The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-11-30

with the sse.edness Of law and compacis. This
N was no time 10 be led aStIsy BY the glare and
glitter OF philanihropis,s the heneyoence Of whose
mission could hardly be inferred from their fefociy
Of temper and their abusive language. He would turn
from their teachings. from the gAs atnus of the morass
loihe clear upper sky frightened by the Immortality OF
Washington As 10 those who did not deem the present
meeting called for he said there might be too llile
tion as we'll as too much. For his part, he held the
Union 70 be IN extreme danger The vast and earnest
selnbly before him proved it. The year Just passed
who Shall hereafter record will speak Of il as The most
peTilous in our annals He would give honor 10 all the
great men Of every party who had risen during The year
TO The full stature Of true greatnessthe men ho remem
bered that they had country to save AS well local
Following the example OF those who had abored for
their power To rescue and recompose sinking and dis.
tracted land 1t time for every man, whatever might
be his profession vocation, 10 arouse himself 10 the
danger While they were engaged in their ordinary
affairs asleep, there was class always active
resting, who might talk and write away our Union.
/ The individual States existed by a species of ne
cessty OF their own. and might continue 10 exist
without care; but the federal union was less Sc
cure L stood 10 need of constant experimenting
care. The people OF a State were one and indvisi
Bile, bound together by natural ties, the growth OF cen
tures and natural causes, whereas the Union the
creation OF man, embracing adverse interests and different
elements, and many influences were at work to daw the
States asunder. The Union sentiment therefore, re.
CURED TO be cultivated. The States primordlai
molecules while the Union was but the aggregate OF those
prfmordiat PARTICLES Compared with The States them
Selves the onion was fragile but beautiful creation
which breath bad made. and breath could unmake
There was surer way to destroy the feeling by which
alone il can be maintained than by keeping the attention
Of the people fixed directly and constantly upon
eanao, Be continued for an hour withoa, i.boad rAp
pallng and damnng was the guilt Of those who would
continue the accarsed agitation an hour after the ADJUST
men by Cong seek 10 make one section OF the
country hateful TO anoiher-to make one-ha hate and
despse the other half
He adver ed to the violence displayed in the Nashville
xuifu SIuhf pf nT La
said that all the bay ones Of Au,erlitz and Borodno
would he sufficient 10 save the government ii the
spirit OF secionai rancor were further ihdamed by
nuing the argument the subject Of slavery There
was but one course 70 pursue TO avert the peril: il
was 10 accept the compromise measures in the same
which our foreiahers gave US this beautiful Unlonani
put end this hour and forever to the agitation at The
North of the slave question He held The law to be cob.
stitutona and required by its provisions The con-
science of the conscience OF
a duty TO do in the matter-namey, TO yield an hon
est obedience to the law and discourage BY all means the
further agitation OF the subject oil slavery.
We had accepted the constitution, and bound TO
the best OF our ability 10 suppress agitation which
could only result destruction The States were as
family of SISTERS and the slavery phanlh were
continually setting fire TO pitch pine knots and scattering
them among the sise rhooa and they do il because they
they say they have nothing do They have only do
with it here where certain destruction the family OF
which they form a part must follow; where we have
entered into COMPACT TO live in peace family OF
States where the most sacred relations have been
tablished. We had entered into marriage with one
@ s o o oRs s s."ss sos
glorify themselves by dsregarding i He believed that
such meeting as he then addressed would aid in ST.
encing the efforts OF the abolitoniss-the now almost
invisible, unknown, and, he hoped hereafter, wholly
Nj. Choates address eloquent and beautiful in
the highest degree, and we regret very much that
have not time 10 give more extended sketch
The question was now taken the resolutions, and
they were unanimously adopted and at hall past seven
stc
the Union and the Constitution.
The meeting will long be remembered by the thou
siraon Of loyalty 10 the law and the constitutional com
pact and its proceedings wherever carried the wings
OF the press by the ghtnngs OF the telegraph, will be
received the stern rebuke OF Boston 10 the spirit OF
dlsunion. and factious agitation in regard 10 an insu
ton with which the North has right 10 interfere where
il exists under the sacred guarantees Of the constitution
Hon. Dapid HsnshaV's letter.
Just before the adjournment Mr.. Curtis. chairman OF
the comnitee OF arrangements stated that letter had
would be published with the proceedings Il is as fol.
lows:
LEICESTER, Nov. a. 1850
DEAR SIR: | am in receipt OF your note OF The 18Th,
requesting in behalf Of the committee for making arrange
ments for the Union meeting TO be held at Faneu Hall
the Goth, that would allow myself to be nominated
OF the vice presidents of that meeting In reply have
TO observe that am not sure can De present at that time
movement so heartily interested in the that If there
should most chserfuy occupy any position assigned 10
that might tend TO promote the objects OF the meeting
surely time that all good and patriotic men, regard
less Of former divisions, step forward TO sustain the
Union, now assailed bya spirit OF fanacism faction
and anachy-a Union that cost 10 establish il the blood
and treasure the anxiety, toll and suffering OF the
luonary Union that has given 10 our people
peace and security, wealth and prosperity and has az
forded safe abode and happy home TO immigrants from
| other lands
/ The slave question is made the wedge to divide us the
great bone Of contention. Groundiess complaints are
alarm the tmid The uninfomed, and misinfomed, and
impe them on by fears troy national compact
aud nationality for the vain purpose OF redress
ing ideal wrongs and OF removing imaginary evils, or
evils IL real that do not weigh those who fomen the
excitement and in the correct on OF which they have
| right to NEEDLE.
In examining this slave question, II will be seen that
slavery planted in the Americas colonies by the
policy and power OF the mother country, against the
don OF the Two races the white and the blackhe con-
don of master and slayeexsted on the achievement Of
our Independence and continued the establishment OF
nationality In forming the present constitution the
pre- listing right OF the master 10 his slave recog
Missed aud 10 that right completely the pro-
vision inserted for the surrender OF slaves fleeing 10
other States Ii never contemplated in the consiitu
ton invade the authority Of the States manage their
local affairs, the right OF defining the powers duties,
obligations and political condition OF the residents within
their borders
The present generation in the slave States both white
and black born TO this inheritance. The condition
oI master and slave descended to them from the colonial
state and be the system good evil they not respon
sbie Tor It's existence and IL responsible for its contnu
ance n is a responsibility TO themselves, not TO rs
The constitution guarantees TO the master the right OF
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