The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-07-18

zion ia our country Is this faction give rulers in OPP
position to the public Will Let us, then take them up at
the beginning Of this contest. We them commence At
by depryng the people Of that State OF their
in the election and placing it in the hands OF select
monahica views and the profitable extrava
gance of TO military and naval schemes
Their effort New York but there the vigilance
citizens and the superior characters FOR personal virtue
and great talents by the republicans defeated the
ntrgues the arch leader where his character and con
duct better known and easily penetrated The Ne"
England States however, set in erment Men of profit
gate and debauched habits seen laying claim to
the surage oenatous of piety and loud declamers for
religion throughout the continent members of the church
of Christ nhe OF who so lost to
shame publish avowa OF adultery while they were
loading with viruence and Reproduction through whose
life single vice could not be produced but
whose whole defect alleged to be an opinions II
opinion matter Of choice, not Of necessity AS II the
holding Of opinion sufficient for the breach
Of morality connected with and that the observance oil
the atty was not sufficient If the opinion
But than ALL the existence of the opinion
itself has been proved while the morality has never
been denied questioned In Virginia, the SOIL Oh
great men, seasonable alarm felt But, instead OF ia
king from tho people their votes it determined to give
the whole people the State opportunity OF
opinion by general vote The popular voice OF virginia
having the deprivation of the popular voice In
Massachusetts,, attempt was made on Maryland Here
they suffered partial defeat only for although the public
voice frustrated the preliminary movements OF facon they
have succeeded in the end by dividing the votes SO equally
of that popuous and respectable State are
fact thrown away by being equally opposed TO each other
This day will prove whether this is government
of the people or If the voice Of the people should
va against all the frauds Of uains and the combined orts
corruption and open inosition, then may America
hope for restoration Of security, peace, and dnquay
correction Of abuses and the establishment of such sau
tary guards against future innovation render our con-
sttuton perfect and freedom durable Shond the faction
prevail and unhappy there too much to fear its
activity and disregard of consequences then as
Ar.sr.l zn.x.u tl.nra .,
calculation the Of the evils the dangers that must
follow Honest rally round the State governments
and the deensve vigilance which has been so little
employed from confidence in strength and numbers, and
the purity and goodness of must not sumber again
prepared to watch for four longer enemy
that win act with crcumspecon from experience and
who the articles which employs may renew the alarms
recently frustrated to which
control but by the last of all terrible remedies In
either case republicans be worthy Of yoursevesby your
temper moderation and msgnaninity In the do
give way excessive oys ia the other, consider that
you men, andhave country, families and liberties to
maintain, and that RIGHTEOUSNESS violence odErds the
paeanest that beays his oath and you Exactly the path
that your enemies eoud oith you pursue Your principles
not for the temporary Of Wprincped and
ccked men, Bear 10Th them but pach ugitany for he de-
usion continue and the regenraed roce Of America
the er ~hich deception and fraud base inflicted Q"
country"
The origin of the alien and sedion laws is so well and
that we close this article with the following from
his communication;
"The relative proportion foreigners in this country
the close Of the last century vastly greater than
In the statistics Of emigration the Irish Catholics
largely predomnated since the oppressive policy of the Han
overian monarchs of Great Britain then rapidly mpeng
what remained of the ohivay Ireland after the continental
exodus of 69091 to shores The emgrant arrivals at
the port of Philadelphia during the year 1929 of
Scotch, 43; English and Welsh, 267 Germans 343 ish
655 in proportion Of ten Irish to Of all other
tons.
fact this class of adopted citizens who took such
an active part only IN struggle bat in
organization of present form of held in
their hands, that critical period greater political nau
the desnies of this country for its veal woe
than they have welded, probably will ever
again possess And had they been at all disposed favor
any European System of church play into
the hands any European poenate temporal or spiritual
present generation Of Americans might probably have
had substantial complain Of the disastrous effects
of foreign influence But such disposition manifested
them in the important part which they took in the nita
ton Of republican system but the contrary, they
only rallied around Washington in the field but also
around Jefferson Madison and the most liberal of the demo
cratic leaders, in council.
sThe agitation in Europe respecting the consolidation of
the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland in gs
lave union extended to this country and at this period the
Jeersonan democrats and the friends of Irish independence
Identical The Irish patriots had successfully appealed
the sympathies of France, and, Mr. Jefferson was
strongly anti British and practically republican of the
moderate French school, he drew around him that Friendship
and support of adopted citizens which well reque
and which afterwards transferred to his successors Mad
and Jackson For their Partially and attachment
Jefferson and his liberal theory Of repubicansm they became
obnoxious the administration of John Adas his
tocratc rival who than suspected of leaning to
British policy that he the passage in 1898 of that
anomaly Of republican legislation the famous alien and sed
ton laws with view suppress the liberal influence which
they exerted in popular elections and assemblies The
of these despotc laws (Which but the type OF modern
nothngism invested the President with discretionary
Danish from the country alien whose presence
he consider dangerous others licensed remain
during his pleasure and the neglect to procure license
offence punishable by three years Imprisonment per-
petusi disqualification for citizenship 1t fixed the of
at fourteen years. and in this respect less
proscriptive than the know nothing creed
"These odiouslaws promptly repealed during the first
year (lsO12) of Jetferson's administration, bill to that
effect being introduced in Congress by John Sme native
county, Ireland who fought in the revolution and
represented the State of South Carolina in the United States
Senate up the hour Of his DEATH In 1872 chairman
the Senate committee, he reported bill empowering Pres
dent Madison to raise army to prosecute the in de-
fence of free trade and sailors rights then declared against
Great Britain His brilliant and useful public termi
mated with his life the last day Of that year. the CAPT
tai, the age of seventy four He the
porary of those iusrous South Carolina Irishmen John
and Edward Rutedge, who by their and eoquence
that State rumphany through the revolution and
Afterwards successfully filed the office of its chief
Smile was succeeded in tho Senate by John G. Calhoun
who the of Patrick Calhoun, an epigrsnt from Don
egal, in Ireland"