Trades' Unions … appear to us to represent some of the most striking tendencies, and to imbody some of the most dangerous heresies of the age. They exhibit, on a small scale, the disposition so widely prevalent in this country, to substitute the power of associations or parties for the authority of law, and to gain unrighteous advantages by means of disciplined and confederated numbers. … Dependant for all our order and future welfare on the due administration of law, we are yet constantly taking or submitting to measures which tend to prostrate the influence of courts and to over-throw the authority of magistrates. Allegiance to party is getting to be rewarded, we had almost said honored, before allegiance to country; while independence of individual opinion and feeling is crushed under the ruthless car of popular passion and prejudice. Is there nothing in such a state of things to excite alarm? Is it not time, more than time, that all who love their country should combine to stay the progress of dangerous errors, to allay the violence of faction, to promote kind feelings among the various classes of our people, and to build about our lovely heritage the sacred defences of piety and truth!