The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-12-14

themselves they do stop to ask that IL may be extend
ed to others they do not stop to how the people OF
new State may up against the effort force upon them
the control Of men who have no Immediate concern in
what they undertake TO manage; who have no right
in law who are prohibited far by the constitution
that their consent onlys required and that consent SO
distinctly called for that to refuse ii is to deny TO the new
State the same privileges conceded to the old States
Written in broad and luminous letters upon the immor-
tai pages of the constitution the many sterling pledges
which these fanatics would ignorethe living protests
through all time against the Intervention of Congress and
the aggression of factions
And yet in studied defiance of these pledges and pro-
tests find aggression at this day the rule by which IN
furiaed parties would seek to ruin our happy country
1t is not enough that they should maintain their peculiar
notions the subject of slavery They do not stop with
these but eager for mischief they combine for the purpose
of destroying the rights Of the southern States and OF dis
turbng the southern people in the peaceful enjoyment OF
their domestic institutions If Kansas remains in terri
oria condition. they will insist upon depving the people
there OF the right to manage their own affairs and when
it is offered to Congress for admission as State they VIII
be arrayed against it unless its constitution should be
framed in accordance with their desires
But aggression and interference the avore weapons
Of the factions of the present day other subjects The
democratic party occupies ground precisely different
The opposition nereres the subject of temperance on
the subject of religion, the subject Of suffrage, and
wherever it interferes it is aggressive When three
thousand clergymen impeled by sudden impulse LETT
their pulps for the sake of taking part ID politics and
becoming candidates for Congress- it was double aban-
donment of duty they first deserted their holy Calling and
next intered among the combinations of passionate and
ambitious men, rendering themselves rebrands in the true
sense of the term and not they sent to be-
makers and friends
When the know-nohings set up their standard they in
ruded themselves between the conscience and the Deity
and in this pepetrated aggression of the most cruel
character 1t easy pass from stage of interference
to another and have not been surprised that know-noh
ngsm should extend the spirit of interference from the
conscience Of men to the constitution Of the country and
from the rights of individuals to the rights of the States
II is singular aud significant how the fundamental prn-
cpe Of all moral guards against this interference in
The concerns OF the people And it is less positive
truth that the constitution of the United States is based
upon the same principle Animated by this great idea and
obedent to the teachings of that immortal instrument it
fortunate for us free people, that while the opposition
the democracy constantly pracses interference and
gresson the democratic party less constantly denounces
and defeats them