The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-02-05

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Since the days Of the Hartford Convention which sat
in secret and has been damned IN public OK everybody
required more GOODNESS and less demagogisn than at
the present period OF counys existence Now sthe
time for the words OF truth and sobernessoI the cour
age OF David and the strength Of Samson. Brevy
virtue, and honesty beyond all price, When men walk
precipices handle asps they must be sepossessed
When psopIe are escised lille matter will occa
sion mob, and mob once raised may commit arson
and murder We despise mobs and curse their origina.
have our troubles and trials Every great man has
his Mordecai whom he desires 10 hang on gallows nifty
cubits high and every Mordecai has his Hsman, whom
he desires TO have humbled TO the dust.
II was SO in Bible days, and is now and Abby kel-
" and the Worlds Convention cannot change the fact
Such being the case behooyes everybody an inch high
spite out on little matters What is the srooy horse
the W,imoi Proviso7 What Is handful OF black wool
to the UNION or THE STATEsl We have looked around
about what may possibly, but which probably will not
happen We the pillars OF our fair republic, from
the Androscoggn to the Rio Bravo, shaking like reeds
threatenings prayers and curses sghings and groanings
while the country enjoyed peace as perfect as Chris-
ans hope. and prosperity as universal and excellent
as the burden OF good mans prayer. ta
Why, then, should sections OF blessed whole quarrel
sbou. personal rights and sos oyer each Others petty
Christianity be clothed in bloody garments At the altar Of
the free No. no! Keep COOL boys, and let the Lord
work He can and will save you. if you worth saw
there doubts Of it; and if you cumberers OF
the ground He will cut you of in spite Of all your denun-
Citations and all your bitterness Man builds houses, but
man easily does over Of peace, and William
the Conqueror, in his shirt Of mail, feeds the
kindly as John the Baptist in his eathern girde Every
man can get into fight, but somebody must out
second BEST and no one knows exactly who that ndiyd
ua is to be-
II is an easy matter for an individual to work himself
into the belief that he better than his fathers; that he
s called upon to remove their sins and to clear their
skirts; yet truth declares that is only respon.
sible for his own offences, and that il he will only
take care OF his own barque sailing down the river
OF time TO the ocean OF Immortality, he will never be
held responsible for the bad steerage shpwreck OF
Others Let him paddle his own canoe WELL and leave
his neghbors to paddle theirs, and there will be less
quarreng here and more accepted saints hereafter The
eyes OF the world are upon ue. England wants the
the machinery OF her rival manufacturers, and use the
cotton OF the planters in her cities at her price
Tor when there is but one market-and what is cotton
without p there will Be- but one pSss and that
but on the banks of the Thames-not at the levee OF
New Orleans. but at the Royal Exchange Of London Are
ii Ss 1n ans os s s1n up he POI platform Of
constitution and take fresh start, under its ample
provisions, On the royal road togloIy We know the
dishonor and degradation sit hard upon American
stomachs We know that honesty demands honesty, and
truth truth. Rome fell because of her colonies:
ant member pulls the main body down, while the sup
porting trunk props the giant OF The wilderness and gives
new yerdure TO his SCARED and wrinked sides. We
have time to make quarres with foreign nations
Let look to ourselves Let not quarrel abroad until
we friendly at home The public sentiment Of the
world is liberal; the mind of man is turned in upon
and breaking the letters Of superstition and igno.
rance The day will break. whether we stand by with
2 lighted candle or not; and 4 we would be Of any
benefit TO ourselves or TO others, let us so lveas
to convince the world that freedom Is not iaacy, and
popular government not lie. Non intervention, nom
interference kind words, kind looks, and. above ALL kind
hearts, all that wanted 10 keep the temple in
the beauty OF holiness and on the foundations OF Solo
mon. We annoy each other: well, suppose we do,
who is the better OF for ~ We can kill each other
well. who will rejoice at the crmei We can ruin our
selves and ellow-citzens: well, who will reap the
benefit Of such policy' We answer. England;nEng
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respect but Tor killing ourselves. brethren, for
her peculiar qualification, well see her excommuni-
Shall we suffer these groundess eaousies these idle
quarres, these foolish words to part US onger Shall
that the Rubicon passed, and that death or
divorce is the only remedy for the American States
Shall we raise armies in anticipation and bullets 10
shoot brethren before has been declared or
seriously thought OF. For shame for shame!
Oh, what would be the feeling OF the exed patriot,
upon returning TO native land, after civil war bad
desolaied our cities and filled valleys with ignoble
graves TO the of Saint George floating from the
captols OF the thirty States and 10 hear remnant OF the
freemen OF country chanting over their manacies
the British national anthem of "God save the Queen "
Cotton and cotton factories and white and black negroes
would then be the last things he would think Of and H.
in his dream OF former greatness, he should so far forget
himself as to whistle Yankee Doodle, he would be
marched before royal governor, be denounced as
id Yankee, and be sraciousy permitted after receiv
ing sixty ashes to beg her Maesys pardon, and turn
Englishman again.
The democratic platform is day by day sliding out from
under our feet and the second Washington 10
sitting upon plank OF IT, clingng like drowning man TO
floating wreck, and endeavorng to build up from its
ruins ship that shall weather the tempest of the times,
upon whose he intends carry the fortunes
oil country through another four years term, and
that ship he declares shall be called the Consii,ont
"HEROIC AGE"
To the Editors.
PHILADELPHIA, January IT, 1850.
said, In previous communication, that the policy adj