The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-02-09

luef DlOOQ mas WdSneu mdhy DiOt from the ia
tonal escutcheon. We have loved the Union, and we
love il yet; but not for this thousand such Unions,
will we suffer dishonor at your hands.
tell you candidly, have calculated the value OF the
Union Your injustice has driven US to IT, Your op
preston uses to-day in discussing the value OF the
Union, and do SO freely and fearlessy. Your press,
your people, and your pulpit may denounce this
son; be i so. You may sing hosannas TO the Union
is we'll British lords called it treason in fathers
when they resisted British tyranny British orators were
eloquent in their eulogums the British crown Our
fathers felt the oppression they the hand that aimed
the bow and they resolved to resist The result is be-
fore the world We will resist and trust to God and our
own stout hearts for the consequences
The South afraid OF dissoiyng the Union Why should
we fears What is there to alarm or awaken our ap-
prehensons' Are we not able to maintain ourselves
Shall eight millions OF freemen, with more than
hundred millions OF annual exports fear to take their
stion among the nations OF the earth! With cotton
nee ana ,NSaeco piGaacs Sa, q sSuns
dollars, need fear the frowns OF the worlds You tell
ali the world against the slavery question. We
know OF this than you; fanatcism the Old World
like fanatlcism at hone assalls domestic relations,
but we know how much British commerce and British la
Dor depend for subsistence cotton to feel at all
startled by your threats Of British power Massachu-
setts looms will yield smaller profit aud British looms
will stop when ycu stop the supply Of southern cotton
When the looms stop. labor will stop, ships will STOP
will stop, bread will stop Build yourselves
castles in the air Picture your minds such halcyon
visions that Great Britain will meddle with slaves
She made an experiment in the West Indies IN freeing
negroes Il cost her one hundred millions OF pounds ser-
ling and crippled her TO than three times
that amount and now her emancpated blacks are reas-
ing into state OF barbars By the united verdict Of
every British statesman the experiment signal fail
ure injurious to the negro and detrimental to the king
dom. England will not interfere with southern slaves
Our cotton bags are our bonds OF peace.
Have anything fear from you in the event OF dis
solutIon little gasconade. and sometimes threat
two, altogether out OF place grave issue this
are esored to on your part As 70 there being any con-
hct OF arms growing out OF dissoution have not
thought il at all probable. You complain OF your
cation with slaves in the Union We propose to take
them out q the Union,o dissolve the unpleasant asso
cation. Will you seek battle. field to renew, amid
blood and carnage, this oathsome association take
lit for granted that you will not But if you should,
point you to the record Of the past and warn YOU BY its
When you leave your homes in New England, or in the
great West this mission of ovehis crusade against
oms, and subdae eight millions OF southern people,
warn you to make all things really. Kiss your wives,
bid your children long FAREWELL make peace with your
God for warn you that you may never return.
repeat, deprecate disunion Devoted to the con-
stution-reverenciDg the Union-hodlng in sacred re-
membance the names, the deeds and the glores Of our
common and ilustrous ancestry ry-hese is no ordinary
i'll to which woull not bow sooner than dissolve the
political association OF these States Ii there was any
point short OF absolute ruin to ourselves and desoation
TO country at which these aggressive measures would
certainly stop, we would say once, Go to that point
and give US peace. But we know full WELL that when
all is obtained that you ask the cormoani appetite
for power and plumber will not be satisfied The tiger
may be driven from his prey, but when once ne dips his
tongue in blood he will not rellnqush his victim with
out struggle.
warn gentlemen fthey persist in their present course
Of policy, that the sin OF disunon their headsno
II assaults me, and strike in self defence.
| am vioator Of the public peace. II attacks me
with such fury TO Jeopadize my hie and say him
in the conflict am murderer II you attempt 10 force
upon sectional desolaon and-what TO infinitely
worse sectional degradation. we will resist you; and II
in the conflict of resistance the Union is dissolved
are not responsible. Ii any charges me with har.
boring sentiments Of dsunion he sgreaty mistaken.
he says that prefer disunion sectional and social
degr hp docs men M mr. fhani siic
Does any man desire 10 know al what time and for
what cause would dissolve the Union, will tell him
AT the rst moment after you consummae your hrst act
OF aggression upon slave property, would declare the
Union dissoved and for this reason such an act per.
petrated after the warning we have given you, would
evnce settled purpose nerpose your authority in the
management OF our domestic affairs, thus degrading u.s.
from rghfu position equals, to state OF depen-
dance and subordinatlon. Do not mistake do not
cay that such act would, per s justify disunon do
mol say that exclusion from the Territories would
alone justify do not say that the destruction of the
slave trade in the District OF Columbia, its abo
ilion here nor yet the prohibition OF the slave trade
among the States would justify it, may be- that not one
two, all OF these combined would justify dsunlon
These but the initiative stepshey lead you on to the
mastery u.s. and you shall not take these steps
The man have studied the history OF revolt
against the power OF Britain 10 but little purpose who
snpposes that the throwing few boxes oi tea into the
water in Boston harbor Produced or had any material M
fuence in producing, the mighty conflict OF which
ensued Does any suppose that the stamp act and
its kindred measures produced the revolution They pro
that Britain determined TO oppress and degrade the
colonies. This conviction prepared heroic people for
resistance and the otherwise trivial incident OF throw
ing tea overheard supplied the occasion Tor manifest
ing that state OF public sentiment warn gentlemen, by
the history OF these transactions not 10 outrage the
ence OF patriotic people, yet like the British king
and Parliament TO spurn our enreates, and turn deaf
ear 10 our prayers for justice.
Before the first fatal step taken temember that we
have interests involved which cannot relinqulsh--
rights which il better 10 die with than live without
The direct pecuniay interest involved in this issue Is not
less than twenty hundred millions OF dollars, and yet the
loss oil this will be the least Of the calamies which you
enailing upon Oar country Is to be made desc
late. We are to be driven from no nesthe homes
haowed by all the sacred associations of family and
friends We 10 be sent, like people accursed OF
God wander through the land, homeless bouseless,
and ffeniless or, VIII ten thousand times worse than
these, than ALL remain in country now prosperous and
happy, and selves, AMI children, dega
ded 10 social position with the bi ick These these
the fghtful, terrible consequences you would entail
upon u.s. Picture TO yourselves Hungary, resisting the
powers OF Austria and Russia and II Hungary, which
had never tasted liberty coad make such stout resstince
what may you not anticipate from eight millions OF south
made desperate by your aggression tell you, sir
sooner tnan submit we would dissolve thousand such
Unions as this Sooner than allow slaves 10 become
our masters, would lay waste our country with fire
and sword aud with our broken spears dig for ourselves
honorable graves
You tell u.s. sir, there is no intention OF pushing 10
exremes like these. do not doubt the sincerity Of
gentlemen who make this avowa II there was fixed.
ness in their positions, would believe them, would
trust them. II memberso oil Congress 10 the political
what to the planetary system, you'd take their