The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-11-01

York or with both as they are consolidated in every other
northern State However they may have heretofore de-
sired TO see the democratic party broken down. il is one
thing to rejoice the overthrow of adversary and an
other to sell manhood and our honor merely for the
purpose OF eecting that overthrow No such motive as
this could inspire any true friend OF his country ana
particularly at crisis like this, when the democratic
party has coniesedy become the sanctuary Of the prn
cipes OF the federal constitution and the fortress by
which those principles protected. Notwithstanding all
this however Mr. Seward has not abandoned the hope OF
being able TO deceive sufficient number of the old followers
Of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster gather them
under this black republican flag We shall him
in the attitude Of dipomast attempting 10 trade with
such Of their leaders willing listen TO his appeals
and it Is not difficult to anticipate upon what point he viii
base his next invocaons for their support He has already
abandoned his own plan of restoring the Missouri Com
promise and now in order to strengthen himself in his
position against the admission of States into the
Union unless they should with constitutions acceptA
BILE to himself he win instruct his organs and his echoes to
,aae the issue upon the Kansas question in such in
the different northern States will most efeetually swell
his own ranks lie thinks that if he induce national
wings to agree with him in reference to certain proceed
ings which have taken place in Kansasif he can in
duce them to second his projects in Congress, what
ever they may be- in reference to the legislation Of
Kansas and other subordinate questions arising out
of the unhappy disturbances in that Terrory--he viii
be able so fully to commit them against the distinct
and positive position Of the democratic party on the great
question be decided next year. that they will train IN
his ranks the same his most serve and willing follow
ers In this experiment moreover, he will have the as
sisance Of the know nothing leaders in the North to
whom we have alluded; and we need not be surprised no
matter what the result is in New York in the coming cleo
ton to see these two anaticsms joining hands as soon rs
that election is over precisely they did in Ohio Penn
syyaua and Maine The true policy the independent men
who are the sincere friends OF the federal constitution IS TO
treat both now-nothugsm and abol,ionism with supreme
contempt to say "hands of" TO both these fanatcisms
These factions can do nothing but harm. Their very at
tempt to interfere with the question of Kansas will only
embter and postpone peaceful solution of that ques-
ton They cannot be encouraged in single element of
their respective creeds without endangerng the rights Of
the citizen or the rights Of the States And now that an
opportunity is presented by the absorption Of the old
wing party all those voters who have heretofore chung
to that party and yet have believed in the progressive
principles of the democracy now, when the very name OF
whir has been abandoned by who have stolen the
machinery Of its organization and when the adversaes Of
the democratic party have been, it were driven into
their trenches where with their black banners and their
foul and pestlenta doctrines they have made their last
stand and when, in this uncure of affairs, the demor
cratic party opens its portals and invites into its ranks all
men who agree with it principle without reference to
past divisions and past sentiments why should there be
any hesitation the part of patriotic and constitution
loving American?