The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1845-03-18

luot many VINO call themselves ways, nave 10 IAct
ioog entertained and most i0s!diousy disseminated the
doctrine Of .aboltiom or, in other words resso~
the Union, we have long known and proclaimed
through our columns. Il was this feeling which
banded together the editor of the Tribune aud many
(not ally OF his associates in 1889, AID enabled them
to defeat the nominal ion Of HENRY CLAY, at Hsr
rsburgh and 1t was this feeling and this Design which
defeated Mr.. CLAY 10 this State 10 November last,
and thus second time cheated him out Of the Presi-
dency; and it is this feeling which now prompts the
Tribune and certain affiliated presses in this State
occupying prominent positions in the Wing party,
openly TO throw of the mask and call upon the w higs
TO hoist the bonner Of 4bOlltonis We have not been
unmindiol Of their proceedings, and we now charge
them with DOUBLE 1REAsON-treasOn TO the Union,
ard treason TO the Wing party
"Ireason to the Union is a serious charge 10 bring
against any man or set of men; but whenever a man
aims to perperate act, which, if successful, ne
CT ssarily dissolves the union of these States-we
care not whether he calls himself Wing, Adolf
tonlst Fourerte, or an advocate OF FANNY
WRIcHr's infamous social system-the two latter be-
ing synonymous-he is unquestionably traitor to
the Union. k
Our union is one of compromise and concession, in
which those who constituted it, saw much evil bu.
calmly and deliberately submitted TO the evil, to Sc
cure TO themselves to their poserty and to the whole
human race, the much greater good which it proms-
ed, and has thus far PROFESSIONALLY secured. The
majority of those who formed our Constitution and
abhOrred Slarery quite much do any of their de
scendants. But they knew that without recognition
Of Slavery in the States where it existed there could
be no union and consequently, none Of the blessings
II confers,-whiie at the same time Siave,y would
continue to exist the Southern States as we'll With
out as with unon and thus its evils would be per-
petuated under any circumstances, while the manifold
blessings of union, would be lost to each aud every
Of the separate and independent soveregnties. They
knew too that this moral pest one Of those
for which human ingenuity could devise no remedy,
for the simple reason that emancipation was abso-
lutely impracticable-he two races being unable to
live In the same states footing of equality, where
their numbers equal or largely in favor of the
blacks while transport the blacks out of the coun
try was q moral imposbility. Thus thinking, and
having at heart the welfare and future prosperity of
the whole country, our fathers-wise men and patr-
OTIS they most assuredly wersagreed to the exist
ing Union with the slave states guaranteeing to them
their peculiar institutions but stipulating that the
slave trade should cease in twenty years; that is,
in 1905
That their decision Just one, and that it has
resulted even more favorably than those who so de-
liberateIy adopted it ventured to anticipate, mat
ter of history. But whether good bad such is the
history of our Union-such the circumstances under
which it was made, and such the reasoning which
led to it, We have consequently, ever found the
law-loving and patriotic men of the North-whatever
their horror of Slavery and however great their
friendship for the Slave-srenuously clingng to the
Union the sheet anchor of our individual and
tional prosperity and deprecating the slightest inter-
ference with the constitutional rights of the South in
its slave property, violation OF the condition of
Union, and treason 10 its eristence. Nothing can be
more obvious than, that whenever the North through
its greater strength violates the Fundamental condi
ton upon which the Union established that union
is at an end Such is the compact. That compact
made by our fathers after duly calculating the
palue Of Union and it only be annulled by
L.
right to do whenever deliberately arrive at the
conclusion, that DIsUNIoN is preferable to comp-
ance with the conditions upon which UNION was es-
tablished Are the North ready for this! Does not
common sense teach them that disunion would only
be surrender on our part of the benefits Of Union
while leave the institution of Slavery precisely
where it now Isl Would 1t not be giving up GER
tain benefit, without obtaining in return solitary
advantage for ourselves or for the bondmen Of che
South
To illustrate practically, the precise nature of
the union Of these States let US suppose that A. B,
and propose to enter into partnership-A and B
bachelors, and c married man. Now suppose A
and object to the partnership the ground that
is married man but finding that viii not put
away bis wife, arrive at the conclusion that il is their
interest to enter into the apgement leaving to his
wife Well, the copartnershp goes into operation
| and proves highly profitable; hut after a lapse OF
years and give notice to that he must repudi-
ate his wife will it be conended by any man,
that has not right to declare the copartnershp at
an end if and thus insist upon violating the ex-
press condition upon which be acceded to III Ger
tany not And il is with the institution of SLAVE
ny at the South 1t was the condition Of the Union of
the States; violation o! it is Disunion and the ad-
vocate OF such violation, traitor TO the Union.
With regard 10 the institution of slavery no one
can hold il in more adherence than do, without
for moment giving credit to all the false representa-
tons Of the cruelty of the slave owner de-
- 49, 49,
midest form, II IS curse upon the land ind the peo
pie where it exists-a however, which they feel
most who are compelled to submit to it-a curse en-
tailed upon Us by the grasping cupidity of England
and for which neither the philanthropy nor the inge
nuity Of man. has as yet, been able to devise RENE
dy, Such we know, too, is the opinion Of each and
every of our associates but we all feel and have
ever argued that it is not lawful CONSTITUTIONAL to
attempt any interference with it. Its regulation be-
longs solely TO the Legislatures or the respective
States and interference from any other quarter is as
we have before said, treason TO The Union.
Texas once admtted-what was the remedyi-
The answer is plain--DisUNIoN. For this we were
not then we are not now, and never will be pre-
pared. Such remedy, every Wing in Congress, and
every honest Wing and true patriot throughout the
land considers Tar than the evil il seek, To
amend; and therefore, like good citizens and good
men-scting as patriots who ever consider The wei
fare oil the country as paramount to sef-they have
with one accord, acquiesced as fathers did, in
lesser evil to secure a greater good.
Not so however, the .4bohtionists lurking in our
ranks Not so the fanatics, the Fourieries and So
c'aisfs who having wormed Themselves into the con.
hdence Of the Wing Party, seek to distract and de-
stroy IT. and with It, that inesmable UN,o TO which
the Father of his Country so emphstcally besouebt
us TO cling as our only SAT- guard against dssensons
within, and the enemies of human liberty Without
Surely these developments will not be los,
upon the few hotbeaded politicians of the
South, who have been betrayed into rash ex-
pressions against the perpetuity Of the Union !
And surely none of our Democratic friends
of the North will suffer themselves TO be found