The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-11-08

our State will be the last to desert that plan of human law
and liberty"
TIE QUlNTUPLE ALLIANCE AND ITS NEWLY
CHRlSTENED PARTY.
Badly beaten abroad and sgnally rebuked at home
!" the five leading papers of New York"-the quntupe
alliancehave entered into crusade, and adopted
holder and comprehensive system of tactics for the
overthrow, at and the time of the Union the
constitution and the democr ic party With the rapidly
of theatrical TRANSITIONS they have raised the curtain
what they term new play, with new characters new
dresses and new appointments. But amid the tnse OF
hghsoundng words and the disguise of fresh paint
fresh garments it is easy perceive that the plot the play
add the players still the same-that the opposition
have changed their and not their principes-and
that they still hope in the face of fifty years Of almost
interrupted disappointment to impose upon the people
bad counses bad men, and bad measures under the
posing weight of party appellaon with apparently
new party issues
The qnintuple alliance will discover that the facility
which they have displayed in the frequent change of their
partisan the indecent eagerness which they have
evinced to form corrupt combinations for corrupt pur-
poses, and the arrogant position which they have as
sumed the supreme and uncontrolled leaders of the
opposition not well calculated inspre confidence
in quarters where deep and wegrounded distust tas
long existed Before the late election they far excc
General Scott in their soft and captivating blandish.
ments whenever, as they believed German or an
Irish naturazed citizen was to be found and caught
The old hero of Chippewa was merely charmed with be
rich Irish brogue and sweet German accent" The members
of the quintuplo alliance further and deeper Falsely
calculating upon the assumed fact that the sympahes
of our foregn-born population with the policy and
the institutions Of the desposms of the Old World they
unAmercanzed themselves in their opposition to those
principles measures, and institutions which have made
this great confderacy of free equal and SOVEREIGN States
powerful and prosperous beyond all previous examine in
the history Of the world They invited the Germans and
Irish to make upon that palladium of our civil and
religious righs-the constitution They invited them 10
assist in ovethrowpg that glorious Union which had led
US from captivity to independencerom the weakness
infancy to the strength Of manhood With these invita-
lions CANE invitations Of similar import from the .ubs
uted press OF France, England, and Germany On sud
den the petty princes and mobiles of the Old World mon
nrch'ss evnced the most lively socitude the dispo.
son OF the surages Of those who had been forced by
poverty and oppression to seek asylum In peaceful
prosperous and progressive republic They were told to
forget what Lafayette had fought for what Koscuso had
oed for what Montgomery had laid down bis life for and
to put their trust in the counses and their faith In the
principles, OF Horace Greeley James Watson Webb and
Jaues Gordon Bennett So satisfied were the members of
the alliance that they had secured for their sectional
traitorous purposes the whole nearly the whole of the
naturazed vote of the free States that they frequently
and boastngly pointed that vote az the one certain
element osuccess in the then pending canvass To secure
their ncied dupes least until after the Il was ne
cessary to show affect to show opposition to the nto
Grant and proscpve principles OF know nothngism and
accordingly, throughout the campaign, the alliance was
seemingly very bitter In its denuncatous Of Mr. Fillmore
and bis friends
The presidential contest has ended and again the united
voice ohe national democracy rises high clear and
Tor their brilliant and decisive victory the enemies of
the Union and the constitution. Alas for tho confident
hops and insoent predictions of the quintuple alliance
II met with better success than Cen Scott Ia its sud
den billing and cooling with the gentlemen with "the rich
Irish broguo and sweet German accent They were
found they have been found true TO the
the honor the integrity, and the glory of the country Of
their adoption.
After the unsuccessful termination Of all these hopes
boasts predictions batteries and winning invitations AT
home and from abroad surprised that the Ger
mans and Irish are carefully, and even ignomniousy
excluded from the programme which has just been pre-
pared by the give leading papers of New York" The
programme, understand It, provides for a complete
union of the negroworshppers and knownothpgs under
the imposing of American Republican, One Of the
members Of the alliance the Tmes thus brings is old
party with is new name before the American people:
eve presume that the great Of the american and
Republican parties viii be consolidated The leaders Of
bath may resist actors in the other may
hold out for rsce But the conviction OF common de-
feat Of danger, and the feeling that sub
stany and their principles Of public policy
the same win override all the dc,son Of leaders and all the
ntgues Of designing The government Of the coantry
mar in tn. hands ofthe pro-ssvery democracy But
the popular sentiment the moral strength the vast mory
Of the popular votes, will BE- With the American republicans