The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-04-10

ion makes PRACTICAL comment upon their wisdom, by
second open attempt 10 set al defiance solemn law oil
the land While Seward euogizes the same Union in
New York and says but lunatic 10 in favor OF
destroying II, Rantou organizes party at Lynn, N
Massachusetts, in which he raises The cry OF repeal
az ainst The fugitive slave statute conscious that upon
obedience il the whole system OF our republic depends
These proceedings in Massachusetts, transporting AZ the
present critical moment will do more TO help secession
the South--unlsss they should be- hope they will
be- epudised and Iebuked by the people OF that Slate
than any all the OF infamy and OF crime that the
foes of the country have heretofore been able to consum
mate. .
We have language of scorn emphatic enough TO sig
naze the conduct OF Ranoul, who, after protesting to
be national democrat after supporting Cass and Butler
after letting be proclaimed that he against abolition
al present, does not hesitate to come forward, al mo
when the country looks TO the democracy OF The
North il from the peril that ii, and ele
yae the banner OF notification and OF treason. The
soldier who betrays. or tes TO betay, his command 10
the enemy OF his flag and destroys tes 10 destroy
the of his counrywhether II Is Arnold or Cor
gey--nay also try to forget his Ieachey amid the smiles
and Establishments Of power; but the voice OF eproacn
the storm OF public censure-wiil haunt nm 70 ms
dying hour Rantours conduct belongs to the same cat
egory He goes bis oonnls foes to get an olhce
His professions OF sincerity die on his ps and his at
empts 10 prove that his views square WIN devotion 70 he
constitution provoke only contempt and indignation. The
object of this miserable demagogue is lam enough Ills
detection is an advertisement not only Tor seat IN the
32i Congress as a represen,ave-he election taking
place in Ills district to-day, where he is canddaebut
also for in the Senae, by obtaining the free soil
vote in the legislature OF Massachusetts,, in session
of Mr. Wehs,ers and Mr.. Winthrop's erm--a term of
two three weeks-he absent in Illinois but with
mercenary greediness that disgused every democrat at
the Capitol, lie came and took his place. which he
cupied for days, being all that remained OF H. We
then RETAINED from denouncing him, because was sup
posed he would take occasion in the Senate TO state his
case and throw of the pesenal mpualion that charged
him with having planned the guilty nuptals between
certain weak democrats and the Tree sellers OF the Mas
sachusells legislature and indeed, could not realize
what other motive under the circumstances, could
influence an honorable man who proessed to be demo-
GRAFT He remained quiet however, took the eavings OF
Webster and OF Winthrop, pock eted his mileage and his
pay, and went home to prostitute himself anew by
open determination with the assalanis OF the constitution
The evidence Of this base and scandaous conduct to
soil meeting, at Lynn in Massachusetts, on Thursday
evening last. They contemplate the overthrow Of the
fugitive. law as consequence which every riend
OF freedom should labor to bring about
He supported those resolutions in speech two hours
length, in which he also took ground against the
compromise measures, and Immediately afterwards as
sumed position in The ranks OF fanaCism. There is,
happily, this difference between this transparent treason
and the niamy Of Arnold and OF Gorgey: the latter had
their pay secured before they did the work OF shame In
the of Ranloul, the democrats have oppor
tunty Of defeating bis bargain. OF leaving him among his
conedera,es stained and blackened with the dshonor,
and yet-what to him will be serious caamty-wi,h-
having received the poisonous wages Of his detection
| Almost simultaneous with this disgusting exhibition
was the arrest OF fugitive slave in Boston and the mad
zeao,s there felt renewed resolution in resisting the
law, since they had been strengthened by Ranouls
cesson IfaZy preachers, nlleu ana
blacks, made the town echo with denuncialions and
threats and at last accounts the law seemed be silent
suspended and the city at the mercy OF negro and
abolition mob. We point TO the details of this affair
in than anger for unless the sequa vim
dcaes the majesty of the constitution, who can oretell
the calamity that may grow out OF this extraordinary
state OF affairs!
At the South. thousands take ground for the Union
and against secession. The platform they occapy u.s.
that the North will faithfully carry out the fugitive slave
law. and put down the enemies of the constitutional
rights OF the slave States. While they agree with the
secessioniss in regard TO the compromise
unjust to the slave States, they protest that these
do not in themselves constitute sufficient cause for
going out OF the Union. especially while the North sgni.
hes disposition TO enforce the only part OF the Compro
tonay considered, TO all those States This is the
ground OF such men Howell Cobb, Senator Downs,
William r, King. Col Clemens, Gen. Foo,e and other
weknown representatives and senator's. Indeed. Mr..
Cobb boldly declared in New York. in November last,
that il the fugitive slave law maintained in good
faith, in all its integrity and in all its parts, il, would be
impossible for them TO stand out and equally impossible
prevent the entire people OF the South from demanding
be relieved from Union which would then be to them
only state Of v.ssasge. OF injury, and Of insult In
slave Saies il readily be imagined how the events of
the las, few days Massachusetts, will operate upon an
excited public opinion in thai quarter No man can con.
template the issue without the most fearful ior.bodinss
MIR, Ranoul il not lunaiic 1t 10 vaunt OF his
trends that he possessed singulary clear and logical
intellect He the whole aspect of the question
and have doubt he does it, Hence the fearful
inamy OF his course-lhe initial STEP it was 10 the
| excitement which now convulses Boston and the whole
country He would let this public phrensy 90 on he
would see disunon made the shlbboleth OF united
South he would stand by and witness the fruiess efforts
Of the patriots OF the North TO preserve the conederacy
and yet would pesevee in his selfish scheme until the
dreful Crisis precpated in fire and blood, upon the
people, Then he and his compees might TO their
senses, IT. like they did not fee from the wrath
OF those they had betrayed. shrink aghast from the
danger they had provoked Could they, then, the
Union il they would Would his hollow sympathy for
the negroes pluck millions OF white men and women
from the yawning grave OF disunioni Would his false
love OF freedom dry the tears OF weeping world, hor
stricken al the overthrow OF this machess republic
Nay, would has whining regard for the constitution avail
to heal that manged and bruised instrument, which
fanatcsm, led by such demagogues himself had hur-
red TO the very brink OF disunon To ask these ques
lions is to them to the confusion OF all the enc
mics OF our country. The trials OF the Union are many
and gea when treason stalks thu boldly in the gab
PATRIOTISM and those who should defend and stand by il
desert and betray H. Just Providence will not, how
ever, lei us hope desert il in the hour OF adversely by
allowing our Toes to crafty the tyrants and crush the
| hopes oil mankind
ARMY MovEMEETs-Col. Monroe is relieved from his
command at Santa Fe. His has been sent out
The people OF New Mexico are about to rally and de-
fend themselves from the Indians. Major Weightman
one OF the newly appointed Indian agents in New Mex
ico, and who distinguished in the famous march
OF Col Donphan, and in the battle OF Sacra neno during
the late war, has applied for the command OF the militia
| and volunteers.
The Washington correspondent OF the Journal of Com
merce writes;
!" Every account from the frontier fociby repre- sens the
Mexico and Caornis IRON Iodsn depreciation. Ali N.
ordinary have bean