The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-01-13

besides that formal separation which embittered feeling
must render necessity. You did enough TO dis
solve when you commenced organized robberes OF ou
violated every constitutional obligation. and forgot every
tie which bound us together people. Reserve, then
your denuncialons oil dsunion for yourselves. II 4
sc and you can say nothing Of each other 80 harsh
OIen Sir have stood in valley and watched the sun
as itdescended behind the mountains. AT morning and
at the whole earth was bathed in Hood OF glorious
light; bu, as the great umnary Of day travelled westward
on his journey shadow after shadow began to steal along
the mountain side. As he sunk lower and lower, the
shade gathered deeper and deeper until the whole valley
was covered with gloom, and not solitary beam lighted
up the thick darkness which settled upon it. Even so
has Il been with this republic. Its earlier days were
and difficulties. Ike summer clouds, rapidly melted away;
hosts OF invaders In all the dread panopy OF landed
upon shores, but they swept like insects
and security After while the great arch enemy
OF evoked the spirit Of abolition, and then slowly
but surely the shadow Of the night began the
ss them mountain What gained sfifS L has ii never sS o
The spot that has grown dark has remained dark
forever Steadily and continually i has increased and
deepened, until II has spread above pail like that
which hung over Jerusalem when curses denounced by
the prophets about 10 be fulfilled. And am now
to be told that must neglect all the warnings written
the Of the past madly turn away from the con-
temptation OF the future and permit myself be ulled
into fatal security BY siren songs in favor OF the Union
However much may have loved that Union love the
that they might become antagonists that the existence
of the one might be incompatible with the other The
conviction came but slowly Tor was not without it's bit
erness As boy looked upon the Union holy thing,
and worshipped it. As a man have gone through that
its defence which would have shrveled thousands OF
the wretched silk who, in peaceful times, earn
cheap reputation for patriotism by protesting unbOunded
love for ths Union Even now am not unmindful Of ali
the glorious memories that have in common do not
forget that there has come down 70 Us rich inheritance
side by side the North and the South struggled through
the revolution; that side BY side their bloody foot prints
tracked the snow Of Valley Forge that slde BY side they
from fate the victory Of Trenton. remember all the
story Of the times that tried mems souls and feel the
full strength Of all the bonds i has woven around US
about TO snap asunde the sin and the folly belong not
but those who have forced US to choose between
and na%y on the one hand q equality and ~
the assaied and does not become him who maintains
a Just cause TO calculate the consequences
The Senator from Vermont lMr PHELPs] has under.
taken to assert in substance tina! the whole world looked
upon us with abhoence, and that by upholdng the in
stuon OF slavery, we have placed ourselves beyond the
pale OF civilization When the people OF his own State,
and their representatives here and elsewhere give extra
ordinary evidences OF uncommon morality and Christian
ity may listen with patience TO lecture from hm but
as do not understand that 70 be the case must De per-
mted to say that the who could utter such charges
against whole people is not only reckless OF what Is
due to the body Of which he is member but gives the
evidence ID nee that ne i utterly o. al the
civilization OF which he speaks.
hope have satisfied the senator from Ohio that our
complaints are not altogether causeess have but little
more to add There are two classes OF men who have
brought this government to the point at which we now
BY very different motives and principles
but equally culpabe, and equally chargeable with the
crime of treason TO the land The first is that band OF
northern fanatics who, regardless OF right regardless Of
the constitution, fogeu Of all past obligations and Of
all moral and social ties have excited and continued
wild and reckless warfare upon an institution of which
they know nothing and whose blessings should
have been alike indifferent to them The second class is
for whom have less respect, and of whom always
speak with less patience Il is that tmid, hesitatng,
shrinking portion, in own section OF the Union who
are afraid TO march up the neto meet the oppressor
on the confines and hur him back the very moment his
footsep presses forbidden ground great poet in the
story OF his visit the internal regions, gives descrg
hon OF certain SOULS which apily applies to them He
found them outside the gates OF hell, and says
"Here, with those caitia angels, they abide,
Who stood aloof In Heaven-to God untrue,
Yet wanting courage with his foes TO side
Heaven cast them forth, its beauty not to stain,
AID hell refuses receive them too
From them no glory could the damned obtain"