The daily union., 1854-10-13
WASHINGTON CITY.
FRIDAY MORNING, OCT. Is, 1864.
THE LATE ELECTIONS.


thentic shapes Until the results cannot be
known OF the of the defeat to which our party
has been subjected we shall have occasion to speak
at length in connexion with the course which these
disasters suggest for the future. At present deem it
only necessary to remark that in the results nothing
but incentives TO Increased zeal and energy in maintaining
the old landmarks OF party, and in sustaining with
vigor and constaney the who have stood firm
and breasted the storm of passion and prejudice which has
swept over the States which just voted No democrat
will be discouraged or feel that the late disasters should
unnerye his arm or cause him ater in the maintenance
of the organization the principles which alone can
give permanence and prosperity to our institutions
SOUTHERN AGGREssIONs ON NORTHERN RIGHTS.
The whig candidate for Acknowledgements of New
York closes an article what he terms the new con-
quests and exactons of slavery with the following coun
sci to the people of the free States;
The path safety is the path of duty and Of liked hdey
freedom and the constitution il the publc men Oh e
free States would stand like aamant against the
of slavery and in defence of their rights they would
speedily achieve their deliverance from that hradom whch
now presses heavily upon them And unless they DO so
pregnant with greater degradatohs thah
any of those which they have been compelled to stoop
hitherto"
We have heard much complaint OF the aggressions OF
abolitonism upon the rights of the South but until the
recent ouandout coalition between the wings and abo-
litionss in the free States had heard nothing OF the
aggressons of the South upon the rights OF the Nor ex
cept from such fanatics Garrison Phillips Sumner Gid
dings and their worthy associates No stronger proof OF
the entire aboonizaton of the mass of the northern
wings be furnished than by the fact that their chosen
candidates for high places openly and boldly adopt the SEN
tmcnts and mpudently avow them in the habual Ian
guage of the abolitoniss But it is not because this
fact establishes the complete Generalization OF the northern
wings that quote the foregoing paragraph from the
Times-that consummat:on already too papable to
be doubted controverted by any man making preten-
sions intelligence candorbut we quote it for the
purpose nquring with dspassonase earnesness wheth-
e the people the South in any degree obnoxious to
the charge making aggressons upon the rights of the
North.
We have abored assiduously impress upon the people
Of both sections of conedey the danger of cherhing
ultra sentiments the subject of slavery Fanaticsm in
one section naturally begets uItraism in the other and
for that reason have earnestly maintained that a
spirit of moderation and concilation well in the South
in the North essential the preservation of the
Union The article from which we have made the fore
going quotation the ceares illustration of the
soundness of From the fact that the Richmond
inulged in structures the report OF late
speech of General Cas the whg candidate for lieutenant
governor Of New York sezes upon the circumstance
indication that the South is embodened by recent events
to make new exactions and aggressions upon the
rights of the North, The conclusion of the Times does
equal injustice 10 the Enquirer the South The ed
or of the Enquirer distinctly discaims any idea Of
quiring Of northern rigid toriy his creed
in respect slayery but demands from them nothing
Tim simple tolerance Of southern institutions This is the
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who goes further, and demands of northern
men, becomes utras and nfcts an injury upon the
peace and harmony Of the country.
We can readily comprehend what is meant by aggres-
sons upon southern rights respect the institution of
slavery, but we little loss to understand what is
meant by southern aggressions upon northern rights South
ern men as citizens the conederacy look alone the
constitution for their rights in respect slavery; and
whatever policy political creed organization which
seeks to interfere with the full and undisturbed enjoyment
of these constitutional rights they regard aggression
In this connexion may few of the in
stances Of interference which southern feel 10 be ag
gressions
The Missouri restriction has been felt by the South for
more than quarter of century to be standing inter-
ference with right legtmaely attaching the constu-
tona recognition Of property in slaves That restriction
said in plain terms the southern that although the
constitution recognised his right slaves yet that so
long as he continued such owner he could enjoy the
privilege of holding and enjoying bis property north of the
restriction line
The constant agitation by northern men and northern
presses the slavery question: in manner to excite dis
satisfaction and instructions amongst the slaves of the
South together with the efforts of organized associations at
the North encourage slaves to escape from their owners
and the constant protection furnished to gyes against
the attempts of their owners reclaim themheSc have
been ongsiandng instances of aggressons of which
southern complain. They say that as the consti-
tuon recognises the Legality Of their ownership of slaves
as property there is necessary obligation resting upon
the northern people to say and do nothing which has
direct or indirect tendency embarss interfere with
this constitutional right They do not ask that any un
reasonable restriction should be placed upon the liberty of
speech or Of the press but the institution Of slavery
confined within southern limits they insist that it is but
reasonable that those amongst whom it has existence
should exercise the rights Of speech and of the press
TO affect nuriousy the enjoyment of the property of
southern They maintain also that the constitution
expressly forbids any State to law by which
slave escaping into such State shall become free but on
the contrary makes it the duty of such State to deliver up
sucb fugitive to his owner Southern men regard all