The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-09-14
From the New Orleans Bee. Sept. .
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Il has than been asserted that the utrass Of
such consummaton would destroy darling project
Of dissolution oil the Union, and the establishment OF
southern confederacy We cannot believe that all the
ulass harbor sentiments so utterly base but we enter
tain doubt that there men in the South 10 whom
the adjustment OF subjects OF sectional controversy would
be source of inconcevabe regret Proof OF this Is to
Be found in the tone and language OF the Southern
Press the peculiar organ OF the actonsts and ire eaters
That print to have other vocation than TO grow
and menace. Nothing contents il nothing gives even
momentsry satisfaction IL opposed the omnibus bill; il
opposed the Texas boundary BILL The California bill, the
New MEXICO bill and now to cap the climax OF its dis
content, denounces the fugitive slave BILL the only one
OF al these which Obtained south
vote Here is what the Southern Press say IN refer
snce 10 this bill:
sTnr ruorTvE SLAVE BILL passed the Senate yesterday
1his quss,en, OF all evils of the day affecting the
SO ions Of The country. is dicabe by law.
and thercorc the bill The only that pretended 10
respect the constitutional rights Of the South tat formed
Where ,lsves disposed to escape, ard vast
muniy Of allies are on their borders no law can be Ell
The political objec, Of this bill is scduce the border
common cause Of the Souh. We trust that il viii be a.
abortive In that respsc. as in its ayowed design"
There exist in he-conductors Of the Southern
Press savage monomania for mlsconstIung kindness
and friendship into hatred and hostility, or perverse
moral oblquy by which they are prevented iron seeing
things clearly and closely. Would any man OF common
earnest constant and uniemng efforts OF the Senate 10
give force and efficacy the constitutional provision
Iating to fugitive saveswho had remarked the sirin
gency OF the clauses 10 the bill just adopted and the cor
dial in which the South testified It's oil these
exertons, by sustaining the bill without dissenting
voce-would any man, we ask, dream OF denounclng
such . measure as bribe intended 10 seduce vir.
ginia, Maryland, and Kentucky from the common
cause OF the South II il not evident that jour
nal which thus deliberately distorts the objects OF
legislation, and vilhes the motives OF the Senate,
y welded to n preconceiyed theory, and cannot
be won IRON Il by any concession whaisoeverl Ia
not the conclusion inevitable that the Southern Press
reflects the heretcal and pencious doctrines Of ihe dis
unonists-fhat II breaches belief IN the npossIby oil
remedying existing evils and that its special mission IL 10
disseminate lite rank and reasonable opinions, and 10
mslead deceive, and inname the SOUTH lie denunca.
ton of the fugitive slave bill is in spirit Of pure and
wanton mischief Ii aims 10 fomentsgatIon, 10 keep
alive dissatisfaction, widen the breach, 10 thrust
asunder the North and South and abors, therefore,
70 neutralize whatever auspicous influence may how
from the adoption OF those healing which both
the North and the South have agreed upon as best
adapted 20 the grievances complained OF BY the
slsysholding section OF the conedersey.
We envy not The igDoble mission OF the Southern
Press |: 10 vile and unhallowed ambition that de.
hehs only in evil; and though tolls with ingenuity
and zeal TO propagate deuson and alsehood il
In the end, e else than dust and ashes Let succeed
In creating that general madness of faction that would
overthrow the Union, and il will have gained nothing
but infany and inhutude OF suffering. Let fail,
and Il will be consigned to public execraon, Of at least,
20 the mlder doom OF eternal contempt