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

of the victims Of s inventor m ght hm form
deeessor in mischief and appearance. be turned
upon by those who have suffered ut his hands.
"Reminiscences connected the Slavery Agtsasen.
Many of readers remember the abolition excite
ment which convulsed this country in 1885. foreign
emssary came to shores that he might assal more
enectuaiy the institutions OF the southern portion OF
The conederaey Public attention and public agitation
were speedily aroused by his efforts and abolition soce
ties were formed at the North which scattered their in
cendiary publications. by means of the public mails,
throughout the slaveholdng States The people OF the
South aroused and indignant at these efforts to in
cite instruction and servie in their midst, But they
did not stand alone The calm and sagacous at the
North whose words were wont to be respected by
their fellow czensdenounced the crying injustice and
deep wrong which phrenzied fanatics sought to in
fct upon their slaveholding brethren The history
of our revolutionary struggle was then fresher in the
minds of men than il is now. The bonds oil union,
by common trials and common triumphs. had not
been weakened they by party appliances and
selfish and sectional differences The contract between
the States then old but that there many,
even the theatre of public life who knew what that
compact had cost and who had seen the men OF the
North and OF the South fall side By sde minging their
blood as ran on the battlefield Monmouth and Tren-
ton and Bunker Hill freshly remembered for there
were those who could tell OF the deeds there enacted
and say how men from the far South had to their
call for help in the hour OF danger and faced the OPP
pressor the frozen plains of the North.
Fifteen years have passed away, and yet how all is
changed! Party has usurped the place OF patriotism.
The last OF the of the revolution dropping into
the grave and mutual kindness and faernal feeling seem
to wither away with them. Sectional ambition has
stricken down State equality; and the plain provisions
of the constitution have been made TO bend before local
peudces, and its sacred guarantees held as nought
compared with party and party supremacy Even
our glorious institutions, which have made US, even
in the lifetime of man, only prosperous and happy
at home but great and honorable, and enved among the
nations of the EARTH only as dust in the balance when
weighed against the insane desire to PROSTATE the inst
tuons of portion of the conederacy. The cloud,
which fifteen years ago bigger than a mans
hand now the whole heavens; and almost daily
we hear sentiments uttered in national legislature
without rebuke which would then have marked their
authors any quarter OF the Union, dsubers OF the
public peace and enemies 10 the best interests OF the
country Fifteen years ago this not Then. the
people of the North not the enemies OF the South
Then in Boston-he very headquarters OF Garrison and
his laborers-he people assembled together TO coun
sci with each other in order that the constitution might
not be violated and the rights OF the STAKEHOLDER inva-
ded. They met in Faneuil Hall-a place hallowed by
many associations, filling the mind with thoughts OF
the times which trel mems souls The highest names
which Massachusetts, could boast there present.
Harrison Gray Otis and Sprague among them-and
they spoke their counymsn the words OF truth and of
solemn warning. Those words remain unchanged in
their tru,hfulness and their orebodngs have proved
well nigh prophetic. We trust that they who heed
not the words OF southerner. will turn a list
ening to their oracles. Otis and Sprague
not southern men and trust that they who now lead
the people Of the North will pause and consider they
continue denounce the save-owners man stealers
and murderers and seek to drive them beyond the pale
of the constitution unworthy the sympathy of or
the protection OF Heaven.
We would publish the entire speeches OF Otis and
Sprague, delivered in Fanuel Hall in 1885, but our limit
ed space orbids it. But earnestly call the attention OF
all who love the Union, to the meagre extracts
which forced make from productions worthy of
the better days of the republic.
Extracts from Mr.. Syragues sp.teh.
1t is well known, doubt not to all who hear me- thar
prior revolution, the American colonies ali
inens and purposes independent each other They all
each other distinct and sovereign States they were
civil administrations Indeed the people of the South and
}, the North knew little of each other than that they
nad descended from common ancestry, had different
habits and pursuits and that the cultivation of the
o was carried , s On IN the North principally by White
what first led to better acquaintance? What but =
the North by the oppression Of the parent country
When soil invaded and this Of the country
invite them to come to aid, to make with common
cause need not how promptly they accepted the in
vaton, how cordially they assisted fathers in tho
cabinet and how nobly in the field, but pass TO the