The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-04-27
A BRITISH ALLY FOR THE KNow-NorHSGs

II sign Of the decay of enlightened public opinion
in the United States sign all the welcome because
il comes at period when the old systems Of Europe are
themselves falling pieces with nothing to them I'M
less repubicansm proved to be folly fraud Hence
the cordial sympathy of the London Tnes for the know
nobngs The secrecy of the conspiracy is its FIRST charm
Secrecy the soul Of absolute power Secrecy makes des
potsm invincble Cypress and TO destroy. From Sc
crecy springs brood of bloody and nhuman expedents
The coup dto conceived in secret The order TO
ze the press conceived in 10 10 the secret
of consulting ministers and trembling kings that
rights denied to the struggling of the Old
World and denied too the point OF the bayonet Eng
lands long of aggression upon other nationshe
seizure Of territory her ownher interference in the
Affairs OF the distant and the unproectedis result OF
claudesne manGuvres. In the island of Cuba among
the horrd rites by which despotsm avenges itself upon
those who long for deverance secrecy first The pri-
yate ralthe inqnisitorial examination-the midnight
sntencethe unheraded these the appropriate
results Of that fell science of Espionage by which the whs
pered thought is treasured for the bitter day the half
brealed hope for written in the book Of DOOM and
the puest and best condemned to die while living in the
observance of all their obligations to God and 1t is
indeed propitious thing for the haters of free ns
tutions, when in land of light and of liberty of public
discussions and equal laws Of popular suffrage and uni
versal education secrecy is relied upon make party
powerful for evil Such spectacle is worthy of the inn
perial approval Of the London Times.
Again. the know-nothngs entitled English patron
age because they governed with rod Of ron by
chosen few This monarchica principles faithfully copied
by the party. The decree Of small body of lead
er chosen dictate to those below Them and empower
ed demand full obedience is faithfully observed by
their oahbound followers the mandates of the Crown
and the ministry sustained and veneiated in the Old
World Take the conference Vienna, where the few
chosen agents of few rulers chosen they vainly be-
leve by the voice of God govern the human raceand
how many millions Of lives may depend upon the decision
of four or five weak and wornout old courtiersl Do
these haldosen diplomats for the poor down-rodden
masses Do they argue and contend for popular rights?
Do they plead for tho Tightening of the burdens of the
heavy nden as 1t is for the c they toifor their
heredi and mstresses and if they fail to agree
those who would not benefited by their will
marshaed The array Of battle and fill the earth
and startle heaven with their groans and their surings
for their royal rulers. These the who claim to
be booted and purred ride oughshod by the grace Of
God over the necks Of the people, and of such the
triumphs Of the rule Of the few.
But the London Times may well "hark on" the know
nothing for another The al-pervading
equality among the different religious sects in this happy
country has been living and reproach upon
of Church and State the European nations While
religion is there matter Of stautea part of the govern
menand while the people there forced worship their
Maker after prescribed fashion, compelled aid in
the support of belief they do not endorse here there
patriotic unison and sympathy between of differing
creed that constitute of the gores and the wonders
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at bay Human reason cropping through centuries for the
grand secret of combining in political union and
yet allowing them to seek Heaven each in his own way
seems TO have been successful last and successful too
in land won by virtue and valor from the grm-spoil-
ers and manhaters of other days 1t is this spectacle
which sears the eyebas Of the masters of Europe With
what JOY them they this noble prospect suddenly
covered with gloom How the London Times can now exut
at the spectacle of great people calling aloud were
for the accursed demons of prescription and intolerance
and invoking the aid Of those vile passions which
than half the world with religious intolerance and political
darkness Already hear the monarchist who be-
heves in Church and State chief essential Of civilized
government turning those who practise in the light Of
orr experience and declaring Behold your exemplar See
how the Catholics traduced the United States the
seat OF exclusive democracy and liberalism See how they
are disranchised-how they insultedhow they are
tramped under foot Where they they hold
Office and when they hold Office they elected Is not
this after all noble vndication of English policy for
who doubt that America win find her true refuge from
all such danger in the capacous bosom Of established
church 2.
Emigration to the United States has long been difficult
problem to the European governments At first they
eager to part with their surplus population More recently
however appears that emigration this country not
only aids and strengthens but gradually weakens and
mpoverishes them. Every day returns the Old World
those grateful trophies of experience in the New World
which tell the oppressed what refuge opened them
here For the first time Great Britain she turns to
her people for aid in her struggles with other powers finds
that they do not and cannot respond Emigration has dec
mated her and much that has been
by misgovernmcnt and discomfort She cannot fill her thin
ming ranks with English hearts and she sends TO other
lands TO beg and buy her troops Such of the
teachings Of experience and such of the why
England is glad to find strong ally in her hostility
emigration those who declare that only Americans
shall rule America
II is amusing however to journal like the London
Times echoing the know-nothing cry against the old
Leaders, The recently opened by that print upon the
leaders in Great Britain upon notorious inca
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