The daily union., 1854-10-19
THE REASONING OF THE DIsUNIoNIsTs.

we have demonstrated the position that the necessary
consequence Of epee the fugitvesave law and of the
restoration of the Missouri restriction and of the refusal TO
admit more slave States into the Union will be dssou-
ton of the confederacy To doubt the truth of this propo-
sition is to doubt the manhood of the South The po-
cal organization which undertakes to enforce these doc
trnes necessarily do with full knowledge that they
are aiming blow at the federal Union and that they
Justly assuming the unenvabe appellaoE OF the dsunion
party BY this name they will be known and resisted and
by this name they destined either TO gnominons de-
| feat or to a still more ignominious triumph.
Treason of every species careful TO assume the guse
of fair words and noble sentiments To its assaults
SUCCESSFULLY the mask under which it fights must be torn
off Its reasosng must first be exposed and then is
to follow indignant denuncatioas Of all truly honest
The disunonists of the present day their fair words
their patriotic sentiments and their ad cdptand"m reason
ing ON which they rely in sustaining the issue which they
have presented We have good illustration OF these in
of one Of the candidates this party in the State
of New York. addressed to the editors of the Commercial
Advertiser The letter from Mr. Bovine 'he whg can
didate for Stateprson Inspector in reply to suggestion
that his endorsement of the policy Of resisting the adms-
sion of ny slave States was in conflict with the prin
ciples of the whg platform His vindcaton of himself is
contained in the following extract from his letter
It should be remembered that slavery has changed front
since the passage of the compromise 1t claimed
then to be acting the deensve and complained of its
bleeding wounda one of which expensvely healed
by the passage of the gitiyessye law 1t abandons its
former position and stands out boldly for (with
the least endeavor to conceal its design) by the intro
uction OF slave States to the control
of the United States Senate and to the thus
gained indefinite extension and perpetuation OF its
cherished institution in defiance of all compacs and eompro
mses, however sacred or hmc-honored'
..Under this changed of the question: while
wbg may be disposed further than that they
under obligations to consent to the admission OF
any slave States Others in view of the recent extraor
binary of the slave power, may far
To say opposed to the annexation OF
slave States for good existing reasons Does any whg who
stops short of making the last assertion 20 be under
stood that favor of anneang any slave States
sacred compact of 1870 renstatedi TRUST not
Then why should difference impractical be deemed sui
divide the party which alone has the at
present the encroachments of slavery and at the
time sacredy to guard preserve the constitutional
rights of both the North and the South
4, win be observed that Mr. Bovine admits the allegation
thai he Is opposed to the admission of any slave
States until the Missouri restctou is restored his usf
cation is rested upon the charge that the South is seeking
for snnrenaey by the introduction of slave States in
defiance of all compacts and compromises however sacred
OF sne,bonored and his appeal is TO the wings the
only party which has the power to resist the encroach-
of slavery apd to guard nd preserve the consttu
onal rights of the North aud Of the Sout We pass over
the cool eronery with which Mr. Bovine takes under the
tender guardianship and merces Of northern wings the
constitutional rights of the South II will provoke no
other than feelings of contempt and derision amongst
southern men IL is the kind guardianship and protection
which the ucendiary shows his neghbo when he applies
the torch to his dwelling The wh9e case as presented by
Mr. Bovine upon eassertion that the South seeking
TO encoach upon the North by the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise This total OF the evidence which
the charge is made that the South is struggling for SUI