The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-03-21
sympathy with NortAern Agitation.

southern sympathy with northern Agitation.
Some OF the southern wing papers delighted at
what they regard the defeat OF General Pierce in New
Hampshire. the native, State OF the President Their
anxiety such result proves how truly the
wish father TO the thought Thus is that the mere
parssns OF The wings in the southern Staes cannot re-
frain the expression OF their exultation when dsln-
guished democrat OF the North defeated even he falls
in defence OF the rights OF the southern people Such men
resist the passage OF the territorial bills strange 10 saw
though they dare admit itbecsuse ii does not com
mand the support oil The abolition wings OF the North
Even when great principle, dear 10 their own region and
essential their interests is stake they gradu
ate their devotion il by the fact that northern demo-
defend, and northern wings oppose il The masses
OF the South their apprehenslons of the reckless ax
iaon OF the free States should mark we'll these sympa-
thizers with sectionasm in their midst Suppose
for instance, that Franklin Pierce had been defeated
New Hampshire, has any southern man reflected upon
the probable result OF such defeat In the place Of
stern and sterling friends OF the constitution in the United
States Senate, should then, doubtless in that high
body such fanatics as Tuck and Hale Extend the
calamity 10 other free Staiesdefeat the demoe-
racy-and you would have, the oil short lime
majority in the Senate pledged to every scheme which
abolonism has threatened Let those men in the South
that exult The defeat of all northern democrats who
brave and bold enough stand by the guarantees OF
the constituencies them be admonshed by the lessons
Of the past and the signs OF the present, before dsre
gardng the only friends they have in the great and
growing North. II is in the worst spirit of sympathy
with the worst agitaors of the abolition school that
such wing journal as the New Orleans Bee exclaims:
So far the South is concerned, something very
far from indifference is felt upon the subject Let the
Nebraska bill be rejected Tomorrow and the South will
sleep quite sound nights before. We shall have
revival of the reasonable discussions of 1850"
paragraph like this is better calculaed--as from its
cold blooded deberalon, it must certainly have been
ntendedto the aDimosy and the energies OF the
yigant enemies OF southern institutions than any other
appeal, no matter how violent Is any southern man
blind enough not to see that the abolitonss who oppose
the Nebraska bill have been daily and hourly at work. in
season and Of season, assalDg and msrepresentng
the people and the guarantees OF the slave States! To
for tranquility this exciting subject. IN their eyes,
patriotic sacrifices for the South only so many evil
dences Of freedom They never rest in their
dark and revolving purposes. They toilng always.
and are never or reckless than when
the majority of the nation repose the Of fan
cied security. Stunned by the good-poined at by the
pa,rioc-denounced by the bold men of both PARTIES
they would soon sink into nsgnifcance and contempt,
if such southern organs the New Orleans Bee, and
such Washington echoes the National Inteigeneer,
did not elevate their fell designs into something like
proper rebuke of too much democratic devotion to the
constitution