The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-02-27

opassng events can possibly mistake it. We know
mot in whose brain it originated. and we know no
which OF the corrupt and INSCRIPTIONS men tina
have the Of General Taylor has induced him to adj
snture the perIous path he has taken. But we be-
eve that the reasonable scheme on which the admins
ration rests its last desperate hope retain power and
The spoils OF Office first set on foot by Thomas
Ewing the Secretary Of the Interior, and VIM II. Sew
ard, one Of the senator's from New York They went to
|he Capitol on the Sd March, fresh from consultation
with General Taylor. and using the authority Of his
uame and with the cooperation Of Mr. Winthrop, Chen
The Speaker OF the House OF Representatives, they de-
a,ed the last measure OF adjustment which before
he soh Congress- land thereby kept alive the excitement
which has brought our present dangers upon Gen.
TAYLOR or rather those who controlled him, sanctioned
,he unpatriotc movement by nominating Thomas Ewing
he the Interior and by giving to the friends
Of VIM H. Seward the great bulk Of the immense amount
Of federal patronage the State of New
York Norwa this all He nominated Jacob Collamer,
paced abollions, Postmaster General and he
paced his administration at the mercy OF Wilmo Proy
soststhus giving aquaed sanction 10 that which
III. beginning Of our troubles. In exercising the power
Of removal and appointment no effort left untried
no regard being paid to the danger which would neyita
bly flow from continuance Of that organization. When
The democracy OF New York made patriotic attempt to
remove the question OF slavery from party politics-to
forbid that il should be made test OF political faith and
thus to avert the perils Of sectional organizaton-he
Administration though pra,iag with simulated earnest
ness Of Washingons Farewell Address, made every ef
fort to prevent its consummation Gen. Taylor still ad.
hered TO his position of commttalism. so that he
night take advantage Of the continuing excitementso
that his friends in the North might continue TO assert that
he was friend TO the Wilmo, Povise and his friends in
the South might continue TO point to his two hundred
slaves as ample security that he would be faithful and
true to southern interests The weakness, ineficency
and corruption OF the caba soon Disguised the nation,
and the voice Of the people from Maine to Texas
repudated its principles and condemned its practices
The situation Of the administration became desperate;
and desperate diseases require desperate remedies The
only hope Of safety for the in power was in keeping
alive the agitation Of the slavery question. although il
night endanger the stability Of the conederacy and the
permauency OF the Union in order 10 profit by any op
potunity which might be offered in the long train oil per-
ous exigences would occasion OF winning back the
Justly forfeited confidence Of the country Hence the
effort to keep alive free-so OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the
effort to distinguish between Wilmot Provisoism and
free solism-hence the recommendations of the Cal
orna message tending to keep alive the slavery agita-
ton-hence the exertions which have been made by
the organs OF the administration to conceal from the peo
pie the dangers into which INSCRIPTIONS demagogues
leading them and 10 hide from them the perils which
menace us-and hence too the quotations made by the
National Integeneer from southern papers, in order to
make the people OF the North believe that southern
men desire dissolution Of the Union, and that the only
cloud in the horizon not engendered by fee-soil and
abolition excitement, but by the dsloyalty OF southern
men, The men in power entertained the reasonable pur
pose OF arriving, by the means have specified, one
section OF the Union against the other, and OF urging
on the Wilmot Provisoiss OF the North, in order 10
produce collision between the North and the South.
They entertain that reasonable purpose now. For des-
pcable party ends, and with hypocrca professions oil
love for the Union on their lips, they are wlng-yea,
they are striving anxiously-io several the kindly bonds
and destroy all the fratea sympahes which unite the
States to each other that they may drive the nation TO the
verge Of civil war--so that they may up the Union
aag and turn 10 their own sordd uses that love for the
Union which burns in the breasts OF better and boneser
men than themselves
We solemny charge these things upon the administra.
on and upon the corrupt press which panders TO its
aorous designs agans, the peace of the confederacy
And proof OF that charge. point to the circum
Stances and TO the facts which we have mentioned
forced and confirmed as they are by the efforts
which made 10 prevent the noble demon
saion at Philadelphia demonstration which bears
IN every feature the impress OF lofty patriotism "a
demonstration which originates a movement to
give peace 10 our councils and qpet to our coun.
ny And we offer in proof also. the efforts which have
been made by the organ of the administration in Phia.
depha, since the proceedings OF the meeting at the Chi
nese Museum were made public, bring discredit upon
and to denounce its action and we offer also in proof the
fact that the organs Of the administration in this city,he
National Iateiigsncer and the Repubie--have withheld
from their readers all knowledge that such meeting
has assembled in northern city-a meeting which de.
nounced Wilmot Provisoism and abolitionsm, and in.
sisted that the rights Of the States should be preserv-
ed-ha dangerous legislation should be avoided--thsi
honn,erventon should be established that Congress
should not interfere with slavery in the District Of
Columba-that the slave trade between the States
should not be interfered with--tha fugitive slaves
should be promptly delivered up, and that the Union
should be perpetuaed. not by the bayone but by pre-
serving the rights OF the States, and by perpetuang those
feelings Of friendship and amity which led to its lorna
on Wehave published the proceedings Of that meeting
and they are before our readers We hail them, and
We doubt not that the patriotic lovers Of the Union
everywhere hail them, a beam OF light in The
darkness nj our utesenf dlfhculfies- Tho Fra