The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-01-05

array ali the prejudice Of the Catholics against General
Pierce He denounced for living In State whose
stitution excluded Catholics from Office; though b. wa
opposed that clause OF the constitution and had voted
against it. For the first time 10 my knowledge the ~
tempt made bring religion into the field 81 politics
in presidential campaign, and u originated With those
tho are new active getting up Juror persecution
against foreigners and Catholics They had failed 70 win
the united Catholic and foreign vote for General Scott and
they determined be rcyenged those whom they
once 80 hatteringly besought y natural % hate ost b.
fors whons re hare Inundated oarselrss IN raia,
Mr. Seward, perhaps has too much justice and eonsst-
ency TO Join in so unrepubliean Il was be
who assailed the know-nohings and not they him The
natural affinity for free SOIL shown in other States sat
isles that they would have united with him had he not
spurned the association He first threw down the gauntlet
to them and has off victor in the contest The charm
of know nothing inyincibity broken by the triumph
of both wing and democrat them and the order At
tempted revenge itself by prosecuting its own members
He dictate his terms of accommodation with them
have doubt The pretenee that great mission 81 the
order is put down anti-slavery, and especially William
H. Seward Is sheer nonsense and has been largely crcu
lated since the northern elections 10 make the order opu-
lar in the South and thus TO ost into power there as y
has done in the North the enemies of the democratic party,
and of this democratic administration The silver grays Of
New York are anxious defeat Seward to rival
of their chief If they send more dangerous man
| in his place
i Another reason of Mr. Stewards refusing to su the
der doubt not that with his sagacity isosiug 70
ultimate success he could fail 10 that the whole
1 movement would be shorved, and that when IL ended,
political act not membership OF the Hartford Con-
venton, with its secret proceedings could be more de-
ayowed the principles of the order You, sir and we all
know that it is the almost universal opinion In political
circles here that this thing will have brief day Inc
most xous wenurses the bantng hardly expect 70
live through the presidential canvass OF 1856 There IS
where the feversh anxiety among the aitu TO
secure some little official crumb Of comfort before i is for
| ever too late Each longs to be carried into the pool
while the waters troubled for the time OF the troubling
they know full we'll will be past and then where
shall they be heaed Evidences Of premature decay
already visible 1t win vanish suddenly as it arose and
leave scarcely wreck behind They feel the sandy found
alton slipping from beneath their feet They feel their
pronounced each time they hear repeated the
wise and tolerant doctrines of religion and which
grated upon constitution Blank humiliation stares
them in the face They indignation and disrst with
out dscord and rebellion within Their secrecy IS be-
rayed and mocked their intolerance despsed and their
prestige broken,
Towns in Massachusetts over which the storm swept in
II November have since had municipal elections, and those
opposed to the order open in their denunciahon OF
and of its principles and banding against 1t against
common enemy have defeated it. The organization of the
order better understood its intolerance its
bers has plainly manifested ITSELF and Others have not
hesated apply the order those thets bestowed upon
the action of the New York council by the Brooklyn breth
rem, aan american" "antirpblcan" "1aoa aaaarranta-
bic abomaabie and dangerous assumption despatc poe-
e in its confessional peaanes and threats OF e5eomnun
cation only equalled by the holy nquisition Spain and
only worthy of imitation by the Grand Council Of Card
mats at Rome"
can but believe that the Brooklyn insurgents have
language which the deliberate Judgment Of the American
people will adopt their opinion OF the character the pur
poses and the merits of the order, and this opinion viii
I soon be both verdict and epitaph.
Were there for the dissolution oil the order II
it's principles the dscordant materials which compose j
would precipate its destruction The ultra al
ready elected agreeing in nothing but hostility to thu
South to aliens and to Catholics harmonic in
of action foreign domestic unless BY the hap
pening Of wing majority in Congress- the tariff should
be altered suit the protectonist theory some ohe
doctrine of that party be Embodied in law If this order
takes hold in the South it will surprise both friends and
opponents It will be matter Of wonder why that sec
for the order in the North and from her Institutions
peculiarly to secret and irresponsible
should discard long history of generous liberation
adopt the creed of prescription and the name OF al
order which in the northern States has beaten down th
defenders of the constitution and State rights and naugu
rated fully than before the era OF consoda
: ton and anaticism
In crisis like the present it becomes the democra,
party to remain seadfast to its old principles In thu
"Act for establishing religious freedom adopted IN V
ginia in 1916 and originating in the benevolent mind o.
Mr.. Jefferson, il was enacted that
No man shall be enforced restrained, moested or bur
dened his body goods shall he otherwise suffer-
Of his religious opinions belief but that all
shall be free to profess and BY argument 70 maintain then
opinions in matters of religion and that the shd an c
diminish, enlarge, affect their eirR eapachtes
On this tolerant principle the democratic party through
variety Of disaster and success has stood from that
day this 1t has been the guardian of every civil and
political right Of every individual and of every section
No has been gigantic for its assault right toe
insignificant for its protection When the rights OF the
States We're in peril during the federal administration
the elder Adams it the champion Of our faith Mr.. JEFF
erson who foremost in their defence resting Their
cuty upon principles wise and venerable the cons
tuition itself and tumphantIy sustained by the democrat
ic party Ii during his administration that the 'aen
and sedition laws yioatiye of personal right
eaced from the statue-book by the votes of the same
democratic party which il is attempted 10 sednce into
heresies more abomnable than those which il then abo
ished This new ism is the old saen law, uuder thin
Disguise and thege two with "natiye Amcrcanism are
bodies into which the old gpaid spirit of federalism has
insinuated itself hoping under these forms obtain
favor which always denied 1t when recognised u is
like Peruchios neither wedding garmena "hrce-turned
pair of old breeches beraying the nakedness il was in
: tended to conceal
The integrity and responsibility of the democratic party
have been sustained BY adherng to the
doctrines which noucated and refusing under all cir
cumstanoe TO ally itself with the temporary isms which
the wing party has readily affiliated with, and which
have resulted in its corruption and almost in its destruc
ton Though defeated at the North in the late elections
those who stood by their principles through that arduous
struggle whose devotion TO truth is beyond suspi-
con and who aided by few thousand Of their old friends
whom the excitement aud the receptions Of the hour have
msed win bear the ancient flag triumphant through
that section and rensate their old principles and their
true Is il wiser for the South to trust this
ganizaon for the just Interpretation of the constitution,
which her rights and those OF the whole Union depend
that old party which when defeated by desperate
factions has always possessed large body Of faithful men,
and who in minority only because they de-
voted TO The constitution aud the rights Of the States
We know that this order Is hostile to principles which
the party have cherished We know that II Is for
Iadable machine in the hands OF ambitious defeat
this administration which stands hulwark for The just
n the and ~