The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-09-04

of ability and experience will command for it tho attention
Of the public at large.
We learn that Mr.. George Whiting the accomplished
chief clerk of the Interior Department has been appointed
Acting Secretary in the absence of Gov McClelhnd.
WHAT HAVE THE PEOPLE TO EXPECT FROM THE
CONSPIRATORS?
They have put this question, by their own words and
Deeds to the Judgment of their countrymen Every ear
has been opened and all eyes turned upon their history
1t has been full OF portent and is instinct with crime
Few and evil have been their days They have contrved
to condenBe within few months much of private eo-
MES and political offences would be enough for the ruin
and condemnation of whole generation
If they had been practsed in a school of the lowest
pude they could not have become proficient
They have ddased religion by using it instrument
of political ambition It's highest distinction under their
and patronage has been like that of the law of the
Thugs unite evil and to guide the hand of the
SIM Their mnistering servants, with the Bible in one
hand and the history of their leader in the other have
called for the rife and the knife The vocation of the
apostle of Christ has been changed and if St. Paul could
have entered the temple of these proanaons he would
have driven the perpetrators forth from the mockery with
which they dared to insult and dhonor their Divine Mas
ter. Beginning their enorNites with rank offences like these
that rise Heaven they have added every crime against
decaogue Thou shalt love thy neighbor thyself !"
that they violated They have published from the pulpit
the press and the political FORUM that good for the
health of their souls hate instead of lore "Thou shalt
steal !" they full of JOY when the border ruan
robbed. Thou shalt not kill )" they justified this
Kansas which they have selected the tes theatre for
to tha
spirit still burns with unabaed intensity. Passing from
that bloody ground to the Capitol their cunning contr
vances were not distinguished less successful
guilt The unhoy doctrines which they proclaimed from
the pupi-he crimes which they had committed the
ders ofMssourwere equaed by their legislative legerd
main in the halls of Congress national calamity
1t another and modified form of wickedness and rea
son. 1t was the heaviest and most deadly blow which
could be struck upon the constitution and the Union They
intrused, under solemn OATH support and de-
end them They fulfilled their obligation by attempting
their destruction. Well, therefore, may we ask "What
have the people 10 expect from the conspiratOrs2" Who
this grave question: The people themselves
They the witnesses and they will respond Such mis-
chiefs and crimes require not only remedy but public
geance-hat remedy which the people themselves ap
ply and that penalty which they have in their power most
sgnaly to inAict
We repeat the question What haze the people to expect
from the eonspiraOrsP Can they trust them when the evil
dence at hand of their reasonable disposition Can they
trust them when their brief history of legislative power
shows that the interests of the republic the first be
neglected and the last to be considered by them Their
whole eorsall their intrigues their resolutions their
appointments of election committees the committees Of
he .ba
au Of Tie hammer Of their Speaker the fraction Of minute
in order TO cut of question that might give time save
the country from imminent dangers-argue determined
purpose fierce the demoniac will Of fallen angel
raise themselves to supreme power il need be- upon the
broken fragments of the Union Can the people confdt
the eminent responsibilities OF the government in such
hands Can they venture to introduce them TO
the possession Of power second to none upon the
earth Docs the wise put his cause in the
hands Of either the weak, the infatuated, or the ig-
mountebank, the drunkard, or the man Of
blood In turn they have discovered all these marks
and played to perfection each character Their pro-
cessions have in very notorious instances mingled
the gtotesquc buooney and the ribad crimnay Of tn,
French revolution. They have painted the white
black 10 resemble the negro covered his head with WOOL
bound his limbs with chains, and placed him upon a
to DO honor day Of party jubilee to the name Of
Fremont They had map devised for the OCCASION with
onehalf Of 1t made black to signify that they separated
from, and botted out all that part Of the Union They
had banner of but sixteen stars in case and in
other of thrtytwo They could not possibly endure
the sight Of the waving and beauteous folds of the true
flag of thiryone Their songs of riot and drunkenness
the inventions OF the pothouse Those old ballads
Of revolution and our Union-of the
glory we had a undivided people-werc not
thought breathed in the endke orgies with which
they essayed to rally their proselytes and ntoxcae
their hopes. This picture IS not oyercharged We re-
peat What hare the people 10 ezpsa from such party d
conprdors Can they LET them seize upon the rens Of
Do they resemble in any way the who
framed this government who have heretofore admins
tered it the people desire the examples of mon
arches rcenaced here they may feed the passion follow
bold adventurer who has not single quality Of
the knowledge the experience the wis
DOM nor the prudence but in time they will awaken to
caames the like of which have but rarely convulsed the
world.
We repeat What haze the people to expect from set Of
consprators who aim al such eHdp Let them pause
Let them to the history Of their fathers let them
count the cost of this Union and at what price they
should fix the blood of their brothers and the tears Of
their wives.
GOOD OMEN
MI.