The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-09-21

and bed together for Independence their fathers cooper
ted ia forming a common constitution and founding al
common Union and down 10 this day northern and
southern have sven side by side In tanning the
honor and integrity Of this common Their
local diversified but antagonstic hos
tile Our present unexsmped prosperity and power and
happiness as people 10 living refuation OF the idea
that the interests of northern and southern hos
tile On what ground then, are such fanatics as Wade
and Sumner and Chase aud Giddngs laboring to SOW
seeds Of dscord between those who brethren in inter-
est and should be brethren in elingl From education,
habit association and training southern and northern
differ TO their views of the social, POLITICAL and
moral nature OF the institution OF slavery They entertain
ed the differences when the constitution was form
ed, and in that instrument those differences com
promised and settled forever. The abolition fanatic
seeks aside this settlement and throw open for
renewed agitation questions entirely compromised by our
fathers and consecated by the continued acqulescence
of all good men down to this day. Because south
denounced with earnest bitterness this attempt
to repudate solemn compact and charge its authors
with to the Union, the effort il made by abo
Onists to deceive the North into the belief that south
hostile to all northern men, This part OF
concerted scheme TO the North against the South
As southern man, hesitate not to declare that the peo
pie of the South know who their friends at the North
and who their enemies whilst they denounce the lat
ter only their enemies but the enemies of the constr
tuition they cherish with grateful recolectons the con-
stancy and efficiency with which northern men have CO.
operated with them in maintaining invioae the sacred
compromises of the constitution The South asks nothing
visions of the constitution fairly and honestly construed
shall be faithfully observed and executed BY these pro-
visions they feel that they have right to demand of their
northern brethren not to nternedde directly Indirect
ly, with slavery in the States BY these provisions they
insist that Congress has power to interfere with the
subject OF slavery in the Territories but that this power is
reserved the people of the Territories subject only to
the federal constitution submit to all northern men
that these reasonable, and just and constitutional
POSITIONS which of the South stand These posi-
tons now denied by our enemies at the North
they declare that the people OF Territory shall not
determine whether slavery shall exist not in that
Territory; they insist that Congress shall usurp the
power of prohibiting its existence whether the people de-
sire it not They go further and declare that the Ter
rory thus deciding by its proper will to recognise
slavery within its limits shall never be admitted into the
Union State. We of the South maintain that both of
those questions settled by the constitution and settled
in solemn that they ought to be disturbed
We insist that by the constitution the people Of Kansas
have right to choose reject the institution of slavery
and when they prepared to seek admission into the
Union State that It's their constitutional right to
in with or without slavery as they choose These positions
have been recognised by the statesmen and patriots OF
country with few exceptions from the organization
Of the government to the present time They now
repudated by party at the North, which has become
formidable by its combinations and coalitions 1t is said
by this party that the South perpetraed outrage
the North in the passage OF the Nebraska because that
bill contained provision for the repeal of the Missouri
srction, and for that they proclaim their purpose
restore that restriction refuse admit Kansas
State into the Union As southern man. and in behalf
of the South deny that the repeal of the Missouri
discuss that question am meeting the argument OF the
aboliioniss upon the assumption that it is true The
argument is this the Missouri restriction was compro-
misc and solemn compact between the North and the
Souhthat its repeal violation Of sacred obliga-
ton which had been acquesced in for thirty years.
Therefore they resolved that vndicate the North and
punish the South for this alleged breach of faith the Ter
rtory of Kansas shall into the Union State
until the Missouri restriction is restored by Congress
will be at conceded that if Congress did originally
possess the power to impose the Missouri restriction il
has not the power to re-enact it, If it out
rage to repeal the Missouri Compromise because it
the violation of sacred compact how much greater
rage is it to reenact the restriction when its
ment involves violation Of the constitutions far
sacred compact than the Missouri Compromise Surely
the abolitionis do not expect TO justify open papa
BILE and undisguised violation of solemn constitutional
compact by showing attempting TO show that southern
men have heretofore violated their faith in regard to
compact. Such a morality IL as bad the logic which
seeks to sustain it. But the proposition of the abolition
lists goes urherthey not only insist assigning the
power to Congress to rnact the Missouri restriction but
they claim the right exclude the State of Kansas from
the Union upon the ground that the people may
elected to recognise slavery Does any here suppose
that if the North sustans the aboonsts in this position
the federal Union be preserved2 1t is this peril
Gus issue being forced upon the country that is excl
ting much just alarm through every section Of the
try This no idle alarm it not manufactured for po-
cal effect II springs up from the startling facts d.
vulged in the elections in the free States since knownoh-
ngism and abolitionism formed alliance You will
see that the danger arises from attempt TO set aside the
guarantees and compromises of the constitution How
appropriate then, that this birthday of the consu-
ton the democrats and national wings should meet to-
geher to pledge their lives and their sacred honor
the preservation of the constitution and the Unon In
every crisis where the Union has been in jeopardy the
democracy aided by the national wings has proved itself
able triumph have abiding faith that next will
be its greatest triumph and my faith is greatly strength
ened by the impressive demonstration which witness
here tonight
Speech Of Col. j. W. F6raey
Col John W. Forney was the next speaker His appear
the stand was hailed with the most deafening
shouts of applause He said
i reminded by this ynst and countless assembage-
the greatest have beheld filing, it does this
cred squareof that beautiful picture in Sir Walter SCOTS
"Talisman where two warriors Of opposing creeds after
short passage at arms their hostility and become
friends They meet at of the fountains in the
desert which the Wizard of the West calls he Diamond
OF the Desert" At moment when abotonism would
make of beloved Union desolaton and desert
whcn indeed ree-soil fanacism has achieved some of
tutonherc this holy ground Of Independence Square
and at the portals of the hall where the federal
stituton achieved and adopted who have here
toore differed to minor issues meet and do
under the broad democratic banner Of religious liberty
and political equality; and meet not for short time only
but let hope for years and years TO Long may
this concord endure
My democratic friends told by these abolitioniss
that constantly yielding the South and this is
held up q capital crime. Now what is this Union of
ours? 1t is great family. When yield to the South
when the South yields to is often the CASE do
yield to foes-to assailants-to foreign power2 We
yield brethren, blood relations as bosom friends
Who does yeldn every day to brother or relative
friend? And if this were not So what howl
ing wilderness this world would bel The sages and
patriots who sat in that sacred OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
a-men from the South and the Northdid not hesitate