The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-01-18


unless every other hope OF redressng the OF the
South isexhaasled. and that this expeden will redress
them. SCI
la the letter which addressed TO the people of South
Carolina. likewise asserted broadly that il unne
cessay for the South incur the moral responsibility OF
dissolving the Union that the fanatics xbolhonists,
and prof gate demagogues of the non .savehodins
Sai~s would save them this trouble, that events were
travelling quite fast enough towards this consummAlion:
Have | been q false prophet They have lourneyed
with an unaniic psted velocity Since my letter was
written has Vermont. within her limits, repealed the
fugitive slave bill and has not Massachusetts, dc Jae.o
annued iti May not the fads'n be SAID nov 10
have arisen! Will no. Virginia now move wan she
not call convention OF all the southern States 10 meet
at Richmond Will not each and all OF them respond TO
the invocation OF this great and renowned Common
wealth, mother OF so many States!
| believe, as | believe in my own exsience, thai
Virginia moves, she will save, not dissolve the Union
believe il will lead TO convention OF all The States. ano
If possible, 10 fresh understanding oil the bargain
and that may obtain fresh guarantees tor the proec
ton OF our slave institutions by inhibition OF the sla
very discussion IN Congress. and also secure amend
mens 10 the constitution restricting The taxing ana ap
propriaing power within due bounds.
Ii all this be denied, then with IN our hands the
Union be dissolved. not by feeble secession OF
separate States, but by the united action OF all claiming
rghu division OF the public property OF the Unon
den of fair share OF the public debt, Yes we would
claim the ashes OF the slaveholding George Wash
lngion as Our just inheritance, and swear wlthin our
limits, before his urn, new leay 10 ms pIeceps
and his pncples-for the crime OF disunlon would be-
long 10 our adversares, but not to ourselves.
But the catastrophe would not proceed 70 this exuem
iiy believe the vast majority OF the people in the non
savehoding States when thoroughly aroused to sense
OF the danger, would not give up this Unon not oniy
for the lives OF all the fugitive slaves IN the northern
States, but for those OF their fanatic abetlors to
bool-no, not for the and civilization oil all the
negroes OF Ethiopia that is to say, II me Issue Is
calmly and deliberately put not psepasS :, onee
moment blood is shed, there is end Of the whole mat
ter, gbls extremity are fully capable OF defending
the government Of the United States "were to take
Savannah or Charleston, what would they DO with IL"
say they take neither Our railroads, with three
days warning would give the power OF concentrating
in either city fifty thousand men, who could abolish in
less time, any invading force that might land on our
shores.
You have Justly treated with the rebuke deserves the
belief rtaned the North that exposed any
internal peril from slaves There are no countries
more safe time OF than those in which the institu
ton OF domestic slavery exists. II results from the TACT
that every white excepting those who supervise the
labor of the slaves, soldier armed 10 the teeth The
country is in fact, stronger than in time OF peace anu
supposed safety when vigilance Is relaxed. The Tree
States have vastly 10 fear from their commonest and
agrarian mobs than have from negroes, as you
have abundantly demonstrated.
But the trial OF these resources and these Uutns
be put 10 the test May Virginia, III her wisdom,
in all the dignity and gravity which belong to that august
Commonwealth, summon all the savehoidlng states 10
at Richmond tor the purpose oil saving u possible.
the Union, by referring the ueror solution Of TINS mighty
question a convention of all the States II they decide
that they give security for domestic lnstiu
TONS that they live N the same Union with those
who have the blight and plague spot OF slavery on the
hands, let part and endeavor live IN the cu
tvalion OF s charities however hopeless. from the m
terveDiion Of human passion, may be the effort such
state OF things would bring some evils with 1t, ike all
those which God nhicts man. they would bring some
compensatons. We should have higher national spirit
perhaps more concentrated patriotism. II would lead
the cultivation of the lofty and the more mpulsve VIZ
tues and TO Tebuke Of the sordid vices,
Ii is time, my dear sir that should conclude this
long letter. thought, when sat down to write YOU
that would conlroveTt. in tone the most respectful,
OF your positions, which you lay down IN the con-
6dence which belongs, and Justly belongs TO your &C
knowledged ability. But, in the language OF one oil the
philosophical writer's oil the present age, the occa
sion that will not tolerate much that admits greatly
OF dspute II Is which requires all the cancellation
which truth sanction"
will, therefore, not review minuely either your argu
violation of the constitution. although think might be
able to show you that she had population as large as
Texas when she annexed, and not les intelligent
respectable and well informed, and ha, her debates in
the convention which formed her constitution. if sub
med to the test would not suffer by comparison with
contemporary craftsmanship; and that Congress. in ad
hitting her, gross the outrage on The South,
yielded rather to falsely assumed public necessity than
10 profgae intrigue. might, moreover, show that
California was Just well entitled 10 two members
Of Congress was Texas on her annexation.
nigh likewise show that Georgia sold territory TO
make two slave States, without incurring the repoach
which Texas has encountered Tor selling enough to make
one. II New Mexico wills to be slaveholdDg Stale.
might show you. who man who INDUCES in no idle
distractions, but goes for practical results that 80 tar
from ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF Texas, little like that OF Po-
land, the excison OF her territory above The ri Paso Is
highly sautary ampuiaon of diseased limb Ii the
Mexcans, the mongel Of Indians and a.venurers
from Europe, had occupied that territory as part oil
Texas heard OF in thai State express
other opinion but that 10 few years, Texas would be
divided and two free States, from the augmented force OF
this territory created the western limits. The
people of Texas would take the territory back from
the United States, il offered to them Tor hundred
thousand dollars, for no,hing-so much do they
regard il u source of danger from its internal
ran aDdp nj
for internal defence. IT, therefore, this Territory is
reconquered and redeemed from free.soism by new
southern confederacy be assured that its conqueers will
have TO look for another donee than Texas she will
have OF it,"
But will not, in spirit of controversy, enlarge on
these topics Ii is enough that agree the great
practical question OF remedy-that We repudiate the
isolated action separate secession oil SINGLE State.
And | am sure you agVee with that. totally ire
events which have transpired in Vermont and Massa
chuseits make up an issue worthy of invoking the
serious consideration of Virginia and the other southern
States.
You believe that the evils OF the Union constitute
immsdeabiLo Uuln,S. | hope they durable. essen
TALLY curable in their character Mine may be the de-
usons OF an immature experience; yours the convic-
tons OF profound wisdom. But lei hope that, in
the fundamentally of the Old Dominion the experiment
may be made to amend the constitution and save the
Union.
The fedeative system may crumbc into ruin from VIC.
ence fraud corruption, but we must remember that
the will be but the work Of the same fra and
ernng man
"Numdian, who ddst say to hated Rome,
There is no buyer yet to pu rchase thee,
Come from tho darnnd OF old! Jugartha, come