The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-08-30


guilt as are applied 10 Il body which lost upon the
individuals Of at its dissolution But such the dsep
disgrace ana the vast and perous consequences of what
they would have done against the welfare of the republic
that the seal Of is not only fixed upon them
in their voluntary and official association but through all
their future lives each one OF them will stand by the
public Judgment OF their country ataiHsd in his per-
They may please themselves with the thought that
they have escaped the gos of the law by being entitled
as legislators according to parliamentary rules to the in
fanny of perpetratng the Of But they may
be assured they will neither escape the present verdict of
their constituents the just Judgment of posterity
They have done what Satan did to Paradise They have
entered in and betrayed its peace and like him. after his
crime their sentence will be- for the remainder of their
days to crawl in the political dust and seek to do mis-
chief by the lOpest invisible 1t is WE'LL under such
circumstances that they have already begun to harden
their hearts because that which dies will for
the evil which they have DONE enter into their conscenees
and their will finally hear from every patriot the ter
rible rebuke, Oct hes behind me- SATAN Their political
existence will have had short Duration and saving the
making of "a good thing" out of committee, they will
have the slightest possible consolation left Considering
it thought that they have always made money cond
ton precedent to any OF their political acts Of personal
kindness or public utility, would be quite blunder with
them to forget the inimitabe fiction of the Devil and Tom
Walker They will find it in the classic pages of Wash
ington Irving. He tells that the ambitious Tom had
made compact with the Evil One, and succeeded to the
last as he thought in all his projects He had chests full
of money and OF mortgages. He had ground down the
poor He had deprived the aborer of his wages He had
ruined the rlch and set his neghbors with each
other and the village where he lived which had been
peaceful he had made hell upon earth But at length when
his term out he suddenly kidnapped by his master
and disappeared from the scene His friends who ad-
minsered upon his effects found that his silver dros
and dirt, and his mortgages ashes. And the whole
people said amen! As certain there is Heaven above
the doom aUas the party who hare been eOnpirng in the
House against their country They have made like
pact Their time nearly up. Their sudden prosperity
will perish their gold will be gone and their political
power will be nothing but dust and ashes 1t is all
emphatcaly, the depiPs The parallel will bear quite
minute tracing lie made his instrument plumber the
poor and the aborer They have by their legislation tried
to deprive the mechanic of his wages and his wife and her
children of their bread He obtained mortgages against
the people They have endeavored to enforce mortgage
upon the Executive and get into their hands the
power of the State He set the neghbors at with
each other has been the endeapor of all their present
public life to have the blood of brother shed in Kansas by
the hand of brother He had changed beaueous vii
age, where peace and happiness reigned into scene of
srifes anarchy and rank offences They have already en-
broled the passions of the people of great nation and
the total destruction of its social order and po
cal security. The likeness, think is perfect and
plain and honest would believe if they had emo
ton of kindness or patriotism left they would be startled
the contemplation of their terrible work of nquy
Their sin has found them out, and will pass beyond the
generation in which they 1t will go downtown
down-with the memory Of their defeat Time distance,
and tradition will blacken their conspiracy with deeper
shame because il dshonored the enlightened century,
and the most Christian country of the world.