The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-03-11

sousy unust These measures originated 10 no such
tse-nor they pursued with any such object The
great body OF the people VINO ss s0'
ed from some of them but length OF years has brought
charity wisdom and have learned that great COM
munty only be aetuaied by honest Motives however
the impressions may and whatever selfish
poses may prompt the action OF individuals.
That the South has suffered injuries from the course and
of public dominion the North II would be
unjust deny But this amsng the necessary evils incl
free institutions, and which counterbalaneed by
far superior advantages The North is exposed TO the
same danger and difficulty by the industrious dissemination
of views striking at the very foundation of religion and
social order In this of the world, when the spirit oil
inquiry active and searching of the evils brings
with il is an indiserinate assault upon almost all the estab
shed institutions Of the country II the right OF the south
planter hold his slaves is called IN question, 50 IS the
right of the northern landowner TO hold his land The
doctrine of equal distribution finds jealous advocates but
safe barrier exists in the good sense and intelligence OF
The community po6e,y ~ oa aas these
pseudo reformers entering domestic CIRCLES ana
striving break up family organizations and to arrange
into communities making still more true the old adage
that he is a wise child who knows his own father.
Polygnmy ndscrimnate intercourse rather also finds
advocates both theoretical and practca and men seek by
the perversons OF Scripture to JUSTIFY acts prompted py
their own libdinous passions. Resolutions have been
passed by bodies of assembled country, de-
mandng the 'aool'ion OF all neutrality, with suppose
monachca powers the abolition of the Christian sys
punishment" looking probably TO the ultimate sup
preston of all punishment the "aboliton of land monoP
oly" or in other words the destruction of the rights of
ownership, by an equal distribution to-day which, by
curing another Tomorrow would destroy the motive for
individual exeriion, and make the country desert stalking
possession of the railroads by the State" which, trans
lated into the language of truth, the robbng of the
owners of that species Of property; and complete the
work, they demand the aboiuon Of laws for the observ-
ance of the Sabbath - the abolition of prayer in
Congress - and " the abolition of oaths upon the
Biblen All these fundamental changes have been called
FLOR by conventions assembled for the expression of these
and similar opinions. And in body calling itself the in
dusral congress, not long since sitting In this city, 1t
was
'ResOired That by the land reform understand the
entire abolition and annulmen of all property value
ownership in the SOIL" &C.
Now sir these may be considered pregnant signs and
they certainly invoke changes which would be as fatal to
North any demanded by the widest visionary or the
veres hypocrte the condition of the South would be to
that OF the Union. And yet there no danger from
III, mental moral decisions Reason and patriotism
will their empire and maintain their true supremacy
If government be tolerated where such doctrines
abroad shall soon bid adieu to human restraints No.
the remedy is to be found not IN the change OF political lns
uons but in the diffusion of educaon and the free discus
examination of whatever presented
as tending to meorae the condition of mankind. Truth
permanently injured by free inquiry You can
control nvestgaon and you must take IT. even with
its abuses for the blessings brings With IT, highly
spectacle and respected member of the House of Represent
said upon this subject time since, You think
that slavery is great evil Very WE'LL think bu. keep
your thought yourselves" am sure sir this honorable
menber have uttered this sentiment while feeling
strongly the injurious aspesions upon the South too fire.
quent in the North for he knows well any the i'm
possibility of prescribing the right of Speech and of con-
fnng the thoughts of to his own BOSOM You might
just well undertake to stop the ude OF the ocean IS 10
stop the tide human opinion and though both of these
mighty agents. their resstess march, felt for evil
well for good yet their heahfu action infinitely better
than would be their stagnant quletude
But the speaker himself did as he had full night to do,
without regard this prohbtonhe examined the whole
subject in the hall of the nation, and Of course could
expect that his preeept and not his practice would be fol-
lowed by others. After all sir, he had powerful reasons
for denouncing this perpetual warfare upon large
portion of the Union and upon subject OF domestic
policy vital their interest and 10 their safety But we
reach it by legal we cannot stop the pro-
gress Of opinion and discussion We can gave ihem how
ever right direction and that should be the effort of
every American in the non-slavehodng States whose
feelings and whose intellect have not been seized captive
by strange halucinaon. He should stand up for
the rights of the South by standing up for the Obligations
of the constitution, and expose that hollow philanthropy
which seeks through blood and fire the emancipation of
of beings who may become free IN Gods good tme
and when he has prepared them for i-how know not
but who if made free Tomorrow would, at least those of
them who survived the struggle become the most mIser
| able and abect population the face OF the globe.
The of slavery has existed from the earliest ages Of
the world and regretted it is and must be by the moral
it great practical political question, which every
abshed community where is recognised must adjust for
ITSELF The revolution found in most the States, and
there the adoption Of the constitutions and IN many
Of them yet remains, making part of the rights and guar
antees Of the confederation. To touch by the general
government would shake cornerstone whole
political edice Like other human institutions has neither
all the advantages its friends claim for IT. all the evils It's
enemies depore Believing misfortune for any country
regret its establishment; but looking upon it as existing
conultOn, 10 colne
end and hope may peacefully and justly see no
way which this be effected but by leaving TO those
interested and the process they may find best
adopt Any external interference would only eggravete
the evils and the dangers and this experience has already
shown As TO the ghul pictures which have been drawn
of cruelty on side, and suffering and wretehednes
on the other they gross exaggerauons by whatever
modern CULVER fabricated whether or strong minded
women, originating in ignorance mulevolence and minis
terpg worst passions both home and abroad
know something of the condition of the slaves and believe
general they treated with all the humanity which
reasonably be expected in their situation; with humanity
honorable the propretors class and to say the least
Of it, quite well they would be in the northern States
had this institution been abolished there and far better
than by many whose philanthropy is shown by the railing
and eproachu words they utter and not by the relief they
contribute objects of misery. And know something Of
the condition Of the poverty stricken population of Europe
and Of large portion Of the inhabitants who lie down IN
and get care and who their lives want
many Of them state Of restitution utterly unknown in
this and have for misery IN the proud
capitals Of Europe than in favored
land among white black, bond free recent remark
in the London Times better illustrates this ghul cond
ton Of human than the most abored description:
"In London the centre and core Of British wealth and
pharasaica excusveness one hundred thousand human
beings get up every morning without knowing where they
to find meal, except from passing job or crime"
One would think that here field enough for the
ton Of any reasonable quantity of philanthropy and that
until these awful Of human suffering removed
1t would exhibit much commendebc spnt 10 labor
there for life first then reformation rather than
be sending political missionaries, under the guise OF cn
versa love Of mankind this country, kindly excite
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