The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-12-06

larger part OF the last hall century rally with the South
for the support OF the general administration Has not
been your boast your merit party that you are
in intense and CHARACTERISTIC degree national
and unonist in your spirit and politics, although you had
have contributed IN thousand ways 70 he extension Of
our territory and the establishment OF our martial fame
and that you follow the flag whatever field or deck
wayesf Aud will you for the sake OF temporary VIC
tory in State, for any other cause insert article
IN your creed and give direction your tactics which
shall de'ach you from such companonshp and unit you
lor saeh service M all lime TO Gomez M
/ You are whg-l give you my hand on that-and 10
not your party national ooi Do not find your fastest
allies al the South do not need the vote OF Louisiana
oil North Carolina, OF Tennessee, of Kentucky to defend
you from the redundant capital natured skill and pauper
labor OF Europe Did you not just now with wise con-
tempt of sectional issues and sectional noises, unite to call
that brave firm and good old man from his plantation, and
seat him with all the honors in the place OF Washington
Circumstances have forced both of these partiesthe
northern and the southern division OF botho suspend
for space the legitimate objects OF their institution For
space, laying them aside, aud resolving ourselves into
nothing but slavery. Those circumstances exist
onger and shall we not instantly revive the old creeds,
the old ties and BY manly and honorable concert
resolve TO spare America that last calamity, me formation
Of parties according to geographical lines
Imanlan, in the second place, thai the coNscIrscr OF
formed and that is on grounds Of moral obligation.
merely TO call upmen 10 The obedience of law. but on the
the grounds 10 discourage and modify the further
thus far, that agtton has been eondueted mean TO
say that moral duties, not at all less than pot
cal interests, demand that accept this Compromise
and that promote the peace il is designed 10 restore
Feow-cilizens, was there ever development oil sheer
fanacism more uninstruced or more dangerous than
that which teaches that conscience pescr6es the con-
tnuet political other peaiing agitation OF this
subject That will help in the least degree to amelio
rate the condition OF one slave. or TO hasten the day OF
his emancipation, do not believe, and no man can be
certain that he knows But the philanthropist-so he
qualities himse-will say that slavery is relation of
wrong, and whatever becomes OF the effort conscience
mpels him to keep up the agitation ill the wrong some
how, is ended Is he, answer quite sure that con-
science enlightened to comprehension and comparison
OF all its duties mpels hin to do any such thing s he
quite sure that that which English, French,
German planthrops might conscience counsel do.
touching this matter Of southern saverythat that ALSO
he the American phlanthropist may in conscience
sci do Does-it go for nothing in his ethics that he
standsthat the whole morality OF the North sandsin
totally different relation to the community OF the South
from that of the foreign propagandst and that this differ
ence of relation may possibly somewhat-ay, to q vast
ferrng that because those States are States you
bound 10 NEEDLE and agate and drive pitch-pine
knots into their flesh and set them fire. may not the
fact that they sssr States be the very reason why,
though Others may do So you may not? In whomsoever
else these enterprises of offensive and aggressive
morality graceful or safe, or right, are you quite
sure that IN you they are either GRACEFUL or saie or
righti iGI-s.
have heard that great statesman living in the North.
ed Of saying that have do with slavery
the South than with slavery In Cuba Are you qae sure
that the sentiment went far enough Have we quite as
much 10 dol mean we wisely or morally assume 10
do quite as much--wh southern with Cuban slavery
To all the of the world united only by the tie
of philanthropy or universal beneyoence and our duties
TO that extent flow from that tie. All that such phan.9
thropy prompts us 10 prlnt, or say, or do-touchinE
slavery in Cuba-we may print, say. or do, for what
know or care, subject, would recommend, TO the re-
srants Of common sense and taking reasonable thought
fca-we usrr -pss. ~ 1g4sr-
cpd on the csa,es o. %0'a oS ys
scribe the flights OF philanthropy itself
Ia The first place. remember. enrea you, that on con-
side raons Of policy and wisdom-trues policy, pro-
oundest wisdom for the greater good and the higher glory
of Amerca-for the good OF the master and slave, now
and for all generaonsyou have entered WIN the soun.
ern States into the most sacred and awful and tender OF
all the relationship relation OF country and there.
fore that you have expressly and by implication, lad
yourselves under certain restraints you nave peaeed
forbearance; you have shut yourselves out IRON GER
tain fields and highways of phlanhroPc enterprise-
open you before open TO the rest OF the world now
but from which, order to bestow larger and mightn
blessings man IN another oay you have agresa to
! retire.
sautary and permanent OF the relations Of social man
We have united with them in that great master perform
ance OF human beings-that one work on which the NOR
aiss whom love concur in suposing that the Supreme
Governor looks down with peculiar compacency-thc
building of Commonwealth. Finding themselves side
by side with those States sixty years ago IN ths
new world thirteen States OF then, in al-thirty
to.day-touchng one another on thousand polnts-ds-
cenng perfectly that unless the doom o. man W., WAS % %
come dearest friends or btierest enemies-so much Ihu-
cyddes and the historians OF the beautiful and miserable
drawn together, also fsicously, by common speech
and blood and the memory OF their recent labor OF glory
our fathers adopted the conclusion that the best interest
OF Humanity in all her forms, demanded that we should
enter into the grand sacred and tender relations OF coun
try All things demanded 1.-THE love OF man. the hopes
OF bery--all things" hope, one lot one life one
glory" Hereby only America bless herself and bless
the world.
Consider in the ner place. that to secure that largest
good 10 create and country and thus TO connb
ute the happiness OF far as that grand and vast
fundamentally may be made to contribute to happiness
il became Indispensable TO take upon themselves, fos
themselves, and for all the generations who should fol-
low certain engagements with those whom we became
united Some OF these engagements were express Such
is that for the restoration Of persons owing service accord
ing TO the law of State, and flying fromt That is ex
press. is written in this constitution In terms. IL was
inserted in it. by what passed sixty years ago. ioT ne
morality and religion of Massachusetts and New Eng
land Yes; il ritten there by men VINO knew lneH
Bble-0d Testament and New-as thoroughly ana ievi
erenced il and its Divine Author and HIS son. me Sayou
1 and Redeemer as profoundly we. Others oil hose
en- (and those how vast and sacred were I'M
Piled Is not enough say that he constitution ava not
pipe 10 tte new nation particle Of pocer 70 nkrmsdd6
Bu iap g Slavery sittin ITS States, and ntrgors nGs
no such potcer This is true, but not al the truth No
hou uc more than this implied in the sscrsd ysisiisn d
country Hh marriage Of han t0o, Jcr than
fseing nziwai life; sit is TO be looked on with other
reverence il is an engagement az between the real
parties to tan engagement the most solemn to love,
honor cherish, and keep through all the ages OF ma
ton II s engagement the most solemn, TO cultivate
those affections that shall tighten, and sweeten and per-
petuate tie which ought to last so long an en-
gagemeni then, which limits the sphere and controls ne