The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-08-29

we must respectfully Deg the 'INeW 1Crk Evening
Post" which something of apet of ours not TO indulge
too much It's poetic Imagination 1t has devoted rather
strange article TO the "Union," few days ago, in which
has been pleased ascrbe the very
of which it has itself been guty-of 'dstracting, dvi
ding, and endng asunder Qhe pary) by its dscordant
notes " but, fortunately, it had not the power
psh what its fanatcism would have prompted 1t has
contributed to fan the euds in New York but the great
republican party still stands united, with rare exceptions,
in all its power and magnicence 1t charges with "a
ferocious spirit towards the North, when our whole
has been guided by the snceres spirit of concia
ton and of compromise. Thus far repel, with all
the courtesy which exert the general attacks of
the Evening Post but there is point rather per
sonal to ourselves which the Post has INDUCED the
most unbrdled license of its poetical Imagination
Madness, says old Roman poet, is the precursor of
dissolution, and this perhaps be the with the
Washington Union for understand that since the com
mencemen of the free soil movement the establishment
offered for sale. At any rate, it is certain that nothing
much short of madness could drive such fury
manifess towards the opponents OF the extension of
slavery"
This is gross mistake, to say the least of it. The es
adjustment has been at time offered for sale. The
editor thought of such thing, neither before
since the madness of "the soil movement" We
party, or of the abuses of the press We have been too
long accustomed to both of them to shrink from the
most furious opposition. We have courage enough to
defy and to despise it all. We are satisfied, too,
that truth will succeed-that Cass and Butler will be
elected in spite of the barnburners, and that this
vexed question may yet be settled in spite of them
and of the aboltonists without shaking the pillars of
the Union sacrificing the interests of common part
nershp to the exclusive claims of any of the partners
But we cannot stop here We give the following extract
of the Evening Posts article, as an evidence of the
frantic spirit which inspires the fanatics 1t shows how
little those who profess to quote the Declaration of In
dependence are mbued with true knowledge of the
great principles which constitution is founded, or
of the concatoy feelings that necessary TO bind to-
gether this great confederacy 1t shows how profoundly
ignorant this Sir Oracle is of the feelings
which bind all the States of the South:
We tell the Union, hereforefor such is way of ad
dressing these occasonshat the freemen of the North
and in II large portion of the South have made up their
minds the subject of the extension Of slavery. Its
hallowed footprints will be the Rio
Grande This is a settled purpose.
sIf old Virginia and South Carolina do like this de-
cison they 60 of the Union quick they
get out aud they may be careful to take their SLAVES ,oi
them. And if they prevail upon any other States TO
Join them in the emigration, they will effect more than Is
generally supposed the South. In word. the
North united with majority in the South,
determined carry out to their utmost length the sacred
principles of the Declaration of Independence
foot this continent which may be under its control,
cepting always the existing slave States These ii will
ing to leave the influence of those enlightened views
which been advocated with great ability by John C.
Calhoun and with great temper by the Washington Union