The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-02-20

y and equal prosperity to that which all have hitherto
enjoyed and which all could still enjoy, if the compact
OF union was by all sought to be faithfully adhered
to IL the different sections of the Union become indie
pendent and separate governments, disconnected from
each other and holding each other foreign regarding
each other as enemes IN tcar," and, if it can be- na
peace friends who cannot foresee that each section may
successfully become the victim of aggression by Euro
pean powers now our jealous rivals, and whose hos
hllly is only restrained by the consideration that the
wrong, though perpetraied BY the mightes of Them or
by all combined, and that indgniy to the spangled
banner" cannot be committed with impuny'
And now, Mr. President, how the dissolution of the
Union to be comprised What are the means of which
is to be the RESULT ask those who seem bent goadng
the South to extremtes to pause and reflect Can any
confedeacy be peacefully dssolved' No, sir What,
them CIVIL WAR! This is the practical process by
which the dissolution of the Union to be accomplish
VIII enforce I1 arblay you
your degrading edcts against the Southern States and
their citizens at this hazard There have been aunts
been dehed and threatened and boasts have been made
Of the superior power of the North and East would,
Mr. President, implore those who thus act to listen to
the voice OF humanity if that of justice and if the guaran
ties of the constitution still UNDECIDED AS fathers
of the revolution appealed TO the people of Great Britain,
they appealed their nature, justice, and magma
nmity are invoked" they "conjured by the ties of
our common kindred to dsam these usurpations" OF
which the South SO justly complain, and which will SIN
evitably interrupt connexions and correspondence
As our fathers OF the revolution warned the people of
Great Britain as to the usurpatiOns OF the British Crown
and parliament, they have from time to time" been
warned of the attempts" by the legislature OF the
lederacy' ito extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction"
over the South and its domestic institutions They
have been Z" reminded of the circumstances of
graton aud settlement this continent; of the strg
gle which effected our common independence; of the
formation OF the constitutional compact, and of the
unparalleled prosperity have all enjoyed under it;
and it be that history is TO record that, designating
all those appeals as the people of Great Britain in
776 "hey too are deaf to the voice of Justice and con-
sangunityp ask them, are your feelings towards the
South embered that you wish to drive the southern
States from the Union Can there be any whose preu-
severed Is their hatred of the South 50 intense that it
can only be slaked by CIVIL WARP Can it be pos
sible that any intelligent citizen OF the United States has
such feelings Shut your eyes, i you can to all the
kndred to the rendng asunder of the bonds OF society
to the devastation and carnage which will be its attend
antshope, if you can, that may be conducted by hui
name commanders and according to the rules of modern
civilized warfare, and ask you what will there be of
profit or of honor TO you if you should be victorious
What boots It i you succeed in sunsatisg these who
you exult in such vctory' Could it be crowned with
gory' Could heroes spring up among you in such
hct' And what dictate OF permanent political or com
merca or other interest can you md to induce any desire
to subvert the constitution and Unon' There is none
Fanatics and demagogues may seek to msead you, but
you will ultimately find that your welfare and prosperity
and the constitutional rights OF all.
Suppose in the effort to subdue the South you have
the aid Of the machine called the federal government
do you imagine tins will sancty the outrages you may
perpetrate IN its name Suppose that by compes
the South to submit In few years your boosted supre
macy Of numlers will cease TO exist Il is destiny that
the "Great Vest is soon to control this government,
and then in your disregard OF the guarantees OF the
stituon, and in your aggressons the South may per-
haps be found its justification for returning the poi
soned chalice to your lips" will not present a
picture of your condition if the South should.
under Providence, defeat you in the conflict OF
arms which must pIecede the severance of this Union:
Whoever triumphs, no true hearted parot-no friend
of republican liberty-no friend of humanity-no true
philanthropst, but will revolt with adherence from
the presented by such conflict. and It's issue,
matter what section is victorious. Those who may
such deplorable and those who, having pow
err, do not strive to prevent it, will be detested while ly
ing and their memory execraed as long AS constitutional
republican freedom has disciple earth Ii you should
subngate the Southf you should by force compel them
to submit to your arbitrary edics, bitter and scaldng will
be the tears of remorse that you will shed for your
happy success.
Am asked, Mr. President, why speak thus to The
East and North, and why do not address similar exhor
atoms TO lorbearance to my section? will cheer
fully answer The South moi the aggressors, They
the assaed-hey the defensive party Sir, the South
knows well that she could not if she would hesitate
to her course this subject She feels that she is forced
by the dictate of sepeservaon and at every hazard TO
resist the unconstitutional course pursued towards her
She feels that it is her political death she passvey
yields. She has no alternative; She must resist The
questions involved are OF vital character. Not mere
ly CIVIL WAR, but, what is still more dreadful, serule
trar is one OF the consequences of submission to
the attempted Entertainments upon her constitutional
rights; and [ths will upon her] if she does not
at once unite and take firm stand against the
incendmry intermeddng OF other sections with the
domestic institutions and local policy of the southern
States Sir the South does not seek dissolution OF the
Union The impulaon that she does is an infamous cal
umny The people of the South not merely attached to-
but they devoted to the Union They as national
in their feelings those of any other section But the
Union to which they bound is the Union OF the con-
suon By that compact all the States of every section
equals The bastard Union that sectional and fanat
ica faction would force upon the South instead OF that
formed by our fathers has not and never will have our
affection respect The South can admit the
in anywse, any extent, to legslae with view 10
exclude the institution of domestic servtude from the
territories Followed up it would be by attempts to
enforce kindred doctrines to the righuness OF inter-
fering with the local affairs of the States they would
be degraded to the position OF interiors; they would
to be equals and become the dependent vassas OF
an arbitrary sectional majority in Congress Such were
the terms of the Union agreed upon sixtytwo years
ago by the southern States when they ratified the federal
constitution.
principle which, if established, seals her political doom
under this coneeracy 1t is her political death to acqu
in its establishment Ii not with those sections
that striving to force this principle upon her Those
sections conending for mere political abstraction
what they believe TO be phanthroplc sc ntlment-tor
principle that does affect them locally, and relates
wholly the government and domestic institutions of
other and distant political communities The advocates
of the slavery restriction are striving not only to ex
clude southern institutions by coercve from the
legislation TO force the people OF those Territories to
adopt their principles their peuices and their nslltu
tons.
viii the North and East leopard the Uoon' Are they