The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-01-16

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BALTIMORE, Jan. IL, 1851.
. eua From the Boston PoAt.
How II strikes the Country-rho Crisis tho Mas
s~chusetts Legislature.
To the Editor Of the Boston Post,
You have Mr. Editor, with eminent calmness, force.
and fidelity, urged upon the democratic members OF the
legislature of Massachusetts, the reasons which condemn
every aspect the fatal step which II s feared they are
about take of themselves and as Tar
as they can their party by sending wing abolitonis to
Congress to disturb those &c compromises upon wne0 ae
1t will all the instances that the opponents OF
democracy have found TO prove the inhdelity OF
calamity should happen. with which not only Massa
chusets but the country is threatened Better to have
no in the United States Senate for twenty
years than for the democracy of Massachusetts to be
represented there for six years by man OF the opinions
avowed by Mr. Charles Sumner! Hitherto the noble
and self sacrificing minority democracy OF
have always been able to say that though they had lost
election, they had gained honor Is II now to be said
of them that they have battered their honor for the sake
Of carrying an election and dividing the State spells OF
single year
/ wish that the democratic members could for mo-
lit themselves above the sectional and local amos-
phere which surrounds them in the State and IN
the mist OF which they keep each other in countenance
persistence in and that they would look abroad
upon the Of public opinion that is rising in indigna
ton against this most unwse act that threatens the dis
| memberment of the Massachusetts democracy know
that effort is made by the free solers to brace the
ton interference the slave power, and all the catch
words with which the dsunonsts are 80 familiar but
if the democrats OF State, or any portion Of them,
will disregard the sentiments and good opinion OF the de-
of the whole thew must stand (Wlether
they be soil dsunioniss in Massachusetts, multi
flying disunonists in South Carona) alike out of the pale
| and cannot belong to the brotherhood of the Union.
The sole hope OF putting down disunion at the South
rests in the Union party there and their strongest reli.
has been democratic national faith. Hence is
that the vote pending IN the Massachusetts legis
lature which is to elect trust defeat Charles Sum
ner the disunon aboi,ionist hangs of the great
issues of the Union; and hence no democrat can vote
for that man without striking deadly blow at the
| Union!
brought with the calmness OF reason to bear on this
contemplated deed of peril disaster, and shame, before il
is consummaed | feel it, therefore, duty, Mr.. Editor.
to reflect this sentiment as has come to me. imbodyng
the deliberately considered opinions OF the men to whose
guidance and judgment the national democracy have
everywhere deferred and whom they have always de-
lighted to honor do not profess give this opinion
coming from any one who ever has been, or who may
expect to be- candidate for the presidency, but whose
position gives force al this time to the collected
judgment OF the soHndest in the national councils
than could be gathered from any other source do not
refer TO any communication intended for publication, and
therefore do not give its contents, but only those sen
ments which you and know express the views OF the
national democracy, and of the TO meet and
confer with in national conventions if do TO
entirely abandon the national democratic party. and be-
come free soil faction
say then, Mr.. Editor, that you may assure all who
call themselves democrats that the united sentiment OF
the democracy in the national legislature is that the de-
mocracy must cut loose from abolitonlsm and disuRon
lists, if they would preserve the constitution and the
Union, and that unless the cooperation OF all SQUAD
onal, constitution. loving and abiding men be
relied there is danger, and gevous danger that the
days OF republic are numbered Ilnher,o the de-
mocracy of the North have been the fmest and surest
safeg yards OF the constitution Until recently there was
but little encouragement to look TO the wings for reliance
the contest waged by fanacsm against the consltu
ton But favorable change has taken place tina, re-
spect The wings of Massachusetts begin to feel their
responsibilities to the Union. and TO maintain them hon
orally. Is this a time for the democrats TO abandon
theirs And hence il is tina, the OF the nation who
have hitherto admired the manly course OF the Massachu
democracy and who looked TO Their State resolu
tons and addresses mbodying the purity and strength
of sound national democracy are sslonshed and ncredu
ous the which reach Them that the democratic
members OF the legislature have made bargain to send
disunon free soiler into the United States Senate Can
il be possible they exclam, that the national democrats
of your State have formed this discredabe and disgrace
ful combination Will Mr.. Ranoul-will any demo-
cra-accep seat in the Senate purchased with the very
blood OF the constitution
Our friends cannot believe that there is truth in this
port, tina, bargain has been completed TO send Mr. Ran
oul for three weeks 10 the Senate, and the no govern
ment, non resistance disunonst," Mr. Charles sum
ner for six years; and they appeal 10 whether II is
too late TO this national calamity for there more
much more-at stake than appears on the first aspect
The dscors that lately threatened he peace and har
mony of the UDion and endangered its existence, not
The storm has lulled; ITS present Jury rs
spent; but must not deceive ourselves as 10 the tu
ture We yet far. very far from safe harbor and
especially ii the rumored coalition in the Massachu
sets legislature is 10 be consummated, by suendeIng
the democracy into the hands of the reesoi agtators
And we may assured that democrat in Congress,
or in Washington, in the nation, who processes TO be
long to the national party has any sympathy with this
movement, to elect free soil All who persist
in such a course, and attempt 10 call democratic, will
meet with chilling reception at the hands OF those men
OF the whole Union with whom they have heretofore
protested 10 be politically Identified.
Such, sir, you know, as well as do other democrats
here TO be the fixed opinions OF all prominent democrats
out Of Massachusetts They can middle ground
between democrats Withdrawing out and -ou, from the
coalition to choose Charles Sumner abandoning their
national democracy and going to the enemy entire
soil party u the deed done, will be useless TO
attempt say that there any democratic party in the
Massachusetts, legislature There will be but two parties
there-whgs and aboltoDists or If the wings divide in
to factions there, Union and dsunon parties Hence
cry democratic member who, Tuesday throws and in
dependent for Union democrat for senator saves
himself from being denaonalned his party from being
divided, if not destroyed, the State, and the UsAon
from being exasperacd anew by the sending from Massa
Senate of the United States, torture and madden the
South.
For il il not merely ts disastrous effects upon the party
here which we are 10 contemplate. Wings and demo
Gratis and men of no party at all, alike dlshonored
hy Ia. IN "A a