identified with dangerous foreign influence daily
tbrusting its into Congress- and which, If ones
viii SILVER this confederation atoms7 Such conclusion
is impossible and compelled to believe that they
have the disguise of patriotism the better to
BILE them betray their country that their great object
is the attainment Of power for interested and selfish pu
poses which render them either blind indifferent all
other considerations If they really know what they are
about they abandoned hypocrites if they don't
and their numbers great boased the claim to
initial nf NJ TINT
ted States becomes absolutely ridiculous If they be
thus converted into for their ruin and
made the tools of fatal foreign influence they should
longer aspire the dignity of soveregns for they
longer capable of selfgovernment.
The foreign influence we have to fear and guard
against is that of emigrants or Catholics is not
that OF the Irish the Germans the Sovereign Ponuh
but the British press various British interests
implanted in this country through the thousand invisible
ramfcatious of trade which render many orr
chants in greater lesser degree dependent British
capital and British commences and though last least
the remains Of that old colonial still ferment
ing dregs among us which has cowed the genius Of
country and rcpressed all originality by base and
contemplate habit of imitation that while it continues
will remain a standing acknowledgment OF own infe
rorty Nothing eectualy epresses the genius of peo
uperiors the miator of all animals is dunce
England is standard in everything and while railing
system of government by Wholesale copying
il in detail and-treading in her steps like blind man
after his dog she builds iron steamers do not wait
the result but plunge headlong after her and waste
the of the government well risk the lives
Of our gallant officers and seamen in abortve experiments
which in order to render the failure signal, are
carried out great scale.
If the British government establishes monopoly of the
mails and becomes partner in the at least so
far as to all the expenses and pocket all the losses
nothing will us, bui must not only follow but
improve on, the example BY paying double for
what another offers do for half the money punges
the Of special legislation and creates corpora
and monopoles by wholesale to such extent that
their political influence and of corruption become
too powerful for the State the disease like the cholera
crosses the Atlantic, and spreads from end Of the
United States the other Every device Of cunning
for rendering labor subserven capital and
giving wealth irresistible power by consolidation every
expedent for increasing the poverty of the many enrich
few and render the chasm between unbounded prodi
gay and squallid want wide and impossible, be-
comes an example nay warrant for similar experiments
here and if British bard drawls out trckng nonsense
scky afectaon sentimental twadde, lcentious ribeldry
coarse-graned doggere the songsters of mericawho
for the part SEEM like the mock bird TO have strains
of their the key and pipe away right
ry. Thus go on, sometimes arraying ourselves in the
latest and fashion, at Others in old thread
bare cast-off garment OF mother England In this way
young and vigorous republic IS gradually becoming
clumsy copy of an old decayed original which,
while theoretically free, is only compendium of
practical abuses skeleton mbodyng all the nfrmes Of
old age and decrepitude desperate patient resorng
all sorts of quack nostrums to keep himself alive
We earnestly commend exclusive native American
brethren to change the direction Of their battery and in
stead of deyng the Pope and the DEVIL fire their redho
shot the foreign influence have thus indicated. This
is political bugbear airy, unsubstantia phantom /;
chmera of dsordered brain spectre conured up
by political nominations interested hypocrisy 1t lives
and moves and has its being among Sometimes it
stalks forth open day, and sometimes ii sneaks
fold ignorance by illegal compacs and blaspbemous oa,hs
Sometimes it the mask Of universal philanthropy
which all know recognises neither friends kindred nor
country and would throw them all the dogs the
eral benefit of the entire human Sometimes it is
ADOPTED by great Magyar but
presume originally invented by the famous solid men
Of Boston !" and sometimes IL hosts the black flag aud
forth bowling and crashing Its teeth and fro,hng