The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-06-28
From the Rochester Daily Advertiser June 81

From the Rochester Daily Advertiser, June n.
Oar CoaasTy, and i,s .n.niTs.t Destiny"
In brief review the other day, of the several items
which are claimed as the platform of the wing party we
took occasion incidentally IN noticing the contracted
stand STILL "Union- IT Isl item OF mat wing pia'oh, "
give our views OF what deemed TO be The manifest
destiny OF our country and of continent Our views
aud prog noscaons seem have disturbed the antigua
ted hold back ideas OF OF our wing contemporaries
not little. Among these is the Auburn Daily Adver,
tiser Mr. Stewards "home organ lhal paper says Vi
our observations;
"He is with sezing Texas and large portion
of Mexico but he tells substance that the oeoiqGo
party has but Just commenced The work oil anneAauoh m
admits that the wing party for the Union AS 49, ana
that the universal system OF land robbery Is 70
be carried on by his own political friends
There slight inaccuracies in the "home
organs Interpretation OF our language 1t 10 news 10 us
that the democratic party Tor locooco, as is The III
mannery custom OF some wings TO call our pary) mas
ever "selzed" Texas, or any portion OF Mexico, IN
that can be stigmatzed "and robbery Texas
il is well known seized herself broke of her allegiance
TO Mexico, and came knocking for admission INTO our
Union time before our people could agree upon me
OF letting her in. There seZiDg, no land
stealing, on part Texas wanted 10 JON our family
compact and. according 10 all laws OF hospitality as well
political comfy, we could not refuse because shs was
Stranger 10 take her in. This result was NATURAL IN
evlabe, unavoidable 1t but the fulhlmen OF the
manifest destiny" OF each.
And thus in relation 10 the "arge portion OF Mexico"
whose annexation to Union seems TO distress our
Union ass" wing politicians, there was no "land
robbery part 1t is true the fortunes of war a,
either seize or "be seized" by Mexican foes In
such alternative true born Yankee could hesitate
as what he should do. But after sezlng in sell de-
fence and indemnity, the greater portion OF the
Mexican territory including her capital and chief towns,
relnquished them all like honest prize men, save
those portions which debtor did not want, and for
which he willing TO receive equivalent IN cash,
which paid, honest contracting par,esshould Was
there any robbery in this II but another install
ment in ulflment of manifest destiny and IN con-
demnaon OF the shunken, restrictive policy OF the anti
| DTOgTeSsisfd wings.
Again: our wing contemporary says we admit iha,
such thing The wing party went for the Union as 1t
was in 1874 and not as II is in 1851 II they go for the
Union is they must OF approve OF the
universal system Of land robbery" by which they say
we became possessed OF Texas and large portion OF
Mexico. Our opponents seem to forget the maxim that
paaker is bad the thief" # it was wrong Tor
our government to admit Texas, New Mexico, and Cali
lorna, with Its treasures OF gold, II must De
very wicked on the part OF wing morasts to share
the spos, even touch the unclean dust OF California
Which horn OF the dilemma will you choose And VIII
our wing opponents be specific, and inform us dis
hncty whether when they proclaimed IN lo44 they Went
for The Union II then they meant what they said,
whether they go tor the Union as il is, with
all its pIundeed territory ADDED! And we should like TO
be distinctly informed whether our wing antagonists m
Tend to 60 for the Union as 's'o be when It's manifest
destiny" is complete The democracy, as we have before
stated have always been ready stand by the Union
1t loaS. as 1t IS, and as II IS TO BE.
| In mourning the admission of Texas, our Auburn
namesake thus goes on with weeping eyes:
Here the entering wedge the work Of forly ing
the slave power in the schemes Of domination We re-;
oce TO know that the wing parry North and South resisted
dis mad crusade. 1t locooco measure IRON begin
ming end and we now tod by prominent organ Of
ocolocosm, that they design to pursue their schemes Tor
INTO the Union. We shall whether people will pa
'endy bear another experiment similar to the Texas con-
spiracy"
Our wing neighbor has JUS, moment before quoted
declaTatoD that territory destined 10 extend
from the banks OF Nova Scotia TO Bherngs STRAITS, and
from the Frozen Ocean TO the isles OF the sunny South
How then, does he make GU, that the democratic party
design pursue their schemes for the benefit OF the
South simply What benefit would il be 10 the South,
or how would be terrifying the slave power, Chat
,gnts tats which bewders abolition opponent,
that he looks everything through wooy" spectacles)
add borders the two Canadas and all the terri
tory from Nova Scotia including the coasts OF Labrador
cfc, so well known 5" 81 40" How, we repeat, are
TO confer any special favor upon the South to ad
the interests OF slavery, by opening up this cool
gon, and all that of the Cossack monarch this CONT
neni, 10 the occupation of freemen' Will not all the
icy properties OF the polar gions act sufficient
figs,ator to cool off both the abolition ardor OF our
northern fanatics, and the hot zeal OF southern fire.
| callers, even with little Cuba added
We repeat, what we have already proclaimed, that we
do not believe the OF the manifest destiny OF our
country will be full until all the territory have emu
meraed shall be embraced in the limits OF united
public. We have scky sentimental fears about
"iortiying the slave power" That power is on the
wane and will continue TO be- until it shall finally be-
come extinct, by lis own yoltion, its natural pro-
cvity towards the goal of dissolution. And who does
not know that slavery IN CUBA would be thousand Od
toerabe and progressive toward the period of
lis final extinction, under the mild and liberal influences
OF republican institutions, than is possible with the
iron despotic rod OF Spain ording II over them, and
crushing out the very LIES blood Of both master and
slave,
But let us not be misunderstood nor misepresenled
as being in favor OF taking by force by robbery"
conscientious neghbor chooses to characterize it,
either of the sections OF country TO which have alluded
For although the English and Spanish and Russian mon.
arches all gained their foohold on this continent and
it's contiguous isles by robbery and in instances by
the foues acts Of piracy, still do not propose fol-
| low their bucanier example in deprivng them OF their
unjust possession But when the people OF those terri.
| tories whom we recognise as the only legitimate owners
and possessors oil them, shall come, did Texas and
knock al the door of the Union for admission, we shall
bid them welcome the democratic party, IT sctuated
believe they and will be- by the spirit OF patriotism,
will bid them welcome, and nail them with the lalerna
/ ties of democratic brotherhood.
Thus lar we propaganda OF democratic freedom
and republican liberty We 20 for the Union is, and
BE, when shall have fulfilled its manifest
| destiny
II that be robbery, let whiggery, cas- it is" make the
most of ii.