The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-08-15
New YORG, August IA, 1886.

have heard many wings as well as democrats
condemn the conduct OF Senator Davis in the sever
est terms. His extraordinary conduct cannot find
apoogiss, imagine, in any part of the United
States except among the grossly bgoted of his own
party. Some few wing prints excuse any thing,
and tolerate any of folly and injustice that
may promise party advantages. But party zealos
sometimes oyeract their part. This was Senator
Dayis's case. He has committed a fault which the
people of the United States will never excuse He
may be honored for such conduct in Massachusetts,,
but over the Union generally his course will be
branded for its injustice and outrage upon what was
due to the laws and interests Of the country, which
he has sacrificed to the rabld passion of party ran
cor.
And, pray, what capital can his party expect to
make from this reckless movement . If the war be
prolonged, peace be deferred and the burdens ofhe
country increased, do they suppose the people or
so blind as not 10 lay the blame where il belongs
on Senator Davis and his coadu 1t so happens
that Senator Davis belongs to that federal party
which, somehow or other whenever the country is
engaged in foreign war, are found thro wing obsts
cles IN the way OF their own government Their
sympathes If likely to benefit their party at home,
are found more in unison with the enemy than
with their own government Under professions Of
economy they labor TO plunge the country hopeless
y into debt, with the expectation that II may afford
pTeteXt for onerous taxation, IN the way Of bur
densome tariffs, &c. Weakened In their strength
people, some Of them in the northern and eastern
States seek an open alliance with the abolitoniss,
4 party which openly aYows its determination OF
dIssOlying the Union. Its organs-such the
Tribune and Albany Evening Journal, with 9TH
ers-are little better than abolition newspapers.
The latter yesterday justified the flight of General
Qutman's servant, induced by the combined wlles,
persuasion and stratagems Of unprlnclpled and I'M
sCTupulous abohtlonsts
With professions of sympathy for labor, they
raise mock "panlc" for political effect, in which
they are joined by few wealthy manufacturers
which is only calculated to cause hundreds Of indus
trIous either to be turned of, shaved in their
wages. At the present of the year, when
things are dull, the manufacturers take the oppOr
tunty OF reducing wages, or of turning oil hands TO
make votes for the autumn elections. They boast
of love of freedom, when they control the fran
chlse of the poor man by depnyIng han, or by
threatening deprive him, of bread. They talk Of
liberty Of opinion, when they enslave the mind and
body, by the power of Incorporated wealth. They
talk of justice, when they advocate laws which
taxes labor for the benefit Of capital.
repeat, that the proposition about slavery with
which the peace appropriation was sadded, was
unnecessary and uncalled for. This subject
had been three times previously geographically set
| tled and, ii hoped, foreyer-hrst, on the
| Missouri compromise; secondly, on the annexation
of Texas and, thirdly as respects the entire terri
tory Of Oregon. The entire territory Of Oregon,
stretching on the racine Tor seven degrees OF lat
tude-from 40 to 49o-had slavery excluded from
1t during the present session. II was acquired by
the money Of all the States, slave well free.
| Lewis and Clark with $50 picked men under their
command who explored it, went from Virginia.
State which had previously yielded to free States
vast territories west OF the Ohio river, also wresed
| from the Indians and French principally by her own
citizens Notwithstanding all this, Notwithstanding the
Missouri compact, which, suppose, extended to the
| Paclfc-notwIthsandIng all of Texas north of 800
was to be free rrltory-notwlthstandlng slavery
had just been prohibited from the whole of Oregon,
the JOINT property of all the States-at the last gasp
! Of the session we find this demon of dIscord unne-
cessarlly folsted on apeace appropriation and which
| killed it,
| IL California be acquired will it not be won by
the valor Of troops from all the States; lfpurchased,
will not be purchased by the money from all the
States If peopled will it not be, or ought it not to
| be- open to people of all the StaeSI
| Would it moth have been more wise and patriotic
to have waited till it was obtaned-until PROPOSE
tOn made TO organize 1t as United States terri
tory, and to extend our laws over it, before moot
| ing the question of slavery Nothing would have
| been lost to those who wished its ultimate exclu-
| sion. Urging II at the critical moment, and at n
time uncalled for, il only enabled a single man,
acuated by ultra party feelings, to infict meal
culable amount of mischief on the whole country.
For my part have no idea that nature has form
| ed any part of Oregon California as u suitable
ned Tor save laDOr, anu question WHelheT IL Will
ever reach either place to any considerable extent,
prohibited or unprecedented. | have no doubt that,
far slave labor is concerned, we are already IN
possession of the best field on the continent for its
exercise.
Recollect, too, that if California should ever con-
| stitute portion of the United States, 1t is real
| ly Of more consequence to the citizens OF the
| eastern States than OF the southern. More than 7OO
whale ships which will flock to the harbor OF San Fran
| cisco and Monterey, belong to our eastern breth-
rem; and they have more direct interest IN the an
nexaton of those fine Pacific ports than any other
| portion of the Union. Senator John Davis was,
| therefore, one Of the last men in the world who
| should have done anything to defeat or delay the
| measure-more especially as his present colleague,
| Daniel Webster, had done so much when he was
| Secretary of State to consummate the measure.
| And | will go farther and say that, in my opln-
| ion, those who abandon any part of the rich valley
of the Mississippi for the shores of the Pacific will
change for the worse. do not believe that anoth-
er spot the habitabe globe can be found so fertile
as these plains, especially in the upper portion OF
the Mississippi valley. A man who would leave
| Illinois, Iowa &c, with other western States IN that
quarter, for Oregon California would, it seems to
me- be willing to quit Paradise itself for wilder
| ness | have not been on the Pacific, but have
| been through the Mississippi valley several times,
| and have reason for believing it to be the garden
| spot Of the world. Our people may ramble as far
and as wide as they please, and they VIII ind no
| To make us happy and great, we want union
| with wise and equal laws. There Is spirit OF
| party rancor abroad which threatens the peace
| and union of the country; which, by aiIying
| itself with the demoniacai spirit Of tanaticiSm,
| becomes doubly dangerous In Its consequences
| to the country
This fanatica plague-spot of modern civilization,
while claiming white slaves in England to starving
want and heavy taxation on sugar for the support
of free lazy blacks in English West Indies, is in this
country openly seeking the subverson of the wisest
and best government ever formed by human wisdom.
| 1t is said the down trodden whites Of Enga pay
about { Is 900 900 annually, about S72 800 OO0 IN
| the way of duties on the consumption of sugar for
the benefit of" colored labor"'n British colonies
| poor man in this country gets good brown sugar at
s cents retail. In Eng lard, he would have to pay
from l6 to l5 cents per pound. There is abundant
sympathy for the " colored colonist," but nothing
beyond cold neglect for the want and misery of the
whites, bone of their bone and flesh of their iesh,
who groan in poverty and wretchedness around
| them. Thousands of the overtaXed whites starve,
faint, and die daily in London in their overcrowded
Iazar houses, denomnatod union and parish work
houses; vet the sympathy of the fanatics looks not