The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-02-27
From The Union of Feb. 25.


From the Union Of FEB. 25.
"Bnd factionists, INSCRIPTIONS demagogues,
and wicked and corrupt statesmen, with mis-
chievous industry and criminal pertinacity, have
excited hostile feelings and fonented strife be-
tween the two sections Of the Union and hty
have applied all the means which unscrupuloe
minds could suggest, in order TO keep alive, fr
despicable party purposes. the dangerous agita
ton which menaces glorious Union,
that they might ride on the they dashed int
anger, needless the while that the foundations o
the greatest government on earth might be up
torn"
This is all true. Ii presents a faithful
picture of the arts which have been prac-
tised for the last seventeen years by the
Locoioco presses and the Locofoco lead
ers of the South and of the North. They
; were commenced by the Washington
Telegraph, assisted by the Washington
Globe and the Richmond Enquirer. They
have been pertinaciously and industriously
followed up by the Union.
This excitement has always been TO
mented and used for the benefit of the
Locofoco party They have never trou-
bled themselves about the slavery ques-
ton, except when they thought that i,
could be agitated for their advantage. In
1886, it was no manner of objection tc
MIR. VAN buren, that he had affirmed, in
his letter to JUNIUs AMOS and others oil
North Carolina, in 1886, that Congress
possessed the power and the right to abol-
ish slavery in the District Of Columbia
without the consent Of Maryland or Vir-
ginia. The elite were willing to take him
for their candidate, with this declaration
of his opinions.
i 1t was no objection with them 70 Mr..
i VAN buren, that he had voted in the Le-
gislature Of New York for resolutions in
structing the Senators and requesting the
, Representatives of that State to "oppose
the admission, as State into the Union,
of any Territory not comprisedwithin the
original boundary of the United States,
without making a prohibition of slavery
therein an indispensable condition of ad-
; mission" The elite would not listen to
any objection TO Mr.. VAN BrREN on that
{ score.
i We heard nothing from the Enquirer and
$ its kindred prints of disolving the Union,
c or of "dark questions or "knells," OF
n Of raw-beads and blody-bones of any
d description. 1t advocted the election OF
: Mr.. Van buren, justa strenuously as il
lie he had never had word TO say on any OF
n these subjects, and dnounced the North
;, ern men who opposethim as Abolitionists,
!. with the same ferd and fury which il
! now exhibits in tie use Of incendiary lam
:. guage.
= Come down little further TO the
i Presidential canvass Of 1910. AT that
e time Mr.. AMOS Kendall, through The
y columns Of the Globe newspaper, occu-
le pied himself with the patriotic work
!. Of creating an ,x'itemst on the sub
ie iect of abolition, in the lope of turning
in il against General HARRoS. He under
- took to demonstrate thstGeneral HARRI-
SON was the candidate ohe Abolitionists,
at and was friendly to tho designs against
n the peace and integrit of the Union.
e. The record was consult, II was found
!" that General HARHso on the I'd of
ne November, 1886, had dressed letter
se TO Mr.. SLoo, Of New leans, in which
y te he had distinctly stated follows: 81 do
8 not believe that Coness can abolish
3. slavery in the District Columbia, with
m out the consent Of Vrnia and Mary
y. : land and the people the District"
er In letter written abo the same time
n. TO Mr.. BERRIEN, ofieorgis, he de-
r. MED the power Of Cgress to abolish
slavery in the Ststeor in the Dis
trict Of Columbia. ain, in his 18th
ed of July speech at Cbot he took the
iel ground that, if there any principle Of
IN the Constitution Of United States
b less disputable than Y other, il is that
10 the slave population Under the exclu-
all sive control Of the Sts which possess
nd them"
, In the teeth of these clarations Of Cen
ed ersl HaRRIsoS, and tbntagonistic opin-
nd ions Of Mr.. VAN Bur, the Locofoco
be press vouched for iheerfect soundness
er, Of the one on the shry question, and
ny denounced the other the friend and
to ally Of the Aboltionis
IAN So il was with ,hefissouri question.
enc How stood General .ARRIsoS on this
ar. point' In 1919 h. v member of Con-
DO gress from a distrrt Ohio. During that
the session the Missouri cstion was agitated,
ny. and General HaRrSi with other gentle
rec e men from the nosveholding States,
nee voted for the adrtsn Of Missouri as a
slaveholding Stat the ground that