The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-10-24

THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. "a, 1850
.r.r. adalsd while Rome va. ssrniag."
The Republe. as the lesser Ajax Of the administration
organs in Washington thinks il becoming and patriotic
conduc, TO initiate the Roman Emperor, while like
calamity 10 Impending over our country. The Republic
says: I'm tt$Ekl FAfAtf AN E&A
4Any one who has derived his knowledge Of repub-
ic from columns Of worthy contemporary oil the
Union has doubtless come to the conclusion that IL 70
large county, with Institution bat slavery and very
small number Of white inhabitants For twenty years he
has labored under political monomania. With him
everything resolves itself into negrodom No would
imagine, from reading his columns, that we had amy
schools colleges In the and-any railroads. steamships
or oanas-any manufactures, arts scencesor anything
interest attention except free negroes and
fugitive stationary slaves For twenty years he has
kept up this shocking dinnkng bis fire bep ding-dong
day and nght-agta,ing- agiaung 'gta,ing Tor parry
purposes, till eas ened himself to be considered the
greatest mischiefmaker In the land"
&c. then, according TO the provdent vigilance OF the
editor Of the Rspubs, because We have schools, rail-
roads, colleges &C., sc. Siea are in a peaceful,
furnishing condition, neither AssAilsd. jeoparded nor in
want OF defence these the great interests which
should be especially guarded and maintained. And be-
cause we have population OF some twenty millions OF
peoples very large preponderance OF them being whites
whose relations towards each other have been seriously
disturbed and agaed by this most delicate and dangerous
subjective ought to say nothing for this reason, on
the subject Of saverywhen has been dragged too, into
the political moral and fanatca discussions OF the day,
and has at length been employed the chief material
to construct platform in New York, on which the
friends and supporters Of the President have ranged
themselves along with Washington Hunt w. H. Sew
ard, Horace Greeley & Co. This mode OF reasoning pur
sued by the Republic appears to belong that species
Of logic emphatically called the sequitur. We ap.
prehend does not quite follow that because there
numerous great and essential interests in the country,
and other institutions as well as that OF slavery they
each require equal attention at all times at the hands of
the editors OF political journals. We trust we have in
no case neglected any Of the subjects to which the Re-
public REFERS failed to perceive and aid in developing
the intellectual and physical Of the country
We can proudly appeal life devoted TO the advance
men OF these important objects and is not for the Re-
public, or any other ephemea antagonist Of yesterday,
deprive US OF these honors to shake the faith of the
people Of this country in principles and patriotism
tits true. undoubtedly, that have recently devoted
much time and space in columns TO the examination
Of the extent and danger Of the agitation Of the topic OF
slavery and especially to the character and maintenance
of the fugtve-slave law We have done this for the
ing subject OF the tmes-threatening to destroy the
Union TO plunge into the caames Of civil and SER
vile war; and bring shame and dishonor on the names
of our revolutionary ancestors That this is we'll
founded subject Of apprehension will not be denied by
any rational in the country, and has been reluctantly
confessed by assaan the Republic. Cast our
eyes as we may-South, North, East or West-and the
signs of the times are big with menaced evils. He must
L 4 L. L. L. AZ Il r 4
must be blind who does not its piratcal ensign float
ing the breeze. Yet the Republic Of the Argus
eyes OF the wing administration, is blind; its voice il
silent; it even proclaims that all is well = that the u
gihve-slav law is in good hands, viii be faithfully
forced and any danger that has existed has passed
away We hope 50, too; but If such halcyon days are
beginning dawn upon very little credit is due to the
Republic or its friends. They have slumbered on the
post, like unfailhful sentinels and left to other,
the noble duty Of rescuing the Union. Not only
have they done this, but they have finally consum
mated an arrangement with the abolitioniss Of New
York to unite in supporting candidate for governor
who has avowed the most ultra sentiments this subjec
OF the fsgiveslave law, and Of slavery ITSELF which, i
carried out practically. will tend to the most disastrous
results And this is the party Of which the Republic
is mouth piece, which eschews all agitation and hal
the bsrefaced audaciy charge with playing into III,
hands Of the aboionsts and southern uitras-the Sew
ards and the Rhetis! The men who have yielded un
condtonay, the vanqushed serfs of Seward, talk o.
faithfully observing the law, and restoring peace
good will to distracted nation They 70 further
and reproach us, who have stood by the Compro
mse who have been the friends OF Its friends. ant
the foes OF its foes, with dangerous agitation il
unfolding that glorious cause. We, who have dep.
recsied agitation who have exposed the objects OF
those engaged in il, who have struggled TO preserve
the Union, only Of the States but Of paiernal kind
meas, and Of patriotic concord among all sectons-w,
are branded confederates and assistants Of the dis
union factions OF both EXTREMIST This is DONE too BY
press which, during all this raging Of the strife, has
remained mute4hss the constitution and the Union
sssailed without lifting its hand or its voice TO defend
them, and has recently entered into political fellowship
with Seward Greeley, and the other higheraw patriots
Of New York
few words as TO the origin Of this slavery agitation
will not be amiss in this place We did not begin it,
we did not introduce It into Congress- into any OF the
State legislatures where il has for several years besn the
theme Of constant harangues and of threatened disturb
ance We did not originate The qWilmot Proviso." OF
support it. We did not advocate the adoption OF the Cal
ifornia bill, except part Of the Compromise W.
have been, from the beginning Of all these measures
and indeed, since the Missouri Compromise. the