The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-04-04

ienng ourselves to be sated by this miserable dispute
ABOUT local nteress-this execrable slang about sboi
uoh ana the south Is il possible that we canno,
come forth IN the majesty of the nation but that some
despicable bird OF Ill omen should attempt to dash
the general oy-to defeat the cordial congratulation
of one great nation to another, and that some absurd
fanatic should get up to croak and remind the
world of our little differences OF interests and
opinions' Shame-shame upon the fanatic who can.
not for single moment feel American, and as the
great friend of catholic liberty As General Bayy said
in the reply to Mr. Giddngs yesterday we cannot listen
TO such discordant notes, without Indignation which
cannot find words to express We repeat, can
not we extend our hand of fellowship to France, whou
insulting each other Are we not all citizens of the same
great country Is il not possible that move
together in the greatest OF all causes which interests thu
whole human race Cannot we, for one moment forge
the local feelings which partially separate us Cannot
we come forward with heart and one hand to bid
rising people all hail to her efforts
We could not conceive possible that SO disgracefu
80 narrow, despicable attempt should have been
made to weaken the movement in favor OF France by
compelling the representatives of nearly half the States to
either against this odous resolution or to vote 70,
measure which attacked and outraged their own
feelings.
We will insult no wing member by even the suspicion
that any of them should participate in the feelings Of
Mr. Joshua X. Gddngs. AS write this hasty but in
dgnan paragraph, we hear Mr. Duer "a wing member
from New York; deprecate and denounce this attempt to
mngle our local feelings with the national expressions
of our sympathy We had hoped, indeed that resolu-
ton would have been adopted unanimously as it was
done in 1906 with heart and one voce-with entire
unanimty, as Mr.. Duer said We had hoped that no
resolution would have been produced on this occasion
which would in the slightest degree gall others feelings
This conederacy made up of different sovereign States
with dissimilar population, and shades of in
teres, upon question only Our fathers agreed to
lose sight of these discussions They settled them in the
constitution in wise spirit of Cancellation and compro
MISE And shall be eternally reviving Them and in
stead OF strengthening the Unon weaken the bonds which
should unite u.s. them into the of calling
large portion of ctzensand that portion too which
gave birth to Washington and TO Jefferson The who
pursues this COURSE cannot be American-American
in the best and catholic of that proud namethe
friend of the whole Unonthe friend of the whole Con-
federacy If upon subject of this broad and generous
description, it is impossible to keep these Earrings and
insults down-if the common love OF every American
for his whole couny.is not sufficient to put down the
dssensons of every fanatic who peases to distract the
House-then we must say that there is much less
moral force in the American sentiment than we could
have expected 1t is disgusting scene which we have
Witnessed and we trust in Heaven never to witness its
repetition.