Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-04-18
Extract second I:

from The shalies Of tie ds'troyi"g a"g~.'
Extract second:
SSH, am gratifed to perceive that no gentle
man has vet risen in this hall the avowed advocate
Of slavery. The day has gone by when such
voice could be listened 10 with patience, or even
with forbearance. even regret, sir, that we
should find these among us, who enter the lists OF
discussion as its apologists except alone upon the
ground of uncomfortable necessity"
"To what sir, is all this Ascribables To the
whitening and blasting effects Of slavery.
To that vics In the organization Of society, by
which onehalf of its inhabitants are arrayed in in
terest and feeling against the other half
to that condition Of things In which half
million of your population can feel no attachment
TO A GOVERNMENT AT WHOSE HANDS THEY RECEIVE
NOTHING But INJUSTICE"
Now, II any w-Nothing" candidate
for Congress, in Virginia, were to advance
these opinions, pray how many votes would he
receive And what language would be applied
to himS Why, Mr.. Beale has been bitterly
denounced as "rotten" on the slave ques-
ton, because he voted to suppress tho traffic
in slaves In the District Of Columbia, as one
Of the Compromise measures Of 1850, brought
forward to save the Union, and when he was
authorized SO to do, by the phraseology Of the
resolutions Of the Virginia Legislature. Mr..
Flournoy has been assailed on the mere as
sumption, (Which it appears was untounded0
that he had attributed the tardy progress Of
Virginia, compared with her sister States, to ne
gro slavery
What if Mr.. Flournoy had uttered the senti-
ments and language contained In the above ex-
tractss He could not not receive 10000 votes
in the whole State, If he had thus spoken!
But we have another extract which is still
more emphatic and in which Mr.. Faulkner
demands tho determination" Of slavery
We find In the Appendix to the Congress
sional Globe for the last Congress, at page 7O9,
speech delivered by the Hon. J. I. Pratt Of
Connecticut, in which he gives the following
extract from speech Of Mr.. Faulkner, deliv-
cred in the Virginia Assembly. MFR. Faulkner
was present during the debate, and did not
deny, nor modify the remarks, and we there
fore give them as then and there reported for
the Globe. Extract:
"Slavery, It is admitted is an evil. It is an in
stitution that presses heavily against the best inte
rest of the State 1t banishes free white labor it
exterminates the mechanic, the artisan, the manu-
| facturer; it deprives them of bread; it deprves
them of occupation; it converts the energy of a
community into Incidence; its power into imbecili-
/ ty; its efficiency into weakness. Sir, being thus
iniurio,e, hape zoe not right to DEMAND IT'S Elk
TERMINATION! Shall society suffer, that the slave
holder may continue to gather its crop Of human
| fehf What Is his mere pecuniary claim, COM
| pared with the greatest interests of the common
wealp Must the country langush, droop, die, that
the stakeholder may flourish Shall all interests
| be subservient to one-an rights subordinate to
| the slaveholder2 Has not the mechanic--bave
not the middle class their rights-rights inconl-
| patible with the existence of slavery ?"
We have no comments to make upon these
opinions--we simply contrast them with the
present denunciations, hurled at the " Ameri-
can party" and at the American" candidates
in Virginia, on the gratuitous assumption, that
this party entsrtains anti-slavery opinions and
meditates aati-slavery operaticns
If there DO an anti-slavery party in Virginia,
who 50 At to direct its efforts, as the eloquen,
author Of the above glowing tribute to aboli.
tionisn? And how beautifully do his senti-
ments harmonic with the attempt Of the adj
minisration, through Governor Reeder, to con-
vert Kansas to the uses Of Seward and Greeleyi
We can now comprehend the silent acquies.
ccncc of the presses and orators of the admin
istration at the South, IN the following unani.
nous resolve Of the Ohio State Administration
Convention, on che 9th of january last at Co
furnbns 80 follows:
i Resoipsd, That the people Of Ohio, row. A
| rHEY HAVE ALWAYS DONE, look upon slavery a. an
1 evil, and unfavorabls to the development Of the
spirit and practical benefit Of free Institutions and
that, entertaining these sentiments, they win Al
ALL rIhss feel IL TO be their duty, TO USE ALL row
IN cLKAHLr GIVEN BIT TIE TEAMS or THE NATIONAL
COMPACT, to prevent It's increase, TO mitigate, and
FINALLY TO xRApIcArr Irs rvILsr
81 We copy the following from the New
York Evening Post, Of yesterday, a. one Of the
significant signs Of the present times. We
call attention especially to that portion Of the
remarks ofthe Post. which announces that the
policy Of liberation" Is "the only one on
which tho people Of this country, North and
South, can permanently unite" in relation to
negro slavery. federation, or in other words
Of the Same Specification, "non.interferencer
with this question, is the trus national policy,
and II the Evening Post and its ooadutors
will come upon the platform Of non-interfer-
ence with slavery, the South win readily for
give their former anti-slavery manifestations.
We confess that we hail this article Of the
New York Evening Post as an omen Of the
most favorable character, betokening the peace
full adjustment on the true basis, Of this OK
citing question
Can the country ever have peace until these
sectional chickering's shall terminated win
not every patriot unite in the good work Of
restoring harmony amongst brethrens We
readily confess, that we have hitherto looked
upon the Post with great distrust but the sem
timcnts contained in Its article Of yesterday,