The New York herald., 1850-12-25
The Union rrovement-The Good Work stui
uotuU on


We published in yesterdays Herald, full report
of the great speech delivered by the Hon. Daniel
Webster, at the Astor House, on Monday evening
last, and TO. day our readers will find, in another
column, full report of another speech, delivered
by the same distinguished statesman before the
Union Safety Committee, OF this city, in the City
Hall, yesterday. II the one was of great interest,
which every one will admit, so is the other. In
deed, the speech which Mr.. Webster delivered
yesterday, in response TO the welcome which he
received from the Union Safety Committee, is
more interesting than the other; for while Mr..
Webster was trammelled, as il were, on the eve
ming of the New England festival, he was free
and unfettered in the company Of those whom he
well knew were pledged to sustain the constitution,
in the expouRdng OF which the orator has made
himself so celebrated.
There can be no doubt Of the reaction which has
taken place in public sentiment in regard to the
subject of slavery, within the last few months, in
the North, and especially since the passage of the
compromise measures Of the last Congress. Our
brethren have discovered, apparently quite sudden
y, that in indulging their philanthropc whims aud
vageries--whicb, by the way, were Of a very alb
stract and metaphy sical character-they were Civ.
ing "ad and comfort to the enemy
they were assisting in laying train, the
ultimate explosion Of which would annihilate
not only this republic, but the cause Of re-
publcanism everywhere. II occurred to them
that demsgogues, intent on nothing but their own
personal advance ment, were Leading them asray-
that scheming politicians, under the guise of phi
lanthropists, were perverting their impulses, and
drawing them into a course Of policy which, if car
ried out to the end, would unquestionably produce
dissolution Of the Union. They paused and re-
hected, and with reflection came the " second So
Der thought" that it was very welto indulge in ab
oltionism and ree.soism, in the abstract, as long
as the luxury cost nothing; but when the question
of union or dissolution was involved, they very
quickly showed they were Americans, and that
much as they loved the abstract freedom of the
negro, they loved their country more. They dis
regarded all laws higher than the constitution, in
the common sense, when this light broke IN upon
them, and the result has been as perfect, as COM
plete, and as overwhelming a reaction in public
opinion as has been Witnessed in ancient or modern
times 1t seemed as If they were called spon to
decide whether they were abolitonists or Ameri-
cans, and that, by majority that drowned all op-
position, they said they were the latter.
Let these meetings and reunions OF the friends
Of the Union 60 on. We cannot have too many Of
them. And more, too-let us have Union party
North, South, East, and West-a party that will
pledge themselves to the support Of the Union and
Constitution;-a party that will pledge itself to
neither nominate or elect any candidate who is not
for the Unon-the Union as IL is, and nothing but
the Union. The North was bound to take such a
course. PROFESSIONALLY the South have suffered
at our hands Many of our best meaning citizens
have unconsciously been injuring the South for
series of veara and IL ia onlv rioht and proper that
they shoud make reparation, now that they have
discovered their error.
They can make reparation by organizing
themselves, without distinction Of party, into
Unionists-into brotherhood of Americans, deter
mined TO support the Constitution and the Union
ss they were given to them, and as perfect as
they would wish to transmit them 10 their chill
dren.
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