The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-02-23

and common ancestry. and cemenled by common memo
es and COMMON interests but have no faith In such
Union as the present dynasty would give us-a Union
oforce, cemented by fraiena blood We love this Union
and love the great principles on which our inst,tu
tons founded and consent that the Union
shall be placed in peril and those principles stricken
down. ia order 10 build up the fallen fortunes Of a repu
dated administration, and 10 enable il to hold power BY
bloody tenure We therefore warn the people Of the
dangers which menace US, that they may come to the
rescue and preserve our institutions from destruction
and our country from ruin. The time has come when
the people should look 10 the Of their servants and
save themselves from crushing blow by saying that
the present excitement must cease that the voice OF lac
ton must be STILL and that the Union shall be preserved
in peace By spirit Of compromise and Cancellation,
But there another point in the tactics Of the admins
aton, developed through the columns OF the National
atsigencr. That journal shrinks from any committal
touching the Wilmot Provso. Yet we have long be-
eved from its willingness to coaesce with abotionism
pending The Mexican and from the in which
il has transferred TO its columns in lieu OF editorials
tracts in favor Of the Wilmot Provso drom theswhig
press Of the North, that the central organ Of federalism
gave its active sympathies to the demagogues who have
brought the present dangers upon but we must
confess with pain that our belief is well nigh changed
10 see no danger from the continued agitation touching
slavery in the District Of Columbia from the fugi
tive-slave question: and none from those who would
break down the principle Of non-ineryenton and force
the Wmot Proviso upon the country. II seemsto have
no fears from the continued agitation in Congress forit
considers no dangers but those which may from
the Souhfrom those who feel themselves aggreved by
the discussion Of questions touching their institution.
hat Ia donU az
copies several extracts from southern papers, and holds
the following language relative to ourselves:
The next witness we shall eau to the stand is the WASH
ington Union" newspaper which, although Il makes We
hement Of devotion the Unonand we dare
saw feels it, by shas and anon, during the last two
three months, assured US that the Union in the great
est danger and longer than the day before yeser
day. opened upon all the conduits Of its wrath because.
as that vexitable organ ams, the National Inegencer
rowing It's fidelity TO the Union by conesaiag ne
dangers which THREATEN RxIsrENcg." And how does
the venerable editor when he specification,
the Union Is greater danger than have snpposedi
We quote his worlds The Intelgencer before u the
strongest evidences OF DETERMINED SPIRIT or OUR
SOUTHERN FRIENDS and yet it would impress our nohern
with the hope that the Union danger Isees
gislat1e aelegisanre pouring forth their EXCITED rso
tions and affects that there serons
How can doubt the danger to the UNION when we
by who knows much better than we what
designs Of the agato and who thus arragns atths
the public because do despair OF the Union,
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IL the editor of the Union wspaper has any know
edge-by which information, not participation
of organization of government prepared and
ready be put into instant operations any violent RENE
dies already devised of the ordinance already penned for
the establishment of the nation OF THE UNITED STATEs
SouTH " it, Short he has any serious suppose.
his assault upon for ncrednlousness seems 20
dictate, that the UNION Imminent danger than we
have represented to be- require of him, faithful
compatrio disburden his mind, make clean breast of
and let know the whole extent of the danger
This is not the first time that the National InsHgen-
Ger has ntimated, that have knowledge of deb
sign against the integrity of the Unionnot the first time
that it has. for low purpose insinuated charges against
u.s. which its editors knew to be false and without foun-
daton On recent occasion, when we insisted onthe
speedy settlement Of the slavery question, by saying that
il settlement Of that question delayed, events might
happen which would shake this continent 10 its centre,
we charged with participating in a design against
the Union, because thus emphatically warned our
countymen OF the dangers which menaced the Union.
We denied the charge at the time. and the senior organ
forced 10 etract its premedtated calumny and now
that journal, il mortified and seli-reproachu because
il forced to do act OF justice repeats BY way OF
nsnuaton IFS former charge Thus we are forced again
to repe it, BY pronouncng tadeberae fasehood uttered
as party trick, without the shadow OF authority
foundation. In the ethics OF the wing party such
conuuct may De deemed JUST anu honoIaDie OUT we hou
il to be base and dshonorable, exciting much
sentiment disgust tits untrue that have ar
raigned the National Intgeneer at the bar Of public
opinion. because it will mot despair OF the Union" But
have arragned it, and do arraign it al the bar of
public opinion, because conceals from the people
the dangers which menace the Union; because il en-
deayos, with wicked intent" to slgmatize those who
would preserve the Union by warning the people
OF the pers which menace III because it seeks to
keep alive the present agitation by persuading the
country that il is harmless and because it is willing
| to leopard this Union. and array portion Of I
people against the other, that the authorities Of
the federal government may take up arms, in order to
subjugate the States and build up the fortunes Of The
wing party, and make federalism triumphant BY giving
us consolidated empire. In word, we arragn the
National fntel'gener because for mere party trick
forthe miserable purpose Of raising political capital and
Of mendng the bankrupt fortunes Of falling admins
uaton Ill is attempting TO arrogae the name OF union
lists, he" union party" scrbblers affect to call
IT'D whilst, ia fact il is shaking the stability Of the Union
By concealng undertaking the dangers which actually
threaten il. All honest men must see both the party
designs with which acts and the real dangers which
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