The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-01-28

The voles IN favor OF all these measures were con
| hned 10 the members from the northern States. True
there patriotic members from that section who
voted against all OF them, and whose high of JUS
tee Is duly appreciated who IN the progress OF the az
gressons upon the South have BY their votes sustained
the guarantees OF the constitution, and OF whom
grei say many have been sacrificed home by lhe
patriotic course.
We have brought close narrative OF the series
OF acts OF aggression and encroachment connected with
subject OF this address, including those that consun-
mated and those still IN progress They numerous
great and dangerous and threaten with destruction the
greatest and most vital of all the interests and
lions of the South Indeed, il may be doubted whether
there is single PROVISION stipulation, or guaranty OF the
constitution intended Tor the security OF the South that
has not been rendered almost nugatory Ii may even
pc male serious question, whether the encroachm
already made without The aid OF any other. would
If permitted 10 operate unchecked cad in emancipation.
and that al distant day But be thai may, hardy
admits OF doubt that If the aggressons already
menced IN the House, and now IN progress should be
consummated, such in the end would certainly be the
consequence.
Little. in truth would be left to be done after we have
been excluded from all the Territories including those
be hereafter acquired after slavery abolished this
District and the numerous places dispersed all the
South where Congress has the exclusive right OF iegs
aion, and after the other proposed
summaed Every outpost and barrier would be carried,
and nothing would be Left bat TO finish the work OF sbo
ton at pleasure in the States themselves This District,
and all places which Congress has exclusive power
OF legislation. would be asylum for fugitive slaves
where, as sooa they placed their feet they would be-
come, according TO the doctrines of northern assa
ments to prevent it.
Under such state OF things the probability is, that
emancipation would follow without any final
abolish slavery The depressing effects OF such
on the white race 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 as il may, il is CERTAIN If
emancipation did not follow. matter of course. the
IN the States would not be long delayed The
OF constitutional power would oppose feeble res sance
great oOuy oil the Drth uQlleI
institution Many believe TO be sinful and the resi-
dus, with inconsderable exceptions, believe II 10 be
wrong. Such being the case, il would Indicate very
superficial knowledge OF hum nature think that after
aiming at abolition systematically for many years. and
pursuing II with such aascrupuous disregard OF law and
constitution. the fanatics who have led The way and
forced the great body OF the North follow them would
when the finishing stroke only remained be gwen vol
unfairly suspend IT, or permit any consttu ona scrupes
or considerations OF justice to arrest it. To these may be
added an aggression, though not yet commenced long
medtated and fhreatened-to prohibit hat the aboi-
tonisis call the internal slave trade, meaning thereby the
transfer OF slaves from State 10 another from what
ever motive done. or however effected Their object
would seem 10 be TO render them worthless by crowang
them together where they and thus hasten the work
OF emancipation There is reason for believing that ii
will soon follow those in progress, unless indeed.
some decisive step should be taken in the time
arrest the whole.
The question then is Will the OF aggression
proposed IN the House be adopted
They may not and probably will not be this session.
But when take into consideration that there is ma
lority now in favor OF one Of them, and strong mi
noriy in favor OF the other far the sense OF the
House has been aken that there will be in all probability
considerable increase in the next Congress OF the
in favor OF them, and that ii will be largely increased in
the next succeeding Congress under the TO be
ken next year. It amounts almost 10 certainty that
they will be adopted, unless decisive measure Ia
ken in advance 10 prevent it,
But, il even these conclusions should prove enone-
ous-f fanatcsm and the love Of should contrary
10 their nature for resp constitutional barriers
II the calculations OF policy should re!ard the adoption of
these measures defeat them altogether there
would be still left one certain way 10 accomplish their
object If The determination ayowed by the Nsrih TO
nopoze all the territories. TO the exclusion of the South
should be carried into effect That of itself would
distant day, AID to the North sufficient number Of States
to give her threefourhs OF the whole; when, under the
color OF an amendment of the constitution. she would
enancpaie our slaves, however opposed II might be 10
its true intent
Thus under every aspect the result, is certain il az
be met, n Is for you 10 decide.
Such then, being the would be to insult you TO
suppose you could hesitate To destroy the existing
lao1 between the free and servIie al the South
would lead 10 consequences unparalleled in history
They cannot be separated. and cannot live together in
peace or harmony or 10 their mutual advantage except
their present relation. Unier any other wrechednes
and misery, and desolaon would overspead the whole
South. The example of the British West Indies, as
biighling as emancipation has proved TO them furnishes
very faint picture Of the caIanilies it would bring the
South. The circumstances under which il would take
place with US wond be entirely different from those
which took place with them and calculated 10 lead 10 far
more disastrous results There, the government OF the
parent country emancpaed slaves her colonial posses
slons-a government rich and powerful, and aetuaisd
by views OF policy, tmistaken they turned out 10
BED rather than fanaticism. 1t was, besides, dis
posed to act Justly towards the owners, even In
the act of emancipating their slaves, and TO protect
and foster them afterwards accordingly appropriated
nearly &l00D0o,0o as compensation TO them for their
losses under the act which sum, although it turned
10 be Tar short OF the amount, thought al that time
to be liberal Since the emancipation, IL has kept up
sufficient military and naval force keep the blacks in
awe, and number of magistrates, and constables, and
other civil officers, to keep order IN the towns and plan
aiions and enforce respect 10 their former To
considerable extent, these have served a substitute
for the police formerly kept the plantations by the
and their overseers and to preserve the social
and political superiority of the white But nowith-
standing all this. the British West India possessions
ruined, impoverished, miserable, wretcbed. and destined
peobably TO be abandoned TO the black Very diff
ferent would be the circumstances under which eman-
cipa'ion would take place with II it should be
effected, il will be through the agency of the federal
government controlled by the dominant power OF the
northern STATES OF the conederacy against the resistance
and struggle OF the southern.
Ii then only be effected by the pros,raon of the
white and that would necessarily engender the bit
eresi feelings OF hostility between them and the North.
But the reverse would be the case between the blacks Of
the South and ih. people of the North Owing their
emancipation 10 them hey would regard them friends,
guardians and patrons, and cenFe accordingly, all their
sympathy in them. The people pf the North would not
fail TO recprocae and favor hem instead of the whites
Under the influence OF such feelings and impeed by
fanaclsm and love OF power, they would not stop at
emancipation. Another step would be taken-io raise
them 10 political and social equality with their former
owners by giving them The right of voting and holding
public Offices under the federal government We the
st step toward it in the bill already alluded Toto vest
the free blacks and slaves with the right vote on the
question OF emancipation in this District But when once
raised TO equally they would become the fast poi,ica