The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-10-21
From The New York Express.
STIRRING UP THE SECTIONS.

Senator Sewardil speech at Albany, that we should
publish if it furnished thought one new emo
ton beyond that of tie common demagogue--thus at
tempts to stir up the sectonalism Of the country:
privileged class has existed in this country from
early period Of It's settle ment Shareholders constitute that
class They have special foundation which to stand
namely, personal dominion slaves. Conscience and
sound policy forbid all alike from holding slaves but
citizens disregard the injunction Some OF the States
enforce the inhibition other States neglect or refuse to
force it. In such Of the States there three hundred
and fifty thousand either who avail themselves OF this Pc
cuar indulgence and these protected by the laws OF those
States constitute privileged class They confess them
selves TO be such class when they desgnaehe system
of slavery as peculiar institution"
From which brick the whole structure of the
speech and on it we have these few words
aWhen in I77S and 1881 the old confederation and the
constitution were perfected that privileged class existed as
now Washngto plantation slave-owner; Jefferson an
other Madison another Chief Justice Marshall another,
were members of it. Therefore, when in the constitution
joined in fnershp government with this privileged
class we lie part of fathersthe Franklins the
Adamses, the Shermans &C. &cknew just what we were
doing
According to Mr. Seward fathers contracted obga-
tons and made compacts against conscence' in this gov
srnment that they framed or, the Albany Evening
Journal kened it the government ia compact
with bell J!
The Preilcged Classes.
That compact if compact with hell, deprived The
South Of those priveYes which, in 1881, they, under their
State governments, enjoyed:
!. The right tax northern products in all their
ports and to support their State governments by taxes lev
led upon what North men create.
1t compes the South TO take our Norh-made cot
toms nseywoolseys brogan shoes, plougbs axes hoes,
barrows &c, &C., keeping out Brtshmade articles by a
tax of twenty or thirty per cent in favor oil our North
mems products But for this compact British and French
articles could be and sold there just as northern prod
ncts sold, and on the same terms.
g. That compact secured to our North men. coasters,
steamers &c, the exclusive navigation OF southern waters
such waters Chesapeake bay the great Gulf of Mexico
and the Lower Mississippi river No British vessel can
from port TO port in the United States New England
or New York vessel CO. The coasng trade is exclu
sively Amercan--that is,
That compact to us by its practical results
the greater part the eghts of cotton rice tobacco
turpenne &c. Europe and the commissions and broker
age all these immense products.
That compact has made of the city Of New York, in
1887 but small town. the emporium of the foreign inn
ports of twohirds of the Union When began Norfolk
Virginia, and Charleston South Carolina, large inn
porting places New York, now, is privileged" by the eff
iects oil the compact, to import for the Union.
Free and Slaye Effects Of THIS Privilege.
Slavery existed in every State but Massachusetts, when
4the compact began 1t exists in but sixteen of the
thirty-one States.
Ohio Indiana Illinois, and Michigan slave States
when that compact began Virginia gave up slave soil
free soil, and all this territory is free.
Annexation has given slave Louisiana Texas, and
Florida but "free' all California and 0regoua the Pa
cGc coast with Iowa. Wisconsin, Nebraska Utah,
New Mexico and 1t may be Kansas Three of "ree
soi1 to of slave soi have been added the Union
since the compact made with the slave privileged
classes"
These few facts about all the rhetorical hourshes
in the demagogue efforts Of Mr. Stewards speech section
alze aud alenatc and sunder the bond and affections
the people of the Unon but especially the northern
people Whatever privileged classes exist in this
try exist in the North for the privileges given us,
practically, by the operations of the constitution.