The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-01-06

them that beneath the soil Of every battlefield in our land
the bones of foreigners erumblng Dack 10 DUST
mingled with those 81 countrymen, each OF whom fell
in the mutual defence Of national rights and our ma
tonal honor
In their appeal TO religious preudices they did not
slider that bigoty and intolerance had dotted the
earth all with blood, and piled the martyrs ashes
worldwide round the stake And little indeed, did they
dream their brief hour Of pride and anticipated power
OF the hasy reaction to follow the unhealthy excite
ment which they had thus wrongfuy produced,
Sober judgment has looked that whole proceeding calmly
and fairly in the face and the scattered brotherhood
only found in the abolition camp goatng over the
bloody triumph obtained in but single State.
Next sprung up the practical application Of the doctrine
OF popular sovereignty In the Territories claiming no
less than that the people who settle Territory
shall right determine for themselves TO their
domestic affairs Up rose at once the whole host OF
democratic opponents and denounced II infamous,
border-rsan stakeholder scheme and they reoiced that
the principle Of the Issues in the presidential cleo
ton upon it democrat could by possibility stand
little time has upon this exciting subject majority
of the eemen Of the country have fully sustained IT. and
further time for cool reflection will place this denounced
principle in the historical record along with the Others SO
severely fought and in the end SO universally conceded to
be correct.
Thus we see the old tried democracy marching along,
and successfully applying the principles Of our asa to our
their way by the force of and patriotism the
guerilla bands which here and there assa them.
is elementary in the democratic creed Unsound alarms
may jose and disturb them, talsehood may lead them
astray, and canting hyprocries may for time unsette
@ ys guiding eS Of he
confident faith of the efficient force Of truth and calm re-
Election.
The faith of democrats has no analogy in the hearts Of
our opponents Their trust is in expediens and their
own selfish personal schemes and appeals.
Ponder the late declaration Of of their leading New
England journals when it was made evident that the
mar ofpa lad has Il
together much reliance upon Dipe Providence and too
little upon the documents and canpassing ssp the
aordnary of that leader of black republicansm
Can you realize it, gentlemen that party Of such extra
ordinary preensons will follow the guide Of those who
in the hour of disappointment will coldy and openly
pudate the guiding hand OF Providence2 Democrats OF
New Hampshire you lost confidence in that
seen yet present guardianship on hgh2 No! no
and you will until you look with indifference
upon the bending seal of the covenant in the heavens
was that power which created Washington for his time
and guided him and the army of the revolution safely
through that terrible conflict; that overriding power
which venerable Franklin invoked to guide the action
of that august assembly while framing national paa
dium-thc constitution 1t Providence that directed
the mind and hand of Jefferson to impress the early fathers
of the democratic party with those principles which will
make land the polar star to guide the oppressed Of
Other nations to the point Of political equality 1t the
kind hand which supported jackson in his day and
enabled him stay the onward and crushing of po
litcal corruption 1t that which has guided and pre-
served us nation through the fearful and dangerous
scenes which have passed. with the unerrng
led onward the hosts of Israel in the ancient wilderness
New England reject Provdencel But for the guiding
hand of Providence New England would be waste
and bowling wilderness Fancy if you will the old ship
Mayhower ploughng through the angry surges of the
reighed with those who to give an impetus to New
England which famine disease sterile SOIL and severe eli
mate could not impede She not bound to Plymouth
Bay; more genial climate her destined port which,
had she reached New England wds would now cover the
scenes of New England pride But that same Power SO
recently despsed changed her onward course and safe
" moored her in the rockbound harbor of Plymouth
Bay On her shattered deck stood those who under the
guiding hand OF Providence to lay the foundation of
that morality industry ugay, and perseverance, which
have made New England what she is
II is marvel that they remained here natives of milder
skies and bent for southern cline yet
seen power held them coast and sustained them in
their seasons u sad dependency Before them the
owning forest savage tribes dread uncertainty and the
gloom Of New England winter But they faltered not
cheered and sustained by the same kind Power which
brought them hther they resolved to persevere, and
Amidst the storm the Pilgrims sang,
And the stars heard, and the sea,
And the sounding asles Of the dim woodsrang
With the anthem Of the Free"
Let u.s. them as men and politicians, follow that marked
example, and trusting in the guiding influence of Proy
dence and our own faith in the ultimate success of truth
renewedy resolve continue untring exertons until
mountains shall again resound with the triumphant shouts
of the VICTORIOUS democracy.
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