The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-03-10

which loom up from the face of the waters before they
begin to move, IN anticipation of presidential election
stormand like them disappears before steady gaze
the rising swell Of the true tempest
But II serious and susceptible OF perfect accomplish
ment this government could enforce it, it is the mos
nnwise unjust, unnatural unstatesman like
imagined even for the interests of the northern States
Northern gentlemen tell that their constituents demand
this exclusion OF slaves from newly acquired territory
that their children shall have ii exclusively home OF
freemen and not to work side by side with the slave
that this government shall not be made the instrument OF
extending slavery where does not now exist Then
SIR, let us suppose the most complete and positive and
perfect accomplishment of which the WILMoT provso
policy is susceptible, by its own nature, Independent OF
all opposition Lay aside the constitution and all memo
ry of the past and suppose all southern and States
asleep uled by the influence OF some deep charm orpow
erful political narcotic, and whstthey slumber draw your
political Gordon around the present slave States as to
render IT impossible for single slave to pass beyond and
force the southern population to rehow upon itself and
swell back from your unnatural barriers TO the Atlantic
This would be the perfect action of your WIoT provi-
policy, but not all its action. The avowed idea
end slavery, to get rid OF it in the southern States where
they admit they cannot interfere with IT'D BY rendering
vaueless by the immense proportional number and the
absence of all outlet Already by the last census the
diminish-the black tide had begun to ebb The WILMoT
provso TO start il again towards the food by combining il
to portion OF country whence slaves cannot be carried
but free white men can. Free negroes cannot No
will or can carry them abroad Your surrounding free
States will not receive those emancipated.
What would they do with mllions' The Immediate ne
cessary, and contemplated result is, that the black race
must increase in the slave States until the few remaining
whites would have to abandon the States themselves to
the blacks. II irresistible result flowing from the
difference of race and the laws of population You would
thus abolish slavery by extnguishng white people
half your country. sgE .sa
Gentlemen might then return TO their northern consttu-
ents and congratulate them that their work dome
that they had taken to eff ctually abolish
slavery in the southern States by exiting the whites.
Independent OF any feeling of humanity, Justice,
patriohsm-any kind trace OF remembrance of
language, origin, and ancesy--any lingering feeling of
pride in common achievements, common government,
and common glory-as mere matter OF cold, calculating
sell inerest, would your constituents overwhelm you
with gratitude when you told them, 81 have succeeded
in your WISH and have opened TO your sons alone the
broad prairie the high mountains the dark of the
middle continent and the barren shores of the Pacific,
without the contact OF the slave, but not without cost
! He must be competed with in this domain by his
southern brother driven from his home wanderer and
exile by this Your children in acquiring this
new right have lost anoher-her equal inheritance and
right to possess the fruitful soil and sunny skies OF your
own country from the Delaware TO the Rio Grande from
the Arkansas TO the Chesapeake Our have CIV
en- all that wide region to be the empire of negrodom
We have given II over to people who never yet were
capable OF seligovernment-who existed in order,
peace or society, except in state of slaverywho,
and ungoverned must in the absence OF
white influence relapse to barbarism complete-who
will make the southern country abandoned by the whites
scene OF ideness, disorder confusion, and dapdaon
no home for you or your children Your near and rich
and natural market IS gone-your customers gone
We have driven out your old and natural allies in peace
and in war-those who patiently bore the taxes of your
fight and die for your soil their own-your rights
their own-whose swords would leap from their scab-
bards to defend well your just right to the last frozen
iceberg of the farthest northern State for the land OF
the sun: all these are gone into exile We have passed
law designed 70 rum them, and inevitable If e6ectuqi
schools estblished-all the institutions OF humanity and
civilization gone, and gone forever from the whole
south, as the price OF your much, privileges in
Mexican deserts and mountains. One half the republic
dead, not parayzed but dead and corruptng and yet
adhering eless to you the living half and there
must adhere oathsome burden for ages yet to
the price OF your unnatural uss for exclusive domn-
beg gentlemen, when they render their accounts, to
render them truly and trace out all their results that they
may the full measure OF praise and gratitude which
may be their due. They advocate measure, the high
est praise of which s that ii is wholly mpracticabe; but
the necessary incidents Of which are d.scod dssasfae-
ton, division, and embarrassment OF counses, which
should be united in the prosecution OF the meas
ure which must fail and fail mserably-which has the
venom of the serpent, but not the tangs-whch devel
ops impoen spte and excites i'll blood by its malgnty,
and contempt by its impotency measure which, if
could succeed must be terrible and annhlatng ats
uccessdesructve to the party stricken, and paralysis to
the party striking The right striking off the left in
anger, producing impotence and possible death to the
whole system.
The gentleman from New York, [Mr RArupuN,l must
have felt consciousness that the people required
some rousing to this fatal work-that they not
pressing enough upon their and that per-
haps the storm would not rise, which he predicted, with
out some and from the representatives in Congress, when
he went beyond the question to spirit of sectional
lnTee-InS OF eve
y slave represented here and that if taken separately
from the white men, they would make "a representa-
ves of slaves only this floor What inference is to
be drawn from this1 If the slaves had been represented
man for they would be if free, they would have
given us forty instead of wentyfou But whether
or less, what argument be drawn from it Not,
surely, that we should give up the rights for which we
stipulated by the compact that the north forcbly
deprive us OF them but that in the opinion of the gentle
its terms to the north, and should be dissolved That is
the only legitimate inference which be drawn be-
cause the apportionmcnt OF representatives was cond
ton precedent to the Union itself IL ia that without
which it could not and would not exist When our an
cestors found themselves free and possessed OF slaves
and the northern States without any with few and
Ia Union proposed, II not asked that they
should give up their property. They would not
have united upon such terms. But arrangement
made upon that subject without which you
would not now have the power to egslate over us,
or the equal privileges with ourselves when you come
among BY it you acquired the right to tax us,
and to close our harbors and make us fight your bat
ties. and for this you agreed to give equal priv
leges and certain proportion of representation. You
cannot alter the without abandoning the other
II is the condition of the bond By it the Union exists
united you cannot claim back all you conceded and keep
your power acquired over tits idle to speak OF rep
resentaon. on gave because your interest to
give it. You wanted free harbors and to our
purses and equal privileges You wanted our strength
in war--our market always. You wanted the same in
Texas. You bought il by the compromises of the con
stuton. You cannot retake them without destroying
all We have not complained that your freed slaves
have equal political weight with free white men. No
southern man State has asked that the new country
should be made exclusively slave territory. When you
complain OF slave complain of the