The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-11-30

viii not plunge into civil discord TO do IL we will not
shed blood do it will not 80 throw away the rich
gifts which he has conferred upon US, not Tor our benefit
slone but trust for countless OF bis children
In my Judgment, these not the means which He
has confded enable US 10 succo the needy and
While in that portion OF his remarks about the right
claimed for adges and jurors TO dsregad ihelr oains
person on the south gallery called out, Do you waat
an answerr This inscription created some slight
confusion for few seconds and then Mr. Curtis resumed
occasionally checked with applause at the strong points
Hon b. r. Haletrs Speech.
| The Hon b. F, Hallett was the next speaker INTRO
duced aud he had q cheering reception, lie spoke as
follows:
! MIR PREsIpEsr AND YELLow-cITIzEss In the pres
ence OF this strong and calm and energetic meeting,
after the resolutions that have been read the clear and
eloquent argument with which they have been enforced
by the gentleman who has just left your greetings, aud the
unmisiakeable expression OF your senilments-we can
say at home and abroad that there Is no law OF
these United States which cannot be executed IN assa-
| chusets.
II there was doubt before, there can be doubt
and il there be any wild enough hereafter TO resort to
ianced higher law to put down law, they will find in
your determined will stronger law 10 sustain all the
laws oil the land.
It is good them for us to be here to-day There are
occasions and assuredly this one, when is well to
forget that belong to parties or sections, and to rene
| Der only that are citizens oil The United States,
The purpose Of this meeting and the spontaneous call OF
] five thousand names which combine much oil the
moral, physical, pecuniary and intellectual strength Of
this community all point 10 the Union It's preservation,
| and The supremacy OF lis laws,
Though no man sewers himsefrom his party BY coming
here to-day, nor pledges himself to any one yet
every righ.minded citizen must feel that there occa-
sions in whch his country above all party, and
when the of all parties are bound TO unite IN an
expression of public sentiment that shall give renovated
strength the bonds OF Union, and renew the solemn
vows and engagements we have made, and which our
fathers entered into Tor u.s. at whenever anu wherever
law section of the country or the whole country, we
will be found the side OF the Union, the laws and
united county .... ea.
Such occasions have presented themselves before to-
day, the strength OF the Union and the supremacy
of an unpopular law over popular sentiment mean
unpopular in section and popular in another section
Of these Saes and iii all these crises The laws and the
Union have umphed all local sectional interests
| NJ President, it is just about eighteen years ago
when of the most numerous and welshy assem-
bges that ever gathered 4 ss hall ssee e hs G
the constitution and Of the laws o the collection OF Inc
tariff revenue, then threatened with nulllcaion BY
single southern State Then Massachusetts insisted on
the enforcement of law which she regarded essential
10 her property and industry. but which South Carolina
deteset Now the threatened nullihcaton comes ilom
| Massachusetts upon law which she may dislike, but
which not only South Carolina but the whole South
insist vital 10 the protection OF their property and IN
dusy And shall hlassachuses nullify that law Is the
question. 49, 5e, eGE
But tits said that there is crisis and no call at pres
ent Tor demonstration of The friends of The Union, and
that there are disunonists in New England! IL, IN
deed there be none, then al! mous for the
Union and for upholdpg its laws; and IT surely can DO
no harm 10 proclaim j TO the world, and IRON faneuh
BY and sustain the laws of the Union and anxious to
all disturbing causes tha, may here or elsewhere
tend TO s dissolution n WORD na' we go no, M on my
Union But that the Union IS safe while ex
uemiss North and South continue TO agiiate and indulge
in mutual ordinations, and especially while we see In
our midst strong attempt making to direct public opin
ion in the of what is termed by ITS advocates
peaceful resistance to the law but which can oe peaceful
permit these peaceful mobs and meetings to have their
way in prostratng that law and substituting for a
laws they happen dislike underlined "higher law,
of which every is 10 be his own expouuder and to
act as Judge, jury, and executlonert
Sentiments that have gone forth from this hail. or from
any place or meeting in Massachusetts, adverse TO the
Union or the supremacy OF law, should not be allowed,
unrebu 10 form ot of the public opinion OF this
Commonwealth and should be mel with 40 unequvoeal
OF The friends of the Union who mean by the
Union the Whoe Union, and by the laws we are sworn
to maintain the ,choie laws And here here to day
for the purpose oil calmly and resouey giving that ex
preston as czens Of the thryons United States. aud
as lovers OF the Union, without distinction oil party. This
alone is sufficient reason for the call that has brought
together this large assemblage
II be said that the whg party is the party OF Union,
and that alone preserve tthat the danocrac party
is the party Of Union, and that only can uphold IT, so
much the better for the country Then the Union VIII
be safe, whichever party may predomnaie 70 the nation
and surely il both the great parties have the same aim
and end in view preserving the Union, they will have
more strength when both unite together in that sacred
purpose. and they will present impregnabe barrier IN
every section and in every State against the encroach-
mems of those who may seek to undermine the consil-
tuition or divide the Union into sectional conflicting
geographical parties But on the other hand, IL demo.
cratic sectional party or whig sectional party,
cnsively sectional southern sectional northern party,
should predomnaie, or hold the balance Of power
in the Union, who would guaranty its endurance for a
single ssion OF Congress e
We shut eyes 10 facts unless disposed to
be wiliully blind During the longest session IN which
the Congress Of the United States have been together IN
our history, this very question OF Union and disunon
has engaged their whole attention. They have al
last brought about series of compromise acts as
peace measures which, like the compromises that
abshed the constitution originally, are believed TO be
the only means that perpetuate the Union and now
the question for to-day IS, whether we will in good
faith abide by and carry out these peace measures, or
whether we shall rush into renewed agltaon and sink
the whole useful legislation OF the country in section
not continue much longer and remain, as we now
one people. .4#
The single fact that these peace measures OF COM
promise are denounced by the extremes OF 9th
sections is the highest evidence that they are such as
the patriotism and the good sense oil The calm and con-
siderae should approve. II we go TO either extreme,
and that PREVAILS II must inevitably shaer the Union.
IL we stand the middle ground we stand on plat.
i form broad enough 10 the whole country, and
strong enough TO uphold and sustain II, without single
fragment being broken of.
i And now what higher or holer purpose can call to-
geher the citizens OF the United States. in all its cities,
towns and borders than TO pledges 70 stand by
the Union and the laws at this time and in these days.
when we find in section o the Union its value not
only calculated but pronounced worthless, and IN anoher
section resort had to new form OF moral treason,
which assumes, by the mysterious power OF an unknown
/" higher isw," to trample down I'll law.
lfevcr the legacy OF Washington to nus countrymen
had meaning and purpose, 4 now comes nome % us