The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-11-07


ponents Of the democracy by the standard these pn
cipes that he had nothing TO say respecting the know
nothing party, all their proscrptye principles had
been adopted by the republican party which now const
tned the only adversary capable OF opposing the democ
raey The republican party contained In itself all the
evils that had been found In all the parties that had en-
sted for the last quarter OF century IL had courted all
parties and factions and enlisted body OF recruits rs
parti-colored as Josephs coat and now numbered
parties in its ranks Mary Magdalen had devils in
her womb and this party devoid of shame, and
sycophantc in its solicitations that the words Of the
poet might well be applied to IL:
would enge Creep be civil,
Irn Journey TO hia mind,
He'd let him mount and ride behind p
Mr. Hatch remarked that he had nothing To say of the
men who constituted this party that he found sufficient
in their public actions and in their State addresses to the
people to that they did not deserve the confidence
Of the public He wished to refer to the issues raised In
that document They exul the decision of the Uni
ted States court because IL had been decided that bred
Scott not a citizen while, at the time IL was
well known that most Of the northern States had denied
the right of citizenship to negroes and that the constu
tons of several OF the forbid their living within their
territory The woolly headed fanatics, when assem-
bed at Topeka to form constitution ior free Kansas
had inserted clause in said constitution which forbade
the negro from setting his foot the soil OF Kansas 30
long grass grows and water SO much for their
philanthropy for the negrol In their address, they
shrek again about bleeding Kansas. The democracy
merely adopted the principle of self government In the
of Kansas The republicans had maintained that the
election of Mr. Buchanan would occasion the shedding of
blood in that Territory. Mr. Buchanan had been elected
and peace prevailed At the recent election the republic
claimed to have elected majority of the members
Of the legislature should this be true he wished them
joy of their victory they then in position In which
further shrieing groaning and praying bleeding
Kansas would do them good. They had in any case
got into dilemma and found themselves in the position
of the who had seized hungry wolf by the ears
and could keep his hold longer yet did not dare to let
go for fear of being devoured.
The srangest part of the address was that in which
the republicans spoke OF the official corruption at Wash
ngton and Albany Their claim political honesty
the most barefaced impudence Everybody knew that
the only branch of the national government which
the republicans held control the House Of Repre-
sentaves and their only remarkable deeds there con-
sisted in finally quarreing the booty and expellng
another from fine House for corruption and bribery
SO much for the national purity of these modest republic
cans Let consider their official conduct ut Al
bany. Every knows that they controlled our State
government They observe in the address that they had
passed eight hundred and thirteen laws of which only
one hundred and six OF general and all the rest OF
special character This fact is of itself alone sufficient
when consider that the entire government repub
lican from the governor down to the president of the
lobby Mr.. Clapp himself their candidate for secretary
Of State, declared it to be nest of thieves and surely
he ought to know
Mr.. II. then referred to the bill for the granting of
free suffrage negroes but the bill had been suppress
ed by the governor himself he did not wish to say any
thing about IT, except that the fate of this measure
similar to that of all black basards parents
were ashamed of Them especially if the parents
white.
Mr. Hatch then spoke of the legislation of the repub
party for the restriction Of personal lbertyyz the
temperance law license law and the laws for the restic
ton Of municipal liberty in the cities of New York
Brooklyn, and Buffalo that all these laws in oppo
siton to the spirit Of the democracy and that they would
at length If the principles contained In them carried
out, inevitably lead to tyranny and dcspotsm.
Mr.. IL said that if anything necessary to prove
the identity of the republican with the old wing party it
could be done by comparing the present administration
81 affp al with
ton of the fifteen sixteen years ago Mr.. Seward
elected governor in 1885, and declared in his address
entering Office that the treasury full and that the
State could sustain debt of forty millions of dollars
Although he r Seward neither prophet the
son of prophet he nevertheless very fortunate in
his predictions for he laid aside the reins Of government
leaving the State bnrdened with debt of thirty millions
Of dollars, and his last official act to sign law by
which labor the public works suspended. The
same condition of things existed in our financial ut
fairs bankruptcy, high taxes and ruin stared them in
the face the order for the suspension Of public works
had already been issued In order to themselves
the people have the duty to perform that they
performed in l842vz to suspend these republicans and
hang them up high Hannah.
Mr.. Hatch observed that he had now explained the
principles and the duty of the democracy and had point
ed out the only remedy for the sud condition of State
affairs; he would also say In reference to the general
financial distress and embarrassment that the only means
of preventing Of similar trouble would be
return to the constitutional currencygold and silver
the primitive doctrine of democracy E
in continuation he did not wish to be understood
saying that the democratic party had not committed mis-
takes but the experience of than fifty years had
shown that the which had and then crept into
the party could be remeded best by democrats them
selves When such calamity befalls us, then is the
very time above all Others for every sincere and honest
democrat to stand by his party in order to restore to it
the supremacy of its pure principles II with the dem
ocrac party with 1t does not need the assistance
of its friends in prosperity but in the hour of adversely
and misfortune When pirates had crept board the
ship the democracy and threatened to change its
had already done then the time for every
to remain true to his trust throw the pirates
board and put the gallant ship again upon the right tack
Mr. Hatch said that he held the opinion that man who
untrue to his friend would also be untrue to his party
and that who was not true to his party would not
be to his country in the hour of her danger These
his views upon democratic fidelity and party obiga
| tons.
In conclusion Mr.. Hatch Observed that if any proof
needed to show that the democratic party
rect it could be found in the fact that thousands
turning from other parties fully convinced that it alone
could furnish remedy for the evils that threaten
No false views of humanity should prevent any person
from joining the democratic party, il the only party
that could realize those sublime principles from which
system Of had sprung, and of which he had
trusted to the of the democracy and if tshould fail to
with them the hopes of every friend of liberty and human
ity If the union Of these States should be dissolved
everything upon earth would be osttc world selfwoud
sink into night of darkness upon which morning sun
would rise to inspire oppressed humanity with the
hope of another day of religious and civil liberty.
The have that