The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-03-15
THE NEW HAMpsnlnE ELECTION.

THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION.
The opposition journals have already raised shout over
the defeat Of the democracy New Hampshire BY the
bined elements Of faction and naticism including aboi-
onsm whiggery free-soiIism native-Amercanism, and
religious persecution Bat that which most exces their
exultaon fact that New Hampshire is the native
State of President Pierce and that the granite democracy
of that have been compelled to yield before pest
lent fusion of the political prendees that af
aced happy people. They feel doubtless like the enc
mics of the American revolution in that dread hour when
the foe of country, united with helng aux
iares and savage allies and stimulated by Internal trea
son. had almost annihatea the of the American coli
onies In their joy the temporary defeat Of prohd and
heretofore indomiae democracy they forget the degra
ding resored TO to accomplish such result and
the doctrines which they irreyocaby
committed So wasitwh the remorseess and infatuated fac
tons that for the moment boge down Gen. jackson during
his bold and fearless executive When they defeat
ed his friends in the neghborhood of the Hermitage elect
ed his personal enemies United States Senate and
carried their candidates in most of the States of the
Union they revealed in elysum Of delight and looked
forward years of triumphant ascendency So in ls4o
when the rekndlcd fires of federalism fed by local
sectional excitemens until the whole land swept
as with the wing of devastating angel So, too in ls4s
when the democracy gave way before military MANIA
and when corruption mounted into the high places of the
government the reputation of honest but msdreced
/ soldier.
But time before when traitors sought to
stain the good of General Washngton--not
when they held up Thomas Jefferson incarnatc
devinot when they slandered Madison for his conduct
during the late wara time, from those periods down
to the days of Jackson and the times of 1910 and lS4s
have the people been called upon to meet such foe that
which has prevailed the sterling democracy of New
Hampshire None of the great ntelleets of the past
ever called upon to meet such coalition as this. There
is not personal revenge against the democratic party
malignant scheme against the peace of societynot
hatred Of the Union and of the constitution has
not been thrown as an ingredient into the boiling cau-
dron Of this contagious fusion And whether regard
this conglomeration upon religion and morals
blow at good government, conspiracy against we'll
defined and covenanted rights individual and general
cia aud POLITICAL gang of secret potters against
sacred institutions it stands in unchallenged nfamy
and thus far in unequalled reclessness Had Jefferson
lived to see such demonstration against the barriers
constitutional and personal liberty, he would have de-
SPARED with all his sanguino patriotism of the duration
of the republic Had Jackson been alive it. he
would have beheld in it the of decayng Union.
from the worst of human passions threatens
whelm the nation common rum
New Hampshire almost completes the round Of these vic
tories of fanatcsm in the free States The whole North
has temporarily yielded the progress of this whrlwnd
intolerance The abotonists and their auxiares
swept the free States and now, like invading army
flushed with harvest of blood and SPOIL they the
fair fields of the South and prepare to seize npon the
rights and the interests of fifteen States heretofore steadily
and bravely defended from the assaults Of the vcto
rious factions by the democratic party of the free States
Vain will be the hope that regards the advance of this in
tolerant crusade of danger to southern institutions
The siren voices Of ambitious demagogues in the South
cannot hide the peril that shoulders like Volcano be-
meath their feet Should they succeed in their design and
inoculae this disease upon that portion of the Union alb
clifton will for the first time be natonalzed and the South
thrown into the hands of their worst enemies
But the President has been rebuked say the leaders
these exultng yet ncongruous combinations He has been
rebuked cries Burke for appointing ree-soiers Office
and this BY gang of abolition zealots He has been re-
buked says Gavazzi, for appointing Cahocs-and this
by those who in 1852 denounced him for his alleged hos
hlity to Catholics He has been rebuked for his integrity
for his consistency for his vgan guardianship Of
public honor at home and abroad for his sterling nation
atty and for the bodness with which he has punished
the frauds ofh predecessors in Office,
But it is not only Franklin Pierce that has been rebuked
Jefferson is rebnked for his noble efforts in favor Of
religious federation in Virginia for his championships of
emgrationi and for his lifelong devotion to liberal
principles Washington is rebuked for his approval of the
patriotism OF the Catholics Lafayette is rebukcd for his
gallantry in defending the of our infant colonies
jackson rebuked as the Of Irishman Our coun
try is rebuked fear for prospecting so long under the
example Of enlightened legislation and equal laws for
growing great by the aid Of the labor the vaor of the
adopted citizens There is TO be halt our national en-
reer The counsels OF the sages Of the past be re-
pudiaed or revised We back to the DAYS of
King George and the alien laws We reanmale the
spirit that drove fathers the western wilds No
longer shall Roger Williams or William Penn or George
Calvert be the lights by which path made clear our
standard Is to be that of intoerant priesthood cor
rup court and bgoted Judiciary We must reverse the
ideas of the revolution and forget that we have had past
in the earnest endeavor make the future worthy of The
creed which persecutes for opinions sake dstran-
chses them for their regioa disowns them for the
4 land OF their BIRTH
II MEXICAN NEWS
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