The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-05-31

For the and improvement OF the secret order
II an yhing can the dull improve the
venai hearts Of memberswe shall quote few passages
the writings OF that great man aud shall not garbe
them with view deceive the public and thereby insult
bis memory Ia speaking Of Americans, he says ACit-
by birth choice OF common country that couu
try has right concentrate your affections The name
Of AMERICAN, which belongs to you in your national
capacity always eAalt the just pride Of patriotism
more than any appeilaon derived from local disermina
tons With slight shades 81 difference you have the same
religion, manners habits, and political principles You
fought and fruasPhed together. The
Independence and liberty you possess are The work OF joint
counse and joint efforts, of common dangers suferings
and successes Under energetic general government
such regulations might be made and such measures taken
would this country asylum of pacific aud in
dusrious characters from all parts Of Europe encour-
aging the cultivation Of the earth by the high price which
its products would command and draw the wealth and
wealthy men OF other nations into bosom by giving
security 70 property and ioSy 70 as hoaers MS was
written in 1877.
Aud here is another of like character, written in 1888
at atterng and consolatory reflection that rising
republics have the good wishes OF all the philosophers pat
riots and virtuous in all nations and that they look
upon them kind of asylum for D,anhind God grant
that may not dsappoin their honest expectations ~
our folly perversenessF
We trust that the late noble act Of Virginia. in repelling
the mad onslaught Of knownothngism from its borders
will awaken the hearts of the people in the North and
West who love the constitution of Union lively
OF gratitude For her cbivalous resistance to the
formidable combination against the rights and privileges
of citizens she is entitled to the foremost post in the
ranks of democracy Even New Hampshire Pennsy yania
and Illinois fell before the blast of the political Srocco all
intermediate having been swept BY its whitening in
huence. Our gallant sister painted for the honor which
awaited her. and noby has she sustained her former glory
and power. Hcnceorth let her title be = Vrfuous Mrinc-
Die and To her gallant democracy lct render
all praise aud her eloquent and heroic CHI npon, Scar
A. Wise besow wreath more impershabe than any that
for deeds of armsd nations graft
/ tude.
From Boston
! THE GLORIOUS RESULT vmGIsiA--The democrats have
made Waterloo affair of II in Virginia. They have
ed their governor their other State officers, and most If
not ALL their members of Congress The victory lacks no
element Of completeness Never the Old Dominion
luminous. All honor to her for SO splendid
RESULT
il When did Virginia have so noble chance to dstin-
guish herself2 In other States the democracy il is true
party, stood by their old colors; everywhere de-
nouncng the secret order But however nob they fought
in Connecticut in New Hampshire and in other States
yet the strength of the combined factions arrayed against
them proved too much and, with the constitutional BAN
ner waving above them they iei INTO minorues Woua
4 the allconquering egons of the secret order aided by
ratorous democratic deserers and degenerate wings
flushed with the OF the capture of the New amp
shire Gibraltar also sweep the board in Virginia and
whelm her noble democracy Or would the Old Domin-
ion stand barrier to the flood of faction and say TO the
frothy miserable surgethus far shalt thou go, and
4 furher2 Glorious the opportunity! Well for the
country it that fell to the lot Of the land Of Mad
son, Jefferson, and Washington
Let the manly fight of the democrats, with Henry A.
Wise for their sandard-berer, say how worhily they
stood in the imminent deadly breach! They asked no
quarter-they gave no quarterto the black, proscrip
tive disgracefu combination but assumed the offensive
the start and all through in speeches and efforts that will
live and kndle to effort long after the poor defenders
Of secret midnight proceedings shall be forgotten they bid
defiance to their foes They kne and proved it, that they
held in their keeping vital constitutional principles which
at the basis Of rights and liberties and they
ke ALSO that to take oath to prescribe men for their
birthplace and prosecute for their religion,
mockery of the name OF American BY this sign they con-
4 GSered
Too much honor cannot be awarded to Virginia for the
noble verdict against the secret order she has given She
has dealt on it ercuean blow and the anti-republican
thing will stagger and reel under its nAiction. Her de-
mocracy too, have done it snglehanded it may be truly
said also shorthanded for in Virginia. in other States
there leaders, democrats who mred themselves
all over by crawling into the secret and for the
sake of coveted spos ofoce taking the abomnabe oaths
The wing party of Virginia. too rolled itself and
this sort Of mud but thanks to the strong hands and
bold hearts Of the democracy this Of avail They
i did it. and got nothing in return
Patriots may well hail this ordinary result There
is of covering up the matter If this country is to
come under the control of immense secret midnight
councilordering all thingsour Liberties will have de-
parted The system is rotten to the 1t deserves
condemnation 50 thorough that The plan shall never rear
her part well and nobly in this good work. Her action
will be tocsn to summon the people of other States to
the The honest the intelligent the lovers Of civil
aud religious liberty, of republicanisn will not
amely see vital principles tramped in the dust They
will now, they did of old rally round Virginia. and
their hands and hearts will be with those who plant them
selves civil and religious lbertyhe obligations of the
constitution and the maintenance of the Union.
The following from the Louisiana Courier, written on
the day of the election is worthy Of special attention.
4 From Louisiana
VReNiAThs day the venerable and llustrious mother
of States and statesmenupon whose classic soil born
and died and buried George Washington Thomas
Jefferson James Madison and Patrick Hcnry-wl speak
her in the confederacy her sentiment upon
l the political questions and issues Of the day.
She who first rolled back in her majestic strength the
tide of federalism in the days of l79s with all its antirc
publican creed and centralzing tendencies will again in
1855 raise her voice in condemnation of what is far
in theory and which would be injurious in its opera
ton against civil and religious liberty and that spirit Of
enlightened progress engendered by those institutions
framed in great part by her lustrious and gifted
sons in the infant days Of the republic.
She will put the seal Of her condemnation upon secret
and oahbound political organizations and will pronounce
and action in the individual they unnecessary in
country aud subvcrsye Of the theory upon which
government framed and from which it depart
unless the people shall become entirely unfit for democratic
and representative institutions.
She will say to her sister States and to her children and
descendants scattered throughout the Union that the
party called knownohing which arrogates to itself all
the virtue and all the patriotism OF the land base cheat
and fraud, invented by cunning unprinciped in the
lowest walks of life 10 crowded cities and then embraced
by those whose ambition recklessness has disposed
them forget all else In political matters personal ag
grandizement the atsnment Of station regardless of
| the means by which il may have been reached.
She will proclaim to the world that all disquahcations
sought be imposed the people Of the country either
account Of their place Of birth Of the nature OF their
religious belief unworthy Of the spirit Of the age and
\ unsanctoned by our system Of government
She will re I'M the principles Of the fathers OF the
publichat the immigration into this land of all who
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