The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-03-10
The Duty OF the N Orth on the Nebraska Ques-
ton.

The day is not distant when history will take this ques-
ton out OF the passionate hands OF The craftsmanship OF
the hour and then, in its results, shall all
recognising the manifestation OF that hand which
has thus far through thousand periis, guarded and
guided this Union and which, through unsupported ways
and unconscious agencies, guiding and guarding it still
towards asappr future OF national greatness
unprecedented IN the history Of empire.
General Pierce has recently lin his annual message)
pointed eyes 10 that direction and told us, for the
sake OF its influence all present action, TO think
OF this Union il will be only fifty years hence, with
the HUNDRED millions OF population which the steady
perence OF the past proves that ii must then possess
Let us so step further, and carry forward for
ond similar period that same wonderful law OF growth
which our successive censuses have thus established !;
and who can look undazzled upon the prospect which
awaits within only hundred years from 10 day
when four progressive Implications shall have brought
the evegrowing and everspreadng population Of this
Union up 10 four hundred millions 2and four hundred
such millions OF men
Away with all low and lines of reasoning
about questions affecting the perpeuation OF such po
l,cal system, and the iuhment OF such national des
tiny Standing thus, do, in the sublime presence
OF this dawning future, not rise above the petty
interests petty preudices which may grow oil the
partisan antecedents of yesterday relations oil 10 day
Can we moi forget awhile our ullng controversies of
parties and sub-parties and, when touch question
abou The constitution and the Union, expand thought
the appreciation oil the truth that il for confederation
count BY these hundreds OF millions of souls that
have 10 provide And any reasonable man believe
that con federation OF such supendous dimensions car
long hold together unless deal with il far more care.
fully and tendery-unless the control Of maloes over
minores the action OF the governmental forces from the
centre upon the great sectional parts, is far more for
beaTngly exercsed-than has heretofore been the
Let every man whose voice vote exert in.
uence the momenous sectional controversy in which
we at this moment engaged, ponder well the wise
counsels which the President POUNDS on the new and
broad views presented by him OF this very point and
particularly the exhoralon, which ought sink deep
every patriotic heart, that, a manifesiy inds-
pensable condition oil the perpeuaon OF the Union. and
OF the realization OF that magnihcen, national future adj
verified TO, does the duty become yearly stronger and
clearer upon us as citizens OF The several States TO cul
tvate fraiernal and ahec,onae spirit language and
conduct IN regard 10 other States, and relation the
varied interests institutions and habits of sentiment and
opinion which may respectively characterize them Aiu-
ual ioIbeaance, respect, and interference in
personal action ms Citizens and enlarged exesise OF
the most liberal principles OF comfy in the public deal
ngs OF State with State whether in leg saon or IN the
execution OF laws, are The means to perpeuale that
hdence and fraternity the decay of which poiu-
cal Union, on so vast scale, could not long survive"
The only apparent danger now threatening, or likely TO
threaten the pepe'uy OF this considerations found in
the slavery question The moment the country divides
TO two great sectional parties, northern and southern,
thai moment the Union in imminent peril, # al
ready lost and slavery affords the only issue on which
such division ever occur. The ani-slayery idea
has strong hold northern feeling, and the prosavery
southern interest well feeling Neither section
has now the power, or viii ever again have IT, to keep
the other in the Union by force, against anything like
general spirit OF discomfort and dlsunion IN that other
However large mig be the relative majority of the free
States in the federal government tina, government could
submission, Tor twelve months after opinion should have
npened IN that section into decided preference for an in
dependent confederation The latter section or class OF
States already possess a white population more than
twice that OF the whole Union at the time OF the revoIn
ton-and very spirited, energetic. and warke popua-
ton Twenty five years hence they will have a tourfod
greater population The revoed colonies OF l776 had
moreover to deal with powerful naval and military for.
eGn government which could and did send fleets and ar
mics TO dispute the ssoe OF separation and which had
uncomfortable party OF well-wishers n the colonies
themselves Our federal government would never FIRE
gun, would never load one TO the restoration OF
federal Union which would then be worthless 10 both
parties nor less impossible than worthless
The South has already about three and half mil
lions OF the manesy distinct and inferior negro race
which II governs in the relation Of and slave
These negro slaves increase in ratio quite equal to
that OF me white race. Now-deaIing with the question
politically and Practically not senme ally1ohaf
bseoms Of fhi ncrssss2 mhaf 70 10 BE- dsne pfh IL?
Our trhus increase must, and undosbedy will, 90 on
under the operation OF that expansive principle which
has ever characterized it, spreading and spreading now