The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-04-01
THE UNION.

enng 10 Mirabeau IN one OF his SURPRISING vndlcalons
OF human rights, and seeing him fall from his stand
dying, as physician proclaimed for the of blood,
| rushed to the spot and as he bent the expiring
man. barred his arm for the lancet, and cried again and
again, with impassioned voice. "Here take it-take it
oh take 1t from let die so that Mlrabeau and
the liberties OF my country may not perish" Give us
something only OF such spirit as lhissomethng only
OF such love OF country and safe, forever
safe the troubles which shadow and Cypress us
now will pass away as summer cloud. No measure
OF unbelievable wrong no measure OF unconquerahe
disagreement will be pressed upon us here The
fatal element of all our dlscord will be taken from
amongst Let gentlemen be eneaed to it, as
the one only and solitary obstacle to our perfect peace
Lei them be adjured by the veal of this and of coming
ages-by own and our chdren's good-by all that
love that look for In the progress and the gores
OF our land to leave the entire subject of slavery with
every accountability it may impose, every remedy ii may
require, every accumulation of difficulty of pressure it
may reacho leave it all to the interest," to the wisdom,
and to the conscience OF those upon whom the providence
of God and the constitution OF their country have cast IT,
Leave il TO them, and foreUer, and stop, whilst IT is
yet possible to stop, the furious and blind Roadway Of
that wild and mad philanthropy which lighting mp for
the nation itself the fires OF the stake, and which is rush
ing stride after srlde 10 intestine struggle that
may bury us all under harder, and wckeder and
incurabe slavery, than any II would extinguish
Nothing but aggravaton OF heart and of lot have been
brought upon the poor slave by the rash and unwaaned
efforts which have been put forth to relieve hun They
have broken down the footing he had reached crushed
the sympathies he had won embarrassed and accursed
the fortunes they intended to control The gener
GUS and elevatng influence of free institutions was
his character turning upon him the public anxe,es and
the public counsels, fit and deserving object OF prov
ldent and public provisonwas changing at all points,
the aspects OF his fate when the spirit of abohtonlsm
political and fanatic, from abroad to scourge him
with demon visitation, wrench him from the arms OF
his only true and only capable benefactors, to throw him
back again upon the earth, housand-!Old more sus
peced separate, and foron than ever veng upon him
every etter it would loosen, poisoning every blessing it
would bestow; and SO filling his whole case with ele
mens of hopeessness, explosion, and evil that the heart
shudders whilst it weeps to look upon it. What are they
who cherish and direct this sprt Friends of the slave
They are obbng him OF every yestge of liberty he has
left Friends of humanity They stalking it, ruth
essly stalking upon the issues OF massacre and convu
sion Friends of the country They are rapidly becom
ing its iron homcides, clcaving down its constitution with
murderous arm, and tearing it limb from limb
Should ever happen. as the result OF any interference
and action here, that insurgent ebulton of the
slave will break out amongst us, that the blood OF our
people will be made to stream in our dwellings, and ooze
up from the bosom of the soil that feeds 1t wall cry
aloud, like that of Abel, for vengeance against the
brothers hand that shed it; and vengeance would be
had, though every drop that left should be poured
out in one anguished and dying effort to obtain it. Moth
ing but Heaven could stop people so dashed up to
hrenzy by rage and suffering and wrong from sending
visitation Of calamity and death which had first been sent
to desolae their own Spare oh spare us the curse of
broken brotherhoodot ruined. ruined ruined coun-
try Remember that there are grOans like the groans
of expiring liberty-no commissions like those which her
dying agonies exort II took Rome some three hundred
years to die With far deeper vitality than hers, our
end, when it comes, will come with far keener, cru
eler and bitierer pang.
Give up common and united counry--glve 1t up at
the call of sectional nteres-sacrltce II to the
phrenzy of fanaicsm or OF passion let it go down,
down, under some monsrous and horrible struggle OF
brother with brotherdo this, and you will get back
again you have now-he home of happiness the city
upon hill towering up for the light and for the healing
of nations-you will get it thus again when the 'shad-
ows shall go back upon the dial of Ahaz"-when He who
sent out the umnary of day upon his march shall again
put forth his hand and stop hun in his path way of light
1t is said, sir that at some dark hour of our revolution
airy contest, when army after army had been lost, when
dspred BEATEN wreched the heart OF the bodest and
faithfuest died within them and all, for instant
seemed conquered except the soul OF
father chiet is said that al that moment, rising above
all the augures around him, and buoyed up by the nsp
ration of his immortal work for all the trials II could
bring he reused the sunken spirit OF his associates
by this confident and daring declaration: strip (sald
he) of the detected and suffering remnant of my army
take from all that have left-leave but ban
ncr, give me but the means TO plant it upon the noun
ains of West Augusta and will yet draw around mt
the men who will lift up their bleeding country from
the DUST and set her free" Give to me, who
son and here of that same West Augusta
give a banner he prophous measure have en-
deavored to support. hep to plant upon this noun
tain top of our national power, and The land OF Washing
ton, undivided and unbroken will be our land and thu
land of children's children forever. SO help me Il
do this at this hour and generations hence sonic future
son of the South, standing where stand in this same
konored hall, and in the midst oil our legitimate sue
cessos will bless and praise and thank God that he too
can say OF them, as | OF you, and OF all around me
These these my brethren, and ts Htis, OH tins, too
IS my country!
MORE Mr. MCDowELI. in committing the fbregoin,
speech to the deems but just to say that though h
iabored report exactly it delivered, he ha
be exact, but in others be rather resemblance than
copy Some paragraphs published which were glanced
at only and not spoken lest the hour re should cut OF
short portions the other hand omitted entirely be
the general of them could not be recovered
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