The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-10-20
A NEW POLITICAL LAW.


The public are Interested in every scheme which
the politicians devise for their government. The
Tribune thus dscoses the basis Of corporations be-
tween the republicans and Americans between Mr..
Brooks and Mr.. Greeley
Whenever two hitherto adverse parties agree to
unite To PROSTATE enemy it plain that their
candidates must be chosen partly from each and ~ Is
the clear duty either not present likely TO be
specially obnoxious to the other II Americans in any
district accept republican for Congress- republicans
accept American they have right to the choice OF
men. 5
Under this rule, if the integrity and good faith of
the leaders can be relied on, difficulty in
bringing together the most hostile and discordant
elements Christian and Mahometan, Catholic and
Protestant Pagan and Mormon. A social union,
based upon such principles, would summary fuse
oil the conflicting opinions of society. IL would
not perhaps elevate the rogues to the front rank,
but ii would surely degrade the upright and the well
disposed to very low plane Of character and life
Applied to religious institutions, it would soon do
away with long sermons about sin and immortality,
and decide questions Of orthodoxy existing between
hitherto adverse parties the admirable principle
that right should be subservicnt to policy. This
principle carried into the iury-box would work
marvellous change in our whole system of judicial
administration, and quickly get rid Of that incum-
brance upon rogues our criminal Jurisprudence.
The jury no longer required under the legal charge Of
the Judge to canvass the testimony would be guided
by the first ballot and IN the spritof the very bland
est concession adopt the conclusions of the weakest
party as their final verdict in the 1t is mani
fest that tho Tribune has made great discovery.
Under we cannot how there can be any more col
lisions in Broadway, any more disputes in Tammany
or even any more conflicts between criminals
and the detectives. Would the Tribune have any
objection to extend its dispensation to the abolition
lists proper, the woman s-rghs party, and the Lat
ter Day Saints? "happy family" might. be gath
cred in this way which would be absolutely over
whelming Tho latter, too, can hardly be called sad
verse parties" They are in pursuit of the same
great objects which the republicans would accom-
plish-the dissolution Of the American Union, on Mr.
Lncons dogma that free and slave labor are incom
patibc elements in the same government. But the
Tribune has present and future policy it looks to
means and to ends 1t seems clear enough to that
journal that it is not safe to enter hostile city till
its inhabitants have been subdued 1t proposes
to open the gate rather than scramble over ito
use the Americans in its weakness and cast them
aside in it's strength. The Tribune engineers do
not intend to risk an assault upon adverse parties
an long as there is a chance of undermining them by
the skill of diplomacy.
Every general knows the danger of arming his
enemies and investing them with command over
his divisions Mutual distust, jealouses and ulti
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liable in each party, and ending in the demoraiza-
ton Of both We predict this result Of the forrnida
BILE union of the mercenary troops of the republicans
and Americans. They are bound together alone by
the prospect Of public plumber. They meet on
that basis, which they avow to the country, de-
claring that it is union of adverse parties solely
with view of gaining possession Of the public Of
fees. The democracy stand between them and the
triumph Of their cherished doctrines Of Sectional
ism---doctrnes which look to the practical disfran-
chisement Of the people Of the slave States and, of
course, to the overthrow Of the government Their
great object can BIO reached, then, only over that
PROSTATE organization. Herein is the cohesive
force that untes for the day republicans and
Americans. In this way they propose to open the
gates and to subdue the inhabitants of the city
before sacking and burning it. They combine upon
principles of treason to the constitutions but they
will meet the scepess sentincls Of the democracy,
and, in every great battle involving the integrity
and safety Of the Union, they will be signally ovor
thrown The base Of their operations is too limited
to compass the ends they have in view. They may
fall upon an outpost and demosh it, they may carry
a State here and there but it is reserved to the
friends Of the constitution to win those victories
whose results command the citadel Of the federal
government