The daily union., 1854-03-04


renee with the States which beyond this jurisdiction,
may you help the blot OF slavery from our ma
tional brow.
Do this and you will most truly promote the harmony
which you so much desire. You wlll establish tran
quilhty throughout The country Then at last, sir The
slavery question will be settled. Banshed from lis
usurped foohold under the national government, slave
ry will longer enter, with distraeung force, into
the national politics-naking and unmakng laws.
making and unmakng Presidents. Confined TO the
States where II was left by the constitution, il will
take its place local institutonf, alas continue il
must lfor which we are in no sense responsible, and
against which we cannot exert any political power We
shall be relieved from our present painful and Irritating
connexon with IT, The existing anagonlsm between the
North and South will be sof,ened elimination and
elimination will the wishes OF the fathers VIII be
fulfilled and this great evil be left to the kindly infu-
ences OF morals and religion, and the prevailing laws OF
social economy.
| am not blind TO the adverse signs Blu, this | see
clearly. Amidst all seeming discouragements the great
omens with us, Art literature, poetry, religion
everything which eeva,es man-a are our side. The
plough the steamengine the railroad the telegraph the
book, every human improvement, every generous word
anywhere every true pulsaton OF every heart which is
not mere muscle and nothing else, gives new encenr-
agemen to the warfare with slavery The discussion
will proceed The devices of party no longer staye
il of The suberuges OF the politician cannot escape IT,
The tricks OF the otfce-seeker cannot dodge it, Where
ever an election occurs, there this question will arise
Wherever together 10 speak OF public affairs,
there again will It be No political Joshua now, with
miraculous power stop the sun in his course through
the heavens III rs even now rejoicing, strong
to run its race and will yet send its beams into the most
distant pantaons-aye sir, and melt the chains oil every
slave
But this movementor agitaton as it is reproachulIy
caeds boldly pronounced injurious to the very object
desired. Now, without entering into details which nel-
her time nor the justifes let say that this
objection belongs to those common places, which have
been arrayed against every benefcen movement in the
worlds historyagainst knowledge itselfagalnst
the abolition of the slave trade Perhaps it not
natural Tor the senator from North Carolina Mr. BAD.
n H..
sounded less natural when il cane though in more mod
phrase, from my distinguished friend and colleague
from Massachuse Mr.. EvERErT.l The past fur
nishes controlling example by which its character
may be determined Do no, forget sir that the efforts of
William Wilberforce encountered this precise objection,
and that the condition Of the kidnapped slave then
vindicated in language not unlike that OF the senator
from North Carolina, by no less person than the Duke
Of Clarence, Of the royal family OF Great Britain Ia
what was called his maiden speech, OH rlay 3, 1892,
and preserved the parliamentary debates, he said The
negroes not treated the which had much
agitated the public mind He had been attentive OBJ
ofhe state and had doubt that he could bring
forward proofs to convince their ordshps that their state
far from being miserable; on the contrary that when
the various ranks OF society were considered they were
comparatively in state OF humble happiness" And only
the year this royal prince in debate in the House
of Lords asserted that the promoters OF the abolition OF the
slave trade either fanatics or hypocrtes and in
one of these classes he declared that he ranked Wber
force Mark the end. After years of weary effort
the slave trade finally abolished and at last, in
1885, the early vindicator OF even this enormity, the
maligner OF name hallowed among men, was brought
10 give his royal assent William w. King Of Great
Britain. TO the immortal act of Parliament greater far
than any victory Of by which slavery was abolished
throughout the British domnions Sir, time and the uni
versa conscience have vindicated the abors of Wber
force The movement against American slavery, ausp
Gated by the august names OF Washington franklin and
Jefferson, can calmly await similar judgment.
But it il suggested that, in this movement, there is
danger 10 The Union. In this soliciiude cannot share
AS lover of concord and jealous partisan OF all things
that make for peace am always glad to express my at
fo tha hufI hafIa hat
be truly preserved and mos, benehcen,y extended
or shrink from no expansion where freedom leads the
way) by firmly upholding those principles of liberty and
justice which made It's early coTner-s,ones The
true danger 10 this Union proceeds not from any aband
onmen Of the peculiar institution" OF the South. but
from the abandonment OF the spirit in which the Union
was formed; not from any warfare, within the limits Of
the constitution, upon slavery; but from warfare, like
that waged by this very bill, upon freedom The Union
n most precious; but more precious far are that general
welfare" domestic tranquility and those bessngs OF
liberty" which il was established to secure all which
are now wanonly endangered. Not that love the
Union less. but freedom more, do now, in pleading
this great cause insist that freedom at all hazards shall
be preserved
One word more, and have done. The great master,
Shakespeare, who with allseelng mortal eye observed
mankind, and with immortal pen depicted the
they has presented scene which may be read with
advantage by all who would plunge the South into
empestuous quarrel with the North. refer TO the we'll
known dialogue between Brutus and Cassus. Reading
this remarkable passage, it is difficult see in BrH-
tus our own North, and in Casslus the South:
Cas- Urge MORE shall forget mytelf;
Have mind upon your health. tenn pt no further
Bru. Hear me, for will speak
Must give way and room TO your rash choler
Cat. ye gods ye gods Must endure all this
Br All this moro Fret ul your proud heart break
Go, show your slaves how choetic yon are
And make your -bondmen remble. Must bulge
Must observe you Must stand and crouch
Under your testy humor ]
Cas- DO not presume too much upon my love,
II may do that shall be sorry for.
! Brs You have done that you should be sorry FOR.
There is no terror, Cassius In your threats
For am armd so suong In honesty,
That they pass by me MS the idle wind,
Which respect not
Cas- friend should bear his friends inhrmiticr,
But Bruius makes mine greater than they
Bra. do not, TILL YOU PRACTISE THEM ON ME.
Cas-. You love nae not
Bru. do not like your faults
Jplps Cdfar, act 4, scene 3.
And the coloquy proceeding each finally comes 10 un-
dersand The other appreciates hts character and altitude
and the mpetuous gallant Cassus exclaims, "Giye me
your hand;' 10 which Brulus replies. "And my heart,
too" Afterwards, with hand and heart united on the
field Of Phipp they together upheld the liberties OF
Rome.
The North and The South, sir, as iondly trust. amidst
all differences Of opinion, will have a hand and
heart for each other; and, believing in the sore preya
good time when both will unite, according 10 the sen-
menls OF the fathers and the true spirit OF the conslu
ton, debating freedom and mol slavery national while
slavery and freedom shall be sectional Then will be
achieved that Union contemplated at the beginning,
against which the storms of faction and The assaults of
foreign power shall beat in vain, upon the Rock Of
Ages; and LIBERTY, seeking firm ioothold, WILL
NAVE AT hsI wHrRsos TO STAND AND MOVE THE WORLD,
statement OF the Affairs Of the Mutual Life
rance Company of New York,
III Broadpap for he Year ending 3la January 1854