The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-05-10
rnE sEcREr war AMONG TUE SECRET PARTY.


THE SECRET WAR AMONG THE SECRET PARTY
The factions which have been gathered Ike so many
poisonous reptiles into the eapacious bosom Of the mis-
called American party have finally begun assa each
other with erociy As yet the war is conduct
ed in secrets but daily indicate that will presently
be utterly impossible TO restrain these embiered differ
enees and that the disclosure when ii comes win present
strange between the outside yarnish that hides
with deceptive polish, the fostering internal corrup-
ton These factions are like Millions hell-hounds They
bark and howl sai ansea When they break forth with
their hideons peal then shall clearly the dam
gers Of this conspiracy against nations peace Every sign
of the times however, points to its rapidy-approachng
decay Its sudden successes win shortly be equaled BY
its sudden overthrow The torrent of anacism swollen
rapidly and unexpectedly and time threaten
ing sweep down before every safeguard OF society
and every eemen, of religion and MORALS already par
TALLY subsidized and win go back the foul
from whence it came The onset of bgoty about be
avenged in speedy and disastrous reaction and those
who rejoicing the prospect Of receiving
rewards for their vile deeds WILL instead be forced to
gather the OF the wrongs they have inflicted upon
a happy people. "They have the storm aud they
must reap the whrlwindn The evidences Of their fast
coming overthrow multiply with every day. Let take
note Of such prominent and apparent
A large class of the know-nothings olamorous for
public action They have, like Mr. Patton, of Virginia,
grown ashamed of their plottings They
disguised with the mandate which eompels them crawl
like Italian braves, with muled faces along dark and
dirty alleys They sick of the task of threading
lighted stairs and of stunning the passcrsby guilt
and crime absorbed their souls They feel the reRroach at
their hearts this seeking after concenment this
hiding from the day is American practice but
copied from those dark times when the dagger Of the
sin wheed in the dens Of the deraved and when the
afront of the morning avenged by the hidden blow
of the night Like Ajax they cry "Give but light and
we will ask no more Thus far however they APP
pcaed in vain against the spirit of darkness Every
effort only adds to their condition. but still
they caor that the cloud shall be lifted and that they
may 60 among their fellows without the brand hui
initiation upon their brows.
FESTIVE under the hdeous oaths they have
taken These the who have boosted Of their love
of God OF their affection for their eowsreature of their
veneration for morals They have tired of deceit
and under the yoke that Expresses them They real
ize that the bonds they have assumed at variance
with high and holy duties and that il is in vain to pro-
exclusive pety and patriotism when their secret
compes them strike their brother for his faith and to
would their country because Of its constitution They
reco from being any longer forced to vote for every dema
gogue or know-nothng who manage to corrupt
oriy of the order and they long be released from oh
cations which crush their manhood and fill them with
agony
Still another and larger body Of those who have been
enrapped into this conspiracy have become weary and
repenant of the crusade to which they committed upon
all who do not worship God after particular fashion
They did not contract for cruel and exceptonless
prescription They did contract break down every
Catholic, and, instead Of such citizen take to their
confidence and their affection the atheist the dest and the
Mormon.
The peculiar haters Of Cahocity moreover alarmed
at the idea that they bound prosecute their fellow
Proestants born in another land and they find at last
but hate that the naticsm which they are bound
haunt the follower Of Luther with quite much bit
erness the follower Of the Popcboth being equally
guilty the eyes Of the knownohng leaders far as the
adopted citizen and the other CathoIic-Pro-
being helpless the first and catholicity
being powerful to disiranchise the last
The clergy finally enlightened the fact that the
know nothings the saints Of the land and more
than one follower meek lowy Jesus rcvots from
his new companions brutazed in their secret meetings
hears their psofantes observes their teachery and their
intrgnes their heart-burnings and deceit between each
other and then when he goes out into the open day
and marks the contrast between the outrages Of MS
brethren at the balloboxes their dsorderly interruptions
Of public meetings their riots the holy Sabbath and
the quiet and accomplishing spirit of the and
they pursue and prescribe such feels his heart
the keen rebuke that always Furnishes Overhead and
charitabencss. And the clergy long for deliverance
from these hated bonds
Already has California through her State know
organization ertngushea the rroscrpiyc religious ee-
which has been the life and the of the order in
the Atlantic cities aud States Here then is difference
that strikes at the very Of the whole the
conspiracy Without this feature the whole move
ment would have been o phantom 81 the hour.
How many thousands Of those who have become COM
mit,ed 10 this party however also with The know
nothing obligation against ernigrationi They already
fear the eject Of this sweeping exclusion They canno,
the argument that emigration useful our coan-
try they dare the fact that horde a. dis
franchised aliens in midst would be hurtful 10 the
country ia ell It's relations, social and political
Finally il il notorious that the difference between the
nothngs Of the South and ter conederaes of the
North deadly and inex,inguishable one State or
in New England have avowed abolition doc
al "a ma RI ~ their sefcd creed ana ..Lo.u