The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-09-25
From the Richmond Enquirer.
THE UNION AND TIE CONSTITUTION.

la late number OF the Boston Times, that paper sig
n6canty asks What other guide chart Is required in
the management of political affairs the eonstitu
ton and the rghtfu and legal exposition of its purposes
and meanngs2n And il adds, with equal force ION this
ground and with this in view, stands the national de-
nocracy not only OF the North, but Of the whole
country In former times, when hereses and danger
abounded Of most diverse and opposite practical
views stood shoulder to shoulder and commended go
riously and successfully for "the Union and the
stitutonn Would TO Heaven this were true OF the
present. And why should not cherish the same attach
the Union and the constitution which distinguish
ed fathers of the republic Washington and Jefferson
Madison and Franklin and the other true revolutionary
patriots who applied their experience and profound Wis
dom 10 the devsng practical measures to secure the per-
maneuce and safety of the Union7 The Union may be Of
little worth to those who have down and counted
the cost of its dissolution The constitution under which
we live may be uncvered aud perhaps desecrated by the
thoughtless the giddy and the abandoned but to him
who has studied its guarantees, has scanned its provs
ions calmly and dspassionatey with the desire 10 know
their true value it presents model OF wisdom, II ever
equaed never surpassed by the product Of human
skill There are many know, who, in these latter times
talk with glib tongue and nonchaan air upon the
value of the Union and dare to speak OF the eons,u
ton thing of shreds and patches at best piece of
wase paper be respected not as the whim OF the
moment may suggest. Such talk as If they believed
that the ashes of the Union they could construct
wiser and a better but would prefer not to let them
try There is much at stake The wisdom of these
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS may be at fault Their profound
learning and ripe experience ms the architects OF constu
tons and confederaces may not prove equal to the eme
gency and with heart and fancy to imagine great
things they may lack the brain to devise and the power
to execute The Union as it is is very good thingper
haps better than Fred Douglass, William H. Seward and
Horace Greeley combined could frame--pcrhaps better
than the prospective handwork of the firceating frae
nifty South We are therefore, in favor of holding
to il as long there chance of getting justice from it.
We are not blind doaters of the Union and will frankly
say that the crisis may be reached when to remain in il
would be injustice ourselves and our posterty but We
do not think period has yet arrived and Heaven grant
it may
Let us review our position We believe that position to
be favorable 10 the South than at any period
within the thirty years We have just passed through
struggle which, though long and holly contested, has re-
suited in victory to the South The passage of the Ne
raska bill we look upon marking the beginning of
new in political relations TO the federal govern
ment and in the of that measure we think we
see greater probability Of securing our true rights
than any time since the yampng up OF the Missouri
Compromise.
True, the battle may be fought over again. The opposi
ton hosts preparing for the conflict and we shall not
to secure without another struggle the pcrmanency
of this WISE just and constitutional measure But the fiat
has gone forth--rom North well as South--rom the
democracy of the extremes of the Unon and embracing all
intermediate points There will be return to the Mis-
souri, Compromise OF that there is no hope and Mr.
Bolts may with hearty goodwill cheer his scattered
followers in New Hampshire TO the tearing away Of
| the last remnants of the " Nebraska inquy = but
his efforts will be futile The Nebraska iniquity we
understand this southern orator and politician styles it
will remain the statuebook evidence Off return
to the constitution and to proper sense of justice in the
wise administration of the government If all this be true
and the signs of the political heavens all seem to point
this as the only issue of the expected encounter why need
we hesitate to lend cheerful and hearty help toward
the continuance and perpetuation of the Union? Why
for thirty years. stripped of half our rights grooming I'M
der political bondage with the acknowledged inability
of carrying ourselves and property to any point OF the
Union north OF SO deg 80 mn have remained tact and
submissive why should now for the first time raise the
cry of dsunion when this barrier is thrown down and
the souherner well the northerner enjoys the right
to go whithersoever he listeth? Such cry has
gone up from the coil of Virginia, and aha be loah to
believe that it will. When there such distin-
guished and distinguishing evidences of desire the
part of northern allies to render justice such cry
would be madness The factions of abotonsm northern
Acknowledgment New York Tribuneism and the thousand
other sms which follow in the wake OF those name or be-
gin to exhibit life in their company, may and rant may
foam and madden to their hearts content but such men
such parties hope to succeed in gaining any
thing than temporary notorety, to sink again to
their level of corruption before they have achieved their
foul purposes of disunon and destruction Such and
parties have nothing TO lose and everything to gain BY
disorder and conusion but the prudent and oresightd
the calm, consderate, and thoughtful, will combine TO
crush their power. This is hope and hope which
we do not believe will be frustrated If the significant
fact that the wings of the New York democracy have
both declared in favor of not disturbing the Nebraska bill
means anything, it means that they have determined to
stand by it. to stay the agitation which is disturbing
the country Can ask anything than this7 II
permitted to enjoy unimpared political and
civil privileges and citizens of the conederacy
shall not complain OF any abstract opinions which may be
cherished promuged concerning the "pecular in
sttution" All that ask now all that have ever
asked is that IRE be let alone ]" and this point these par
ties have reached The moral argument of the Of
the democracy in New York will determine the matter in
other States if it be left free operate without the dis
turbing elements OF know-nothing councils and know
nothing agitation
Thus far have addressed our words toward the
South. For the North it necessary we might FIJI
entire ssu of this paper with arguments support Of the
doctrine that that portion of people should be
the constitution and the Union If pghted faith should
prove too weak motvc--and this we do not affirm but
the contrary denythc interests Of the North in every
conceivable form identified with the continuance of
the Union that TO it would be deprive people of
their best of wealth and happiness That they
mainly derive their support from is unquestioned Were
we separate people, the balance of trade would be largely
in favor did besr ourselves and the norherner
who fattens South Carolnan and yrgnian labor