The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-08-02
THE TRIUMPHs AND DANGERS OF 81

versy of climate productions and pursuits furnishes
obstacle the continued harmony OF the different States
of the Union. The real strength and power of the Union
rest in great degree upon Independence mutually of the
different sections upon each other This mutual depend
is the result of the laws of nature which require
different modes Of applying labor and capital in different
localities and free interchange of their products for the
mutual prosperity and happiness of ALL The great staples
the South would for southern people even
the necessares of life if they had of interchange
with other localities where labor and capital directed
to production of articles necessary to southern COM
fort The labor and capital and industry of the North
would never enrich the northern people and make them
their products could not be exchanged for
the commodities essential TO their happiness and which
can only be had from southern ATTITUDES But neither the
North nor the South could advance in prosperity and
enjoy the necesSaries and comforts life il there
means provided by the capital and enterprise of
for the interchange of the products of different
localities 1t is thus that the Union under federal
sttuon throws its guardian arms around all sections of
our widespread country and invites its citizens to the
cultivation of fraternal relations
But the demon of dscord in the shape of sec,ionas has
entered this fair garden of Eden and threatened to convert
it into Pandemonum of strife dissenson and civil war.
1t steals into the church under the guise of "hgher-
law" morality and seduces by its plausible ethics the
suspecting victims of overrighteous hnaticism 1t
prescbes for others its impractcabe standard of mo-
rs,tv and listens argument that opposes
its dogmas Il enters upon crusade of moral reform, and
looks for the objects of its apahemas in the supposed de-
nquences of its neghbors instead OF seeking to pluck
the beam out of its eye 1t sts up discord and dis
union in the bosom of its congregation, and finally
enlsts followers enough to sunder whole churches in
twain 1t perseveres in the work of agitation until it
in arang the church Of section against the
church OF the other section, and finally for the sake Of
peace the aternal relations of Christian fellowship be-
the sections destroyed and dsunion of the
church is the result Northern and southern churches
rayed against each other in attitudes little becoming those
who were recently brothers in the bonds of Christian faith
present the first great triumph of sectionalism.
Its next appearance was in the political arena. Two
great political parties occupying ntagonstc positions
on questions of constitutional construction and on
measures Of national policy, existed In the country
The vigilance with which they watched each other,
and the animation and energy with which they contested
the ascendency in the management OF the government
sxerted most happy influence upon the public inter
es But the destroyer insinuated his dssolving code Of
moral ethics into their organizations and from that
day an unholy alliance between religion and politics has
been infusug into our political issues and Of
sec tional evaporation until question Of morality
bay oyerhadowed all legitimate political party issues
Demagogue In each of the two great parties sought the
cooperation Of religious ssotonas,s and yielded to the
temptation of minglng in their political creeds the
moral Issues which convused and dismembered church
governments Both of the political organizations found
coon thrown into confusion By bS new element
OF discord Both made effort erpel the intruder but
its power in the wing party proved too strong for resist
ance and In its dissolution scctionam gained It's next
great triumph.
The democratic party, though sorely embarrassed and
worried by the insidous arts and devices OF seconas
maintained its organization and finally far succeeded
in It's expulsion 10 entte itself to its original claim of
nationality.
Upon the dissolution Of the wing party another political
organization started composed chiefly of its former
members which protested stand upon the idea Of pure
nationality. 1t assumed strange name enveloped itself
in mystery bound its members with solemn oaths and
adopted secret signs and grips But all these precautions
failed to exclude from its lodges the steatby approaches OF
sectionalis and in short time know nothingism found
itself completely oyerpowered, and seconalized
than the old wing party Its secrecy and Its oahs instead
of securing its nationality from enabled the
willy foe insinuate himself with entire safety into its
councils and there under OF the darkness Of mid
night and under immunity from detection by its horrd
oaths plot the speedy overthrow of this promising scheme
of nationality The first elections that took place devel
oped the astounding apparent strength Of know nothngsm
but to the of the knownohings themselves the
benefits had all Injured to the sectionsls,s. The know
nothing organization ceased to exist except sectional
party and only lives to be pointed proof Of the
third great triumph Of sectionalism.
Such rapid resume Of the progress of seconasm in
ing strength by each succeeding triumph II has now com
bned its copquess and its recruits into one concrete po
corelig ous organization under the Of republican
s. II no longer burrows under the earth like mole but
1t stands forth in open day. and throws down the glove
with defiant audacty and challenges na,ionasm to the is
The challenge has been accepted and under the
OF the only political party which has resisted
fully It's schemes of undermining and overhrowng religious
and political organizations the great battle to be fought
II victory percbes the Fremont standard The last obsta
Gle to the hnal triumph Of sccopslism win be removed
The only hope left for the constitution and the Union
is In the power Of the democracy aided by is allies from
the old wbg organization Scctionasm started ont to
undermine end dissolve The Union Its march has been