The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-07-06
The Southern Press


The Southern Press
This organ of what terms southern rights is salts
fed with declaring that Messrs Seward and Chase
not opposed to the Union; and it would leave the i'm
preston the minds Of its readers that the abotonists
attached the Union the best of destroying
the institution of slavery That may do no injustice
to this organ, we quote its language
we have seldom put together. The
safety of slavery, then, depends government Of major
i, and that majority hostile to the institution Really this
OVERRIDING absurdy. Nor is ii that the aboionss
disunon The last grand annual ant-slavery meet
ing in New York in Its resolutions and Messrs Seward and
Chase their speeches, declare in emphatic their
devotion the Union, Of abolishng slavery
That our readers may what sort of Union it is
that the allies of this southern organ for consoida
ting we quote few of the resolutions contained in the
recent annual report OF the American and Foreign Anti
Slavery Society," presented al New York on the 9th of
May last:
"Resopsd That the friends of republican
government of free Christianity, and Of the equal rights
of man. in opposition cotton whggery cotton democ-
racy, and cotton theology, and that we welcome to our
rank. OF every and party who in favor of
righteous civil government, the abolition OF castles, the
downfall oppression and the supremacy Of the divine
law.
.Rsoved That the agitation of the slavery question has
no, ceased will it, in opinion, cease until the great
stain upon the national escutcheon is removed and the
higher gains ndency in the councils OF the nation
Ropsd That tender thanks to the free and hos
pabe inhabitants OF Canada for the succor and relief they
have 80 generously bestowed upon countrymen who
have fled from oppression sought asylum among them,
placed themselves under the protection Of British law
and philanthropy"
The pamphlet containing these resolutions is composed
of one hundred and fourteen pages and is filled through
ut with the spirit of fanatcism which dictated the
utions we have quoted But the following extract from
the report may be proper illustrate fully the OBJ
ice, OF these societies;
"Agitators only, but calm and rejecting men, are
discussing these things in the light Of revolution, the
of ndence and the constitution. IL
not this discus sion will result in anything less than
detemin bring the adminlstratio OF the country
back original principles and to wrest the government
from usurped control of those who would ssten on the
nation the stigma OF being the last in Christendom to sus
tain chatel slavery"
II we examine also the speeches and proceedings the
late anniversary of the Anti Slavery Society at Boston
where Pilbury, Foster Phillips, and Garrison figured q,
the orators we find such remarks the following every
where occurring The views OF this society have been
said 10 be designating He wished il might be so.
They had right to be dsunionsts under the constlu-
ton OF the United States if they see IT," We might
REFER also. the proceedings at Syracuse, where the
society passed resolutions urging South Carolina to
secede from the Union declaring that although they did
no, in the motive yet they did in the object,
which wa. disunon.
Such being the universal character OF these societies
boldly avowing they do the most arocous design OF
overturning the constitutions i, no, remarkable tina,
man can be found protesting 10 write exclusively for
southern interests who can gravey publish that the
Union misrepresents, or uers nonsense, when de-
cares that the abolitionist, aim to abolish slavery by
dissolving the Union
But the Southern Press thinks to impose on the cred.
ulity of southern people by reiterang its love for
them and it's anxiety TO obtain for them indemnify for
The past and security for the future. the line of 80 80 to
the Pacific and various other propositions equally pre-.
pos,erous and chimercal, involving violations Of the
stution and contempt for all that the country has here
tofoe venera,ed in the character OF its best statesmen
and patriots Its efforts in this respec, far above
the practical feelings and views OF the American people,
that we cannot but asctibe them a malign influence
which makes i, the ally OF Seward and Fred Douglass in
spite OF it's wish to be understood southern in it's cir
culaton and its principles Strange, indeed, that things
poessedy so far apart should yet be close together
in claiming indemnify for the past and security for the
future-srange that such libery-loving things
able 10 advance in their objects without fchng from the
American people their birthugbt, bequeahed by the
patriots OF the revolution. /.
The Southern Press is apprebensive that ideas Of
treason are borrowed from the Prussian court As
understand treason it consists evyng against the
United States, in adhering to their enemies, giving
them aid and comfort How far the Southern Press may
think il may escape the penaltie, of treason de.
fined by law, shall not undertake to Judge but we
it that have not the slightest idea that it
will be amenabe to the second section application of
the law, which was though, not TO be too severe
for those who might be caught joining the public enemy
in time Of war with in their hands There may be
code Of treason for those who destroy their
try peaceably without That code no, being found
in any OF the laws Of nations with which are &C
quanied leave il to the genius of the Stewards and
Chases, and the learned editor who has never travelled
to Prussia, to compile and to publish II.
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