The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-11-17

You will always lind me IN your own ranks. contrib
uon and the laws Of the country. and maintain and per-
peluae our glorious Union, Y4,
aos M ga am very osS yGaI
| To Messrs john l.. Dox and others.
MIR Dox then nominated the following gentlemen as
committee TO report resolutions mbodying the sentiments
OF The citizens assembled who unanimously ap-
proved Messrs. b. Slosson John Staais, 5. s. Cobb,
Theodore Z Bogert. and Walter T: Taylor
The commltee retired, and Geo M. Horton, esq took
the stand lie commenced by reading the resolutions OF
the great Union demonstration in New York city, and
then took up the subject OF the fugitive slave bill. which
he said was the great card IN the game Of agitation which
was just now being played by demagogues He read the
opinion of Judge Grer Of Philadelphia on the subject.
and then gave way 10 the chairman Of the COMMITTEES on
resolutions b. Slosson esq, who reported the following
~ Resolved, That the uexanpied increase growth
Of our country from 900 OF souls.
advancement all The elements Of individual and
prosperity in religion general education and al hs arts
dence, 10 the union Of the States.
SO Resoivd, That this Union sprang from, aud Is co
eyal WITH the OF the United
States and this constitution framed and maured by the
itself the result spirit compromise and
cesson and that the spirit which gave birth 10 os-
Resoiusd, That, while we regard slavery as great
evil cannot consider southern brethren respons
hundred years ago that, under The influence Of ChTs
an feeling and advancing oy,lza,on the slave .ysem
The coniedeacy and that II Is finn belief that the in
or pny Of s
ally and within comparatively short period work out Its
"a. Resoiped, That congratulate tho country upon
the settlement BY The late Congress- OF the great questions
growing out Of slavery; that reoice ~ the admission Of
California free S,ae, and in tle abolition of the slave
trade in the District OF Columbia; and that we regard the
settlement OF the Texan boundary and the OF the
territorial bills under all The circumstances, the wises
ana nes wsen cGa s nass nesn
nfiexlby opposed 70 any urhe agitation OF the SUBJECTS
''5 Resoped Ths, hereby tender thanks to those
great men and eminent statesmen OF uoih parties and 10
side raon. and al the apparent rf Of great pop,
ulariy, have stood together before the naon in procuring
honor them who irrespective q merely party ties
abors TO the Union the whoe Unon and nothing but the
"6 Rcsolped That while we cherish no spirit Of censure
| towards those other members Of both houses who may
have other and antagonsc views but accord
Of intention, we still think il the duty Of ai good czsns.
now that adjustment has been made, to acquiece In
ever qaasr @ or under whatever of 10 disturb such ad
ustmsn alike useless and dangerous the peace and
~ Rssousd, That the fugitive slave bill, passed at the
% @ n @ and sn.d saa s
George Washington thar the night designed 70 en-
the Of properly. and right Of which the
people OF New York have repeatedly availed thee
the duty OF good citizens only resist the
cuon Of the law, iIowd down every attempt ths
that fixed and solemn belief that the fugitive him
self win find FAR better security for his liberty in the char
y and sympathy Of the benevolent and humane than In
open resistance TO the laws ol the land. t5t
IS Rssolped, That the constitution Of the United
States expressly enions the surrender Of fugitive slaves
the OF act efficiently securing such surrender
uncons,aional il can readily be 50 declared by The su-
preme Of United States that, II crude imma-
gress but that while in existence il is the law OF the ma
uon and such is be obeyed and that anxousy
appeh that those who couoseng resistance unto
blood whether in the bar from the pulpit be-
gin contest which may prove destructive not 70 the su
premacy OF the law but TO the and good order Of
c'eS R,.or,d Th. ,ongb ,srsotro widely d,a.,, -
our views to many measures OF public policy are all
ofus AmERcAN under the shadow Of tho
same consution-movng forward to the ulhnent Of the
national destiny; that believing that designs hostile
pcrpetuy oftbe Union have been on foot and
men, and that such designs II successful will result ia
disruption Of the coniederac stand ready 70 usrats
ali citaens, Of w2asever party who deem fidelity to the
Union paramount TO the behests OF parry"
These resolutions were put to the meeting, and met
with a most enthusiastic respense--one solitary voice
calculating feeble negative.
call was then made for the reading Of the letters Of
Daniel Webster and d. S. Dickinson to the New York
meeting, which read amidst hearty applause, three
cheers being given al the conclusion for each OF the pa
trotic writer's
for B. Sosson, esq, who vigorously addressed the
ing in support OF the resolutions He concluded as fol-
lows:
And now you may naturally ask, what is the occasion
OF this demonstration, and what the OF the i'm.
mense meeting in New York, where the friends Of the
Union, irrespective of party, assembled by thousands
laws' !.
The occasion OF these movements gentlemen is TO be
found in the principles which have been avowed in
high and influential quarters in the adoption and rati-
6caiion OF those principles by large and influential bodies
oil mem the solemn and deliberate declaration OF the
delegates OF large and poVerul party that the most
important features OF the late Adjustment shall be again
agtaied and overhrown in the open resistance TO the
law by Influential journals and in the for
nation of coalitions for the purpose OF e6ecting
these designs. and pungng the Union again amid the
dangers Of dissolution
For the first time, gentlemen, in the history OF this
republic has been substantially declared on the floor
OF the United States Senate and by senator OF the Uni
ted States, that provision OF the constitution prescribing
the qualifications OF eligibility to that high station should
be dlsregarded, and that there a higher law by
which senatorial action should be governed than the
constitution Of the United States. And though these
assertions OF prerogatve might prove harmless enough
they been commended and endorsed by the delegates Of
large and powerful party adopted BY the aboitonsts AZ
Oswego part and parcel OF their ayorte creed and
irumpeted through influential journals both at New York
and Albany, sound expositions OF republican doc
rne. Meanwhile every effort is being made to sgitate
questions already happily adjusted, to rrtate the public
mind into acts OF violence, and TO urge forward denial
OF constitutional right TO portion of people a.
duty ncucated alike by the laws OF God and the
common sentiments OF humanity Now, gentlemen,
these are facts, resting within the knowledge Of
all men at all conversant with the history Of the
times That the principles thus avowed are subver-
sive not only OF the constitution, but If carried out TO
their legitimate results Of oil government 10 sufficiently
obvious that these principles adopted by numerous
and powerful organizations cannot be denied il equally