The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-09-24
MIR. Dallas,s sneech.

We lay before readers long and eloquent speech
Of the Vice President delivered at Pttsbug the 18th
inst 1t is distinguished by the force and ingenuity which
Mr. Dallas throws into all his productions His views OF
the tariff law OF AZ, and the law of '46,
and of the causes progress and consequences of the
Mexican war, are particularly strong and impressive
We cannot regard national bank-as Mr. Dallas seems
to do-as obsolete and extinct We regard it as scotch
ed, not killed." If the wing party should unfortunately
mount into power in 1919, shall probably another
effort made to resuscitae that abomnabe institution.
So ii was in 1884, although the wing convention in vir-
GINA had professed read the funeral service its
remains Let the wings be again in the ascendant and
on the very first preext of the slightest disturbance in
the money market, they will press national bank
The question Of constitutional power to create internal
improvements is stated by Mr. Dallas rather in an n.y.
pohetical form; and the principle is not fully traced
out; but we should have been happy if Mr.. Dallas had
given the weight OF his high in opposition to the
general principle itself
We cannot forbear to make single remark upon the
predominant question of the day-the Wilmot Proviso
and the Missouri Compromise Mr. Dallas does not hes
itate to signify his dissent to the Proviso and also
10 any compromise We are free to say, that whatever
might have been the state of the question before the
Missouri Compromse-however strongly the south did
object to any restrictions upon the settlement of territory
by the federal governmentand by whatever powerful ar
guments that objection then supported the practi-
question has since assumed important character and
change We expect liberal terms from the
citizens of the NORTH nor they expect less from their
brethren of the south. The present difficulty must be
settled as It was in lsl92O upon the principle of COM
PROMISE and as settled afterwards the case Of
Texas We know the spirit of the south on this ques-
ton and with all respect and attachment to the c
of the north, frankly repeat conviction
that the south will not recede from this position A
correspondent from Mobile, in letter which we re-
ceived last evening, expatates upon "the fixed and
unalterable determination of the slaveholdng States to
maintain their equal rights members of the confedera
cy We should not urge the Missouri Compromise as a
boon from the free States but another great sacrifice
of southern rights for the preservation OF the Union We
of the south ought not to buster much on these ponfs
but we take our stand, and never surrender
We sincerely hope that the citizens of the north will adop
the same basis calculated distribute among all the
portions of the confederacy equal burdens and benefits
This is the only practical basis which can again
adjust the dculty and doub, that both north
and south will meet on it, in the mutual spirit of conc
alton and compromise. II may take sometime to bring it
about. The letter Of Mr.. Buchanan is working with
great effect In fact, doubt that the question
will be settled, as Il in 1s10-'2o, in harmony and
peace between the various parts of our united and go
1ous republic.