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

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members from that section who voted against all OF ihe
and whose high sense of justice is duly appreciated
We have brought TO close narrative OF the series
acts OF aggression aud encroachment connected with the
subject OF this address, including those that are consnn-
mated and those still in progress They numerous,
great and dangerous and threaten with destruction the
greatest and vital of all the interests and institu
tons OF the South Indeed, 1t may be doubted whether
there is single provision, stipulation, guaranty OF the
constitution intended for the security OF the South, that
has not been rendered perfectly nugatory 1t may even
be made serious question: whether the encroachments
already made, without the aid OF any other, would not,
If permitted to operate unchecked end in aacpaon,
and that distant day But be that it may ii hardly
admits of doubt that, if the aggressons already
menced in the House and now in progress. should be
consummaled such in the end would certainly be the
consequence.
Little in truth would be left be done after have
been excluded from all The Territories including those to
be hereafter acquired after slavery abolished in this
District and in the numerous places dispersed all over the
South where Congress- has the exclusive right of legs
laon, and after the other measures proposed are con-
summaed Every outpost and barrier would be carried
and nothing would be lett but to hnish the work OF abo
lton pleasure in the States themselves This District,
and all places which Congress has exclusive power
of legislation would be asynms for fugitive slaves,
where as they placed their feet they would be-
according 10 the doctrines of the North, free I'M
less there should be positive enactmens TO pre-
vent it.
Under such state of things the probability is that
emancipation would speedily follow without any mai act
the white at the South and the hope they
would create in the black OF speedy emancipation,
would produce state of feeling inconsistent with the
much longer continuance of the existing relations be-
tween the two. But be that may 1t is certain, If
emancipation did not follow, matter OF course the
final act the States would be long delayed The
of constitutional power would oppose feeble resistance
The great body Of the North united against peculiar
institution. Many believe it to be sinful and the resi-
due with incOnslderabe exceptions, believe 1t to be
wrong. Such being the case it would indicate very
superficial knowledge OF human nature, to think that, al
aiming at abolition Systematically for many years.
and pursuing it with such INSCRIPTIONS disregard OF law
and the fanatics who have led the
forced the great body of the North to follow them, would
when the finishing stroke only remained to be gwen, vol
unfairly suspend permit any constitutional scuples
or considerations OF justice to arrest it, To these may be
added an aggression, though not yet commenced, long
meditaed and threatened-to prohibit what the abol
onsts call the internal slave trade, meaning thereby the
transfer of slaves from State to another, from what
ever motive done or however effected Their object
would seem to be to render them worthless by cowdng
them together where they and thus hasten the work
of emancipation There is reason for believing that 1t
will follow those in progress, unless, indeed
decisive step should be taken in the mean time to
arrest the whole.
The question then is Will the measures of aggression
proposed in the House be adopted
They may not and probably will not be this session
But when we take into consideration that there is
ority in favor of one of them, and strong mi
nory in favor of the Others far as the sense of the
House has been taken that there will be in all probable
ty considerable increase in the next Congress of those
in favor OF them, and that it will be largely increased in
the next succeeding Congress under the census to be ia
ken next year, it amounts almost TO certainty that
they will be adopted, unless decisive measure IS Ia
ken in advance to prevent it,
But, if these conclusions should prove erone.
ous fanatcism and the love of power should contrary
to their nature for respect constitutional barriers,
the calculations OF policy should retard the adoption OF
would be still left certain way to accomplish their
object if the determination avowed by the North to mo-
nopoze all the territories. to the exclusion OF the South
should be carried into effect That of itself would at
distant day, add to the North sufficient number of States
to give her three fourhs of the whole when, under the
color OF amendment of the constitution, she would
emanclpate our slaves, however opposed might be TO
its true intent.
Thus, under every aspect. the result certain, if not
promptly and decidedly ,2et. How it is to be met it is
for you TO decide
Such them being the case it would be to insult you
suppose you could hesitate To destroy the existing
aton between the free and serve races at the South
would lead TO consequences unparalleled in history
They cannot be separated and cannot live together in
peace or harmony TO their mutual advantage except
and misery and desolaon would overspread the whole
South The example of the British West Indies, as
blighung emancipation has proved to Them furnishes
very faint picture OF the calamities it would bring the
South The circumstances under which it would take
place with would be entirely different from those
which took place will them and calculated to lead to far
more disastrous results There, the government OF the
parent country emancpaed slaves in her colonial posses
sions-a government rich and powerful, and actuaed
by Of oy as they out
posed to act Justly towards the masters, even in
the act of emancipatng their slaves, and to protect
and foster them afterwards 1t accordingly appropriated
losses under the act which, although 1t turned ont
to be far short OF the amount, thought al that time
to be liberal. Since the emancipation. it has kept up
sufficient military and naval force to keep the blacks in
awe, and number OF magistrates, and constables, and
other civil officers, to keep order IN the towns and plan
ons and enforce respect to their former masters To
considerable extent, these have served bsttute
for the police formerly kept the plantations by the
masters and their and to preserve the social
and political superiority of the white race. But, nOtwh
standing all this, the British West India possessions
ruined, impoverished, miserable, wreched and destined
probably TO be abandoned to the black Very diff
ferent would be the circumstances under which
cipaton would take place with If it ever should be
effected, it will be through the agency OF the federal
government, controlled by the dominant power of the
northern States OF the confederacy against the resistance
and struggle of the southern
Ii then only be effected by the prostration of the
white race; and that would necessarily engender the bit
But the would be the between the blacks of
the South and the people of the North. Owing their
emancipation to them they would regard them friends
guardians and patrons and centre, accordingly all their
sympathy in them. The people of the North would not
fail to recprocafe and to favor them, instead Of the whites
Under the influence of such feelings, and impelled by
fanacism and love of power, they would not stop at
emancipation. Another step would be taken-to raise
them to political and social equality with their former
masters, by giving them the right of voting and holding
public offices under the federal government VIZ The
first step toward it in the bill already alluded TOTO
the free blacks and slaves with the right to vote the
question OF emancipation in this District But when
raised to an equality they would become the fast political
associates OF the North, acting and voting with them
on all questions, and by this political union between
them, holding the white at the South in complete
subsection. The blacks, and the profgate whites
that might unite with them, would become the prin
cipal recipients of federal Offices and patronage, and