The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-10-13
Tns lilsruAsss.

The I1sSuAsss.
The New York Express has some sensible speculations
about the present crisis II holds the Sewardites not only
Responsible for the divisions in the wing party OF New
York. but for the passage OF the obnoxious resolutions
adopted at Syracuse and the dissensions which they are
calculated TO produce II contends that Mr.. Seward was
entitled by his TO the compliment he has re-
ceived from them and that he is only encouraged by
their remarks TO prosecute his g hgheraw" heresies
and his mischeyous schemes OF abolition. The Express
also expresses some fears about the stability OF the
Union if this agitation be kept up and denounces in
indignant terms the incendiary movements which are
supposed TO be in agitation.
The Express regrets the dissatisfaction which still per-
vades the public mind the clamors in the South and the
agitation in the North
In word, the ultrasts satisfied; and if agita
ton bring about revival OF the OF words, and
almost OF deeds. through which the country has just
passed. they resolved regardless of all consequences to
begin the fight anew. RI U
In the history of sectional strife and border feuds,
recall nothing atrocious than the used to
accomplish this end. The measures of Congress have
been perverted much tie Of the who
acted them into laws The Texas boundary has been
subject of world OF aisehoods, but OF all the ugi-
tvc-slave bill Men tell from the pulpit the FORUM and
tho press that the does allow trial by jury that Il
abolshes the habas corpus that any white seize
black in the street, and drag him off into perpetual
slavery that he judged without heariag or heard without
friends condemned and sentenced without evidence and
off upon the claim of any who may say that the
slave his property wicked misrepresentation of
law and evidence could have been invented by the wit
of and equally false the sories by light
ming all the land the tive slaves
sheriff Massachusetts, issues civil process upon colored
barber in the of Springfield, and 1t is tortured
man-sealing Two three Shareholders West, and
the Evening Journal tells its readers that they pu
suit Fred Douglass-hus wuly concealing the long
Tho
editor oil the Journal himself SO Of nearly all the stories
put aoat They studied perversons OF TRUTH and eec
tricy aud steam horsepower aud man power, night and
day, all used 10 carry the lie upon the wings Of the
wind to the four quarters of the country tG5 Ee4l
" An ignorant population invoked to break the laws
to themselves to the teeth and 10 resist to the death
To resist whom and what The constitution of gov
and the laws OF the land Many Of these fanatics
content with raising the cry repeal but they de
mand blood, and threaten bloody resistance all who
be called upon the laws of Congress They
posely the Of Congress- and then,
ing with lie, excite ignorant multitude against it, II
the fugitive slave law is badand wish with all
hearts there necessity for any such awhow much
than the law itself they who peyvert its
meaning, and who make il the occasion for inf mmaory
appeals the passions OF the ignorant and excited
community among u.s." .ss a#
The New York Express must see at once that these
canors the North calculated increase the dscon
tent al the South.
They encourage Mr. Woodward to raise the cry in South
Carolina that the fugitive law made but to be
peaed and what confidence the South epose in the
acts of the northern peope' Now, lei northern friends
take of their agiators at home and will attempt
preserve the peace OF the South But if they give way
to the negroes. and the aboonisis, and the nsdious
politicians who are trying TO make capital of tiff
they unmuzzle the furious monster that is prowng for
prey amongst themselves-how il be expected that
the spirit OF discomfort can be laid in the further South