The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-11-29

tia is true 10 the we'll being and perpetuy of the in.
stutions of country but which, if defeated will
rise with increased strength and renewed vgor for
other and mghtier conflict. You have had ali these in
common With us; and, In addition, you have been liter
ally fighting for your hresides and your homes. You
have been battling the fell spirit of aboIltionlsm that
walked in threatened desolaon amid your domestic
shtutions Against this foe has Virginia nobly sus-
tanned herself yet she stands almost faithful among
the faiihless." Time alone can determine, il there be
not 10 faithful and faithess alike, common doom
To the northern and western democracy, who have
manfuly struggled against the forces of abolitonsm-
who know and witness Its progress and designs IN every
days evens-the course of the South is ''totay mex
Pcable" Have your people been deceived by the dec
laraions of Daniel Webster, when he told them 'that
abolition is all humbug They will awake from that
deception TO horrid reality. Did they drink in for truth
his assurances of identity between Massachusetts, and
Virginia principles They may awake from that inox-
lcalon 10 gaze upon all the consequences OF aboonsm,
when Adams, Saonsta and others shall have consum-
mated the purposes they secretly planning and ex-
ecuting under the cloak of Mr. WIS humbuggery of the
South Have your noble chivalrous population, forget,
ting their mighty stake IN this great conflict abandoned
their principles and their interests, and "gone after
strange GODS" burying in the melee of passion, and
drowning in the fumes of hard cider all that in sober
moments they would have cherished? II So then we
who have fallen in these battles may well afford, even
amid our own losses to forgive and pity their delusion
We kHOic that abolition is a humbug; and we who
live amidst its open action knoW that 1t is identified with
modern whigery. We, OF Ohio, know that it has de-
eaed welltried and faithful Executive, and elected
creature of its We knoD that it has changed the
political complexion of legislature. and beat down
the democracy throughout the State. Even now our
State is flooded with petitions TO the next legislature to
break down all barriers between the whites and blacks
in own State and open thoroughtare through ITS
border between the slave States and the frontiers The
papers in interest blow the oudes notes OF triumph;
and already is convention of abotlonsts organizing
to assemble in this city the coming winter, Tor the
avowed purpose OF holding the wings to redemption OF
their pledges The triumph of whigery in Ohio is ri
umph OF abolionsm-the fanatics have gwen the result
The wings of the South may reject these warnings
,lor .talt h.,ca ,phl
fore the election the leaders may sing TO their followers
the syren song of Webster and hide the truth beneath
the mantle of all consprators-proessons OF patriotism
and assurances of secunyyet there is one great TACT
proclaimed to the world in this result, that VIII cause
the cheek of the most desperate southern politician
their hard cider orgies and bacchanalian festivals as
loud as the Ieverberations of high Heavens artillery;
it will stand forth in their log cabins the handwriting
on the wall to the guilty Belshazzr and with fear and
trembling let them read it, that for the first time has
candidate for the presidency of the United States. and
one too, who has received the undivided support OF the
abolitionistsone whO il not aboltionlst himself,
has not dared from trucking consideration of political
''poicy" which will govern his administration, to dIsa
it. For the first time repeat in the history OF this
country has such man been chosen, BY THE VOICE OF
THE FREE STATES ALONE; and though receiving southern
votes NOT of them as necessary to ms success! While
to advance him has been Frustrated one who had bound
himself to preserve the constitution and the Union, by
protecting the rights of the South Think you, that abo-
tionsm does not this thing, and that will not take
advantage Of il Where is your safety ihe popular
my You of the South have left the northern and west
ern democracy read the wine press alone, and we
have been crushed in the exertion. Will you fall back
upon the Senate The balance there is in the vote OF
the Vice Presdent-and another strugglewhen the dis
appointment of public expectations as to great leading
measures shall render as will inevitably be the case
the "polcy of the wings, to cohcede even that to the
aboliionists, and turn the contest upon geographical
nes-the North against the South-wil give this last
hope up even TO disunon itself. Let southern wings
look upon this picture and rejoice Let them shout and
leap and sing unhnkng boys do celebrate the advent
of each year. that but watts them to the grave
Let them build bontires, and have illumnaons!
do not like gloomy forebodings, and am not given
to them but have ever found that best surmouned
danger when taught myself TO look it stenly in the
face You of the South must now do this thing. We
have been overthrown-and our democracy, by the
strange of the South, almost dsheaenet in con-
tending alone against the foes of southern rights. Yet,
when we shall feel stand man to hereafter IN
the democratic ranks, the responsive beatngs OF congo
NAL principles; when We shall see-and see we w-he
South burst the chains with which the Phistnes have
bound her, shall remember the past only for ITS USE
full lessons of experience and all all will struggle on
ward to one great purposeall fight under one gorious
banner and all proclaim, amid the conflict which shall
accomplish redemption, as the watchword OF the bat
tie the glorious sentiment of the patriot and sage OF the
Hermitage-The Union, 1t MUST be preserved.