The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-08-26

the article proceeds: "Our national character, our
best consciences, our duty all weigh nothing in the
scale Of slavery, against the pride and ssshnes Of me
master. The Instrument called The constitution, otter
ronoumcing all equal and having equal rights, s
srs slavery er free coiored person 10 be denied all
political rights, and, after declaring that all free
persons shall enjoy free intercourse sciih The
States, suffers the free negro 10 be driuen out q
all and excluded from such rights. Deliver me
from instrument thus partial, thus unjust, that can
be thus perverted and made TO sanction preudices and
party feelings, aud note the accidental distinction q
color" We think nothing from the North can beat
this. The Western apostle ranscends, if possible,
his mission. But again, as to the necessity of our
being civil and submissive to our friends the aboli-
onsts, and the danger of restiveness on our part:
1.-THE shareholders must calm themselves into
just thinkers, and 10 provoke the northern free
States By putting them at defiance IN Congress and out
"They must look upon aboitionists as enthusi-
asts il they will but also as in earnest, and in de-
sign, at least, as real patriots. The aboitonist is
becoming reckless the shareholder, phsn thus pro-
poked and may add violence and injustice 10 his course
that intended to be mild and eoncilaory" Very
rational and prudent advice. Submit quietly, the
matter will be forced upon you. But we quote
farther the following pregnant sentences: sit Is IN
vain for the TO try fence his dear slaves in
from all intercourse with the great world to create
his little petty and tyrannical Kingdom on his own
plantation. and keep it for his exclusive reign. He
cannot shut out the light Of information, any more
than the light Of heaven. II will penetrate all dis
guises, and shine upon the dark night of slavery
lie must recoiitct that he is surrounded. The North,
the East, the West. and the South border on him
the free West Indian, the free Mexican, the free
Yankee, the than free aboliionists Of his oten
country. Everything trenches upon his infected district
and the tcoif looks calmly IN upon his fold" We were
mad not to listen to warnings like these. We have
quoted these passages to prove the thorough dent-
ty between the doctrines and objects of this paper
and the worst principles of the Observation-Disclosures Of
the North. Here is the assertion of the equality of
the African under the constitution, and the re-
pudialion of the practical working of the instru-
ment: "Deliver me from an instrument thus partial,
thus unjust--that can be thus perverted Here,
too is the threat to the MASTER Of the consequences
of the light and information shat The more than free
abotitionsis" of his own country are pouring upon
the negro mind.
When we contemplate the mild form of negro
slavery in this disrictthe happy, and peaceful, and
conented relations of the master and the slave,
where such thing as cruelty was scarcely known,
where the master was without fear or dstrust, and
the lied, well-clothed, intelligent slave bent to
his lot of labor--the lot by the way, Of all man
kind--without repining, regarding his master ra-
Their in the light of parent, and himself neces-
sary and no mean portion Of the family--we could
pour curses on the fends who would break up the
intimate and not the least endearng relation Of do
nestle life, and, when all was peace and midness,
plant discord, and fury, and fiery hate and render
cruelty necessary policy on the one side, by ncul
eating disobedience as principle on the other.
But we must hasten with our proof In the same
days paper an editorial appeared backing the
sonng ofthe article to which we have referred and,
by brief recapituaton of violated law, trampled
constitution, the triumph Of brute force over moral
right the Justification Of the great principles Of the
revolution all illustrated by "savery the most ur,-
the lowest, the basest that the world has
seem" and winding up with the following extraor-
weep, and the man Of reflection maddens in the con-
temptation of our national apostacy there are men
pursuing gain and pleasure, who smile with con-
tempt and indifference at their appeals. But rsnen-
ber you who dosu in marble palaces, that there arc
strong arms and fiery hearts, and iron pixies in the
streets, and pones Of glass only bst,cesn them and the
silver. plate on the board and the smooth skinned
connn on The ottoman, When you have Knocked
at virtue, denied the agency of God in the affairs
of men, and made rapine your honeyed faith |;
tremble, for the day of retribuion is at hand
and the masses will be avenged" Here is more
light and knowledge thrown upon the negro's mind,
and horrible fires kindled in his already "fery
heart" by the hand ofthe daring incendiary, the
audacious emissary of the "more than free aboli-
ZIONIST" Reused and alarmed by these atrocities,
and determined no longer TO endure the presence of
an armed abotionist, hurting his frebrands of
murder and Of lust into the bosom Of peacefel and
polished city, number of the citizens of Licking
ton undertook the task of remonstrance. To a
mild, wonderfully mild request to discontinue
the paper, the naughty and infatuated fanatic res
ponded in terms of outrage, unparalleled to the COM
mittee of gentlemen who waited on him, denying
the right OF the citizens to consult together such
a subject and denouncing the meeting, which had
opened correspondence with him, as a cowardly
conclave ofprates, robbers, and assassins and as
signing, as the ground of their excitement, the up.
prehensiun that their power was about to be taken
away from them. The editor himself has published
this correspondence, appended to handful, which
appeared before the call of this meeting Of the peo-
meeting referred to. The whole together proves
either that G.. M. Clay is a mailman, or that he
meditated and has prepared himself for civil war,
in which he. expected the Notwithstanding labo-
rcr, along with the slaves to flock to his standard,
and the war ofaboon to,begin in Kentucky. That
we may not be suspected Of that extravaganza which
we charge on him. we quote from his letter the clos
ing sentence $50 tell your secret concave Of cow
ardly assassns, that G. M. Clay knows his rights,
and how to defend them" To this he appends an
appeal addressed to the Kentuckans. That we may
not be suspected of garbing, we insert this extra.
ordinary summons:
"KENTuoKAss: You see this attempt of these tyrants
than the thirty dsposs who orded Il over the once
men who regard all their liberties be sacrificed
single pecunary interest to the least of doubtful
valuelovers of jusceenemies ot hloodabarers Of all
ciassesycM for Whom hare sacrificed much Where uiH
yon Be found ohen his hattie bersen liberty and siary
b. foughR cannot will not dare question which
side you will be found you stand by like men,
country shall yet be free but you altsr now perish
with less regret when remember that the people Of my
native State, Of whom have been proud, and whom
have loved SO much, already slaves.
&C. NJ. CLAY.o
That this infatuated man believed that the non
of Kentucky would feel and act as a
party against the tenure of slavery and that through
hem he expected TO change the constitution of Ken
lucky, and finally overthrow the institution, is evil
dent from one his letters to the Tribune That he
should have calculated on kindling the flames Of
civil and servie war, and rayng free laborers and
negro slaves under his standard would seem incred.
ble; yet his acts and his words can bear no other
"Laborers of all classes--you for
whom have sacrificed so much--where will you
be found when this battle between liberty and slave
~ is to be Fought If you stand by me like men,
bur country shall yet be free; but If you falter,
PERISH" &c.
Such man, and such course, are no longer toler-
able or consistent with the character safety Of the
With the power Of press, with edu-
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