The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-22
WASHINGTON CITY.
FRIDAY MORNING. SEPT. aa, 1864.
DEMOCRATIC MEETING THIS AFTERNOON.

cratic meeting will take place this afternoon at o'clock
in front Of Carusps Saloon.
The friends of civil and religious liberty, of law and
der and Of the right of the people peaceaby 10 assemble
in public meeting express their opinions upon subjects
affecting the interests of their government and country
invited to be present
We hope that all good citizens irrespective OF party,
win attend the meeting punctually, to express by their
presence their indignant condemnation Of the outrage per-
perated by the knownohings at the last meeting and to
show to the country that Washington is orderly city
and not deserving the stigma which the dsgracetu con
duct of the know-nothings would imply.
OLD AND NEW ENGLAND-THEIR ABOLITION AND
COMMERCIAL AFFINITlES.
1t is familiar observation, that those regions OF the
North which indebted to southern products and
southern for their marvellous prosperity and
Improvement are the time, the headquarters re-
spectivey, of the most industrious and perseverng abo
tonists The cotton of the South supplies the looms,
builds palaces and adorns the soil of many of those
who not only initiate the nobility of Europe in their
cluveness and their wealth, but delight in following the
example of English capitalists, who at the time fill
their pockets and feed the British poor by the manufac
tue of American slavegrown cotton and sssa the nst
tutions of the United States in language of memorable
fasehood and bitterness. The New England abotonst,
the Union that the trade extensively carried
on while the British foes of American institutions refuse
in their exaggerated abuse of the American people TO rec
oect that slavery imported and encouraged these
shores by British supremacy, when the country help
less. Both abuse the people of the southern States
with equal perseverance and malignity get both cling
those of ueauh furnished 10 their acarce and cupy
By The labor Of he South, ne capital Of The South and The
yrowiag population Of the South When read the phil
ippics of such traitors the constitution Massachusetts
Sumner and Connecticut Gillette, nsnciyely
minded that much of the comfort and equality of which New
England boassmuch of her intelligence and welfare
much Of her superiority other direct results
that with the southern people which chiefly de-
ponds upon the products of labor 1t would be
test the philanthropy of both the Old England
and the New England aboonsts if all this unendng
source of wealth-f the profits and dividends which flow
their trade with the southern United their
cofers-were proposed to be cut off! Suppose mod
WHEREFORE in the British Parliament and
time Franklin, in grand New England conclave should
soemny demand that all those hostile southern in
situations should give public exhibition of their sin
eery by forever refusing to sugar cotton, rice to-
bacco and other savegown products" that they should
refuse to build ships for southern merchants that they
should turn the prows of their vessels to other
cimes that they should close their eoegedoors to all who
from the region Of Jefferson and Washington and
that the railroads of the North should stop Mason and
Dixon line if all beyond that boundary were moral
and political damnaton What yell of despair would
arise from the manufacturing towns of the mother and
daughter! What protest from the present abolition
slanderers What clamor from the poor towards ho no
their rea.h and ease trduee their eiocczens Of
c southern aesi Then would those who present lead
of their property and make the public press of the North
groan under asehoods and SANDERS be repudated and
tramped upon and the hoowness of abolition professions
would be proved in the mercenary fears of the trembling
followers Of abolition demagogus 1t has been said that if
the United States should fail to supply Great Britain with
cotton for single year. revolution would inevitably
among people that in such event. would perish
for bread and be thrown upon cold beartless, and
overburdened country. How far such dispensaton
would affect New England prosperity, leave such
rare arithmecians' the Hon. Charles Sumner to
answer.
But there is another subject upon which northern fanatics
who to regard the people of the South with much
adherence judciously blind and dumb The hypoc
rsy of England who processes such huge sympathy for
the slave and leaves many of her white subjects to
sarve and die to live the life of shame and vice. has
been established by ndubitable evidences Even her
boosted squadron the coast Of Africa put down the
slave trade has been charged with being vglant ndf
terent according British interests involved And
how is it in those quarters in country where aboi-
ton RACES like pestence, in regard to this
srous and human-defying traffic. 1t is upon this point
that abolition is significantly silent. How many of
those who have denounced the Nebraska bill impious
and as despotc have been engaged in the work of build
ing vessels .or the shareholders who capture helpless
Africans, confne them in nosome and sitting holes and
plunge them into hopeless slavery in Brazil into
scarce less nhuman servitude in Cuba? How many north
abolitioniss ree-soilershow many calumniaors
to fit out these floating slave barcaroonsthese piratca
dens of living murderers and dying men, women, and
chdrento send them their fearful voyage of slavery
and of blood? And let ask, what is the attitude of
the South on this question Since the law of 1903
when the foreign slave trade ended, the people Of
the South have set their faces against it, and their
wachul adversaries in the Noreven those most ready
20 assa hem-canno justly charge them with being par
ties to trade which has justly aroused the united energies
of the civilized world TO put it down We fear the
credit cannot be given to that quarter Of the country from
which hear the most constant professions of hostility
slavery and the most violent threats against the ns-
tons Of the southern States Recent circumstances which
we arc not yet enabled speak of lead believe that
than Of those stately Pharsees who arc now en-
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