The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-06-09


has already found exponent the floor Of Congress
Land for the andsss7 will yet be terrible cry for the
North With density Of population supcrabnndance Of
labor, scarcity OF wages will time when this cry
will fad echo in the northern States Then property
hoders there may tremble. The higher-law principle,
which Is being established viii pave the way or this
cry Of land for the andess The whole theory of prop
erty will be questioned, and It win be found Inconsistent
With the higher law The moment this theory becomes
popular the laboring classes Of the North the titles
70 estates will begin to be very precarious It's surprising
that the property Of the North do not see the dam
gerous consequences involved in the hgherlaw principle
4 OF the slavery agitation. talaa 5pElt aa seai sa.
The North have peculiar interest in the government
emphacaly their government they have the major
ity they control III they mould ts legislation promote
Their own interests they possess the larger portion of its
atronage any people were ever especially interested in
the preservation Of any government the people Of the
North are thus specially interested in the preservation Of
This It strange therefore, that they should
ystcstceily endeAvor to destroy it they dong,
by their slavery agitation This agitation tAAn al
Other causes is tending destroy the government; and
this agitation they cherish and caress above all things
else their voritc policy 1t is strange constituted
as human nature is that should give into agatons
which may inure Others but it is strange them ag
tang upon subject the natural tendency of which is
nure themselves only shows how blind become when
we consult our passions and imagnatons instead of
our judgments The obvious tendency of this slavery
agitation Is to destroy the government What holds the
government together2 sense of its advantages and
feeling OF romance The object of government suggests its
most prominent advantages The great object Of govern
men is neutrality-suspicious. from external and internal
wrong but for the necessity for this protection govern
ment would not exist 1t may be said therefore, that this
the great primary object Of government And the lead
ing advantage OF the government consists in its capabi
TO accomplish this object The romance which attaches
the people to the government consists in its past history
and the future before It, This OF the main pillars of
government it constitutes nationality, and, in proportion
to the intensity Of this feeling s the capabiity Of nation
for great actions The want Of this feeling OF the
principal Of the present humiliation and dismember
Of Italy. This want of nationality has
whelrncd Germany with innumerable msortunes. The
presence of this feeling enabled Spain to drive back the
feeling in It's most extreme form which has designated
France as the great nation Mankind are greatly under
the influence Of their imagnations under such nu
| ence nations become great, ' N- ai4 #5At
Both these bonds Of union the Of advantage and
the feeling Of romance have been greatly weakened by this
abolition agitation II found 6hrs efficient government
aordng protection abroad and home sustained in the
affections of the people by glorious antecedens aud sub
lime future. How changed is the now Abolition
has prayzed the government So far our foreign rela
tons concerned we are poweress. We have all the
means both material and moral to the most efficient vind-
cation of rights but they harmless In our hands
We cannot use them We cannot 60 to with any for
eign power There are but three nations with whom
could be likely under any circumstances to be involved
in war--Spain, Mexico and England. Now, in what
don are we TO vndeae our rights if tranpled upon by
either of these powers is il Spain2 We only dplo
natize with her. war with her would be sgmatized by
the North as slavery propaganda and opposed by
her How would it be with the South? Would they not
that IN the natural of events Spain, in despair
before she renquished her grasp upon Cuba would decree
and Cuba according to the doctrines laid down
by the North the OF territory from Mexico,
would have free stas The ideas would rendera
with Aexico impossible and the certain acquisition Of the
Canadas could not but make the South pause before going
into with England So far the first great object
of government Is concerned defence against external
wrsng melancholy is the confession government is
unable to perform its functions As regards the second
form of protectionprotection against internal wrong
government Is less able TO discharge its great
duty. What the object Of the antslayery agitation but
the eventual abolition Of slavery in the States The
scton Of slavery in the Territories is only OF the
OF accomplishing this purpose The abolition of
slavery in the States implies of the races causing
the greatest commissions and disasters to the South The
strange spectacle is therefore presented in government
Of the dominant section seeking steadily the action
Of the government into direction with the exist
enee Of the weaker section Is not the government then,
failing to perform its Office of protection against internal
aggression The government has therefop failed TO
very great extent to perform its most vital Mncons
The feeling of romance have alluded to as Of the
bonds Of the Union takes formstbe memories Of the
past and hopes Of the future Those memories grand
and sublime and to recent period comparatively they
all tended to strengthen the idea OF union. The fierce
struggles of ancestors with the Indians for foothold
this continent their colonial with the French,
their great contest for Independence the Of 1912 all
illustrate and magnify the idea Of union. They exhibit
orether standing side by side In the camp and the
council and By their united efforts bursting the barriers
which and nature opposed TO the tiumpha progress
Of the country. Bat In the latter periods Of history
dark shadows Of sectional arrogance and injustice have
fallen upon path, and Of the South longer
look back with the pride and pleasure did
Until this slavery agitation disturbed the unsuspecting
4
that dawned upon any people But this dscordant
hend Of abolition has marred the prospect and instead
of hope Hratness peace, and glory before dis
aster dscord, war, and anarchy, The of the
Union has been weakened, and s weakening more and
every day The slavery agitation has and e. loosen
| ing all the great bonds Of the Union aa#
It's evident think that this crusade against slavery
II unchecked at the North will eventually overthrow the
government In producing this result the North will be
entirely to biame for the South ask for right but what
Ia granted them under the constitution and in any differ
Of opinion as 70 these rights they have been willing
abide by the decision Of the Judiciary. In producing
this result the North w in my opinion, equal In mad
any folly in history One thing too s clear that
whatever disasters this anssvery agitation may bring
upon the country the South win not have monopoly of
them The interests Of the sections arc so interviewer
that every blow struck 10y the North the South reacts
upon herself she only wound the South In woundiug
horse The two principal of northern prosperity
in material point ofview, consist in and
facuros they both receive their principal elements Of
strength from the Sontb As the South prospcrs they
prosper the South decays they decay Indeed, II is
not stating the too strongly 70 say that the North
have much interest in the institution Of slavery the
South have they have all the advantages Of slavery
and Of its disadvantages And yet The States
which of all others derive the most benefit from the n-
stitutou, are most bitter against IT.
Should the present government Mr. Chairman be over
thrown will the States be able
good one in its stead The small States of the North
should remember that Of the principal difficulties in
unwllingness Of the larger States 10 admit the smaller TO
equality in the Senate VIII they be able to enter
northern confederacy In this of extreme democracy
equal terms in this respect with the empire States Of New
York Pennsylvania and Ohioi II is extremely doubtful
wheiher they could These small States peculiarly in
tersied in the preservation Of the form of
meni Yet they generally the active in pursuing
n policy with continuance of the