Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-04-10
DAILY NATIONAL ERA.

South your ships would rot at the wharves,
your merchants would become bankrupt your
looms would stop, Labor would be turned out
to starve, grass grow in the streets of your
cities; while We at the South would scarcely
know the event. save by the telegraph and
railroad.
With this estimate Of the absolute depend
ence OF the free States upon them, Is associated
conviction that their People are more devo-
ted to the Union than to any earthly good, that
there are no sacrifices 30 humiliating that they
are not willing to make them for the sake OF
perpetuating it. And this ID not also yield
ing has been the policy of the free States 80
ignoble and servile has been the department OF
a large number Of their Representatives and
Senators in Congress, so tamely have they sub
mitted to political degradation, that they have
come to entertain contemptuoas opinion OF
Northern spirit and character. They always
act on the assumption that Northern men are
sordid, flexible, and cowardly. There IL no
exaggeration in all this Members Of Congress-
from the free States, not blinded by Party, not
IcHuSiUu AiAOIcciiuIy Wy ooAusN DoAiHos.uS,
know and feel that it is true.
But, with such views and sentiments pre-
yailing among shareholders, what can be ex-
pected but just such aggressions, pretensions,
and assumptions Of superiority, as characterize
their whole intercourse with the North? We're
not such views and 50 sentiments prevalent among
them, would they dare demand the abolition
Of the covenant which now exempts Nebraska
from Slavery? Would they recklessly avow the
purpose of obtaining possession Of Cuba, to
prevent emancipation there, and to establish
forever in the Union the ascendency Of the
Slave Power. Would they coolly attempt to
take from the Public Treasury twenty millions
Of dollars to buy Mexican Territory, and secure
the subservience Of the needy, interruptions
adventurer who calls himself the Dictator of
Mexico, with view to the immediate extension
Of the area Of Slavery southwardly, to paving
the way for future extension, as it may become
expedient and to connecting slaveholding terri
tory By National railroad with one of the
most important seaports on the Pacific?
Their policy Is plain. They will hold posses.
sion of the Federal Government by playing off
factions in the North and West against one
another, use the power and the money Of the
Government for the aggrandizemento Of Slavery
and the expansion Of Slave Territory, and thus
prepare themselves for absolute sway over the
destinies of the Union. Then, should the Pub
lie Opinion Of the free States be at last 80 ex-
asperated as to demand Dissolution, the an
swer would be, As you please;-we have the
Government and the Territories; we form an
empire within ourselves; we have no occasion
to secede if you do not like the association,
you can leave, being Of the least possible ac-
count to us. We have long looked forward to
this hour and by the acquisition Of Cuba, the
annexation of Mexican Territory, our Southern
route to the Pacific, and the useful services Of
our pensioner in Mexico, Santa Anna, We are
quite prepared for your departure"
This is the policy Of the Slave Interest -su-
premaoy in the Union, and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT oil
Slavery through the power of the Union and,
finally, should the North and West be aroused
to resistance, Dissolution, the onus of secession
being placed upon them, the Federal Govern
ment, with its machinery, its Territories and
Treasury, to remain within the grasp Of the
Shareholders One thing is necessary to this con-
summation--fke continued division and emascu-
la,ion of the free States by the Wig and Demo
cratic organizations, Nth their miserable, impu-
dent pretenees about Compromise and g Ma
tionalityn One thing will prevent 1.-THE SUBJ
version Of these organizations, and the concen-
tration of the political power of the free States
in a single Party-the Party of Freedom-for
the rescue of the Federal Government from
the hands Of the Slave Power
This accomplished, bounds will be set TO the
extension Of slave territory, Free Labor inst-
tutions will assert their rightful sway, the
Slave Interest will become subordinate, and
an Emancipation Party will gradually be de-
veloped in the slave States The onts Of dis
solving the Union, il the thing should then DO
dreamed Of will rest upon the shareholders !;
but the Federal Government will be in the
hands Of those who will know how to use it
for the protection and extension Of tho bless.
ines of Freedom and Free Labor. This unac-
complished, and 30 sure as Despotism never
voluntarily parts with its power, 50 sure will
the time como when the only alternative pro-
sented to the Free States will be, Perpetual
Political Degradation, or Secession.
Will they avert this dread alternative while
they yet have the power, by such an assertion
Of their rights at the ballot-box, as shall secure
to them the control of the Federal Govern
ment? Or, will they continue to fritter away
their energies in organizations controlled by
the Slave Interest, and forever used as it's
tools
MANIFEST DHsTINY
Knowing no reason why Mr.. Fillmore might
not enjoy tour through any portion Of this