The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-01-08
THE UNION WASHINGTON THURSDAY MORNING, JAN s. 1852


policy Tar effective for promoting the real improve
ment OF the country than that which arrested The
works surveyed al the time OF the Maysyie veto re-
CURED one hundred millions 10 complete theg, and they
were but the beginning entering wedge OF the system
To have progressed with them would have brought upoI
us all Tue evils OF an rredeemable national debt, and tht
mai abandonment OF the improvements as insufficient
and unsatisfactory But this not the greatest OF the
eaiamites which would have followed, The taxes ne
eessay 10 support this debt could not have been borne
because Il was impossible that the improvements coult
have been extended 10 all sections alike, and il is unde
nlabe that unequal taxation is inconsistent with the
preservation OF the Union. If not checked Then, as il
was, by the democratic party, the system would have
produced results fatal those which produced by
the misguided who undertake 10 make the federal
government the instrument for the abolition OF slavery
ALI such effects spring alike from false views OF the true
character and design OF federal system OF govern
ment.
This hasy sketch OF the leading points that interest the
Old democratic and republican party at this moment leads
me to another which is not less important refer to The
necessity OF the reunion OF this parya necessity which
IS SO apparent that trust may be pardoned for treating
national rather than party consideration II we
are indebted 10 Washington and TO Jefierson-he two
great minds that founded and reformed our system-for
the true principles which teach the love of union and
an abstinence from all resorts 10 powers calculated to
imbitter one section of the country with anotherf we
are under the obligations TO Jackson for later ex-
positions OF the same principles, which equally
cessu in destroying the dangerous monopoly of the Uni.
ted States Bank correcting vicious system OF inter.
nal improvements, and in restoring taxation TO its safe
constitutional mits in TRUTH under every democratic
II.
close Of Mr. Polk S, we have had one unbroken evi.
dence OF the safety with which democratic principles
have always been appealed TO 10 bring back the ship Of
State, when blown from its safe track by the storms OF
factionwha should prevent the rally of this great
party 10 bring about the results in this critical
and alarming luncture OF our public affairs
Every member OF this party must that the of
popular selfgovernments involved in the inquiry, forced
upon us by the existing circumstances of the country
whether the planest constitutional compacs in sys
TEN of union be executed or not In the midst of
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more with their true friends strengthen the party which
has never failed heretofore, with constitutional MEANS to
foil all serious assaults upon the rights of the people and
the Statesthe same party that fiumphed in 1900 and
afterwards destroyed that progeny OF evils engendered by
high tariffs, corrupt banks, and unwise internal improve
mens Can it be wrong for to say the South that
the remedy is still in your hands, if you will co operate,
in former days, with your brethren in other portions
of the Union who dscredit the niimaon that you will
carry into execution the threat of secession at the
same time that their bes. efforts employed put
down the evils of which you complaint Grant that it
was spirit hostile both to you and the constitution
that sought, through the fundamentally of the Wmo
proviso, TO deprive you Of equal rights in the ter
rltory acquired from Meyico cannot neble and gener
forbearance look this spirit in the face and await
people will soon render' Would not the RutIedges,
Pinckneys, and Sumpers if they were alive say 10
you that honor PATRIOTISM and duty require you to stand
by your old friends whose cause at this moment is that
OF The world far the principles of popular self-gov
ernment are involved !!
So, also, with the great OF those at the North,
party connexions under the mistaken idea that slavery
was evil to be remedied by federal legislation. Do
you not that you have caused greater evil than the
you proposed TO mitigate, and that the present dis
fractions in the land mperousy call upon you TO etrace
your steps, and restore harmony TO the various members
Of the conederacy 1t is confidently believed that this
is your disposition, and that il will be pleasing
you to follow its dictates than to pursue experiment
which cannot benefit you, but will certainly inure a
large portion OF your counrymen, whose destiny IS
linked with yours in the of the Union. In thus
doing you but pay another tribute to the wisdom of your
fathers who lett the subject OF slavery 10 be regulated by
those on whom Providence had cast its use not
evil, but a necessty-no reproach, bat token
OF brolhery concession and compromise.
But the old democrats-those who, through good and
through evil report, have stood by their flag, lamenng
the extreme action OF other portions of the people, but
confident that time would only confirm the truth of those
maxims which they inherited from Washington, Jefer-
and Jacksonin what language shall address you
In that too much honor your consistency and
the energy with which you have defended both the
stuton and the Union Acting upon the conviction that
equal justice due all the States that the function
OF the federal government should be confined TO the orbit
OF its strictly delegated and limited nature, and that the
raerna affections OF the American people constitute the
only guarantee OF the Union OF the States this old
party felcilae itself not only upon what il has done,
but upon what il is doing and is ready 10 do, to heal
the wounds which have been inflicted on the peace and
harmony of their beloved country.