The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-05-12

hey cannot dhonor themselves by attempting that whch
viii bitterly reeoil upon them. Have they not gone far
enough
The knownothiDg movement has thus far been used TO
defeat the democratic party aoneexcept in Massachusetts,
and there its success completed because il outhd all
competitors for the abolition vote
Il has defeated the democracy of Maine Connecticut
New hampshire Rhode Island Vermont New York, New
Jersey Pennsylvania Michigan Indiana Illinois, Ohio, and
Iowa
Every governor OF State elected by the know-nohings
has been whg had been previously expelled the demo-
cratic party for completely with abolilionsm We defy
any wing this charge The following list Is
presented to those democrats of the South who are told
that the nothing movement is not wing trick or
what is a better for it, a base wing fraud
Morrill, of Maine the avowed abolition candidate elected
against the veteran Albion X prs who ran as the demo-
cratic candidate.
Ralph Metcaf of New Hampshire, accepted as the cam
ddate Of wings and aboonis,s and obtaining the full
vote of that combination over Governor Baker, dem
ocrat;
Henry Gardiner governor of Massachusetts,, always an
avowed wing and aboonst, whose public boast 1t was
that he approved of the Burns Boston riot and denounced
the fugitive-slaye law
toual democrat Ingham, and takes his seat by wing
and abolition votes urging in his message that negroes
should be clothed with the right of suffrage and that the
white emigrant should be practically DISTINGUISHED
Vermont easily passed from whggcry into aboliionsm
and know-nothingsm.
New York--Myron II. Clarke, Seward know-nothing
whg was elected over Governor Seymour democrat who
ran openly against ACKNOWLEDGMENT and abolitionism
holt
ZIONIST defeats, by Accommodating votes the consistent
democrat, John s. Barry
Pollock, whig abolitionis and know-nothng, defeats
Bger of Pennsylvania democrat well known for his
sterling political integrity.
Grimes whig, know-nothing, and aboitonst elected
governor of Iowa
Take the legislatures chosen in all the free States,
and the representatives to Congress elected in EACH and
the State officers and the results with few exce-
TONS will be reached.
But it will be said by the Lynchburg Virginan that
these results produced in great degree by the dem
ocratic party taking ground for the Nebraska BILL And
pray is this to be presented inducement and
gument southern democrats at this day why they should
desert their old party Is acknowledgment to dem
ocrac sympathes chiefly because it is the party which has
defeated those fearless who have stood by southern
rights from the beginning?
If anything were needed to show how completely the
knownothng is "whig trick the very article
Of the Lynchburg Virginan is conclusive. What else
could justify its arrogant dctaton and nsolent mandate
democrats, but the consciousness that they mi
nory bound by solemn oaths not to desert controlling
whig majority?
The democratic party has prescribed any man.
any set of 1t has refused political association with
those who have refused its principles Its organization has
been maintained conquerng organization alone by its
Hdety to its faith aud its friends Inever sudden
popular impulse unless that impulse springs from prnc
pe II is terrified by loss of place seduced by
easy victory when that victory is not to be by
consistency and truth Nor has it refused greet
the return to ranks of those who have been mised by
such whig atricksD as know-nothingsn. is because
relies upon the sober second thought that the democracy can,
not be permanently defeated 1t is because its example
converts and convinces others that it has stood up
so proudly and strongly for half a century. Never
before it essential to good government and
to good principles at this day for while it offers
refuge to the prosecuted and to the prescribed it
also proves those who have been deuded by false men
and false theories that their only safeguard is speedy
return TO the old democratic faith speedy abandon
ment Of corrupt and unprncpled wing demagogues.
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q INTERNATIONAL POSTAGE ARRANGEMENTS"
The following article from the National Ltcigeneer is
clear and just explanation of the relative position Of
the American and British on this important
subject, that we lay it before readers
The letter Of New York correspondent contains as
the reader will observe of the positions taken by
British Postmaster General in late report Of his re-
ply complaints of Postmaster General in re-
spect foreign transit and postages Having had
caon heretofore to give attention to this matter and
pecevng thought inaccuracy in the British
port rendered by correspondent conceived due
unctionary to ascertain how the really stood
before giving the points made in the British report and
having done 49, beg to submit the result of inquiry
for such take interest in the question at ISSUE
the allegation that the Inconvenience complained
srises from the United States government refusing
with England and France arrangement for the
of collecting the postage, have to remark that according
the correspondence which has been made public this
the point Of difficulty but it is that the British government
persists in demanding tweniyfour cents for the
transit conveyance through England Of the French
correspondence, whereas has claimed from
the first that the price should not exceed twelve and
half cents once, the paid the United States BY
the British government for the conveyance of the British
and closed mails between Canada New York and
Boston. The British government has 1t entirely within ts
accede to these terms which certainly seem
reasonable but instead Of this that has united
with France in partial arrangement by which these mails
when conveyed by British packets transmitted treat
ed closed mais whereby the postage mot the Brit
ish transit rate which is the point in slight
reduced and the United States declining enter into
this partial coscdma arrangement unless the British tran
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