The Washington union., 1857-06-12

would hand ii down TO all succeeding centuries, that
postery might recognise the fearful example and curse
the runous fanatcsm which could manifest itself IN such
exceSses. Applause.
But there yet another page in the annals Of the last
campaign page that would fain have stricken away
page that remains only a monument OF shame, and
SORROW and regret Ii the page that records the eal
ouses the chickering's and the divisions that rife
among certain southern politicians At the North it
natural that factions should have been divided and
subdyided but at the South you had common bond of
interest You, at least should have up in solid
column TO the attack All private feuds and all personal
difficulties should have been eectuay reconciled in the
presence OF impending danger that threatened all
alike Alas that it not so Alas that there were so
many willing 10 give cause of discomfort God knows
how earnestly and tremblngly of the North watched
your movements I
If there be here among you any members of the
called know nothing party wish their attention What
did they What end did they seek to accomplish
Did they that they betayng the interests of
their sectoni Or had they lived in darkness long
that they unable TO discern facts upon which shone
the light Of daye They style themselves the offspring of
the old whg party. Shall the living kick the dead
lion thus Whoever heard that the whig party pro
scribed religion birth place Know -nothingsm at
the North identical with aboonsm il had at least
the merit of partnership Know -nothingsm Mt the South
and lower, nasuch as il was the slave and
tool OF the other.
The position OF these two factions during the late
paign reminds of love affair that have heard Of IL
that their love mutual the lady, however be-
ing modest and retiring in her and the gentleman
having quite impeimcnt in his speech, aside from
which he was somewhat like myself very nid in love
matters laughter 4 however after waiting the young
lady some time he determined TO make declaration of
love all hazards opportunity having presented ITSELF
said he, sa-saSay, lc-lo-loye you and now s Sally
Tiff YOU love sa-sa-say The lady blushed and
hung her head bnt made then said he, if-if
YOU loolove me- sa-sa-Sally, and cannot sassay so,
extending his hand to her. then sqesqueeze
hand. Laughter and applause.
Ii is evident that the two factions strongly sympathzed
with each other and in instances that love was SO
strong that squeezing of the hands not sufficient to
express the mutual love that existed between them As an
evidence of it, will read extract from the
gan of the southern know-noting party, the Louisville
Journal:
STATE ELECTION IN IEpIsNA-0ur opinion is frequent
" asked by our American friends in Indiana to the
course they ought take in their October election They
have better means and doubt better able TO form
just opinion about them than are. Nevertheless
do not hesitate to assert very strong belief that
promote the great national which they and we
have alike at heart they should paA their thoe hearts sup
port Mr. Horton Ggaina Mr. ITLdTd for The Office f governor
Now who is this Mr. Morton happen to know him
personally renegade in politics. that has been
every side of question: openmouthed aboli-
onst As evidence Of this, here is the platform upon
which he stood when candidate for governor of the
State of Indiana
Reocad That we are uncompromisingly opposed to
the extension Of slavery and that utterly repudiae
the platform of principles adopted by the self styled dem
ocratic convention of this State endorsing ard approving
the Kansas and Nebraska niquy
admission any slave State into this Union formed out
Of the Territories secured to freedom by the Missouri Com
promise, or oltersrise 2
Who would have supposed that the great southern doc
tor would have recommended such dose for his
knownothng brethren whose palaes delicate And
vet these have the erontery to talk about southern
rights and southern interests and denounce northern de-
nocracy MS Untrue the constitution Oh Consistency
thou art jewell" How pitiable is the condition OF
men False the Bible the constitution and the
Union What have they gained but bankruptcy in poll
tics and infamy in reputation. They the offspring OF
the old whig party Where they while the Choates,
Wnthrops Reeds, and the Randalls of the North, to-
geher with the Patts the Pearces the Cys the Pesons
and the Benjamins OF the South striving against
that terrible host from whose dark and revolutionary
banner fifteen had been erased allen2 They the
offspring of the old wing party
Never let the existence of democracy at the North be
questioned Never will stand dumb and passive while
southeners ungatel enough deny the force OF the
northern democratic party. / proud to rank myself
among the humbest champions of that noble Your
fight meresham battle when compared with You
fought against opposition that distant; against
opposition that around hearth stones You,
home walked easily the bodies of miserable mi
nority; compelled TO win back the crrng and
misguided from the ranks of vaunted majority. You
fought against your natural enemies wEaganst friends
aud kindred father against son. and brother against
brother, In our high sense of duty knew tie of
relationship the tic of democracy Look back to the
contest in the Northwest behold in Illinois the unsaken
and hardy few gaining numbers and strength under the
leadership of Douglas! Look to Indiana the dear and
glorious State of my adoption and her when State af
State had been borne down upon the tide of fanati
cism when the enemy flushed with victory, had turned
their batteries upon her from every direction her bold
and gallant Bright and host of other distinguished
champions beating back the waves of fanaticism See
the invincible Ward-the statesman the orator, and
the masurrounded by army of earnest and devoted
patriots him rushing like human tempest the
disaected portions of his State and making the most in
credible efforts of that campaign which long
protracted battle; him. finally, pucking victory from
che very jaws of peril and the very throat of political
destructoni Virginia two at least, of thy daughter
States worthy of their mother
Look To Pennsylvania and New Jersey towering aoft
like massive beakwaters against the torrents of anaticsm
mo northern democracy do you sayl Did not suf-
fer all things and bear all in your behalfi No north
sfn democracy " Is not liberty democracy and did
not the triumph that seemed to the people the ber-
ty of self-govenmcnt No northern democracy r.
Foolish the mind that could conceive that sentiment
and false the tongue that could utter it. Go ask the
dragons Of republcanism, which shrink bafled,
| there is a northern democracy Go ask the Union,
which stands safe unsullied and majestic whether there
| is northern democracy Then ask yourselves where
would you have been to-day but for the northern
democracy Instead of this peaceful scene in which the
husbandman goes forth to his tllage and the merchant
10 his daily trafhc--in which the machinery Of govern
ment keeps its calm and tone-in which the evil
dences of progressive and prosperous civilization rise up
everywhere to astonish the gazing worldinstead of all
this, should have civil warSates torn by internal
dissensions and combating with States wthout-the
| morning fomy and the midnight confagration Rude
and unbridled mobs would be let loose the land !;