The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-11-28


THE NORTH AND THE KNOW N0THINGs,
Northern men often complain that the South, though il
minority generally controls the policy Of the govern
ment How II be otherwise when the North is conu
uay changing her measures and BIER men, and splitting
up into iunumerabe factions Has the North any stes5r
uniform views Of governmental pccy2 II she has "
should like to know what they areY Take New y ork
Massachusetts, and SHALL find the effect Of those tc1
70 be- that Mississippi delegation would represent tn
views and principles Of large majority Of their people 81
better than the representatives elect of those States eh,
in the federal or State legislatures There is not shadow
Of doubt that yet large majority OF the people
these two States conservative and friendly TO The
Union yet their representatives are destruehves Of The
worst agrarians, anarchists and
disunionists We ask patriots and sober-ni'nded men
the North whether such hcleness and faction are quahk
cations for rule2
The North has the remedy in her own hands. Let be-
own down each iactious ism 1t its head
and unite with the democratic party, which Is national
conservative ard Union-lovng This would at once give
her the control Of the government and save her from the
mad designs of the red republicans Seetonalism would
be banshed from the councils of the nation Good will
amy, and more active commercial relations between North
and South would be restored and stable uniform and
conservative policy Of government State and national be-
gun We do not fear northern democratic majority,
because this party has always the identity of interest
between North aud South and been ready to do justice
the South or least enough northern democrats, uni.
ted with the South have been found ready to pre-
vent any gross act Of injustice towards The more
northern democrats have in Congress the more friends
will the South and the UNION find in that body
Conservatives the North must from the result Of
the late elections that union with the democratic party is
only Of placing CONSERVATISM in the ascendap
Facousness be conservative and yet how many
thousand men, in the main conservative, voted with the
various factions in the late elections at the North DEM
ocrac administration would fairly carry out the views Of
large majority Of the people OF Massachusetts and New
York Instead of such administrations red republication
rules and runs riot in New York and fear the know
nothing sway in Massachusetts will be little better.
Know-nothingsm is not party but congeries of fac
tons. in Massachusetts, and New York, holding TO
their vile organization their religious intolerance
and hatred and persecution Of foreigners and strongly
tinctured with free-soilsm, if not abotonism in Mary
land part anti Catholic and another part warm friends Of
the Catholics in Virginia "stR nominis umbraP The
wings have left them nothing but their name The ghost
walks but frightens no one In Louisiana the Catholic
test is abolished and hers may be called the Roman Cath
Ole know-noings Beside, this large number Of the
party have joined the red republicans This congeres of
factions can form party because they could
concur to the measures and policy of government
change in the naturalization laws s the chief the only tie
of the party They could agree what that change
should be- if they did, it would not forward their pur
poses in the least They wish to regulate to control aud
lessen immigration The federal government cannot e
feet these purposes Each State may give the right of su
frage and the capacity hold State Offices to whom it
pleases Each State may permit of foreign birth to
hold and transmit lands may prohibit and dqualy
them. Thus each State has ample power to regulate the
subject of immigration and the federal government can
ercse scarcely any influence the subject II is well that
So for the interests Of the several States conflict this
subject and each knows its interest and how to guard
and protect it best
We feel sure that the good results Of immigration
overbaance the evils everywhere else why do we hear
of State legislation TO prohibit or at least, to check
1t? Like everything else it may be attended with some
evils and may require legal regulations. We should feel
wholly incompetent to legislate for other States and quite
unwilling that they should legisate for us. Let know
nothngs to make national matter Of this subject
and found national party on it for they are quite
likely twart their purposes to promote them they
succeed The little influence the general government can
exercise this subject is to be exercised unskia
and might be exercised preudcally to the purposes Of
those who invoke its interference We doubt not large
number of the northern know-nohings conservatives,
and would be willing to peril the Union and every sa-
cred institution of society in order to achieve the peculiar
aims of their party Let them therefore, dsband give up
their party organization and unite with the democratic
the only national party in opposition to sectonasm and
red repubcanism Indeed have recently heard some
distinguished silver-gray wings Of New York admit that
the national democracy would and must succeed in the
next presidential contest.
On the other hand let those northern know-nohings
who have abolition anites at rally to the red re-
publican banner Cicero was more anxious to see
Catne and his conspraors separated from the ranks Of
the viruous and patriotic citizens imboded outside the
gates of Rome than to sce every free-socr every
aboons every socialist and every agrarian and anach-
s expelled from the ranks of all other parties and rallied
under the traitorous standard OF red republicansm
Then should breathe freely because should be de-
veed from secret domestic enemies know the strength Of
our foe and how to fight him in broad daylight and in
open field.
From the Philadelphia Pennsylvania.