The daily union., 1854-07-27
THE DEMOCRACY.-THEC CONSTITUTION. THE
UNION.


The democracy accepted aud adopted the constitution
for the sake of the Union Solon said of his laws they
were not the best within themselves but the best the
Athenans would bear. In the spirit, Washington
told his countrymep when submitting the constitution to
their approval that "it obviously mpraccable in the
federal of these States secure all rights Of
independent sovereignty to each and yet provide for the
interest and safety of ALL Individuals entering into
cety must give up share of liberty to the rest
The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well
situation and circumstance as on the object to be attain
ed 1t is at all times difficult to draw with precision the
line between those rights which must be surrendered and
those which may be reserved and the present occasion
this difference increased by difference among the
several States to their situation extent habits and par
cuar interests In all deliberations this subject
kept steadily in view that which appears to the
greatest interest of every true Americanhe consoda
ton of Union in which involved prosperity,
felicity, safety-periaps national existence This
important consideration seriously and deeply impressed
our minds led each State in the convention to be less
rigid points Of inferior magnitude than might have
been otherwise expected and thus the constitution which
we now present is the result of spirit Of amy and Of
that Difference and concession which the pecular
y of our political situation rendered indispensable
The constitution then according the father and foun
der of country the best the Americans would bear
1t secured the States in the rights which they did not
pressy delegate the general government and the people
in every description of recognised property. 1t was sas
factory in its operations all until nsidous sealthy
commenced undermining its pillars The compromises
which brought existence disrcgarded and its
provisions construed to dignity the selfish projects Of
immoral ambition Alien and sedition laws bank internal
improvements and protective tariff each had its day of
power and enjoyed the glory attendant thereon through
the subtleties of aspiring politicians and their vena and
deluded followers One by they have been assigned
by the democracy to oblivous nfamy That democracy
will take care that code book shall be dsgraced
by recording such acts hereafter But those excu
svely internal questions No formidable foreign influences
were brought to bear to sustain either.
1t is about years since that Lord Aberdeen her Brit
ish Majestys Premier then Secretary for Foreign Affairs
wrote Mr. Pakenham British minister this govern
ment that Great Britain desires and constantly ererng
hers to procure the general abolition Of slavery throughout
the ,corldn About the same time Lord Morpeth who had
previously soourned in the United States twelve month
or So presided at the annual meeting of the British and
Foreign antSavery Society" ut the celebrated London
Exeter Hail. and opened its deliberations in this wise
Assang that clause Of the Ashburton treaty which pro-
vided for the surrender of ugtves from justice he
pressed his fears that it would enable of slaves
to such might escape Canada. He argued
that under circumstances would the British nation be
justified in it's conscience surrendering the Uni
ted States parsons bound servcenot for the
mission of crime He said that the noblest leap which
humanity could conceive that Of the slave
the Falls to British freedom. He condemned the 81
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ted States who had been scduced by the hospitality of