The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-18

o, 1910.
process which Mr.. Van Buren,, who tried it through
the federal candidate De Witt Clinton in 1912, again
attempting through himself in 1s4s
northern party, which must be federal wing party
if it ever 10 head is all that the soil men
can hope for Hence every step taken in that direction
by democrats leads to coalition with the wing party
The free soil men of New York who want to get up
northern party and the wings of the North who mean to
rule that party ever 1t offers to them the power they
SEEK both in desiring the election of Gen Taylor
stakeholder by southern voice for that would be
ressess argument to the northern democracy to hold
their southern allies faithess and false
So that. if by the intrgues now going on to carry s!a
very and soil together, by exhibiting General Taylor
with double face, North and South on the territorial
issue, the managing wings could dupe both and elect
him. this result would follow Either the wings would
triumph now by having n General Taylor a President
they could mould to the Massachusetts model or if he
should fail them, Mr.. Tyler did, still the bad faith of
the democratic South in deserving General Cass would
sentiment in the free States against the South and out
of this sentiment the wings could then form free soil
party strong enough 70 dispense With their southern wing
ailes and control the South, drive her Of the
Union.
1t is these aspirations after power, matter how OBJ
tained that now 30 strangely bring together in New
England upon the support OF General Taylor, who
have denounced the Mexican war accursed, and him
their head butcher and foremost obber OF them all
men who have made long harangues If not prayers, in
the market places and at the corners of the Streets against
the awful sin of slavery and have denounced every
northern democrat who adhered TO the Union
'doughiace and yet now submssively yield to the die
taon of their leaders, and will give their votes the
of two plantations stocked with slaves purchased.
hundred in lot, within lve years. and some OF them
since his return from Mexico, the public deeds and
records show!
Yes feow-citzens the wings Of the North, who have
exhausted language denuncatory resolutions against
the slave power, have nominated General Taylor in pref
to Webster Clay, for the sole reason that not
being ultra wing, he could get more than The whg
vote of the North and, being shareholder he could get
more than the wing vote of the South In word just
what Mr. Webster, with sneer, frankly admits was the
whole Of that sagacous wise, far seeing doctrine OF
| availability lies at the bottom"
Now if there had been any love for the slaue any
timent sincerity in the abolition movements of the
whg party of the North they have proessed vehe
meny in their resolutions reports and speeches. they
could have made that nomination of General Tay
lor which, Mr. Webster tells them ,cds not fit to
be made" if made they would have sustained
it. In fact, portion of their delegation came home and
denounced dissolution of the wing party and were
then denounced themselves and read out of the whig
party proper Mistaken men They and their free soil
followers really supposed that SO many awful resoves
and reresolves" against the save power meant some
they would there have discovered that by this
of "saue poDer" the cunning wings only meant the dem
oosr of the States in which there happened to be
Ii was this democratic power, combined with the north
democrats that had elected all the Presidents but two
since Jefferson and by giving it bad name, and crying
" mad dog, sdue potuer" they ancied they could scare
the northern democrats into breaking the old alliance OF
North and South handed down the palladium of
dreamed of losing the conscience wings, that any but
democratic barns to be consumed III the Tree SOL
fire they were kinding! And hence we now find the
wings proper in New England ompacenty supporting
a STAKEHOLDER and the major general who advised the
march 10 the Rio Grande, as though they had always
prayed for the prosperity OF slavery all their lives and
had exhausted their State treasures clothing voiun
teers and their lungs in rejoicing at the victories OF our
country over the Mexican enemy!
Fellow citizens, intend to speak plainly on this
topic, which nearly the preservation OF the
Union we to speak of the whole Union, and not
to section; to warn the democracy not only OF New
England, but of the Union against the designs OF our
common foe to divide and conquer to exhort those
northern democrats (no the leaders, who mean treason to
the Union but the conscientious and earnest men who
are msed by them who listening to the syren song
of free SOIL to pause before they sunk in the federal
vortex and dashed upon the rocks of dsunion In the
Of the north in regard to third parties. the design is obv
ous-to combine aboltonsm as the great element OF
their political success and to make the wings OF the
South subservient to that purpose.
History will show that the combusible material OF
aboonsm at the north has, from the days of the Hart
ford Convention till now, been welded by the federal
by the triumph of democratic Virginia over federal Mas.
sachusets.
Abotionism, at first denounced and despised when
weak has been nursed, petted and vehemeny coqrted
by the whg party Of the North when i began to draw
from their ranks while the wings Of the South have at
least wnked at it. if not favored the amagamaon, un-
der the of their northern friends that it was
the only way for the wings to get into power.
Southern wings, in their for political power
abroad, ana their mpatlence OIL long minority al nome,
have permitted this process to go unrebuked and
thus the most effective allies of northern abolitionsm.
AT this moment they strengthening the hands which
they pretend to believe would light the torch of the in
cendiary and sharpen the knife of the assassin They
do this by permitting the northern whgs in order to
tain the reesol wings, to affirm, uncontradcted by
themselves their candidate, that Gen. Taylor is in
favor of the Wimot Proviso, and would all his
fuence President to put down the "save power"
Thus the tendency in the wing party of the North
directly aided by that at the South is directly to the
vival of the oft defeated schemes of a NORTHERN
CONFEDERATION.
II was first conceived in the project to shut up the Mis-
sissppi, and keep the West wilderness
1t was fully developed after the severance oil
Massachusetts and Virginia. who placed themselves under
Adams and Jefferson at the head of the columns OF
: federal and democratic States.
Here lies the philosophy of aboltonism as political
wedge to dissolve the Union, welded it always has
been by the federal party Slavery originally formed
element OF party Division and it was entirely accidental
that democratic maorites prevailed in the South and
tory of parties the federal wing party break down
the democracy of the North excite sectional jealousy
between northern and southern democrats, that party is
sure either to rule to divide the Union.
The shrewd men of the federal party perceived
that they could regain their lost power in the Union only
by putting down the southern democratic States, and by
preventing the admission of new States into the Union.
Il How this best to be done! The means were OBJ
vous-secional divisions To appeal to northern pre-
JUDGES and feeling against slavery, and thus divide me
northern from the southern democracy, and to conquer
both in detail
And secondly by the same appeal, to prevent the ex,
ten sion of the democracy by resisting the extension OF
all southern or western territory and mus 10 AUNT no
States that would be likely come IN democratic States,