The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1850-03-07
From the Philadelphia U. S. Gazette.
The DiSuaiOr1 VEeexJur


the sO-caled Union meeting of that evening,
has been verified-strangey wonderfully and
painfully verified; and the democracy Of Phil
adelph:a, cOnvoked IN the defence of the I'm
ion, and betrayed into acts and resolutions
directly hostile 10 it, may at last claim the
honor Of having been aeduccd into a deed of
shame as wantonly gratuitous and intrepidly
unnatural us ever sgnalizcd race Of rene
gades or band of bondmen. According to
our own reporter, fifteen Notwithstanding
I to the account of the Pennsylvania. five
/ thousand Philadelphians assembled togeth-
err on this occasion. to declare their opinions
on the subject OF disuniOn and the crisis Of
/ their country. One hundred and four Vice
Presidents and twenty Secretaries gave an
imposing array of organization; and seven
orators Numbered out the patriotic sentiments
of the meeting. Well then. fifteen hundred
citizens III the one case-or five thousand cit
liens. in the other-with one hundred aad
! four Vice Presidents. twenty Secretaries and
seven orators. called together to declare for
/ the Union and against its enemies, entirely
/ forgot the purpose for which they had con-
vened. and separated without having taken
I the first SteI In support of the one, or utter
ed IL single word # Reproduction of the other
/ On the contrary, the Union meeting declared
/ itselfin favor OF that which it was intended TO
oppose-that is, in favor of disunion; and
every man who spoke. or resolved, expressed
his appreciation of the cause, and ranked
himself on the side, of the men, the only ones
in the land by whom the Union Of these
States is threatened. The traitors in wish
or intention, who have calculated the value
OF the confederation in dollars aud cents, and
who have solemnly proclaimed purpose OF
rebellion. unless all their factious demands
.ra cd tn tod Mi: AL
courtesy and sympathizing kindness. as he
roes and patriots and suffering martyrs. who
had ii full right to rule the republic or TO ruin
it at their will and pleasure. Not u word oil
rebCke; not syllable of remomstrance; not
Il whisper even OF dissuasion. to discourage
Southern movement, which has occasioned
so mucn Indignation and alarm; not voice
uplled, as we might say-or, certainly not
one uplIlted in the right way-in the asser-
ton oil il resolution to maintain the Union
from the only danger which menaces it;-the
sole positive action of the meeting may be
avowed TO have been expended in the repu-
diation Of Northern principles and the de
nunclatlOn of Northern men who have no
earthly connection with the present crisis,
whether as the friends or enemies of the re-
public One start!cs from the perusal OF the
proceedings of this meeting as from dream,
anu tShS VIC was tilIS plu
meeting? or was it not held in Charleston
or MiIIedgeviIIe-or Vicksburg--or some 9th
er Southern town. the abode Of fiery wrong
heads, whose thoughts have run SO mlniae-
ally upon the illusions of - Northern aggres
Sions ?' Not speech, not a resolution reads
like Northern one; everything hasa South
ern aspect and Southern color; and the North
and the sentiments and the people OF the
North were never more fercely assailed OF
more luriously denounced than at the meet
ing of the Philadelphia democracy, by which
the birthday of the father ofhis country was
outraged and desecrated. Down with the
Wilmot proviso ~ Down with the North
crn fanatics !" g Let the South have Its
way, and cover the continent with slavery'
these were virtually the only cries these
were substantially, the only results of a I'm
ion meeting held by the democracy Of Phila-
delphia to maintain and defend the Union
against its enemies.
Say or think what we may Of Northern
fanatics" and of their wish or purpose oil
mischief there Is not n man in the land who
does not know that they are utterly incapa-
bic OF doing any harm. Numerically feeble
wholly disregarded, if not Aespised by the
great mass of Northern communitIes-with-
out representation in Congress or Legisla-
tures-and with ninety-nine in the hundred
citizens directly opposed TO them wherever
their views point to the slightest violation Of
the constitution cOmpact-they are equally
powerless 10 Iniure the South or to mper
The Union. Take the boldest ana fiercest Of
them; do we heir nv threats of armed as
sault and have their designs upon the re
public ever reached beyond the idle expcdi-
, ent Of petitions to Congress to dissolve the
Union.
With the {" Southern fanatics, " it is anoth-
er and a more serious matter. We see them
in Congressman they are there in numbers;
we see them in Legislatures, where, by sol
emn acts and manifestoes, they call upon the
people of whole States to rise against the
Republic. Ii we believe the ring leaders at
Washington, a vast body of the Southern
people are already enrolled under the disun-
ion flag, ready. willing eager for the signal
which is to let them loose against their coun-
try. 1t is not the disuniOn of the North which
is ieared it is the disunion OF the South that
constitutes the danger. Aud it was precise
ly against that danger which the u mon meet
ing of Friday was expected to direct its
voice and offer its defence. Did it do 2
: Down with the WIlmot Proviso !" IAN IAN
Gent, aristocratic, pernicious, and prstent
heresy ~ down with the Northern ianat-
les p; " Give up the continent TO slavery
4" Let the South alone-the innocent. faithful,
patriotic, tfering South THAT is the an
swer, for tb at was the whole spirit, and gist
and grand result of the great Philadelphia
Democratic Union meeting. All that it did
was directly to encourage the efforts of the
disunionistS and consequently to increase the
existing peril; and we shall be agreeably sur
priseG should not an augmenting uproar OF
disuniol in Washington and The South be
the immediate. because it cannot he other
wise than the natural. effect This. misnamed