The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-12-21

goes TO show that matter what preext may be invent
ed by those who hostile the democratic party when
in the free States this hostility manifested and
however il is manifested in these days is ultimate refuge
win be found the arms of that organization which nvokes
aboidonsm Its aid and exists by appealing to the
bid sentiments Of angonsm to the domestic institutions o.
the South How the popular mind of the North will be affect
ed by this condition things we do entertain doubt
The reaction will be terrible II will BE as sweeping and
irresistible the current which filed the Of the
northern side Of the House with abolitionss and will 20
far to reinyigorae in the free States that conservative
feeling which anima,es the ranks Of the democratic
party.
But how win know-nothingism in the South receive
these demonstrations How long viii those gentlemen be
able maintain their position of settled animosy 10 the
democratic organization behind tile fimsy fabric Of that
Uesge ef The american order which remains them after
all their pretended concessions to the sentiment which op
poses that order They have in Succession prossed to
repuiiae the oaths of the midnight mystery its secrecy
and its tCathoc tests and they have in many parts Of
the South broken up its lodges ayowng their determine
ton practise longer its miserable mummeries and
nothing left them but the celebrated twelfth section
and the prescription of citizens of foreign birth
viii they be able repeat to shield themselves behind
this most insufficient barrier against the growing tide OF
northern aggression and longer to withhold their aid from
the ranks of the democratic party occupying as it does
the only ground upon which the rights of the States and
the security of the South can be safely defended
The difference between know nothingism in the North
and know-nothngisrn in the South is wide and appa-
ing difference In the latter il is used pretext to pre-
the cooperation of those who still con6de in the
American ORDER with the democratic party; while in
the North it has been used, and if numbers and power
anyhing in party struggling for ascendency it
will continue TO be used only to break down the very doe
rines which its associates in other quarters OF the Union
pretend to be sincerely attached to One gentleman
in the opposition from the State Of Ohio the other day
the floor of Congress- grayey declared his appehensons at
the prospect of oldying the votes of the South, and
this gentleman of the cheftains of the CONSOLE
dated aboltionism of the North He denounced the pros
pect of united South calamity but he failed to state
the vast and startling distinction between the union Of
the people of the States and the conservative massea
of the free States in defence of principle dear
alike both and that combination in the North which
has been effected thus far alone By uayeldiag and n-
pgacable hatred TO fifteen sooereiy States Of his Union only
because Of their domestic Institutions
There can be no such thing sectional party created
upon constitutional grounds formed out of the guarantees
Of the federal compact instinct with the spirit OF the
fathers of the republic because such organization ex
tends from Of the nation to the other and must
be national And it this great morale that presses itself
upon consideration in surveying the ground OF the
present controversy in the House of Representatives 1t IS
this which will sink deep into the public mind II is this
which will enghten and strengthen the public reason 1t is
this which viii make and which making the democratic
party the party npon which the surages of the American
people will be offered in the presidential campagn