The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-03-07
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 2, 1851
THE rHInrY-sinsr CONGRESS.



ocra Of Tuesday las, for the compliment conveyed in
The following manly aud liberal article. We appreciate
il the more highly because that paper has been more
ultra in lis views than have been on the dark and
dangerous question which has recently aglated and
distracted our country ezra
''The bill for relief of Thomas Richie Of the Wash
nkton Union has passed The Hoase OF Representatives by
large mot SO arge-uNoSl majority There danger
ceve this announcement with uninngod satisfaction Tor
there Is no man IN the Union who ha. strong hold upon
the affections OF the democracy OF Virginia the leader
under whose fearless banner they have often marched
victory lhe eonduet Of the Washington Union ia rea-
country may have given offence 10 the opposing parties
In which Mr. Richie was placed we should no, be sur
prsed has the speasnre and censure al
tefnaely OF the North and South When party spirit RACES
with such violence, neutral position is inevitably ex
posed to combined attack from the opposing sections
South AID any seeming daseron OF her cause mus, be
attributed 10 his anxiety TO mediate between the contend
Ing parties, TO alay thelr hostility, calm their exasperaed
feelings, and maintain the constitution and the Union"
The editor OF the South. Side Democrat is by this time
informed of the fate of the resolution, 1t failed in the
Senate, not because there not decided majority Of
the Senate in behalf of relief but because, there
being previous question in the Senate, ii in the
power of any senator to speak it 10 death Such was
the fate OF the resolution, which would have awarded
relief from an ill.sarred contract.
The Democrat is correct in saying that our course
during the late agitation "has given offence TO the OPP
posing partes and that have "incurred the dspeas-
ure and censure, alternately, of the North and South .
But it was dilemma which could avoid, consist.
emily with duties the editor OF free press We
could not honoraby retire TO tent but we sought the
open field and the hottest of the fray. We at an
early period of the Thryrst Congress that this agtatng
subject, which conyulsed the whole country and threat.
enc he IInion he adj Ell hut
spirit of cancellation and compromise in which the
sttution itself was formed We suggested the elements
OF the Compromise very early period, only in the
columns OF the Union but in the letter of the editor to
Tammany Hall We declared that we had strong obiec-
;ions to the admission of California, and that never
could support it. except of the links of system of
compromise which calculated to tranquze the coun-
try and the Union The system proposed and adopted
recognised the principle of nonnervention and destroyed
the obnoxious Wmot Proviso, which had generated
the whole discussion and excited such opposition in the
South. ltadiusted the controversy between Texas and
New Mexico about the boundary line, which had threat
ened to bring war between Texas and the Uni
ted States. With these feelings advocated the Com
promise, and prepared TO acquiesce in lis pro.
visions What now be wiser than the Georgia plat.
form-to acquesce in this system OF compromise, to
carry it out fully by faithful execution OF the fugitive
slave law and avoid all agitation the slavery ques.
ton for the future' No wonder, therefore, that we
have given offence TO the extremists on both sides.
Bat il is not the first time that have occupied posi-
ton between conending parties In the years 1929,
when we were in the midst of the notification times
of South Carolina, we were acting on different and
southern theatre We found it our duty in thai place
and at that time to occupy the sane jus.e maeu between
the Rights of the States and the Union of the States
Let republsh from the Enquirer of that period the
course which we pursued and the counssls which we
recommended: amos. sr.... III. .s.. 49,. hi
r.. ~. Z, - From the Enquirer Of August L. 1892.
As the Old Dominion, scarcely be mistaken in
the she will adopt Sac is devoea to the sacred
adoption of the government She suved the consti
tuition in ss She ha. Watched the vestal from that
and h sad Gs se s As Of Of
lie " and, through good report and through virePor she
mas been ae 70 her oy se sneefs'
every STATE, aud South Carolina herself the bitteest among
them She is true TO them SUI and she means to iend them
She is opposed the corruptng system OF internal Inn
10 the abomiaabls tariff system, and she will oppose until
I'M n'P 'Iss ny psso sns , ha' Of @
But she protests against as embracing any settled policy
tor the country She protests against IT'S recognising any
protective principle atali ....
But the cause OF liberty aud OF se,e-rghts is great
object The safety OF the L another. Mr.
Jeisrson his inaugural address, laid down
ts principles OF government the support OF the State
governments in all their rights, the most competent adj
miusaon tor our domestic concerns, and the sures but
warks against antepubiicsn eudencies AND the preser
OF general in It's whole constitutional
ylgor OF pesce home and safety
abroad" The dissolution of our Union would be Of
the heaviest blows struck nj the happiness OF the hu
We ourselves should be divided into two
more (vho shall say how many D small and poweess
munit,e nsulted by foreign Smtes, and constantly
ring each otheT Virginia, too, would probably be
frontier State Nothing but the EXTREMIST necessity should
drive this gloomy and should be bed
We would, then, the Union II we could and
doubt tsi bet the come almost the worst
Virginia 1t by discretion, GOODNESS and hrmness
Throw OF the question Put aside all eager aspa
uou. and disappointed politicians Let suffer
splendid edice almost the last hope OF oppressed honn-
ny, be sacrificed the ambition OF candidates'or the
oupidy OF manufacturers, We should go against nulh.
cation We should 70 against separate Safe action We
willing, with ihe present tsrH before us, Oncon
mensuate is to Just nights and expectations, yet
yielding sensible Teef against the tan OF Is and
cutting down the post though proper proportions
among the various articles TO eleven o twelve miions)-
willing wait Tor the developments OF the next
treat our oountfymen 10 be urged notification. The
States ought first frankly and calmly to commune with each
other. w.#a #tHs.... .as i.
But with one thing seriously impressed that the
probably coming when il becomes all the good and
men Virginia TO do their duty-io forward,
throw all minor calculations behind them, exhibit all
their love OF country and to Ibis Union We do
not by nulhcaion-we must do by opposing both the
extremes OF consolidation and OF notification. We must
do IL by umitsd councils and, Jefferson said, " we will
separate from ou com panons tmot y-mark y only
when the sole alternatives left the dissolution OF our
Union with them, submission 10 government pahont
limitation Of po,ous." =. tg.ata.a0
.##'Es stsaa .a# From the same, Dec. 4. 1852.
But a. to the remedy, are equally opposed to the
course which south CaIona has takep, We regard null
caton, and by one State, an absurd ana dangerous