The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-03-30
CITY OF WASHINGTON TUESDA MORNING, MARCH 30 1852.

Here is an open declaration OF enmity and warlike
hostility II contains the valorous sentiment ascbed by
CLASSIC poet to Trojan hero:
$40 this call thee gods lone constant state
VI lasting rancor and eternal hate"
That same convention passed the following resolution
% That In view Of the Eeqnent and increasing evi-
denees Of The discrimination OF the people OF the nonsayo
tion, and TO agste the subject Of slavery both in and
o. Congress- avowedy for the purpose Of efecthg is abo
nHon IN the States aud also ia OF tle
forth IN the late Address OF the southern Con
gres this convention procaiS the deliberate conviction
t Tie Juno has arrived when the southern States should
take counsel together Tor their common safety; that
convention OF the southern States having held In
that body"
Among the resolutions OF the Nashville convention
were the following:
- i'sopsd That the Union Of these States is Union
o equal and independent soveregnte, aud that the
ce o powers delegated TO the general be
resumed by the several States whenever il may
them 70 be proper and necessary.
- Rcolosd That earnestly recon mend to all par
es IN every state Of the South 10 refuse 20 into
tenanee any national convention whose object may be
nominate candidates for the presidency and vice pesien
ey o. The uned States, under any party denomination
whatsoever, until our constitutional rights secured
- h'soped That we urge defensive course, forced
upon sby our assalan and not only unayodabe bul
essentially Just that tho southern people do Immediately
adopt The following protective measures:
That every county, district, parish, or other civil
division of each OF the assaed States do hold primary
meeting and form society association adopt and
eiectuato any and all lawful and whereby
the resources oil Tho South shall be employed towards
domestic manufactures and internal improvements and
whereby all social, commercial, and political intercourse
between the South and North shall be wholly suspended
until the North shall become prepared concedc and
guaranty the South the full of her constitutional
rights.
- That such local societies do appoint and empower
committees OF vigilance and safety each obseva
ton Its locality In respect ncendarie and ncend
AIRY publications, pamphlets, and papers, bring
cendiares, the dsseminators of such productions,
public justice and 10 act generally policemen in respect
TO the ass allied Institution oil the South.
'3 That u Is incumbent upon the southern people TO
build up southern institutions and foster southern era
ue, by giving all possible preference them Especially
we would discourage the expenditure of large by
citizens in their TO tine North and East peierng
not TO favor those who return graes by wrong and
insult"
This June convention of the southern rights
cratic convention. was composed alike of ghgs and dem
ocras 1t did not pass single democratic resolution 1t
did pass the following
l6 Rssoped That it is a of heartfelt congraula
and honor Of the South. OF whatever party name are nov
united IN common cause, and can act together with
diality and sincerity"
Wha, beautiful specimen OF old line democracyp-
Black spirits and white, blue spirits and graym
But sir, have yet unknder than all these for
my colleague You will recoect be emphatcay denies
that his party went into the contest with secession or
dsnlon inscribed It's banner; he declares that no
such hing is true" He says that all the democratic
presses were on his side of the controversy. will now
prove, by his own party presses, thai such thing is
true and moreover, thai himself and his colleagues had
publicly abandoned the democratic party.
I've place secession upon the clearly -ascer,aned and
the Union been violated and that there is no remedy
for the violation in the Union Here is platform
I'VE are afraid the rawhead. and bloody
bones disunon lace to face aud n Is time that the people
had become familiar with the monster than polt
Aug. 16. 1850
solution OF the Union at distant ssissppiau.
/" We oreoommend STATE secession We sec but two
lnt fhp ha
presented 10 tue people-secession or submission =
Naehez Free.Truder.
and we will see who will dght"-lb.
We must and viii sccede from this Union Either we
must submit to disgrace and TO aboon with all its
horrors or we must prevent a. and that is by secession y"
Woodyille Republican.
or resist Fol one, Tor resistance w yicksburg
Sentinel
II the party presses Of my colleague, and the resou,
lions OF his party may be called the banners OF his party
then secession and disuson both Inscribed upon
banners In thus connexon, my colleague has omitted TO
state several other important facts The secession party
IN the State senate had large majority OF democrats, and
had the power as was their duty, TO elect democratic
president OF the senate but 10 show their good faith TO
their mig allies III secession, they elected prominent
whig TO that station, and then their secession governor
QutmaD) resigned and placed that whg president OF the
senate IN the office OF governor OF the State The
sion party also had tOo candidates for chancellor and both
were canvassng aborousy for the station Seeing that
both Of them certainly be defeated both continued in
the hcd al their June convention they ruled of Colonel
Tarply, profyscd democrat, and recommended Judge
Guion, the abest and most unreientfng og the State
In several OF his speeches. he is reported 10 have said ha,
he had always been and then State.rights whig,
and that the democrats had come 10 his position and no, he
TO theirs.
The truth Is, that wbiggery and democracy had nothing
10 do with the organization OF the parties II was simply
question OF acquescence IN the compromise measures,
rsane TO those measures for the ultimate purpose
OF establishing southern eonederdcY upon the ruins
Of the presen, Union The boundaries OF the proposed
confedcrscy were all mark ed OUT the resources OF the
protection OF national government, were publicly
vassed and pamphlets containing geographical descrp
lions of the Stales their wealth. pop.
ulation and political powers, were freely circulated
among the people. Why, then, conceal the whole truth
When did the national democracy, or the Mississippi
But why does my colleague cast reproaeh upon the
Union party' Their creed was simply "acquiescence in
the compromise measures hnallty" In this House,
the other day. he himself voted for that same creed in
sustaining the compromise resolution introduced by Mr..
FTcH His partisans in Mississippi profess TO have
done the thing and their leading journals
offering to support Bnchanan Butler Douglas Dickinson
and Others for President who are all Union democrats
compromise men. Why, then, make war upon the Union
men oil Mississippi And now, SIR, as to the abandon
ment o the democratic party by my colleague and his
socaies, have still further evidence Their organ, the
Mssissippian, quotes the following from the Albany
Argus:
The whig party the North arc. the slavery ques
tion. essentially with the abolition party proper"
II then remarks as follows
"Ifthe democratic party the North are any sounder
would like know why they repudiacd Dickinson IN
united with the free-soiers OF Massachusetts and elected
Sumner. The time will roll around FOR the assem-
bling Of another Baltimore Convention, but we opino the