The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-01-16


Mr.. KEITT said:
Mr. CHAIRMAN: Strange things are happening around Us
creudsse 10 have broken from the main stream
party excitement and the waters flowing in di-
reco Ihe county has been recently amazed BY the
cesses oi novel political organization which, in my judg
men dpaages the dignity Of the American character by
threatening with subeeon 10 order Upon this
phenomenon In political life propose submit few
Elections.
Nraes sir, die; principles never The neisan accident
tne other an essence II is shallow philosophy which
concludes that in republic any party which is founded
upon specific system of constituting the fundamental
pact will perish True the organization Of the
honat whg party is ae but that party still survives in
pa federative organization founded upon written
charter there viii be different constructions of the grant
power Mental dssimlarities abetted by the absorbing
nature OF power whether in individuals sections and
the encroachments OF material interests Identical de-
yeop types of thought The exgeucies OF society org-
nate systems OF measures and these systems correspond
types of thought party then which is founded upon
type Of thought as nextingushabe as thought itself
That the whig party thus oundedtha it is the repre-
sentative OF specific mode of constituting the undamen
tai compact-no candid man will deny II is shallow
philosophy then, which concludes that il viii can
perish
There arr there will be and there can be- in this repub
lie while lasts but two esseand partes They may not
be called by the Of whig and democratic parties but
they must be founded upon the types Of thought
and their elementary principles must be the strict
aud free construction Of the constitution State rights and
consolidation. Each of these parties has committed vio
lent alterations from its cardinal principles but each by
natural law speedily returned to its normal state great
and sudden gpheaving Of society violent jostng of
the machinery OF government may produce new and
strange comsnahonS but they the birth Of the
ment they will live only for the moment The agitations
OF the political and social elements at the North have
Gently produced nondescript thing, which, with pre-
moruary illumination of its barren history has baptized
itself "know-nothing.F
Sir, said acknowledgment is noudescrpt thing Is
II not? Scarcely more and variant elements were
mingled together by the great dranatist in the witches
caudron than have been fused together in this know
nothing organization If It ever has consistency il will
be the fiery consistency Of abolitionsm will not discuss
its birthplace but will examine it in its erly breath
ings and also when its grown and the hap
tismal water had been poured upon It's brow
| think, Mr. Chairman it Is to suppose that
know-nothnEism eruption upon the surface It
peneraes sir TO the very of northern society 1t
united with the love OF power and the struggles OF labor
adjust and protect its relations with society.
The Almighty has planted the love Of power in every
human breast The struggles Of ambition have shaken
down the Oldest Institutions and often subverted the
gane forms of social existence Anarchy has been its
offspring, and the sword has entered destroy it. for
prefer despotsm to anarchygradaton OF ranks differ
ence of it would SEEM essential the peace of
society BE this however il raay the ambition to be
masters the resolve to have interiors beside the ee
ment q the northern "knownothing organization. They
have the which Heaven has appointed to occupy
this position and therefore they would trample those Of
their into the status of interiors They are too
pure too phautbropic holy to deny citizenship the
black man. but they will disiranchse the white man
The Ethiopian shall not be alien among the snow-drfs
1f the North but the descendants of those gallant
who left home and its ances struggle for strangers
strange land and who survived covered with wounds
fell upon the field with your bloody flag wrapped around
hem, shall be made parahs. Black slaves you win not
lave; white ones you would make.
believe then, that the love of power the ambition to
masters without the patriarcha relation without the
lnselhsh antagonism of races s much to do with this
ecent organization al TIE North But there is also
hing Of social character implicated in it. The heavings
If the social strata in Europe the rupture and chaos of the
Industrial relations and the armed collisions Of govern
nents have swollen vastly the current of emigration to
his country There war; famine and the pressure of pop
laon against the wall of subsistence have pauperzed la
)or From the Pennsylvania coal miner comes the cry,
DO not repeal the duty coal from the navigation in
crest Do not repeal the navigation laws = from the
pinners and weavers, DO not reduce the tariff" Why
his cry They say that northern free labor must be
ayed from competition with the pauperized labor of Eu
ope, ii must itself be paaperized. One section has
been long and oppressiyey taxed to shield the other
this competition but that shield is about to
be pierced through The lZbor market in Europe is
hoked almost to sraagpaton, and the wages of the la
lorer is the meres pitance. The greatly emil
grafton to the United States erowdng all the pursuits of
industry in the cities The capital enterprise and busi
ness of the country have not expanded in the ratio Of i'm
migration to it. and hence competition threatens to pau
perze labor here 1t against this prophetic danger that
labor is rising up, and gnashing in hate and blindness
Aye sir social problem OF mighty import is beginning
force itself upon the northern mind and grimy demands
solution. Labor blind and staggering, is lifting its hand
against capital and demanding reInodeling of the in
dusta machinery and eadustment of the relations be-
tween them There is in truth something Of zocia phi
iosopny III tnls 'hhoW-hOthnB III Is, 10
extent labor suing in the form Of prescription aud
TO escape suing oTmd paHpes While
this am the friend of the aborer. would protect bis
rights and aid his honorable enterprise and industry But
cannot revoluonize and remodel the organic
forms ofsocety to establish Utopia
Sir there is compensation in the scheme Of Providence
and punishment for wrong, both in motive and deed The
history Of the formation of the constitution dscoses this
fact that then ii believed and
ded that the northern States to becuvaed by white
labor and the southern States by African slave labor
By 1903 il thought sufficient supply of white labor
would enter the United States by migration to supply
the wants of northern cultivation, and sufficient supply
Of African labor by importation to meet the wants Of The
South. Hence the clause in the constitution:
The migration importation OF such persons as any
the States, existing shall think proper admit shall
not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year s0s
Migration has been uninterrupted, while importation
has been abolished The northern supply Of labor has been
constant the southern supply has been cut Of. The
North has not only used the labor Of the emigrant to
achieve her miracles Of enterrseo throw bridges
her mountains hang roads the clouds and burst lakes
into canals but she encouraged emigration that she might
possess herself Of the federal and acquire po
htical dominion over the South Even now she will only
disfrauchse not prohibit immigrants She win disfran-
hse because she cannot subsde them be hrengs Of
auatcsm but she viii not prohibit them, because she
wants their numbers swell the of her population
and strengthen her dominion the South Thus sir
the social philosophy OF this organization has been work
cd up by ambdextrous arts into the purposes Of the po
teian.
do now mean TO discuss the slavery topics which have
been thrust into this hall BY various gentlemen The camp
hreslighed by my friend from Georgia. Mr. SrEpHES his
win call the attention of the country to remarkable spec
ace Scarce twelve months ago this hall rang with ho-
TO freedom and free labor Its ee-soil champions
told rs that free labor rhzcd industry and scattered all