Washington telegraph., 1852-03-17
The Union Spirit in tsae AsceR-
sF3nE,

Ibe 4th OF the LaSt noltii, Tie coiu;nllCee
of the whole of the Legislative Assembly
of South Carolina reported against the pro-
position to prohibit the use Of the courts Of
that State for the collection Of debts due to
States opposed to the rendition Of fugitive
slaves. This was good news-lt made ev-
erv true and generous man at the North
GLAD. We cannot live together as states,
urlcsi we act like brothers. elimination
and recrimination will not do. 50 far as
South Carolina is concerned, such law as
was proposed must have had a preiudicial
effect upon her own commercial interests
1t would have been manifestly uncOnstitu-
tional for the Constitution processes to
guarantee the rights CT all American citi-
zens, and il debt is owed by a man in
South Carolina to a man in any other state,
he ought to be able to appeal to the legal
tribunals to enforce the collection OF what
belongs to him. If this law had passed,
what security would the New York mer-
chant have had that credit given to
South Carolina merchant could have ever
been collected, unless the merchant pleased
to pay!
But there was higher consideration
than this, which had It's force upon the Lee
gislative Assembly OF South Carolina when
that proposition was voted down. The ex-
! tent and intensity Of the secession feeling
has been exaggerated everywhere through
out the South, but particularly in South
| Carolina. But no matter how general or
strong this feeling may at one time have be-
come, it has given place to sentiment Of pa
riotism, of moderation, Of justice, and of fra
ternal feeling and if South Carolina is
fully persuaded that her sister states viii
abide by the great Compromise Measures of
| 1850, no politician in that State viii expect
to make any capital out Of the secession
spirit.
There was something particularly encour-
aging in this news for it confirmed still
more strongly the conviction we have enter
tanned and expressed. Let our brethren at
the South remember that ace must fight
their battles. They never can lull fanati-
cism at the North by angry words or retail
atory Legislation. In such a work rs this,
all such means are powerless. Abolition
ism has been paisicd by the people OF the
North, just as The spirit Of disunon had
been crushed by the people of the South
| During The fall elections, the distinct issue
! in the Southern States which came directly
before the people, was, shall we stand by the
| Compromise Measures Of 1850 ? The
! Union party were everywhere triumphant
and better spirit now reigns throughout
the country. Let that spirit be diitused, let
! it spread from the circumference 10 the CEN
! tre Of the continent 1t is not a period
now, when a new spirit Of fraternity is 20
ing abroad among civilized nations 10 bctray
the sacred pledges Of our fathers, and break
the promise this republic has given to man
kind KOssuth is our guest, and he asks Us
to extend our aid to his heroic country,
when she again lifts her arm for freedom
Italy, too, lies bleeding under the heel of
despotism, and when her fve-and-twenty
millions of people again rise to shake off the
incubus Of tyranny, she will turn her eye TO
these Western shores for encouragement
All Europe has felt the electric shock and
heard the tocsin call of freedom Before
this year is cut, the whole question of Re
publicanism viii be again tested in the Old
world. Dismember the American Repub-
lie, and you render liberty in other parts OF
the world impossible.
This, then, is not the time for us to cher
ish spirit of disunion at home. Let there
fore every good citizen continue to frown
down everything which bears even the APP
searance OF revival Of that accursed agi-
tation. Let the states and the whole nation
combine their energies on one common
point and let that point be an mdying ad-
hesion to the cardinal principle Of the con-
federation. Let US act worthy Of the men,
bers of great fraternity, whose interests
are as boundless as the c0ltinet is wide, and
whose prejudices and passions are generated
by land which begins on the North in SIGHT
OF eternal SHOWS and extends to the South,
where we see the fappings Of the wing Of
our eagle over the heated line of the equa-
tor, and from the Atlantic coast, with its
teeming cities and freighted argosies Of
the worlds commerce, over the Rocky
Mountains and through the vast solitudes OF
the prairies Of the West to the tranquil wa
ters of the Pacific Ocean. With such
country, and with so many interests to sub
serve, with SO vast hope for mankind
freighting the ship of state as she moves
down the century, let us, in Gods name, all
be brothers. Let us forget, overlook, en-
brace, forgive and love- And so we shall
last and amid the wrecks Of other nations,
and the desolations of republics which have
strewn themselves along the shores Of an
cient empires, who will erect to mankind an
example that will encourage the millions
of the Old World, who, amid the chaos
of despotsm, are struggling for a brighter
and better age
". Y. Herald Of the Union.
JENNY LIND.-An Illinois Editor says
4L+ .bo divine Jepnv has mt herself into