The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-03-20

state of tutelage one of self-prcserva,on and sell
dependence--to come among them without social or poti
ca rights, TO degrade the honest white aborers of III
North BY mlngng with them and competing for thei
labor They see that two races OF men dssimiar ii
physical development, whether slaves freemen
cannot exist together upon terms OF equality whou
degrading both Heaven has so ordained, and man
not subyeTt the decree--one will be elevated and th
other degraded A wo has been pronounced upon hin
who shall sever what God hath joined and like one
should be proclaimed agains, him who ,ins that which
| Heaven by such marked physical laws has sundered
We have heard many paans sung to the dignity of free
labor, and have been often told OF the especial regard
which slave agators OF all others entertain for it. Bu
let il be remembered that their whole effort has the effect
If has not the benefit OF the design, to nfuse among the
free white laborers of the North the fumes of free negro
ISM with Its moral and political Beauties and introducing
among them the fugitive slaves of the southern States
and the emancpated negroes of the District OF Columbia
and degrading the poor white men OF the North to the
level OF the black. Nor do the people of New York
generally, indulge that kind of benevolence which, as
has been heretofore suggested would conne the coorei
race within boundaries limited that by suffer ring, i'm
potency, baenness and death, the whole race exist
ing, shall be exerminated They willing the coored
race should go out into any community who are anxious
or willing 10 receive them The direction 10
plenish the earth not limited in its operation by Him
who gave 1t TO any particular or color But modern
benevolence essays 10 correct the and satisfied
with placing restrictions upon the laws OF man, proposes
to extend provso to this mandate of Heaven, and TO
conhne the multiplication hereafter to the white race
alone Let not the great mass OF the northern people be
held responsible for the slavery agitation which is carried
on IN their name-originatng in the mistaken benevo-
lence and dark designs of few, and yielded to and os
tered by tmd and time serving politicians, who hold the
people weak aud irrational as themselves
am too well aware that all who advocate the doctrine
OF non interference, who stand up for the sovereign
rights OF the States and the guarantees OF the constitutions
must breast the blind fury of fearful Storm and be
covered over with ephets of bitterness and oppobriun
He is say they, friend to the extension of slavery he
is sold to the South; he is the apoogst of slave
aggression, and wishes to degrade free labor and
abolish freedom But, sir. while can look, witt,
becoming pity upon ignorance and weakness, ! burl
from me with kissing and contempt alike the whine
of the hypocrite and the buster Of the demsgogue.
see spread out before us great and happy country,
with such institutions Heaven has never before
vouchsafed to fallen man; and see, too, that when
once they are riven and upooted the night Of desposn
in which the genius OF evil and violence, and anarchy
will hold her awful court, Will be long and gloomy Oh
may glorious tree of liberty sink lis roots deeper 10
the soil OF lreedom and extend lis branches until all the
oppressed and stricken OF earth may find eneah 1t shell
Ter and repose This was the chosen asylum OF the
genius OF liberty on earth; and when shall be banished
hence, after coursing the worlds desoate waste,
and finding rest for the sole of lis foot, will it not
turn u,terng for admission, like the dove at the window
OF the ark, 10 the blossom OF It's father and its God 7"
not one of those who assume to be wiser or more
benevolent than were The fathers OF the constitution They
did not emble and quake because slavery had existence
but they above The influence OF spurious philan
thropy, and a more spurious philosophy. and formed
coniederacy OF sovereign equals They listened not to
that fearful and ominous cry which falls harshy my
ear-the North the North the South the South! but
taught alone the magic words 1.-THE UNION" do
not fear soon It's dissolution in FORM but fear far more
its dissolution In spirit. That union ordained OF Heaven,
which lies at the foundation OF society, and upholds and
adons all that is sacred and beautiful in social sys
tenn displays not its value its moral beauty, because
AMI woman bound together in the bonds OF le
galized aamnny, hut because they fniH the relations
which benehcent Providence ordained and mutually
heighen the Joys and alleviate the sorrows which attend
us through the chequeed scenes OF tins eventiul phi
grmage; and when they hopelessy fail TO discharge
these reciprocal duties, and mock each other with crmi-
and recrmnaiion, better that the tie which
bin
Union does not consist in the binding together of thirty
sovereign States with hooks oil steel and chains OF ada
man but because they stand united together for benei
cent purposes, forming one great and shining lgh-a
beacon 10 the weary and tempest tossed-a terror to
tyranny and usurpahonand each still an independent
the constellation OF political hope. But, they
stand arrayed against each other section against
sectionif, instead of kind Offices and friendly relations,
they TO exchange angy reproaches and threatening
nenaces, that moral beauty which has hitherto attended
them has dcParted-the life and spirit which gave birth
to the Union has ceased to animate it, and fatal step
has been taken upon the -oad to dissolution.
Nothing can subvert this happy Union but the forma-
ton of sectional parties and that, il successful, Will
but institution of man, and cannot and ought not
TO survive the successful organization of factions Ii
sectional President and Vice President should be elected
upon irritating sectional issue, and sectional cabinet
be formed-and no other one could be-it IRON the
South, northern representative having the least re-
mains of the spirit of his fathers would enter the
councils OF such governments and, if from the Morrill,
no southern could be found so debased as TO
into one, formed upon terms of compromise Tor
the WnOle Wnen the principles oeeH
destroying faction might rise upon its ruins: AS a
northern man, would never the portals OF gov
eminent brought into power upon southern sectional
ISSUE and would animate counrymen 10 flee from
as from contaglon. And boldly declare, after the
manner of Pitt that were | southern man, | am
northern one, never would consent to recognise for
a moment administration brought into power upon
a northern sectional issue--never, never never! This
attempt create sectional parties is the evil tendency
of the times, and he who seeks TO foster hem be his
purpose, real avowed, what il may-whether to min
to the cravings OF ambition or to gralfy
tiendsh lingering revenge; whether he has been laden
with the honors OF the people, and pampcred al their
treasury whether he be the ncendiary, whose price
of purchase less than ihiriyeces of slverthe alal
OF and pefidy will cllnto HIM IN alter tunes Ike
the poisoned tunic of mythology God will set a mark
upon him. upon the brow OF the first murderer OF man.
that all shall know him but it will be mark for de-
structon and not for safety, and society will hunt him
from its abodes like ferocious and venomous beast He
will not be savei by the counterfeted cry that he Is
merely opposing the eIfenson OF siarery; but, like The
murderous captain of the host, the vengeance OF
dignant people will say him at the very horns OF the
altar.
But the hour of the greatest danger has passed, and
agitation is lowering its front. 1t has well near com
pIeei lis course of mischief; it has discharged its va
grant Grand is ancius efico It's profane and unhoy
temples crumbng to their downfall, and Will soon
tell only their gloomy runs OF PERIOD OF error Ioy
and delusion The impious priesthood who mihsteed al
their polluted affairs have been dsobed and deposed ana
hes deluded and dolarous worshippers are about re-
turning 10 the worship Of their ia Tiers.
But my colleague in iustiiying his course, tells US that
he is not fully tree agent, having been instructed
although the Instructions accord win. MS luuSheh
Therein my colleague differs widely IRON me- lot am
free agent every sense, and cannot consent 70 sau
here Otherwise for belong to the school OF s.aesah
veneratei BY every friend OF liberty, who beheyed In
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