The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-10-05
THE FCSTACIEs OF ABOLITION.


Greeley reoices the triumph of the Seward consp
chief contributor He has right exult He has earned
not asonshed that he the occasion to break
into such Fluctuations that subjon. 1t appears that
the New York Courier and Enquirer and the sanity Com
nercia Advertiser making series of wry faces
the dose prepared for them by Mr. Seward but
which they will be compelled to swallow and Greeley
tells them so in almost many words:
The Courier and Enquirer is pleased the
ddaes of the whg party of New York not only receiving
the nominations of temperance and slavery conventions
but actually declaring their sympathy with those bodies ana
the Commercial Advertiser also exercised on the same sub
jec 1t is always pleasure to agree with those Journals
but sorry say that the present difficulty does not
appear to very ightfu Indeed, we may add with
all due to contemporaries that the facts IN ques
ton rather sautary and agreeable than otherwise
For years. now, the Tribune has fought the battle OF
and freedom almost alone among the press OF this
city, and with little obloquy and pecuniary loss to
itself Accordingly, it has tears to shed when the Wis
dom of this long struggle receives brilliant and powerful
aestaon that just afforded by conventions
ing the majority Of the sober and thinking people OF New
gentlemen eminent for character and position
whg candidates We would do anything in the world
to obge respected friends of the Courier and the Com
merca but really when the whole State comes over to our
SIDE they can't expect be dissatisfied however they
feel about it."
So, them the long abors and sacrifices Of our patient
and pous martyr Horace Greeley, are it would SEEM to
be at last crowned with abundant He has toed
with heroic orttude along thorny pathway His enter
prise has been aposolica mercul charitable,
righteous and forbearng witha that doubt he feels
prayerfu and proud that his reward hand His mission
required him do much To assa private character with
scrupe and to fabrcate and circulate
lie contradict mistake falsehood have
been the gentle coureses of his calm career Daily this
precious disciple was called upon fill his columns with
the odious and repulsive languageto retail the OBJ
scenities of the brohehe stories of private vcethe
counts Of female degradationand to reprint with proper
aduation every assault upon the American people and
their public servants no matter whether coined at home
or poured upon from abroad These the moral
FORMS The temperance trophies of which he boasts
warmly But there is higher duty which he has been
called upon to discharge and it is quite picture
the solemn earnestness which he brings to the task To
make the southern States Pandemonum to northern
eyes-to deny the southern people all preensons to
virtue honor MORALS decency and humapityto inst
holy passion the idea that the constitution of the United
States is bond with hell and the laws made in pursu
of it fit only to be broken-and finally, to array
section against section and State against Satehis is the
work that Greeley calls "treedom Well matched with
what he claims temperance the twain constitute for
him double claim upon immortal remembrance. That
wing convention of the State of New Yorka temperance
conventonan abolition convenonshould take up and
endorse Greeley and all his opinions and his sacrifices
is for joyful fluctuations on his part and most
generous exhibition their part.
Next have Greeley paying his respects to exPresi-
dent Fillmore aud his friends Here the smooth and
castle fanatic drops the and puts the scow Here
we have him AS sLAvE-DRIyER. Read
'sThe Richmond Wing confident that Mr.. Fillmore and
the party which he the acknowledged head and rep
resenaive will not support the ticket just nominated by the
whigs anti Nebraska, and temperance in this State
The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser intimaed much be-
the nominations made but not that
any steps the realization of this purpose have been
The party in question boed and opposed the
wing nominations 1885, when the platform and candidates
were comparison only moderately antislayery but
that the times have changed and that the silver
grays grown conservative they have grown older.
STILL it possible that they may get show signs of life
and invent ticket of their especially since
candidates all put themselves upon this uamgated
Saratoga platform If it possible, the true policy of
the silver gays would to be to support Judge Bron
son since he turned his back the Compromise
1s5Owhich forms the entire stock in trade of this little
party-it is hard to how they take him up. The
truth they ought have candidates of their stripe
1t would add wonderfully to the interest Of the election
Greeley is a bold knave, whether he speaks truth
fsehood and here have him in the double character
of an honest witness and bitter foe The poor Buffalo
Commercial Advertiser which promised to oppose any
ticket nominated Syracuse that asserted the doctrine of
excluding certain States from the Union and which
now cravenly raises the banner of convention whose
ddates says Greeley and he ought to know, have put
themselves upon the miigaed Saratoga patforns'that
platform containing the most revolutionary and violent
doctrines order to bring about the violent conclusion of
national anarchy and overthrow What is signf-
cant in all this exhibition is the abjec submission of the
Fillmore and slvergray" wings to the decree of Seward
and the nsoent aad bitter dsdan Of Greeley who advises
them to leave the aboionsts and vote for the hards
The southern wings will read in these articles how mser
able hope they indulge in still clngng to such in
the North as hare neither the resist the defiant
foes of the South the spirit to refuse obedience to the
bold demands of the abandoned fanatics which the
country has ever Greeley and Seward treat the
wings Of the South with much contempt they show to
the socalled silver grays" The Richmond Wing is wise
in anticipating what is alike inevitable and irresistible.
II could conceive of any possible benefit that could
accrue the democratic party to any member of it,
from discussion of the doctrine of popular sovereignty
AZ asserted in the Nebraska BILL with the Richmond En-
ourer we should cheerully undertake to controyert its
posons But as the whose South has least acquiesced
In the provisions of the BILL and ured in sustaining
gains. the most powerful combination at the North to