The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-03-20
THE UNION.



Words Ia season, and Never out OF Season.
E1traet from the Speech of Mr. Dickinson Of Nsts York.
IN the Senate Of he Uaiied States al hs close of he
last session Of Congress February %. ls49, establish
ing a government for California;
When portion OF these States were colonies OF
Great Britain, that government insisted upon abolshing
the colonial legislatures and subecng people, in
matters that concerned their domestic condition. TO the
legislation OF Parliament; and the controversy which
arose over this question, than any other produced
that revolution which resulted in declaring the colonies
free and independent OF other governments but as indie
pendent OF each other as they OF the gigantic power
whose acknowledgment OF Independence they had con-
quered. Although they had successfully struggled for
liberty by united effort in common cause, and
bound together by feeling OF sympathy and OF interest,"
they united by political bonds whatsoever and
no single State any number had the right, in either
moral political sense interfere with question the
institutions oil any other Slavery then existed in all the
States, and easily that while would speedily
be abolished in some from natural causes would long
continue IN Others whether not union OF the States
was formed; and as slavery must exist, il wisely
deemed better to have Union with slavery than slavery
without Union. Its existence then, as now, de-
pored; but then, not now the spirit of patriotism
above the spirit OF sicky philanthropy and local benevo
lence and the patriots OF that day. with the spirit OF the
revolution upon them that the triumph which, under
the blessing of Heaven they had achieved would be best
secured and the general welfare of the States and Of the
people best promoted by uniting together in great
mated by the Influences which impelled them onward
the constitutions which binds together this family OF
eregn States, and secures by abundant guarantees the
rights and interests OF each and all, formed and
adopted and still each State, in all that its do
nestle condition. s as sovereign and independent as 1t
was before. And how, from that suspicious mo-
ment, has cur progress been upward and onward !!
From three we have advanced to twenty millions
OF peoplefom thirteen to thirty sovereign States with
almost boundess territorial possessions Peace and pros
perty attend u.s. industry is amply rewarded labor is
not burdened want and famine are unknown; we are
respected among the great nations OF the earth and
far as has been yonchsafed to fallen man, life liberty,
ara gpcn rad m a
could not enjoy the honors and blessings with which he
was laden, because Mordeca the Jew, permitted to
sit at the kings gae and, like that envous and malig
nan demon, there are those amongst US to whom all
these blessings avail nothing, SO long as portion OF the
States continue. under the guarantees OF the constitution
that which existed in all at the time the confederacy
formed and they openly demand and deliberately petit
ton that the Union be dissolved for this alone
am it will be said that this extreme and frantic
and is the joint effort OF the weak and the wicked, and
that those who now in the ncpient stages OF the
same disease do not propose TO follow Them and only
pose the further extension Of slavery But il was only
yesterday, were that many OF those who now cry
loudest and go furthest were where others have COM
menced; and again. Tomorrow, those who have Just Ia
ken their first lessons will find themselves where others
who have travelled in the same direction have gone be-
fore them. 1t has been unfortunately discovered that
'the ambitious youth who fired the Ephesian dome sur
vived in fame the pious fool who reared it, and thirst
for notofiety has been the order Of the day.
New York abolished slavery herself when it suited her
venence without the gratutons and impairment interior
ence Of other States, the ocious dcation of Con-
States shall follow s her example when IN like
shall them best and they believe such States to
be the proper Judges in the premises They have
no doubt that emancipation has been retarded in nun.
Der BY the l-med proceedings and ntermeddlings Of
fanatcsm and bigotry. They believe that the advant-
ages and burdens the good and the evil, the responsible
y here and the responsibility hereafter belong to the
States where il exists and not to them that they not
entitled to reap the fruits of its labor, nor required to
for ITS endless vexatons nor to answer Tor ITS sins
Having abolished it themselves, they do not, like the
Pharasee thank God that they not other but
they believe The people OF the southern States as ntel
gent and virtuous themselves, and regardul OF
the principles of sound morality, just law, and pure
gion They that this great matter cannot be hastily
disposed Of; that the question whether they shall
be emancpaed longer held in seryitude i prac
ticabe, is but single in the dark and difficult
chapter OF its history; and that it is wiser to leave il to
the guidance of those whose institution and property ii
is and who have right to control it, under the henecent
| care of that
"Provideuce that shapes our ends,
Rough hew them how WILL"
Nor have the great Of the northern people any desire
to interfere with this institution, under some plausible
pretence, for the purpose OF accomplishing by circuy
and indrecton that which they have not the maniness
to attempt openly and hence they will not, under the
plea Of preventing the extension Of slavery set on foot
against their sister States by agating the question OF
slavery in the Territories, in the District Of Columbia,
in the arsenas navy yards and other places where Con-
that fugives held service by the laws Of State
escaping into another to be delivered up to the us
dicon from whence they fled, not to be ensaved, if they
eemen as IS the cant phrase OF the times but TO have
their rights adudcaed by The laws OF the State where
the service is claimed All rejecting must and
know that il is much violation OF the letter and spirit
OF the constitution, in the sight OF God and in the judgment
OF men, TO harbor and secrete fugitive from the laws Of
State which held him service TO shelter and pro-
ect fugitive from justice, and that the is no less
questionable in expedency fragrant in morals than the
other. These provisions clearly written in our fun.
damenal law, and he who violates them or either OF
them under the shallow justification that they are OF no
moral force, violates the primary duties OF citizenship,
and commits treason against his government They see
and know that they elevate this unfortunate
ton of the question, by haborng and secreting fug
tive slaves and that the only fruits produced by II will be
to multiply wreched outcasis aud swell the volume OF
misery pauperism, and crme-to add physical want and
suffering moral and mental depression, increase the
number OF vagabonds and literally degrade degradation
The North people, want not this race among them,
asis suggested by this bastard philanthropy They want
the Sick the decrepd and the n6rm to be supported
in their poor. houses nor the vicious and i'm
moral for their prisons; the few whose in
tegy and health shall survive transition from genial
TO rigorous clime-from long state OF tuteage to
OF self preservation and self dependence come among
them without social political rights, todegrade the hon
esi white aborers OF the North by mngng with them
and competing for their labor They that two
OF men dissmilar in physical development, whether
slaves freemen, cannot exist together upon terms OF
equality without degrading both. Heaven has so or.
dained, and man cannot subver the decree-one will be
elevated and the other degraded. wo has been pro-
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