The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-06-11

the great tropical productions sugar and cotton
Mr. Calhoun now rests inihs calm repose OF DEATH His
honored remains have Just been borne 10 the tomb by the
senators Of the nation. amidst the abundant illusions OF
Of nations wo. He has gone from us forever;
but his fame is the legacy Of his countrymea. and
we protest against the mputatons which one from his
own beloved Carolina has endeavored to fix on his
memory. We protest against the endeavor which has
been made TO prostitute the and influence Of Mr.
Calhoun to purposes hostile 10 the unity and integrity
OF this great confederacy. Mr.. Wallace represents
a South Carolina constituency; but yet he has no
right. legally or morally. to use any production
Of Mr. Calhoun in order to protect his rotten and
wretched idea Of DnUNIoE And be il remembered that
Mr. Wallacss ideas 60 back beyond the present diff
cues and that his letter would sanction disunion, indie
pendent OF the present controversy MIR. Wallace is
member Of Congress- and last December he must have
sworn on the Holy Evangeists to support the constitution
Of the United States VIVA. right has he to preach sed
ton What right has he to organize resistance 10
ures which are yet in the womb Of the futurel What
right has he to prostitute to unholy uses Mr.. CAL
houn's integrityi And what right has he to out
rage the people Of the South, by holding up to them
inducements to dissolve this glorious Unionnot because
OF oppression, wrong injustice. nor yet because Of
pervesion OF the principles of the confedeacy. but be-
cause the people Of the South monopoze the production
OF cotton rice. and partly the production Of sugar We
will not contest the right Of any State in this confed
eracy to withdraw from the Union, when she is COM
PEELED to suffer ntolerable oppression from government
without limitation Of powers; yet we say, at the
time, that have words to express that mex
pressible and inefable horror with which we regard
those who would unreasonaby and without adequate and
compulsory motives, shater and destroy the nobes gov
ernmental structure ever reared by the hand Of
Mr.. Wallace distinctly makes the appeal to We
him in the words used by Mr. Jefferson in 1875
:" Are we to stand 10 our arms with the hot-headed
Georgian No. That must be the last resource; not to
be thought Of until much longer and greater suferngs"
And we must separate from companions only when
the sole alternatives left are the dissolution OF our
Union with them, or submission to government with
out limitation Of powers" And, in the language Of
Mr.. Madison, (of whom we have heard it said, che
built the constitution brick by brck,) would say
mo. my countrymen shut your against this
hallowed language shut your hearts against the poi
son which it conveys: the kindred blood which flows
in the veins Of American citizens, the mingled blood
which they have shed in defence Of their sacred rights
consecate their Union, and excite horror at the idea Of
their becoming Aliens rivals enemies" These words
strong before the adoption Of the constitution they
are stronger than they then. When they
first uttered, there were not four millions Of
the continent now have twenty millions Of free,
happy, prosperous, and Christian people We have
acquired Florida and the Gull coast. We have acquired
Louisiana and the mouth and the bank OF the Mis-.
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summer. Oregon belongs to now and glorious war
has given nearly two hundred millions Of square
miles. with the bay Of San Francisco and the val
ley of the San Joachim, rich with untold treasure.
throwing back the beams Of the Sun, he sets in the
Pacific, with reflection yellow his rays. We
have built up States and commonwealth. Towns have
been founded. and comfort civilization, and refinement
have been scattered through tangled wilderness. stretch
ing from the shores Of the Atlantic TO the rough spurs
ofihe Rocky mountains These are achievements but
superadded TO these the proud memories Of the past II
is pleasing ofce-and one which brings efor-to
olect how the North and the South united against British
oppression and de6ed the seried ranks OF British steel
how the people of the South shed their blood at Bunkes
Hill, and persisted far from their homes in defending the
hearhsiones Of New England-snd how the hardy sons
Of the North poured out their blood the sunny plains
Of the South at Camden. at Eutaw, and at yorktown
On every battlefield Of the revolution, there mounds
which should be looked upon holy things for under
meath them the bones Of northern and Of southern
moudsr together They the spots to which the
nation should look in times like these for inspiration
and in looking 10 them oughtto spun from those
whether from the South from the North who would
mar the work Of the glorious dead.
These general remarks have thrown together has
lilly, in reply to Mr. Wallaces letter But that letter con-
tains other points which should be noticed and we
are forced to defer that notice until tomorrow Then
will further expose the false statements the unsound
reasoning and the dangerous and mischieveus temper
which make up the warp and wool Of Mr. Walace's
letter TO his constituents