The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-03-17

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The National Iatsiiigsnesr Of Friday endeavors 10
convince its readers that have shrunk from the issues
which the slavery agitation has brought before the peo-
pie Of the United States Tbs ancient organ Of federal
ism knows well enough thit most OF lis readers hug
to their bosoms the pleasing idea that the whg party
braces all the decency and all the honesty of the
thirty States Of the coafederacy and that they are
sodden and blended in their arisocralc preudces and
weaknesses, that they look with contempt upon the
idea that they could have any feeling in with
the progress OF the age. or gather ray OF information
from republican journal Knowing these things, and
knowing that they blind and make deaf those who daily
thank their God. indeed in their senseless arrogance,
they thank him for anything--that they are not as
other men are, the National Iatsiigencer says, in
the ready believing Of its readers, what il must
surely know to be false-con6dent the while that
their preudices and their conceted blindness will never
allow them to detect the imposition which has
been practised upon them. Had the senior organ
believed, for moment that the who delight in the
congenal duness OF its columns. they delight in the
darkness Of arstocratic parors would emerge far
enough from their covering OF concet TO for them
selves it would have ventured the charge that
it has made against Il would have known that its
own readers would sgmatizei as false and it would
have known that its readers would fix and fasten
upon the National Intsigencer the offence which that
journal impues to us.
All who have read our paperwe do not say the read
ers Of The National Inteliigencey-know full well that
from the Of the slavery agitation TO the
present time, have met every issue without fear and
that we have frankly expressed views upon every
question which it proper for us to discuss. We
have avoided nothing. and we have shrunk from MOTH
ing From the day that the Wmot Proyiso was first
mentioned in the House OF Representatives to the present
hour we have been in the attitude Of uncompromisng
hostility to it, and have firmly. and with unwavering
consistency, adhered to the great principle Of
venton the only principle upon which the present diff
fcultes could be adjusted But what the position of
the National Inegencer2 What course did the ancient
organ Of federalism and the modern apologs OF the Hart
ford Convention pursue Did that journal, which now
uttep charges Of non-commtalsm against others.
boldly and utter its sentiments and its influence
did. in order to put down factionsts and dema
gogues Did make any effort to stay aggression to
aay the fierce fever Of sectional excitement 1t ddno
II shrunk from the issues which presented Idared
not utter whisper or give voice to thought It
shrunk from the battle ground; and. dead to every
toned adroness in building up sectional party
in cementng alliances with the aboitionsts-in uni
ting the southern STAKEHOLDER and the northern who
denounces the southern STAKEHOLDER -seaer, for
the purpose of carrying presidential eectionn urging
the claims of mongrel ticke-and in supporting the
weaknesses, and apologizng for the conuptons and in
concealng the raitorous purposes Of coalition cabinet
in which the stakeholder sat side by side in loving fellow
ship with the free -soiler and the abolonis It s now
known to the whole country that Gen. Tayofs election
was effected by monstrous fraud that section OF
the Union or the other-the whole North or the whole
Souhwas basely cheated Of its franchise by the course
Of commitiaism and dupciiy which systematic
cally carried out by the friends OF General Taylor.
The National lnteiigencer the active agent by and
through whom this fraud was practised it has been
the apoogst and defender Of the deliberate breaches OF
pghed faith which have disgraced the nation since Gen
Zachary Taylor was inaugurated as Chief Magistrate
During all this time have used every exerion to call
out the National InteiHgsnee-to induce it, through
very shame. when all other appeals Ruthless to
show consideration for the character OF the public
presto throw off its disguiseo declare its sentiments
and to aid in preventing the calamies which have now
come upon the country, by preventing dangerous men
from using its influence make mischief and to breed
strife But all our exertions have been unavailng The
National Iafgsnesr has adhered to the ground OF
committalism. has never for moment abandoned its
attempt 10 dupe and deceive the two sections of the
Union, and even TO this day has dared to
its sentiments the great question which discis the
county yet that journal has the bodness to charge us
with non-commialismi
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