The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-05-15

..uixson, the equality the liberty, nay, the existence Of
xurtsen OF fifteen States Of the coniederacy-s rest
upon the result q he struggle y Shch We s,s sossssd
m the Unon must maintain the dignity and respec-
ability Of our social position before the world and we
% M, ansd Efforts t can protect them and possible we
must effect all this within the pale Of the Unon and BY
means known TO the constitution. The union OF the
for the sake Of the South but perhaps for the sake Of the
Union We have great interests exposed TO the assaults
NOT only Of the world al large. but Of those who. cons
Grated States We must defend those interests BY all eg
innate MEANS else perish either in without the effort
To make successful defence, must unite with each
Of our political strength We must do mors--we must
20 beyond entrenchments and meet even the more
distant and indirect but BY no means harmless assaults,
which directed against We too, can appeal to
public opinion. Our assaans act upon heoryto their
theory can oppose experience They reason upon an
imaginary state Of thingsio this we may oppose truth
and actual knowledge To do this, however, we too
must open up avenues to the public mind ws too.
have an organ through which appeal to the world
and commune with each other; The want Of such an
causes Of our present condition.
There 10 no paper a the seat OF government through
which can hear or be heard faryand truly by the
country. There is paper here which makes the abo-
htion Of slavery its main and paramount end There are
other papers here which make the maintenance of po
cal parties their supreme and controlling object but
lions of property, the equality and liberty Of fourteen
fifteen States, the protection of the white against
African equality as paramount over even equal 10 the
maintenance OF some political organization which is TO
President and who is object OF interest," not
becanse he will certainly rule perhaps ruin the South,
but chiefly for the reason that he will possess and besow
0cs and sp0ils The South has peculiar position and
her important rights and interests objects of continual
assault from the maoy and the party press, dependent
y y upon that majority for its means Of living, will
always b found labong the assaants, and to
parayze all efforts at resistance How is nowi The
abolition party always be heard through its press at
the seat 81 but through what organ press
at Washington southern men communicate with the
world or with each other upon their peculiar inter
ests! So far from writing permitting anything to be
oS y uy 10 he here are
in uHg the South ntoa false security and in manufac
turing there an artificial public sentiment suitable for some
presidential platform, though ut the expense OF any and
every interest you may possess matter how dear
how vital and momentous.
This state of things results from party obligations and
regard party success. And they but subserve the
ends Of their establishment in consulting their inter-
esg and the advancement Of the party to which they
pledged You cannot look to them sentnels over in
eress that are repugnant TO the feelings of the majority
of a self sustaining party.
In the federal legislature the South has voice and
votes but IN The public press as j now stands
The press of this city takes its tone from that OF
the North Even our southern press is subjected more
souhern men, owe their public standing and reputation
too often to- the commentator and praise OF the northern
press Southern newspapers epubsh from their respect
i've party organs this city and in doing reproduce
unconscious doubtless, in most instances Of the wrong
they doihe northern opinion in relation to public
and measures. How dangerous such state OF things
less to say They are but men. and would be unwise
to suppose that they beyond the reach OF temptations
which influence the rest OF mankind.
Fellow citizens, II rests with ourselves TO alter this
state OF things, far the South is concerned We
have vast interests which bound by many consd
erations to defend with all the moral and political means
00an If fha ste tr,
to establish southern organ here paper through which
we may commune with one another and the world at
large We DO not propose to NEEDLE with political par
man in q southern and in defence of southern
rights. BE- he wing or be be democrat We do not pro-
pose TO disturb Them shake him in his party rela-
ions All that we ask is that he shall consider the con-
stutional rights Of the South, which are involved in the
great abolition movement paramount TO all party and
ill other political considerations And surely the time
has come when all southern should unite for pur.
poses Of eefdefence Our relative power in the legs-
laturs OF the Union is diminishing with every census,
the dangers which daily becoming greater
and the chief instrument in the assaults upon the
public press which, owing 70 supneness, the
North exercises controlling influence. So far as the
Of things II 10 not TO be borne that public sentiment
at the South should be sisd controlled BY the party
press
Lei us have press Of our own as the North has, both
here and At home-a press which shall be devoted to
southern rights and animated by southern feeling; which
shs look not 70 the North but the South for the tone
federal egslaon etns also claim share Of influence
in the press OF the county Let organize in every
southern town and county, TO send this paper into
every house in the land Let take. too all the
necessary TO maintain the paper by subscription
increase m circulation and promote the spread OF knowl-
edge and truth Let every portion Of the South furnish
is full quota Of talent and money TO sustain paper
which ought TO be supported by all because it will be de-
voted 10 the interest OF every southern II will be
the earnest effort OF the committee who charged with
these aangemens 10 procure editors OF high talent and
standng and they will also that the paper conduct
Cd without opposition and without reference the polii-
eal parties OF the day. With these assurances feel
ius6ed In calling upon you the people OF the southern
Stass TO make the necessary efforts to establish and
maintain the proposed paper
A. p. BUTLER
~ JACKSON NORTON,
r. TOOMBS,
j. THOMPSON
May Q. 1850.
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per. the price OF which will be moderate, send his
name. and that OF his post Office to his representative in
Congress, without waiting for the prospectus TO be pub
lished
From the Republic Of yesterday
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To the ave and twenty thousand subscribers who during