The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-08-09
PROGRESS OF DECENTRALIZATION AND BLOOD
SHED.

The French revolution the result of the deceptons
Ne extravagances and the blindness of prohgate and
corrupt courts and its fghtful We're excused
and justified the ground that they were lesser
evils than those which they boodiy avenged and so
awfuy corrected The people flew to arms when their
patience exhausted, their property Scquoor"cd
and their rights assailed The fraudulent promises,
the persistent asehood the shameless prostitution Of
besotted rulers and deuded nobes had finally reached
such head that the masses, reused at last to sud-
den sense of their power and their duty could not be
restrained within the bounds of moderation Mankind
stood aghast before atrocities which, till them had never
been witnessed in civilized age, and nothing but the
worldwide consciousness of the disease which called for
such remedy has rescued that memorable era from the
condemnation of impartial posterity
What the burdens under which the American peo-
pie suffer- however, that since the Inauguration OF the
new party American politics should have been in
vaded by oathbound demagogues American morals as
sailed by midnight conspiracies and American citizens
murdered as if they many wild beasts let loose
upon the lives and the property of their brehrenY Arewe
not happy beyond all the other of man? Has the
sun in his course from the beginning OF the world ever
looked down upon people so prosperous and SO Tree
Here indeed government srrayed in all the aiuence
of rational freedom based upon the enduring foundations
public credit and popular equality and standing before
the nations great permanent experimental answer
to the sophsns and declarations of the deracors Of lib
ertyn While the fair bosom of Nature in other lands is
aceraed by wounds inflicted by ambitious kings and
contending cabinets peace crowns the penteous har-
vest these shores, and plenty rewards the la
bors Of industry through all the degrees Of latitude
that differing climates Of orr vast domain, and
yet produce by providenal preparation that union
of he
ends Of the political reormers of the past Are dssas
fed with this enrolling and nnequaled prospects Are
we indignant at the fair promise of the future that
should labor the inspiring aspects of the present
If not why that such time, in the midst Of such
wealth Of existing blessings and the threshold Of other
thick-cong victories of art and science and tranquility
and sublime civilization the brand and the bayonet the
and the cannon should convert cities into ca
els from which death and destruction hurled by
class upon the other
We speaking Of here The aseful responsibility
If The last consequence 9 know-noaing doctrines should Be
fred 1t is quite unnecessary to inquire for the imme-
date cause of the murderings and mobbings city
of Louisville Those who have studied the fell anatomy of
the secret conspiracy which dsgraces the American name
il insults American manhood and proscribes American
rchtshose who have heard its leaders like infatuated
mons houndng the rioous and reckless in their
upon unofendng because of their nativity or
their regionhose who have it's public premiums
offered for perjury and its exposed held the
heads Of all who would not accept these premiums
who have watched its prostitution Of the press and the pull
pitts eod-booded neglect of the duties of public graft
tudc 10 the public benefactors remorseess prescription
even Of helpless to crafty the vulgar preudces
of ignorant men-its wanton invention and wide dis
semnaton of asehoods upon eminent public servants
and finally its deberaied and fore-panned attempts to
poute the ballot and to build up "a wall OF fire" between
the North and the South in which all the guarantees OF
the constitution and all the affections Of broth
ehood should be destroyed those who have stood
by the reluctant and the sorrowine witnesses of these
scenes viii not be astonshed that the end should be
ragca and bloody has been The manner in which