The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-09-02
EDITORS CORRESPONDENTS.
From oar New York Correspondent

We have further reliable intelligence from Cuba
Entirely contradictory reports re-some to the effect
that the invaders wholly cut pieces after inhet
ing heavy loss upon the Spanish troops others that
Lopez had taken possession Of and still held the for
OF Mae whittier the Pampero would soon carry him
large achievements These last originate from
communication in the Newark Daily Advertiser which has
doubtless met your eye; and have seen those who
profess to have actually read the letter from Capt Lewis
upon which the intelligence contained in tina, communca
ton is founded but men prone to shape their opn
ions in accordance with their hopes and strengthen them
by manufactured evidence that it is quite unsafe yield
credence to the current gossip OF the day Meanwhile
the movement is everywhere progressing among the peo
pie. We have reports of meetings in almost all the
towns and villages of note throughout the couny and
in this vicinity the mechanics and workngmen in partc
ular seem inclined to keep the ball in motion. gath
ering OF many thousands in Jersey City, (Which is but
suburb of New York; Wednesday evening, brought
together force of hardy operatives, which, point Of
numbers, energy, and intelligence would be difficult to
exceed in any part OF the Union.
While adverng to the mechanical interests, we are re-
minded OF the admirable jeu desprn commemorated in
letter from of the Heralds correspondents dated Mid
dlebury 20h August and descriptive of Judge Douglass
visit TO his native State and town. Three cheers for
Douglas, the cabinet MAKER" exclaimed one in the
crowd whom the Judge addressing. after he had al
uded the fact Of his having served an apprenticeship
voice added: "Well soon have him at work at his
old tradeagan" When the tremendous excitement cre-
ated by this remark had subsidized the Judge with his
usual felicity Of and application, replied: If
you do, I'll try TO make the glue slick and you may rely
upon It that the principal material will be hickory
wood" Taking it in all its parts, do not remember
to have heard read of quite so happy combina.
ton of wit and sentiment upon any public OCCASION
either at home abroad Certain it is that nothing Of
the kind ever could except in this country The
whole letter, by the way, is well worth transferring to your
columns it should be extensively circulated and every
where read.
There two points in the Judges harangue 10 his
fellow countrymen of Vermont that are well deserv-
ing of attentive consideration, not only by those to
whom they especially addressed but by all smi-
arly circumstanced. whether North or South, East or
West The first OF these where he audes to the fact
Heretofore sufficiently appecated) that upon and
the vicinity of the dividing line between the slave and
the free States there is little of that agitation
upon the vexed questions Of slavery and abolition that
found further back, and that the excitement increases
ratio proporioned to the distance of its locality from
the exciting cause. For instance, in some parts OF
Maine in Massachusetts, in Vermont, in the upper parts
OF New York, and Ohio, where the people know actual
ly nothing from personal observation, but everything by
hearsay, of the domestic institutions OF the South anti
slavery is most rife and most virulent. Take, on the
other hand the border States of Pennsylvania New Jer.
whose population is perfectly with the state
of things among their southern NEG bors and intimately
acquainted with the condition of their boadsnen and
there is not the slighes disposition NEEDLE inter
fere with their domestic reauons public sentiment is
correct and quiescent &c. again. the States which.
like Maryland Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mis-
souri,, border free territory, though they vastly
more subject the loss OF their slave properly than
those remote that the exaspera'ed against
their misguided iellow-czens OF the North, or the
most clamorous for the right OF secession il is South
and such portions OF the southern States
as she can seduce from their allegiance TO the govern
ment and their attachment to the Union, that threaten
us with DISCRIMINATION and civil These facts
and facts that commend themselves to the especial
alteration OF ulrasts both North and South and why
they are so involves problem to which there is but one
solution We cannot deny that our brethren the di.
vding line are not only with like passions and feel
lngs as ourselves, but that they endowed with equal
powers Of Judgment and observation will 1t do for
10 say that their moral obuse, their re-
lxous sentiment is less pure and exalted than
Why then is it that, with tenfod better opportunities
for forming a correct opinion OF the magnitude OF the
evils which those more deprecae and eschew,
and also OF the fitness OF the remedies suggested they
can see no for agitation and excitement, much
less for the adoption of extreme measures, faught
they are with incacuable dangers The answer to this
query must at suggest itself every rejecting mind
The evils the wrongs, the dangers the Of dis
satisfaction and complaint all magnhed by distance
To those near at hand they almost imperceptibe
Those OF the northern border, who have always had
slavery a. is under their eyes. nothing in it TO
call for animadversion much less for remonsance or
Those from the southern, though they
hear of and condemn the anti slavery agitation as i'm
pertinent, mischievous, and uncaed for, Judge of
their northern neighbors by what they of them,
and estimate them as they find ,hem-friends and
fellow. coun,rymen, ever ready TO exchange the
sizes and kndnesses of life, and TO extend TO them ample
Justice in every possible contingency. Could the whole
population Of the United States be brought TO mingIe
thus there would be strife and contention no
more talk OF disunion or secession; few turbulent,
evil disposed spirits, such exist in certain proportion
in every community, (and had almost said in every
hou.ehod might seek TO excite disturbance breed dis
content but their feeble efforts would be crushed in the
fraterna embrace of the mighty mass, and their dscord
ant voices be drowned in the cheerful shout OF greeting
which would go up from united America ia the alb
sence OF all possibility OF such mngng Of the masses
the next best alternative is that those who 10 out from
the remote and dsafected sections of our country and
vsi, and abide among those whom they have been early
taught to look upon with feelings of alienation and dis
trust, should, often may be, return 10 their native
homes and give their knsmen and the friends OF their
youth the benefit OF their experience and observation
The good effect OF such interchange Of enlightened
sentiment and opinion always great and, when brought
about through the medium of such a man "a Judge
Douglas, |; isncalculable.
The Judges commentator OF the good old franklin
maxim, "Let every one mind his ogn business and
abstain from interfering with the concerns of his neigh
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