Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-07-23
Disnnion.v

"Disunion.'
Under this head, the miserable demagogue
who controls the Washington Union devotes
more than column of editorial space this
morning, to portraying the evils which would
result to the country from the election of the
Republican candidate, and the triumph of that
party in Congress. He illustrates the dangers
Of their success to the permanency Of the Union,
In divers methods-he endeavors to alarm the
country on this question-he announces that
disunion would be the result Of Republican
success,-he makes the issue, "Uni0n or Dis
anton" and says: "To this issue the enemy
will be kept, and on it WE shall gain the great
est victory ever achieved"
By such MEANS and in this mode, the Wash
ington Union hopes to create the belief among
the friends of the Federal Union, that the ONLY
CONTEST lies between Buchanan and Fremont,
and that the only salvation for the country
consists in the support of the candidate of the
Cincinnati Convention! As if Willard Fiji
more, who by his influence and exertions, did
more than one thousand such men as Buchan-
an could have done, in 1850, to save the coun-
try from anarchy, disunion, and civil war,
would not again breast the storm of fanati-
cism, maintain the authority Of the govern
ment, and preserve the constitution and the
Union!!
This has been the game Of the administra-
ton party from the first, and their presses
have teemed with such falsehoods and non
sense for three months past and in this game,
so far as it relates to making an issue between
the administration party and the Republicans,
the latter have played their partwith the most
consummate skill.
Take up any Republican paper, and you will
find that it is maintained with equal pertinaci.
ty by them, as by the administration prints,
that the issue in this contest lies between the
Republican and the administration party; and
thus these two parties have mutually resolved
that one or the other of them shall have pos
session of the government. Both seek to ig-
more the existence of the N ational American
party! Occasionally, however, and perhaps
inadvertently, the truth does sometimes ap
pear in an administration press, and the coun-
try is informed, in unmistal1able language, by
such press, that all these efforts to represent
the Republican party as dangerous by reason
Of their poaoer, are insincere and untrue. We
hold the doctrines of the Republicans to be
dangerous, but we have no fears that they can
triumph.
We referred, on one occasion, last week, to
m article, published in the Washington Daily
Union, on the 18th day of this present month,
under the head of "The Man Of Straw,"
in which that press distinctly declared, that
John c. Fremont was man Of straso," that
no enthusiasm could be aroused in his behalf;
that
:" He is after all, not the candidate Of the pres
ent party, of opposition to the administration, but
simply the candidate of the Abolition party =
that he viii only receive the Abolition vote,
slightly augmented by few renegade Wings and
Free-soil Democrats"
"HR HAS nor THE RENoTEsT CHANCE OF Sue
cEss!l"
For once, "afler ALL" the U.tion spake the
truth, and there is some meaning in that ex-
preston, He is, AFTER ALL, not the candidate
Of the present party Of opposition to the ad-
ministrationw The Washington Union, in a
moment of honest feeling, meant to say, that
COL Fremont, "ArTER ALL {" the lies IL, and its
associates had told, is not the candidate of the
present party Of opposition to the admnistra-
toni" We give the Union credit for saying
what is true, on the 10Th day of this present
month-but what shall we say Of its article of
to-day, maintaining that the issue is between
the Republicans and the "squatter sovereign
y"-filibustering- 0stend manifesto-party
If the editor Of the Washington Union was
drunk on the 18th instant when he candidly
confessed that he and his whole tribe had
after all said what was false on this ques-
ton, and that Col. Fremont was, in truth, ga
man Of straw" and had "not the remotest
chance Of success" why, then, the old maxim,
an pine est Deritds," (whcn man is tipsy he
tells the TRUTH is verified in this instance or
II he was sober, and was honestly inclined on
that occasion, and spoke from the convictions