The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-10-21

lions Of the Inielligenesr points connected with
party polites believe that IN the very same letter
which the InteIigeneer quotes make out these It's
monstrous charges against Mr. Jefferson, he uses
the following language
"Thsir estimated raius property "a the frs place
(or actual property has been IalejaHy Uesied ." ai
FORM and 1ho can acally take lrom the possssso'sF)
at en- average Of two hundred dollars each, young
and old, would amount 10 SIX hundred millions OF
dollars, which must be paid or lostby somebody"
And again, in reference to his view Of the work
ing Of his plan, be adds as Hu.."H
"In this way no pOiaiOn Of private gh Is proposed
Volunayy suyrsndrs would probably come IN as fast
as the means TO be provided for their would be
competent 10 IT," ..... ......
And further, in reference TO the participation Of the
federal government in tho plan suggested by him, he
adds that the subject involves constitutional scru-
ples" "bui amendment Of The constitution may go
The VhOls length Necessary"
These words occur, not only in the very letter
which the lnteAigenoer cites, but absolutely on The
very same pages Of the volume, and in immediate
connexion with its citations. more monstrous
defamation of an iustrious statesman than Is con-
tanned in the ntellgencers charges (made in the face
Of this language that Mr. Jefferson held property in
slaves not to be property, aud to be wholly at the
mercy Of the federal government, we have never yet
seen But this is not all. The letter to John
Holmes, Of April 22d, 1920, which the lntsllgencer
cites to show that Jefferson held opinions Identical
with those Of the sboliiionsts of the present day.
and constituting the "sum and substance Of sboli-
tonism"-this very letter to Holmes written
to protest against hs geographical line" drawn by
the famous Missouri compromise, and contains the
following passage in relation to the extension of
slave ierritoryi H... ..
"of one thing am certain, that as the passage Of
slaves from one State to another, would not make
slave OF single human being who would not be 90
without IL, their diffusion a greater surtacs
you'd make them individually happier, and proper
uonaly facilitate tho accomplishment OF their
cipatioD, by dividing the burden on greater num-
Der OF eoadjutors. An abstinence too from this act
ofpo~er, would remove the jealousy excited by the
undertaking Of Congress TO regulate the condition
OF the different descriptions of men composing
State. This certainly Is The exclusive right Of srery
State, whieh nothing in The constitution has taken from
them and given 10 the general goUernnsni. Could
Congress, for example say, that the non-freemen OF
Connecticut shall be freemen, that they shall not
emgraie into any other Statei"
In the face Of this language the Intelligenser is
audacous and reckless enough to charge Thomas
Jefferson with acting on the same political platform
with the modern sbolitionists. The force Of the
most INSCRIPTIONS calumny can go no farther.
And now to uhai end is IL that the national organ
OF the wing party at the seat OF government,
strides straight with desperate hsrdihood through
such series Of palpable, monsrous, and easily de-
tected untruths, to charge Thomas Jefferson as act
ing or the principles and in the spirit Of the modern
sboliuonists We cannot believe that the Inte-
gencer is so utterly lost to all sympathy in the glory
Of the American name, thus to blscken and cry
down, perhaps, the very most illusrious statesman
this country has produced tci,hota some purpose
What is that Purpose' What can it be but to in
woke, at least one great into the dark muster
roll OF the abotionisls, TO the end Of aleyistng
portion ofthe infamy which the whg allies Of that
journal in New England seem now to be counting,
by their systematic advances towards political
amalgamation with that anatca and infatuated sect
We summon the lntelligencer to shoe cause for its
cslumny. We demand, in the name Of all the peo-
pie Of America who prize and reverence the name
Of Thomas Jefferson, that the Intelgencer shall dis
close the purpose with which it has thus outraged
public sentiment by seeking to heap the disgrace of
modern abolitonism upon his veneraed grave. Till
other cause be shown-till other purposes be dis
closed-we charge that have OWNED the Intelli-
gencers motives Alright in concluding that it labors
thus to lift up abolitionism into a fictitious and
false responsibility in order to conceal the blast
ing shame of the union, which is now pro-
jected between the New England wings and the or
ganized aboiuonists, in order to erect fatal party
ascendency upon the PROSTATE pillars of the consi-
tuition!
We shall pursue this most important subject
through some farther developments to- morrow.