The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-02-04


legislature of New York held Albany Thursday night
the Hon. William II. Seward received the nomination as
their candidate the United States succeed
the Hon Mr.. DIX whose of service will expire on the
3D. of March He will be- if he has already been
elected by the Legislature of the State The number of
votes received by him in the 49, for all others
3of these last Mr. Scattering having l9"-I"fsl'geme~
The above information, which we extract from the
National Integencer of yesterday leaves US no doubt
that William H, Seward is the senator elected to repre-
sent the great State of New York in the Senate OF the
United States This fact, if it be true, adds additional
force what have said in another article OF this days
paper relative the composition of the next Congress-
cannot but strengthen the arguments have adduced
in favor of immediate action the question of slavery
We know of no man, within the limits of the Union,
whose sentiments hostile to the true and plain
construction of the constitution, and more vehementy
opposed 10 all Cancellation and compromise on this COM
pcaed and vexatious question: than those OF exGov-
ernor Seward. The purposes which ne entertains
are of the most mischievous, and the feelings by
which he is actuated of the strongest and most
exceptionable character He comes to the Senate as
the representative of the largest State in the Union
the Empire S,ate-and senator OF the United States,
after having deliberately declared that in despite OF all
constitutional guarantees, he is ready and willing to go
with him who goes farhest in feverish assault upon
southern rights and the sacred compromises OF the
constitution But will not trust ourselves TO portray
the character OF politician whose ultra views thus
thrust upon the represe lives of soyerssn States at
period critical and porentous But TO give our read
ers fair estimate of his opinion, submit the following
extracts from speech which he delivered at Cleveland,
Ohio on the 26th of October last. We take them from
the New York Herald, which credits them TO the Albany
Evening Journal of October 81, 1s4s:
The party of slavery upholds aristocracy founded on
the humiliation OF labor the perfection OF
chvaous republic The party of freedom maintains uni
as sa hes wns sight
The party of slavery chershes ignorance, because 1t is
ns " the diffusion Of Enowiedge because it is the only
sa feguard of republican institutions.
only exports to commercial nations abroadtobacco
and abhors the protection that draws grain
and coal from native mines, and ingenuity skill, and
labor from the free minds and willing hands of our own
people
We will not condescend to expose the foul mputations
on the democratic party, and the people OF the South,
which are conveyed by the above remarks. But we
continue our extracts from this ultra speech:
The party of freedom seeks complete and universal
emancipation Yon, wings of the Reserve and you, cspe
ciaiy seeding whgsI none know SO well a; you tina,
great national parties of the land have described them
yon can assign for having been enrolled in the whis party
and mustered under its banner zealousy and long
1
described has possessed the party without mitigation
exception and that the benefcen has, all
sons and fully, directed the action OF the other But APP
peal you your candor and justice. if the
spirit has worked chiefly in the wing party, and its
tagoni't in the adverse party.
Slivey the SIM some of the States only
i perverted and corrupted the moral sense of mankind,
deeply, uniyers and this corruption became unver
State has yet delivered Itself entirely from those
habits We IN My York are guilty Of slavery STA. By Nth
of fran
ted You in Ohio are guilty in the same way by system
II VS. s ri S ,.s and ae. h,, ys
slaves shall count equal to three free ~ basis OF
divine law that we shall surrender the fugitive slave who
takes refuge esides from his relentless pursue
familiar household words and your pretended ree-soi
allies claim peculiar merit for maintaining these miscaled
guarantees of slavery, which they find in the national
Does all th, prove that the whg party have kept up
with the spirit the ageha it and faithful
human freedom the inert conscience Of the American
people will permit it to be?
What then you say can nothing be done for freedom
because the public conscience is inert Yes much can be
done-evcryhing be done Slavery be limited to
its present bounds be amelior edit be, and it
must be abolished, and and can and must do y The
task Is as pc nna easy as Us viii be ss
low this simple rule OF ncon-to do everywhere, and on
to- o M az Sa ps
time, and on that particular occasion. we cannot do
have done our bes, to shape them and make them
propitous may satisfied that superior wisdom has
win us II We then do all the good that ccm leave
in our power But we must begin deeper and lower than
in the composition and combination OF factions and parties
wherein the strength and security of slavery lie. You
answer ha 1t lies in the constitution of the United States
and the constitution and laws of the slavehoding States
Not nj alt IL Is in the nment OF the American
people Constitutions and laws rise above the
virtue Of the people, than the limpd climb
above its native spring Inculcate the love of freedom, and
the equal rights OF man, under the paemal roofee
that they taught in the schools and in the churches
reform your opn code extend cordial Icecone to the ugpe
pho d1s ms pcary limbs and defend him
'cord pafernai gods your error that sa
released and ought be elpquished; slavery
when itsbows its bond and demands the pound of esh that
ii draws drop of blood life shall pay the for felt
,ncWca fhat free aes maintain the rights Of hospi
fdny ana ofnWanHy-that executive authority for
bear to fdvor sdprythat Congress debsteifat Con-
that at least future might be bought given
TO freedom, and that the treasures wasted the
with Mexico would have been sufficient have redeemed
millions unborn from bondagcdo all this and inculcate
all this in the spirit of moderation and benevoence and
not OF retaliation aud anaticsm and you will bring
slavery. Whenever the public mind shall will the abo
ton OF slavery, the way will open for it.
know you will tell that this il all slow WELL
then, go faster you and mill Nth you but
member the Instructive lesson that taught in the
words These things ought to have done, and not to
These extracts prove, more conclusively than any
words which we could employ the ultra purposes of
at least of the leaders of the northern wing party We
cannot and will not believe that such sentiments are en-
serainsd In the hearts Of tho great nsss d the northern