The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-05-09
ABOLITION TREASON EXPOSED AND REgUKED.

soou patriots Win whips OF scorpions 70 ash us ua"
misceants naked round the world The designs Of the
Hartford conventioniss have been abandoned ont
exist IN all their original wicked enormity These de
signs have been developed Of late with spirit OF cool bold
ness which calls for the only response which should ever be
made 70 those who plot the dissolution Of the Union They
must be met promptly with intensity and universally
Of indignant denunciaton which will quickly oserwhein
the traitors Of day with the kissing and blister
ing contempt which fathers heaped upon the traitors
Of their day
That sentiments OF irreconcilable hostility the Union
have been cherished by portion OF the original enemies OF
the Compromise of 1850, have doubted Those
who gored in svowing themselves aboonsts have
sought conceal their reasonable determinations Many
who sympathxed with them but who lacked either the
courage the honesty TO acknowledge the fact, have
looked vglanty for occasion to CRAFTY the settled
concealed feelings of hostility the Union which have
sestered and ranked their bosoms The introduction
into Congress of the Nebraska bill seized upon with
simultaneous eagernes by the spirits Of disunonsm
furnishing the of making issue which would
ray North against the South, and therefore, necessarily
test the strength of the Union This the true key TO that
prompt and passionate haste with which the bill by
the abolition sentnels in Congress That bill was avowed
pepeuaton Of the principles Of the Compromise Of 1850
eternal hostility Such experienced political schemers
Chase Sumner and Seward, well satisfied of the
strong public sentiment in favor of abiding by the Com
promise Of 1885, allow themselves to commit the blunder
of assaing the Nebraska bill because it reafirmed the
principles Of that Compromise They chose rather to
hypocrc regard for the sanctty Of compromises
and under this mask appeal to the antsavery feeling
Of the North and through the fundamentally clerical
ton The end they had in view the concentration Of
northern sentiment against the Nebraska bill
peculiarly designed advance the spread slavery and
upon this imbodied northern sentiment present the
South the alternative Of submission dissolution
Union The readiness with which the great body Of the
clergy entrapped gave great encouragement the
agators They derived additional aid and comfort from
the promptness and universally of the northern wing
ment in opposition the BILL In addition to these
couragng indications their hopes Of elevated
still higher when they that there hesitancy and
altering the democratic ranks the North The pros
poets for succeeding in getting up distinct issue between
the North and the South aacring, that the New
York Tribune the influential organ OF the political
aboltionists work with cool deliberation
vince the people of the North that the continuance the
federal Union of no benefit them In series Of
all his ingenuity in calculating the value of the Union
dissolution contamination not to be regretted.
York Tribune and its relation the chief conspira-
this deliberate assault upon the value of the Union
be misunderstood 1t shows that there is settled purpose
only with the avowed natcal aboitions but with
,ha
for purpose Of dssolvng the Union The Tribune
nsbes the only link in the chain Of evidence to make man
lies, this reasonable scheme The camor the viola
ton Of compromises and the Misrepresentation as TO the
character of the Nebraska b but expedients pro-
suco agitation and bring about sectional issue which
win involve existence of the Union II remains 10 be
seen how long these wings and democrats Of the North
who love the Union but who have been imposed upon by
the ingenious cxpedients Of artu traitors viii continue 10
give counienancc scheme which the Tribune clearly
DEVELOPS That able and fearless advocate Of democratic
principles the Detroit Free Press and denounces the
reasonable of the Tribune in spirit 50 much
taste that gladly adopt its comments com
mend them the friends Of the Union throughout the
country
"The New York Tribune recently concluded the pubca
ton Of series OF editorial articles the burden Of which was
the value Of the Union people the North
In dollars and cents. Aner wcarsome examination OF
subject In which the advantages and aisadv Of tho
Union colaed and set down separate columns the
Tribune struck balance And which side You think
reader, the balance ound2 Which column you ina
CINE the longest and footed the argestg Which were
the greaests advantages disadvantages Of the Union
I'VE confess that ashamed 70 answer our own in
tcrrogatorics. We acknowledge that hnmil ted 10
know that there citizen Of America who 80 ratorous
TO the land OF his birth, vena and depoabe coo
sit down and calculate in paltry dollars and cens
Of this Union any particular section Of H. We that
chagrncd 10 be forced TO believe that there sou
dead tho impulses OF patriosma false
estimate the worth Of the American
federacy by numerals.
.'But 80 e. Is The New York Tribune has published u.
opinion, formed after protested thorough consideration Of
the question in all il bearing. that the North
the loser by the Union, and would gain By IL dissolution
0f there Is who win anayke the Tbunes
articles undertake refue their conclusions No one
BY the Trbunes process win attempt convince the Amc
people hst tho Union is pecunarly valuable the
North To do woaa rn that the question :. dcbstssc
There standard by which its value except by
comparison with every other country earth IN all their in
dividua social and political relations The question 1. not
what the North would be without the South. but shat the
States would be should the confederacy be ryen
asunder. In this single aspect the Union l. INVALUABLE
"The Tribune has last arrived the bold avowal Of
doctrines which have hitherto been bat covev broachcd
through its columns. The time for their pronug cation was
ripe. The public mind in condition receive
them without detestsiion. II necessary sectional
exctementz egitson Of the slavery quesonshould
be gotten mp aud the local preudcs Of the people
North thoroughly aroused before open blow could be
safely struck at the Union The present OBJ
perfume. The Tribune had aided by the nhammatery