The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-10-25

be formed what battles would be foughtf And when
commerce had been stricken down. when manufactures had
ceased, when the whole land had been impoverished,
and the soil thoroughly soaked with fraternal blood
when the tempest had driven its fiery steel
throughout the land, then, when all to for
eign foe then abolitionism might learn how many
negroes had been freed. In this struggle the free
States would not be united, for strong and powerful
parties would rise up within their borders to distract
their counsels and weaken their strength Blood would
be shed within themsevesand all for what? For whatY
Not emancpate negro for that could not be done but
to prevent slavery from establishing itself In Territory
and thus open the door for the admission of another
slave State into the conederacy What object for such
cost What is its value? Suppose other slave States
admitted into the Union In what direction and to
what the slave States peculiarly affect the in
teress of the republic? II is true they might increase
their power such but how would that affect either the
rights the liberty the pecuniary interests the happiness
the people within the limits of the free States As
Shareholders having voice in the federal legislature how
could that influence be welded peculiarly TO the dement
of the people within the free States What interest could
Il protect2 What interest could ii strike down? Gould
it interfere TO the derimen OF free labor and TO the proec
ton Of The labor of the slave? How Tariffs in the
benefit of the manufacturing interests Does any be-
lieve that slave labor will be the manufacturing
labor Of the country The influence of the slave
holding power in the councils of the nation could,
from the nature Of the thing, only be exered to
protect slave property SUCH and TO extend by aequisi
ton the sayeholdng territory Of the Union This would
be The bounds of its power IL could have no influence as
such which could in the least affect the commerce, the
manufactures of the free States their political and civil
rights There is lhen far the free States
cerned nothing in all this excitement which really a
feet their rights interests except far the moral
peel of the question is concerned
have sad upon the question of slavery the North
and the South can never agree. What them shall be
A, Tba ia ohvin nd aaa,r haa baanr
given II was given when the Nebraska bill passed. 1t
given when il asserted that every people had
right 10 govern themselves. Deny this principle, and we
t,tack the foundation of government assert it, and
nothing for the North and South to quarrel about
relation the local OF the Territories the States
bf the Union. Shall general principle just WISE
nd Of the last Importance be assaulted in order TO
dish particular object? And yet freesoilism has done
this in regard the Nebraska bill 1t would override the
Elementary principles upon which alone government, all
governments State and nation AL rest to accomplish
desired result But the COOL rejecting Judgment of
the people sanction such course :?
There safety for this Union but to leave this slavery
question in the Territories to be settled all other ques
of local law settled there There other way
settle it. The free-soilers and the ultra of the
South have driven the public mind to phrensy this
subject and they will continue their labors as long as
there shall be prospect of individual reward. This
ant agitation sap the foundation Of the federal gov
crnmeni and The evil should be cured Let the
crisis be met deserves These who seek dis
solve the Union should be rewarded with traitors doom
Let the halter execute its functions. Cannot patriotism
and the love Of liberty of the white excite passions
ardent those which love of office and negro freedom
infame Let try Let vindcate the great element
airy principle of eedomthe right of the people of every
community govern themselves And if any essay lay
sacegous hands upon the altar of Union let their
fate be speedy, and such will make shudder when
they see it,
write hurrcdly, and without to FORM my main
desire being proclaim my adherence the continent Of
the immortal Jackson The Union, it and shall be
preserved "A
have the honor be- very respectfully, your obedient
servant ID. T. DISNEY.
To Il. WIoKLIrFE j C. BRECKENRIDGE, G. G. RooEas, and
r. W. WooLIEY, esqs., Committee of Invitation.