The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-07-12
For the Union


On the 4th of March, s4l President Harrison, in Nj.
inaugural address, made of the following language
Our confederacy can only be preserved by fobearance
Our citizens must be with the of the
ers with which the constitution clothes them The atsny
~ mos" 81 one STATE TO control the domestic INSTITUTIONS
mother ca" only result ~ feelings of dsu and jealousy
lie esrta na,otngers s"nto" pioiencs, epa ,oar,
the ultimate desfrHcfton Of our free instifutions"
II should be our constant and earnest endeayor mutual
10 cultivate spirit OF concord and harmony among
The various parts of confederacy Experience has
aouhdanty taught us, that the agitation by citizens
one part OF the Union, Of subject not confded III.
general government but ereluiUey under the guardian
snip 81 the focal authorities, is productive of no olhel
consequences than bitterness, alienation discord and in
Jury 70 the very cause which is intended to be advanced
vi all Tue great interests which apperain to our country
that OF union-cordal, confding fraternal UNIONS BY
lar the most important since is the only true and
i've avowa OF the doctrine held by the democratic repub-
can party from the foundation OF the government up
me present tme and which cannot change, that the ede
era government has control over the question of in
voluntary servtude any State or Territory of the con-
iederacy but that is question exclusively under the
guardianship OF the local authorities"
The cabinet OF President Harrison conceded at the time
% ms deciarahon IN lis propriety, justice and truth
oahel webster, Thomas Ewing, John Bell, J. j. Crit
lenden, and Francis Granger in making to the country
lhe announcement OF the unexpected and melancholy
event OF PRESIDENT Harrsons DEATH speak of whose
life has been patriotic, useful and distinguished and
me last uerance OF his lips expressed ervent desire for
he perpealty 81 the constitution and the presentation Of
ms country was uppermost in his thoughts"
mus as that some OF the very men, with the Presi-
Sent al 5her head who IN lsi in acting upon the time
nohoTed and healthful principles laid down and esab
lshed by the fathers and founders of the repubicmeng
out to every portion and section of the conederacy,
Wnether part and parcel OF the States collateral part,
equal and exact justice in spirit of forbearance-i
accordance with the just and honest and honorable COM
promises and concessions that have been made under the
sacred charter of our rights and lberties-thus is that
Practice OF lifetime to the demands of faction and ex-
pediency feared have gone the support of
system OF political maneuvrng which, unless checked
al the outset by the action of sound Judgment Just
compromise, the sober second thought Of prosperous
ana happy people, must end in confusion, angry conen
uon, and ruinous strife
Gently put forth by Mr. Benjamin Butler as containing
the views and opinions of the democracy of New
orkCthe name he thinks proper to claim for that fac
personal dsappointmens to usurp the place Of sound
moral and political principle. The Utica convention, ii
IS wen KNOWN never saw any portion of this address,
part or lot IN the preparation of it, Mr. Butler asked and
oDaned leave to complete the address his leisure and
IN the city of New York, after the conyen
m oa sno of aoo1 Ana pretty completion has he
speaks OF New York" would speak having
one would speak who might, by any freak
o. loluhe be IN possession OF the bodies and souls of
the inha1tants of that great and potent member of the
c0hleaeracy-as one fully impressed with the Fictitious
idea at no dssentient voice would be raised in that
note OF disagreement with opposition to, the
peJddlces and narrow seconaties of Mr. Buffers ad-
ursss would De heard within her borders. The whole
tenor and style of the address is in the highest degree
Presumptuous and most certain
y does very largely OF the principal elements of the
writer's character conceded to him by those who have
known him long and thoroughly, by those who have
watched and studied his career
Mr. Butler, in his application of the terms "our insult
ers, shot headed and hot blooded leaders, men of
the south, should have borne constantly mind the self
evident truth that to his own lips he commencing
the poisoned chalice Mr. Butler has long protested to
be follower of the Man of many sorrows-a Christian
But if hot blood or hot head wanting Mr. Butler,
despite the humility OF his professions, despite all things
charitable or orbearng could have furnished both in his
own person any time these past years of political and
worldly struggle and strife Mr. Butler says No arith
metic known to us is adequate to reckon up the worth OF
even thousandth part of the golden chain which binds
together IN perpetual bonds the States of this cSnfedera
cy. We prize 1t above all price We have never at
tempted we will not be provoked to calculate its value
task" % N"f"'i0'''
And yet (stll speaking for New York; trihe further
on Mr. Butler enters on the chmerical and unpatrioc
task" lie has made, apparently, acquisition Of arh
nehcal knowledge for he proceeds to say:
But when we listen to the vaingorious boasngs, the
o TO ak for s ana eaa
doubtless with Just as much aIthottyas they assume 10 due
selves what would be the norhNwha specially you'd BE-
Nss York; s folly and madness Of the southern sare
"New York. with territory possessing boundless ad
ad I9 foreign and internal trade with temperate
ois with abundant supplies of salt and ron and peculiar
ABILITIES OF every kind Of manufacturing industry with
population greater than that of England the OF
American coonzaon and which may well be inc ased
within her borders four times present number with
eVera maTts OF Internal trade numbering, respectively
rom twenty to fifty thousand inhabitants and towering
'bove them all in queony pride, the commercial metropolis
d hls hemisphere with foreign commerce that brings
o the federal government more than onethd of its
lnes by mposs with these possession and
prospect, what shall hinder her. if the nuers of the con-
!tution and the aboonsts of ireedom-the blind leaders
undfn 1unfup ba,.,
emdnng the chiof the republics into ,chich the Ameri
"a" States 'oiA then be parcelied out ?"
What hoheaded and hot blooded individual is it that
nus assumes te speak for the entire north-no for New
ork only but for the entire norh-and doubtless with
ust as much authority he assumes to dictate and play
he demagogue towards the south? 1t is the act of an
Individual whose past career has been an apparent
strange, and extraordinary contradiction between pro-
esslon and prncp,e-of an individual that has had
lonors undeservedly thrust upon hnhas enjoyed the
confidence OF one among the greatest statesmen and pa
riots OF HIS day and generation whose letters he calls
orth IRON their privacy to add support and sanction to
lis present hot headed and hot-booded movement In
'asslng, let us inquire of Mr. Butler why he has thought
Proper TO present to the American people part only of
he boosted prophetic letter sent to him by the patriot
zero Andrew Jackson' What sentences has he elected
Q erase and hll the vacancy thus made with stars
here is method and meaning such omission and sub
htution. The pursued is not ingenious it has
90 much of the Sandy Hill correspondence and nge-
uy about It, and savors strongly of the peculiar tactics
lways used by gentlemen OF MIR. Buffers particular
chool.
But to recur again to the address Mr. Butler does
luence of New York. Other men, apparently as patr-
,c, learned open hearted MIR Butler possessed
If equally high principle and honesty of purpose and
POLITICAL action speak of New York much after the
ver, that the views and feelings of such men are more
more fratemal more Christian like than