The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-13

it. if the blacks remain here2 Where did John Ran
doph slaves find refuge at last after being driven out by
several free States2
do not propose to use your name, but your views
few lines from you the foregoing
topics would greatly oblige me.
Very respectfully and truly yours,
N. ADAMS.
Hon. H. A. WISE.
ONLY, near Onancock, Accomac Co, w..
August 22 1854.
DEAR SIR received yours Of the 18th inst yesterday
1t is letter which be satisfactorily answered in
brief terms 1t deserving of my respect that cannot
forego reply and yet its questions so full of mat
ter as to require time and labor than devote to
topics which are vital that they ought be touched
at ALL unless treated fully enough to comprehend their
essential bearings. | must reply then, in synopi-
cal view, and sketch skeleton, which you must
fill up yourself and take all the chances of making many
wide mistakes. northern mana non-slaveholding
MANS to make gross mistakes on this pons ASST
nor" subject of African slavery in the United States
You first ought to comprehend feelings well
relations in the matter To make you understand these
you must allow to "speak right on like plain
blunt man. and treat the subject in the most natural
and unaffected tone in which the ideas relating to arise
in my mind To the effort then
What are you writing to about? SlapeTy-A tricd,
slaueryin the southern States of this Union A property
property by the la Of the aesproperty protected by The
constitution and lars of the United Satespriyate property
held by indydua, propetors by the authority of
soveregnes and of constitutions apd of statutes houses
and horses and lands and ships and goods wares and
merchandise of trade held Sacred property because
defended by the moral well municipal law, making it
mine and yours Nine and not yours it is in the forum
of conscience and God alone and not yours
any sense between you and me in any conceivable rea
ton between u.s. ine, and not yours in any of
ntxyapn md thp
slave What business have you the4 interest yourself
about it? Why take thought about beneGting the
race of my slave THAI about benehting the
of "my my ass, anything else that is naine and
not yomsp You shall not covet my man servant or
maid servant than my COX or my ass or anything
else that is mine" Oh! you mean no harm-you merely
mean to inquire how divert the northern antagonsm
to slavery" The northern antagonsm to it. then, does
mean harmdoes assail this propery-aoes covet
my man and my maid servant and would take away
and destroy this property without regard to law human
or divine Now, why should il be allowed to do this in
respect M species property any an in respect
to any other kind Of property? 1t is awessness let loose
upon us and would you have us compromise with the
moral mob so as to bring about "mual e6oyf between
us to plan for the good Of the African racer Before the
propcryhoders be brought to paey with the brute
force which assas their legal rights the mob must be dis
armed end subdued The sovereign authority of conede
rated States be excrted to fulfil the faith of federal
compact of uon Property is gone the moment it recog
nses any right Of interference by any ercet those stand
ina in parity Of relation to asets gene the it
allows intrusion especially by alien enemy North
ern antagonsm is "aien" and northern anagonism is
enemy to it.
Suppose the houses standing this side of Mason and
Dixons line were all assaed by rude mob. constantly
hurting Mt them fiery torches missiles lit with flames just
as if they were block-houses the frontier attacked by
Indians armed with burning to light the roofs;
that no State State efforts made to arrest
the incendary warfare; that one-haf the population
sided with the mob that the use of the ais was refused to
hold the csiinas that the pupits were preaching and
the schools were teaching this to be all right, morally
right and justified by the higher law" Of God that
Judges and ures couldn't be found 10 administer justice to
murderer and marauders that 1t expensive to
seek redress than to submit 10 wrong under the sectional
aggression ta. political parties organized and pub
lie officers elected the ground Of obeyng the mob law
against the faith of conederaea States and against the
sanctty of constitutional and statute laws and the oahs
and duty Of citizens 70 support them Now, how long
would you expect listen patiently to such meek and
quiet and wel-mennng appeals that you make to me-
much more submit such insults and outrages2 Yon
could not expect good neghborbood to exist long between
us and our enemies All common feelings would soon be
DESTROYED all brotherhood would cease nothing short Of
would rage on, TO utter ruin OF everything
precious the bonds which hold together peo
PIE Union uOnt IN poHus vi Jaw, ~ must
abide in the minds and affections of patriots Gangrene
their feelings towards each other and the bonds of the law
become feersbonds enough And for the South to
hate the aggressors and not 10 resist them would show the
South to be not only provnc1ed and ensaved but m to
be humbled and trodden upon Well slavery is property
AS much as the houses II is assaed by northern
ngonism as dangerously the bock-houses of
frontier were by Indians in their Savage mood
This house rs fun Of eqbustbie materials 1t is house
mot made with hands, and is endowed with human wit
and human passions more intammable thap gunpowder
1t has some reason with which to conve mischief itself