Daily American organ., 1856-02-23
WASHINGTON, ID. G.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1855.
yEsPAsIAN ELLIS, Editors.
SAMUEL @. BUSEY, ~
The Union and the "Ignoring Process.''

The Union and the "Ignoring Process"
The Washington Union mourns over the
substitution Of the District Of Columbia Plat
form for the Philadelphia Platform, as the
platform of the National American Party. -
This lachrymose sheet has forgotten the decla-
ration it made last June, to-wit: that no party
could be national which did not ignore all sec
tional questions. The Union was in favor Of
an absolute ignoring process" without any
guarantee whatever, or any exposition of the
opinions of the party in regard to the construc-
tion of the Constitution. The District Of CO.
lumbia Platform contains a clear and distinct
exposition of the constitutional rights of the
South, and an emphatic declaration as to the
future course to be pursued by the party in re-
lation to the Territories; but the Union, who
was for an absolute Ignoring process" and
who few days afterwards, being whipped into
it by the Sentinel declared that 1t did not
mean what it did really say, but that it meant
that which 1t did not and never intended to
say, viz: that it merely ignored the idea that
the peculiar institution was an evil.
Every day its columns TEEN with sycophant-
c laudations of the President, who wrote the
resolution published in another column, declar-
| ing the repeal Of the Missouri Compromise a
breach of plighted faith, and who told Senator
| Clemens of Alabama that the Kansas Nebraska
| bill was a great Northern measure; who has
just turned out conservative Democrat from
| the Office of postmaster at Monticello N. T.,
i nd int raI- ,nutbaI Dractnp in N
Black Republican in his stead who has turned
out Of employment thirty-six laborers from the
New York Custom House, because they pre-
ferred Buchanan to him, and appointed foreign
ers and others of the, Cochrane and Rynders
school Who even dared to attend the Senate
| Of the United States to whip Senator'S into the
support of the senior editor of the Union for
the Office of Senate printer And who has ex-
pended the money of the General Government
in purchasing Abolition papers and editors,
| thus securing their support
Yes, the Union, that voracious sheet, which
has been fed at the government crib, and
which now claims twenty thousand dollars ex-
ira compensation for charging the same COM
position seventy-one times, and whose editors
are accustomed to crook the pregnant hinges
of the knee that thrift may follow fawning," !"
now mourns most piteousy because the Amer
ican party has adopted a platform truly con-
servative and national, and united the party
North and South There is cause for mourn
ing to the Sag NIGHTS, Pierce tools, and gov
ernment plunderers Their race is well nigh
run, and the Union's lamentations are not so
much the result Of sorrow as they are of fears
for its future opportunities to divide the "pro-
fits on public "jobs," and of the discontinu-
ance Of public patronage to its corps of tools,
pimps, and hangers-on, and Of the certain sue
cess of the American party, and the establish
ment of the great principle that Americans
shall rule America"
Grieve on; it is meet that such hirelings
should. Mourn over our success it is your
certain destiny. Lament the success of the
principles which were first enunciated by
Washington; scorn the principles of Jackson
and Jefferson; it lis the peculiar vocation of
public plunderers. Denounce Americanism |;
it viii oxpunge Sag Nichtism and Pierceism
from the land. Forney and Nicholson teach
ing Americans what they ought to do What
mockery