The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-04-21
THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION.


Simultaneous with the rise and progress Of the new Sc
eret party have had singular developments IN
political MORALS and especially regard to social life The
spirit Of rational reform has been gradually abandoned Tor
the reeklesness OF unbded revolution An organization
pledged 10 single impossible abstraction has attempted
many and 50 rapid been the transition from folly TO
another and from one danger another that the authors
of have almost lost their identity in the
procession OF absurd and theories which have
been usbeed astonished country from their midnight
caba Could all these hairbraned projects be presented
in one creed the world they would state the
peenced observers Of human ailty and would revive in
than mind the doubt that was not fitted for
selfgovernment Happily, however, for beloved coun
try and mankind largely dependent the success
of free in this country truth is more deep
y fixed and frequently confirmed than the readiness of
great people like abandon every idea after its wick
edness and folly have been clearly exempfed just in
proportion as the American prone to rally
around the standard patriotism by whomsoever raised
just in proportion AS in listening to the glowing
teachings of freedom they sometimes forget the dema
gogue who enunciates them--just promptly viii
they recoil from and repudate their false guides the
moment their dangerous receptions ncontestably
tablished And hence it is that the social revolution
night meetings OF the party, will prove to be an
admonition that will profit by and act upon, more
promptly than those who have contributed to give that
party its present artificial power.
prominent feature of this movement is the frequent
efforts favor of elevating the coored to POLITICAL
and hence social equality with the Protestant and
tyeborn whites negro in certain OF the great cities
is become far more valuable citizen" than emigrant
from Ireland from Germany Mobs called into
stence the moment Africans interests questioned
For him Judges displaced rebnked
and elected In proportion he is elevated in
the scale Of influence component and active part of
political system the adopted citizen is degraded and the
mock philosophers who talk of emigration poisoning
population and endangerng institutions, eager
that amagamaen should succeed the admission ofhe black
to the civil rights that enjoyed by themselves
The evidences Of this reform daily aceabe in the north
States in the nsolence of the free negroes their comb
nations against the laws their oboquy Of first public
men, and their noisy clamor for power the baot-boxes
This according the ideas Of improving the exist
ing order of things; and if may judge of its by
its rapid progress up this hour it is easy that
will require fearful remedies to resist it
The Massachusetts, legislators however are the en-
terprisng Of these reformers Not speak of their
pernents in politics. they have embarked in the business
OF gous reformation with commendable zeal With ex
quste galantry they commenced with the female teachers
in Catholic seminaries 1t became necessary for
them furnish evidence of the prohgacy OF Catholic
morals and they undertook and carried general
and unannounced invasion, by legislative committee. of
the schools taught by unprotected women and they
ceeded in frightening their victims and in dsgracing them
selves at the time. This exploration after
grave against Sect and it conduct
ed with appropriate barbariy 1t appears however that
these visitaons not limited the insults vrtuous
ladies and timd children but that the expenses of the
rough and rowdy gang including dinners and Wines
paid by the State and furthermore that occasion
at least female companion of of the company
included not only with the committee but her
added to the bill OF her male admrers To show
the of the case, take the following language from
a mass of indignant comments the part of the New
England press against this scandalous disclosure from that
stad and respectable whg) journal the Boston Adver
tiser:
$50 likewise, occasion of another travelling iunket
which this Mr.. Hiss particpaed-we mean the visit
of the committee public charitable institutions Spring
field and Hartford, which occasion they accompa
MED by the governor and other high official personages.
Why have not Of them demanded investigation
the circumstances of that The whole atmosphere
the house abounds in stories relating it, Is it true
Is it true that Mr. Hiss had female companion
that occasion Is true, or is it not that he had the
eonery present her to his exceency Is true
not true that his excelency entertained her aaby in
versation Tor true true that the governor
with proper Of what due to himself gentle
man, not to the dignity Of his office chief Of
vruous people, stopped the cars and refused proceed
the company Of Of that character We have
heard anything resembling affirmative response this
last question"
1t will be remembered that Of the first Of Mas
sachuses fanaticsm the burning of the Ursulins
Convent--a Catholic Convcnt--the work Of a maddened
mob That State is committed to the protection of her c
in all their rights Of person and Of property and YET
this day that outrage has not been atoned for the
loss made good similar losses in other States have been
made good of the public treasury On the contrary
they add to this Heaven-ofending crime the bases and
brutal insults upon unprotected and unofending f.
males whose only offence is that they really worship that
God, after their fashion, whom these abandoned
have utterly forgotten.
The New York legislators have just perfected sngen,
temperance bll in which drinking of intoxicating liquors
punished by the seveest pains and penalties aud YET
the men who framed and passed the preceded
achievement by visit the city of New York which was
dsgraced by scenes of the most public progacy and in
toxication.
In the State of Maine the know nothngs have passed
law providing that the remains or bodies of any per-
sons dying in ams-houses persons when during life