The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-12-09
THE FUSION AND THE FUTURE.


THE FUSION AND THE FUTURE.
However faction may triumph the polls the experience
Of the last twelve months has proved that whenever it
called upon administer the affairs Of the people in the
States its absolute of principle and Of integrity
poses it to rdicule and to contempt And that fusion
has advanced the limited theatre of State action
the extended field of national power that which the
people mourned in the legislatures controlled by
its adherents is be repeated with exaggerated violence
and injustice. The monuments of know-nothing states
manshp, bankrupt cities, fraudulent elections revou-
tonary legislatures and combinations against the laws
of the land have proved to be admonions to the fol-
lowers Of fanatcsm and the worshppers of the
OATH but rather beaconghts to point the way
the abuse of their gotten majority in the national
ellis. If to the OF the many named and
evsrvaryng opposition the single subject Of slavery
shall perhaps obtain better key to their future designs
and better illustration of their past offences Unable
agree upon any sound conservative principle poweress
combine for the purpose of protecting the constu
ton, because they themselves have been, and still are
its worst foes q fragment, and, the result has
proved fragment met at last upon the celebrated
twelfth section in the Philadelphia convention, and
in their insane nfauation congratulated themselves that
this created them national organization And yet
this twelfth section most unsatisfactory in its terms
insufficient in its the people Of fifteen
sovereign States of this Union has fallen SO low in the
estimation of its northern advocates that but four men
be found in the present Congress show by their
votes that they still retain feeble and Pickering aec
ton for its declarations
The other and by far the greater division of the oppo-
son have conened themselves either with fragrant as
saus upon the rights of the States have staggered
along the vain effort Of ignoring the greatest question
before the American people The melancholy
enactng in the House Of Representatives the
abundant fufmen of the prophecies Of the democratic
party, that matter how the friends Of the consu-
ton might be overwhelmed in their struggles to protect
it from spoation and wrong yet that the day would
come when body Of men bound together by tie
cep hatred good principles would be strong enough
WELD the desnies of this great people But what the
future? Who can doubt now that, with the melancholy
confessions before all exored from the
reluctant lips of the leaders of the fusion in Congress-
they cannot mite for the sake of plundetha in
contest Of the victory Of these elements of re.ou
ton and of anarchy would throw into power body of
incapable of administering the affairs Of the govern
uent faithfully and honestly
Let suppose that they will have votes enough in the
coming election in favor of northern candidate for
Pesidentand beyond all doubt that they can make
no Roadway unless they select such candidate the
result would be either abolition Executive, or an adj
minstraon representing many evils there are fac
tons in the land.
Are the people of this Union willing to encounter the
great danger of such catastrophe The daily record Of
the bslotings at tho House shows always column of
sevenyve members voting for the candidate Of the
lrrno 49,
whole vote which that party claim in the present
House Opposed to it there have been three prom
candidates. and large scattering vote but the lead
ing element which animates this opposition so far as
it guided by any precnce Of principle whatever cannot
for moment be mistaken; it is the element Of abolition
We ask readers to look carefully the record The
vote for Colonel Richardson from every section Of
the Union His support is hedged in by State lines
and the flag under which his friends rallied s at once
the flag of the constitution and the flag of the national de-
mocracy The largest vote obtained by the opposition has
been rallied upon Mr. Banks, who received Saturday
hundred Not of these votes comes from
State south Of Mason and Dixons line Not only from bis
past history therefore, but from the character of his
ent support he is pointed out emphaticay the candi-
date of section but it is section which, of necessity
controls the whole opposition in the present Congress
Every southern who allows himself to be embraced
in that opposition stands there only be submerged by it.
He cannot remain there without infdey to his principles
and destruction to his prospects he remain there
without doing violence TO his duty and to his country he
cannot remain there without deprving the democratic par
Of that influence and aid to which is entitled by ,s
seadasness truth and its determined support Of the
constitution.
Precisely the reasoning applies although with in
nitey greater force to the contingencies of sectional
nomination for the presidency No southern ia the
House Of Representatives dare 60 back to his con-
stituents, with the appalling record referred to be-
fore his eyes and again say that those with whom he
has associated in the northern States to be trusted
the great and undyng issues Of the dayhose issues
which indispensable to the happiness and to the ex
scncc of the people Of the slave States And on the other
hand no northern fasonist who expects 80 attain federal
power will fail to see that the only way to overthrow the
democratic party in the coming election by consoda
Ting the strength of the opposition to the democracy in the
free States upon single candidate and making the con-
test in 1856 contest Of the North against the South
geographical contest animated by other sentiment than
that Of disunion and revolution.
The Washington correspondent of the Journal of Com
mercc writes;
The democratic administration members though In
sas minority In ths House, possess the largest share Of
TALENT ana experiences In debate In the discussions which
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