The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-01-26

lions of the Union And vet we are called sectional in
feelings Do they who make ths charge reflect, Do
they consider past hisioryl Do they forget to re-
memberhat the Atheron resolutions came from the North
were passed by overwhelming vote and
the justice OF the southern claim! The last presidential
canvass cannot have faded completely from the memo
res OF men, that the fact has been forgotten that the
Baltimore resolutions. adopted by the republican party of
the whole Union, declared that all efforts of the aboli-
honiss or others made to induce Congress to interfere
rt questions Of aauery to take IscpIENr STEPS in
relation thereto, calculated to lead the alarm
ing and dangerous consequences and that all such eff
forts have inevitable tendency diminish the happi
ness OF the people, and endanger the stability and perma
nency OF the Union and ought be countenanced by
any friend of political institutions !" This resolution
was not adopted in haste. 1t well considered and
has been for years the creed of the republican parry Mr.
Van Burens fayoite friend presented it, and urged It's
adoption Gen Cass subscribed it, Yes he did more
he gave his opinions TO the world in his celebrated Mich
olson letter depecatng the adoption of the Wimot Proy
and declaring that he did not sec in the constitution any
gran, of the requisite power to Congress- and urging the
opinion, that if adopted, it would weaken if not impair
the Union of the States and the seeds of future dis
cord The people of the territories. he sad should regu
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just capable Of doing the people of the States and
they do their political independence recoy
missed by admission into the Union" These are the words
OF the chosen leader Of the republican party in the last
campaign committing himself to non-interventon He
was born in the North and resides in the Northwest,
We supported him with all our zeal The republican
party upheld him upon their shields, with this anti Will
mot Provso and the non-niervenion principle inscribed
nj his hammer W. sfop nd w will
ing to fight on npon that principle Why should other
republicans desert it, and why is it, that because we
adhere TO it, because willing TO settle this
agitang question, which threatens the tranquility of the
Union, upon any fair principle of compromise we are to
be held up sectional in feelings, and American
enough in acts We adopt the principles OF General
Cass and his friends and yet because we were born in
the South, charged with sectional feelings for ut
ering them. They have been heretofore the sentiments
oil party They were our opinions years ago, and
known TO be so at time when, editor of the Richmond
Enquirer we received compliment from the leading dem
ocratic journal OF the Unionthe Washington Globe
which we have treasured in memory with grateful
feelings. We hope shall not be charged with self
lau laion when repeat it. This be autiful though
exravagant compliment was produced by an annuncia
ton in the Washington Globe of March 0, lsl3 that the
editor of the Enquirer had associated his sons with him
in the conduct Of his press The Globe was then pleased
TO say:
"Notng be gratifying those who look the
press the support OF free and blessed
than the career which the Enquirer has and which
destined continue. The editor almost forty
laid hold of the press his country by
devorng bis life TO the support OF the principles and policy
which have. during THAT period, filed the land with 50
much happiness and prosperity and raised counya
perfect wonder in the history of the wordn that short
PERIOD from condition colonial, the
indie pendent and powerful and prosperous the nations
OF The earth No of s,und feeling aud principle would
change the condition of the United States that OF any
people existing that existed the of the
globe And yet this fortunate and exalted destiny arb
uiabc mainly the political Doctrines and the moral vir
tues Impressed by fathers of that school of which the
editor of the Enquirer worthy disciple and to
whom the nation indebted than any writer lv
ing for their successful inc u'cation With sim pie unpre-
tending assdnity he adcs him self to this great work
With quiet but deyout patience he has pescvered in it
What principles were those to which the Globe refer
red Were rhey sectional or were they not the great
Jefersonan principles of the republican party Long
before this opinion had been expressed about the po
cal school to which we belonged, we had eyinced the
very same opposition abotonsm in all the variety OF
forms in which il had presented itself :-on the Missouri
controversy-on the question OF interfering with slavery
in this Distrctaganst all the strides of the abolonisis
reserved OF lNe OF
sovereign States of the Unonon the great principle of
nonnterven,ion, aad the great dangers which
threatened the Union from the abolitioniss Hundreds
of times have expressed ardent devotion to the
union of the States, and warned counrymen against
interfering with the rights of the States Often and over
have we repeated our honest conviction that there
but one rock on which this glorious Union might split
pieces AMI this was ruthless inteposition with the
or twenty, or near thirty years ago. and they
tionei at this time: These views we hold to be init
mately connected with the stability al harmony of the
Union They founded in the true view OF the matter.
Then. where have we offended!
We make this extract fro the Globe from feeling of
vanity; but simply to say that what when those
lines penned now, and ever expect TO be- We
loved the Union then, and love now and wish
happier consolation, when that time which comes
alike TO all than to know we have done something TO
anxious TO settle this question al once, before runs
into more danger-and whilst California cries out for
effective organization, which cannot be obtained through
the Wmot Provso We would be happy 10 adopt the
non intervention principle or, if that cannot be- to adopt
any of the various compromises which calculated TO
settle it. But we will say this subject We
annex to this article the prophetic words OF Mr. Benton
used than eighteen years ago, recommending them
TO the earnest attention of the whole counTy-East
West, North, and South:
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