The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-10-04


and had outsiders fined This the origin of
the late riot The rioters did fight in the street. but
entered houses and took from their beds to beat them
These rioters known as the Mohawk and Brighton
rangers One of them who had knocked down Germans
wife with chair, badly hurt by the husband and
they generally deserved the treatment The person
to whom the Times alludes Catholic is intde and
the Catholics have not been active participaors such
in said riot c. RICkLE
From statesman nd Democrat
HOME OF CLAY VISITED BY A FUSION EDITOR.
The editor Of the Cincinnati Gazette has just returned
from Ashland. He says of it:
There many fine trees in the immediate locality
where the dwelling stood and we scarcely imagine
proper rural home than Ashland for such
Cas home Is razed 10 he earth uas ,cnA mortified
and disappointed spirit that ace igt ashland"
Could the editor well feel otherwise in view of his
to- and support of that abolition alliance which Clay de-
nounced while living Did the Gazette editor recall
Clays words that "when the contemplate abolition creed
was sought to be migrated the whg creed that
msnt renounce my party, and cease to be whg2'
And when he gave his assent to the disunon resolution
against the admission of any slave States, which
strikes at the independence Of State soveregnte did he
not recall this language of the great Clay spoken in 1850
Has il not been the doctrine of all parties that uhen
State is about 10 be admitted into the Union that STATE has The
right to decide for herself whether she will will not have
within her limits slavery
"he great principle upon which the contest upon the
memorable occasion of the introduction of the Missouri
Compromise in the Unon was whether it was competent
not competent for Congress to impose any resrc
ton which should exist after she became member of the
Union We toho ~ere an aeor Of the admission Of Missouri
coended that IN The constitution such restriction could be
imposed! We contended that whenever she adj
med into the Union she had all the rights and privileges
of preexisting State of the Unon and that of these
rights and privileges decide for herself whether
slavery should should exist within her limits that
she had much right to decide upon the introduction
abolition of slavery New York had and that she stood
among her equal and invested with all privileges
that of the thirteen States and those subsequently
admitted had right to enjoy"
Well might the editor excaim in view of the humliatng
position of the national wing party of which Clay the
idol and the embodiment The glory of Ashland has de-
parted Well might he leave Ashland with q mortified
and disappointed spirit There rang again from the of
Henry Clay these memorable words spoken in debate in
1850 porrayng the direul consequences of sectional
aboonsm, if it succeeded in It's aims, he said
"Slr am not in the habit Of speaking lightly of the
possibility of dissovng this happy Union The Senate
knows that have deprecated illusions ordinary
sions that dreful The country will testify that
there be anything in the history of public
worthy of recollection it is the truth and sincerity of my
ardent devotion to its lasting preservation But should
be false in allegiance to it If did not discriminate
between the imaginary and real dangers by which it may
be assaed Abolition should longer be regarded
imaginary danger The abolitiopiss let suppose
coed in their present aim of uniting the inhabitants of the
free States against the inhabitants of the slave
States. Union on the one side will beget union on the
other And this process of reciprocal consolidation will
sions and mpacabe animosities which degraded
deformed human nature a virtual dissolution of the
Union will have taken place while the forms Of its exist
remain The most valuable element of union mutual
kindness, the feelings of sympathy, the ratenal bonds
which now happy unite us will have been extinguished
forever One section will stand in menacng and hostile
array against the other The collision of opinion will be
quickly followed by the clash of arms.
:" will not attempt to describe which hap
PLY lie concealed from our view Abolitionis themselves
would shrink back in dismay and horror at the contem
pation desoated fields conhagrated cities murdered in
habants and the overthrow of the fares fabric of human
government that animate the hopes civilized
man. Nor should these abolitioniss hatier themselves
that If they succeed in their object of uniting the peo
pie Of The free States they will enter the with
mercai superiority thai must insure victory All history
and experience the hazard and uncertainty Of
And admonished by Holy Writ that the is
the swift the battle to the strong. But if they
to conquer whom would they conquer? \ foreign foe
one who had insused our flag, invaded Shores and
laid country wasteY No. sir no, sir. 1t would be a
conquest without laures without gorya self suicidal
conquest brothers brothers. achieved by over
another portion of the descendants of ancestors
who noby pedging their lives their fortunes and their
sacred honor had fought and bed side by side many
hard battle land and ocean, severed country
the British crown and established our national indepcnd-
ence.p
II regard to this splendid burst of eoquence that
Clay being demonstrated will by a friend lest such
bold Union might nure his presidential aspa
tons sold that he would rather be right than be Prcsi
dent-a speech landed TO the heavens by the national
wings. in view thereof well might the fusion editor of
the Cincinnati Gazette eycam The glory of Ashland is
Departed
We are informed that the delivery of this speech the
abolition portion of the wings of this city met to denounce
Henry Clay for his action in 1885, and that Galloway
among them es speaker For him the glory of Henry
Clay and Ashland had long since departed for he had
himself lost his standing and honor in the slough of abol
onsm.
Truly has the glory of Ashland departed The black
clouds of apa'icsn ensnrood thai luminous orb which
sank when Henry Clay was entombed in Ashland
MICHIGAN.