The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-03-27
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
SATURDAY NIGHT, MARCH 81, is47.
u, Calhoun's Movement against National Co"veh

The Charleston Mercury of Tuesday morning brings
nc the full report of Mr. Calhouns speech, recently de-
vered at Charleston which we republsh at length IN
his evenings Union In the leading article OF the Mer-
crr NJ the next day. upon the general subject, we
find the following passage
r,v .Tylo," AND THE 'MERcURy"-ln noticing the re-
marks which have felt il oar dnly 10 make upon te
course pursued by the Washington Union III ier9 70 s We
Wilnoi Droviso is editor AS 10 our alleged hdii-
terence 10 the Wmo proyiso the Mercury, II II reas our
columns OF ALL must kaop hnt Us charge Is JUST uie reverse
Str Now we cannot far forget our seli-resPec or The
nroprictes OF position, as to handy ephels win ue
tor by eharacterzing this remark as deserves bul
@ say 10 him. that what assert we are prepared to
Move and so lar have alleged against HIM dere-
con olduy southern man, aud as the edof Oh pro
% southern press in concealing from the people of the
oh me mminence OF the danger which threatens them
py ~ ,ebuking their assailanisby communion and fell
inwp with those who willing and seeking TO sacrifice
nhefn RIGHTS and the guarantees OF the constitutions iol
% aain'nent of political power-and by the advocacy OF
policy which, if sucee-sli must inevitably PROSTATE the
soh manacled and helpless AT The feel OF her enemies
,r a we have, made these allegations, have album
dnnt evidence to sustain them And we shall produce ihs
evidence as rapidly other claims upon our columns WIN
prn TO The Satisfaction Of the editor of the Union
at least of every impartial and unpreIudiced MIND
These charges against the Union of "derehchon OF
duty 10 the SOUTH" we pronounce-one and alas
sheer calumny from the beginning to the end we DEFY
the Mercury to promised proofs and TILL that proof be
poduced we brand that journal before the people, as
reckless or wilful calumniaor Once for all, we spurn
with contempt the claim of the Mercury to SIT IN Judg-
ment upon our fidelity 10 the rights and the interests OF
the southern States We learned that lesson of fidelity
early and in the best school of such teachings, and we
learned it By heart We have pracsed that fidelity long,
and in LOYAL devotion to the of our federal Union,
to the sacred guarantees and compromises OF the const
ution and to the integrity and harmony of the great
If thp which, III,
and most of all, as we believe and trust, that Union,
with all its compromises and guarantees, is TO stand
strong From the first and to the last, have rejected
and condemned the doctrines of the Wilmot provlso.
With faithful and unseeping energy, have bat
tied in support of the present administration, IN
its steadast maintenance of the rights of the
south, and in its effort TO carry out those great
measures of democratic policy, which the Democracy
of the south has always cherished most cardinal and
most dear In steadast opposition to the Wilmot pro-
vso, we have planted ourselves and still stand upon
the platform OF the Missouri compromise-whch has
been recently reafmed by the resolutions OF the Virgil
MIA legislature amended by the Senate, and subse-
quenty adopted by both housesthe principles of which
compromise the south has desire to disturb and which,
bar TO most perilous sectional agitation, should, in
our Judgment be held sacred by all parties and by both
sections Nor is this position new one On the
% of May, 1874, when the Texas question was before
the people in the drew and offered the reso-
luons then adopted by the great democratic association
OF Virginia. assembled at Shockoe Hill. Among these
resolutions were the following, which marked out dis
,incty this same ground OF the Missouri compromise:
Resolred That protest against the proceedings of the
anti-annexaon meeting, which took place in the city OF
New York the 9th Apr that we deeply regret some of
its President Albert Callan, esq, and that we soemnly
protest against the 10th resolution, which would cut oil the
Of any That resolution is calculated to place
the southern and southwestern States under the ban OF the
guards (io be eeced) against slavery and by unqual
iorbddng the admission OF any pew saveholang State
that may be established within the Territory OF Texas and
The more especially ms that immense region which extends
from Missouri to Oregon is north of the 36A degree of la
Clay and destined to the special uses and behes OF the
nonslavehodng States, who may out only four
love of power may prompt them establish within that
tenye Terrory-thus overthrowng the whole balance Of
tender mercies OF the aboltonists of the north.
Reored, That some otthe positions of Mr.. CLAWS letter
OF the 18th April, calculated TO countenance The
idea which is ncucaed in the resolution of the meeting of
New Yorko abrde The capacity OF Texas for being in
OF the compromises of the constitution and we only
protest against any such partial doctrine, but will resist its
any sanction to such doctrine should have been afforded
bya man who Is candidate for the presidency, and him
sell u resident OF kentucky, ana a STAKEHOLDER.
With such proofs of past and present position, up
on this whole subject and with the record of whole
political life unknown to the south to back Them we
trample under feet with scon, the sanderous fabr
cations OF the Mercury, which would charge us with
recreancy with Indifference to the equal rights of the
south secured by the constitution Nor will we con-
descend 10 notice now, at length, the aitorous and in
cendary efforts, which, from the very commencement of
the present administration, the Mercury-with Demo
cratic professions all the while upon its lps-has con-
stantly made to SOW the seeds of division and dis
cord in our Democratic councils. Months ago. we pro-
placed record the fact, that it stationed an English
scbber Washington to defame and abuse the Presi-
dent and his Administration Months ago. and while its
recreancy was fresh in the minds of ALL we warn
ed the Democracy against it journal I'M
worthy OF heed or trust-as enemy in disguse-as
tool of Federalsm-and for at least in the name
OF the democracy welcomed its abuse as a certificate
OF merit, and deprecated only the odum and the shame
OF its alliance No subsequent movements of its treach
cry to the democratic pary-neher its reckless and i'm
beetle charges against the administration in the matter of
the war, It's recent honeyed Establishments with
the Philadelphia North American (the very Yahoo of the
Federal press,) were needed 10 confirm Judgment of
curry We turn from the puppe TO the present pull
Ter of its wires
In his speech at Charleston Mr. Calhoun processes to
review the whole extent of the danger which, as he al
eges, threatens the institutions and interests of the