The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-10-26

Although wing, he admits that the Democratic party
furnishes the onl national organization which can be relied
on to resist assaults OF anatcsm upon the unon and
for that reason he co-operates with that party.
THE EVILS OF THE SECRET ORDER.-AN APPEAL
TO THOSE WHO STILL ADHERE TO II.
Know-notbingsm remains in the South simply 10 divide
the southern people upon their material and vital interests
and in the North simply to help the sbolioniss These
two facts every democrat who fingers in its midnight
recesses should lay calmly his heart Every idea aver
red as pretex this organization has either been aban
doned by the leaders or exposed by nnanswerable agu
mont as absurd or inpractcable. The effort Is now ma
King to throw OF the system Of secret obligations and diff
rept conventions of the order have been called for the
purpose Of disavowing that canse in its constitution
which proscrbes the Catholic citizen The attempt to re-
neal or modify the naturalization laws has been given up
by every sensible who has attached himself to tho
cret organization What them left that should induce
any honest citizen remain attached to the order Moth
ing but the rsss Of tho two old parties nothing but
crew of dapdated demagogues discarded party hacks
and unroasonng intolerants Surely there nothing in
this to attract any honest citizen to the order much ess
to keep under its influence those who joined it from sincere
motives Any man who has been democrat and retains
spark Of attachment for the democratic party for
nituscl tuAt Ac 10 oHiJ uOcu - SSsoP"" - S
ends of the unorgving opponents Of organization
Besides he constantly called upon To lend himself to
system Of persecution not in tho original plan Of the
knownohing socety he is called upon to assist in d-
vding or breaking up Christian churcbesnot Catholic
but Protestant congregations he is called upon to assist
ii elevating mcn to Office whom be would have
ouched had he remained in either the democratic wing
organization he is called upon endorse the obsolete
ha aved
as part Of Swiss cohort which expected to fight for
any faction that will pay its captainshe best Surely there
are thousands of still attached to the know-nothng
party who find nothing this spectacle to their
patriotism or their energies Mathematics what whs
in Maine for instance impressed in favor of remaining
in the know-nohing party with such for its dictatos
as Fessenden and Washburn, or in New Hampshire Hale
and Burke or in Massachusetts, Wilson and Banks in
Connecticut as Gillette or in New York Ullman and
Barker or in Pennsylvania Cameron and wmot or in
Ohio as Chase and Ford in Michigan Bingham or in
North Carolina Rayner in Alabama as Clemens or as
Foote in California or Donelson in Tennessee On the
other hand what citizen who still aries in thu twilight
of doubt uncertain whether he shall stay in go out
from this ORDER fail to be encouraged when he beholds
such noble spirits have repeatedly mentioned in
these columns joining the conquerng army of the demo-
cratic party and uniting their voices in support of the pr
cpes Of that party proclaimed against intolerance and
prescription Of every kind and degree?
One good long year is before all such to reconsider
their action and themselves from the fatal angs
of intolerance One year before the democratic party
and before all national year that should be well
and wisely and actively employed In every State of the
Union hundreds Of the midnight lodges maintained
vigorous effort win unvci these dens of darkness and
expose their rotenness to tho eyes Of all eaceoyng and
liberal citizens Much has been done in the year that has
gone and much remains to be done in the year that
come Never before have the advocates of eternal princ
pies had inviting field for their patriotic Investigation
Error is entrenchcd in its ambuscadc but it only requires
patience perseverance, and courage 10 drive il into the
open plain and there to exemnste it forever There is
also reckoning due TO those desperate demagogues who
have misled and poisoned the American mind with bad
dogmas these should be held universal
For them let there be short shr and condign punish
Feeling their weakness and conscious OF their
wckedness they quietly preparing to their
schemes by trying to nsinuatc themselves back into the
ranks which they left only TO assa and bctray But let
them be marked lei them feel how deeply they have
ragged the honor of the country and how profoundly they
have insued those who conded in them For those whom
they have dcluded however invoke calm counses and
generous pcrsuason They have how false and futile
the promises Of tho leaders Of knownothingism have
been proved to be by the course of events.
Thousands who attached themselves this order did So
have doubt honestly-at least far the South
is concerned because they alarmed at the progress
aboitonsm in the North But now when they see that
this order has become the ally Of abolitonismand
hence the effective enemy Of the national Of the free
Satesthey realize how deeply they have been de-
ceved Again it is less clear that many attached
themselves to the order in the North in honest anxiety
TO promote their ideas of "Amercanism but when
these that this Americanis has been superseded
by religious intolerance which sweeps down the best
and the pures men Of the day, they too realize the
fraud which has been played off upon them To all such
citizens these the democratic party extends hearty
welcome; and we do doubt that in 1856 they will be