Washington telegraph., 1855-12-05

balanced and gigantic intelligence and his
genuine patriotism have been brought to be-
lieve and to teach that the single desire to
6nd a new field for slavery to till, has in fif.
ty years transformed strip into one nation
al domain larger than Europe?
Is nothing to be ascribed to the necessi-
ties of national situation and the opportuni-
ties of national glory; nothing to the sober
collected judgment of the people of all
the nations nothing to the foresight of
some great men-like Jefferson and John
Quincy Adams-who loved not slavery nor
the expansion of the area of slavery but
who did love their country dearly and wise
ly, and knew that that evil would be more
than compensated by the exceeding good
nothing to diffused vehement nationality.
grave, ambitious. and conscious Of mighty
trength-burning to try itself against the
resistance OF foreign centact-and finding
on its SOnth and Southwest border no
equal TO hold it back nothing to the blind
ness OF mere l'arty tactics and the power of
popular administration nothing to the
love of glory and the contention and dan
ger which flames and revels in the adele
scent national heart Is it all mere and
sheer negro needing and negro selling that
has done this ? More than this Is moth
ing to be ascribed to the influence of North
ern aggression against slavery. provoked by
an eternal law. a Southern rally for is de-
fence and propagation F? Have these great
readers of OUT history forgotten that as far
back as 1S05-as 1S0I-the press, some
influential portions of the press of large
political party at the North. began to de-
nounce the election and reelection of Thorn
as Jefferson as triumph of the slave POW
er.
The acquisition of Louisiana the abso
lutte necessity of our peace how much more
of our greatness, as another triumph of the
slave power that this form of sectionalism
already assaiied the slave representation of
the constitution. and tried to strike it out
that it bore Its part, q large part, in :Dfuen-
cling New England to the measure of the
Hartford Convention that hushed to 81
lence by the fervid food of nationality
which swept the country ct the close of the
war, breathing into US the full first inspira-
ton OF American life it awoke again on
the application: of Missouri for admission
that sllenced once more by that adjustment
"A few years later it took on the more vir-
ulent type of Abolitiouism and from that
moment helped on by the general progress
of the age. it has never ceased for an hour
to make war on the institutions of the
South, to assail the motives and arraicn the
conscience Of the stakeholder; to teach to
'abdor' and to avoid him, and to Genounce
the Union as compact with hell? Is it
not possible that part of what they call
the aggressive spirit of slavery may be a re-
action against our own aggression? May
it not be that in this recrimination of tie
sections and in the Judgment of history,
there may be blows to take as well as blows
to give?
That-creat man whose name have spo-
ken could see. and he dared to admit the er-
rors OF both sections. In those errors. in
this very hate and in this very dread which
the new party would organize. he saw the
supreme danger of his country To cor
rect these errors-:o allay the dread-to
turn that hate to love-was the sublime
aim of his last and nob!est labor. Il am
looking out he said, mot for my own Sc
curly or safety. for | am looking ont for no
fragment on which to float away from the
wreck, if wreck there must be, but for the
good of the whole, and the preservation of
all. | speak to-day for the Union, hear
me Cor my cause ~ lie could not have
abandoned himself. he never saw an hour
in which he could have any more abandon
ed himself to this gloomy enterprise Of sec
tiOualism than Washington could have done
it, STOPPING from the farewell address; the
leader of Israel could have done it. as he
stood in that last hour in Pisgah and sur
veyed in vision. the wide spread tents Of
the kindred tribes rejoicing together in the
peace and in the light Of their nations God
Oh. for an hour of such life and all
were. not yet lost