The North-Carolinian., 1860-01-14
THE GREAT UNION PARTY HOAX

THE GREAT UNION PARTY HOAX ~
On the sixth instant, at Washington, thela was
furious attempt to create another party to oppose
the Democracy. John j. Crttenden was President
of the assembly. Of course he would be- ne las
lost his seat in the Senate and there is hope or
him except to try tangled scheme for .;is
promotion. The Washington correspond, At
of the Mobile Mercury is in estacies over the fac u
the proposed monsters success, and says: ..W
political party is born" Scarcely born, it is mei.y
an abortion. There is something appropriate ..A
suggestive in this Washington meeting. 1t is sas1
! that it was joint uniona and national Amer a
committee meeting. How expressive. So SAINTS
still alive and kicking e
Now what handy go this will be; at ono 14s
it will be the national American party rs II
and at another it will be the national union pa. a.
or the veritable Sam'-anything for office.-IssG
hazardous game, but the die is cast they have lost
their organization when Scott defeated Because
the people would not be deceived by Scott" the
Whig party dethroned and ever since they have
been going about like the Wandering Jew seeking
a resting place and finding none. What history
could be written about the schemes and changes of
opponents
Take it first from their Federalism, when the
Democracy called Republicans they even then
defeat us-imagining that assafoetida would emit
sweet aroma if it but called of jassamine.
Their first attempt at this was, to call themselves
Federal Republicans thinking and knowing that be-
cause of our purity of doctrine, the mere name
would be tower of strength This didn't last long
because the people would not be deceived. On far
ther they called themselves Wings This the
best strike of any-by virtue of the superior talent
of of their leaders, their principles though
not gaining any ground or favor in the breast of
the American people, nevertheless their men were
placed in high Offices. At last their statesmen and
talents fell and there being ground work of per-
manency in their political creed, their organization
was destroyed though the men that composed it
still remained. OF course men whose whole lives
were engrossed with the idea of political station and
power could not possibly remain inactive. The re-
suit was that Sam formed and the foreign born
citizens wasmade the Escape goat upon which all
sin were to be laid. English, Irish, Scotch, Jer-
man, and all foreigners to be deprived of the
sacred right of every freeman for the purpose of
elevatng men to office No sin was committed by
the poor who thus to be the target of their
ambitious malice but the fact that the green moors
of Ireland the heathery braes of Scotland the
classic bowers of germany, the fertile lands of
Ensiend the place of his Parsec,,.;cn
was lIc cry, not OF MS rellglOn alone
his act, but because of his birth, which
the act Of God and for this he to be perse-
cuted. AS in the former case this failed to deceive
the people, and Sans cry soon shown to be
mere bug bear-an abolition scheme-for so soon
it failed to take strong grounds against slavery
the organization of the party destroyed. And
we'll for the union it that it was DESTROYED for if
take the foreign population out of the conserva-
tive element of the north that section is hopelessly
abolition and anti-constitutional.
After this had failed, grand scheme was prepared
upon an extensive scale to unite the broken frag-
ments of Sans corporosity in great Opposition
organization-by which the abolition portion OF
Sans family in thef north and his pro-savery issue
in the South could smoke the pipe of peace
This theory had kind of short-lived notoriety,
but was ruthessly nipped in its inception by cruel
old John Brown, one of the extreme abolition
of SAM at Harpe1's Ferry. And now the game has
been nearly played out, the dying old Federal party
from its many changes and vcissitudes is about to
haveI final relief, and bury his political car
in secluded corner of the nations history
But look the expiring body moves, and just before
its life has fed forever, it makes strong effort to
tell the people of the United States that g it still
lives" A new scheme must be inaugurated and
final effort made by the old stagers and political
hacks to hoodwink the people-therefore Mr. Crit
tenden and few of the lesser lights, must be
brought out and make final stand upon another
name" The National Union Party.' OF course
Fillmore will heve finger the pie, for he says ..he
is opposed to slavery" What wonderful party
this proposed party must be. Let call it by
name once and done: Fcderaist-Federal Re
publicans-Whis- s-Know Nothing-Free soil Black
Republican pposition-National American-Na-
tional Union Party-there now let us take breath
after pronouncing it. If its good deeds were nu
merous as its names, there would be some virtue
in it.
IN A FIX.
We learn that Saturday night Brown SYM
pathizer very nearly made to try aerial swing
by of our young fellows. Itappears that fellow
called Huddleston, an Irishman, who worked on the
Coafield railroad, expressed his admiration of old