The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-10-11
THE ABUSE OF NORTHERN DEMOCRATS BY ADO
IITIONISTg


operate upon the nd and timeervng amongst the citizens
of the free Sateo alarm the of trade and
purchase the vena by agesses of ocehese are the IN
sumen by which the southern have hitherto
succeeded in bending the into subser
yiency TO their behests.ABaRy Alias.
1t is no easy matter for southern to comprehend
and appreciate the embarrassments and obstacles which
those the North have who rease to join in
the crusade of fanaticsm Familarized from childhood
to the institution of slavery witnessing the universal CON
and happiness which prevail in the black popua
ton reared and educated in the firm conviction that the
colored man is occupying in the South the position for
which his nature best fits him. southern know of no
disturbing dsageements of sentiment amongst themselves
in regard 10 slavery How institution which to them
seems so free from the horrors with which the imagna
tons of distant enthusiasts invest it should be made the
absorbing subject of political excitement throughout those
States where it has existence whilst all is peace harmo
NY unanimy and quiet throughout the States where it
does exist presents Of the strangest problems on which
the mind has been called to deliberate.
To illustrate idea il is clear that the editor of the
Atlas exercised nearly TO madness the subject OF
slavery when he peperated the foregoing wholesale cal
uny upon the national men of the North and yet If
he to tax his ingenuity to its utmost tension, no
could give sensible why he should take on go
Historically about institution which is thousand miles
away from him. does not threaten any nearer and
in which he has interest direct ndiref present
contingent 1t looks so nexpcablcto southern man that
the fact of his owning slaves should be the source Of
noyance and trouble to stranger living in Albany, New
York that it is difficult for him realize the actual
dtion OF the popular feeling in the free States II we talk
to the people Of the South and describe to them the
tons made by Garrison and Philips and Fred Douglass
Sumner and Hale and their colabores to lash the
public mind into state of phcnsy because the black man
bound to work all his life for his food and clothing for
the white at the South the question is at asked
How does the northern whether at the
South hire the white to labor all his life by the day.
week. year, and merely pay him his food and cloth
ing, whether purchase black man as a slave
to do work, and give him his food and clothing
all his life2 If prefer to bought labor, and
it is wrong either morally, socially politically the
responsibility is us, and not the northern peo-
pie Why, then, should they take such an interest in
matter that concerns alone? AS satisfactory
be given to such inerrogatories the southern
ia too apt to conclude that there is great deal Of
aggeration and Misrepresentation to the amount and
extent of the antslavery feeling and the uatical agita
ton at the North The consequence is that fail
times to estimate at its true value that high moral
age which northern statesmen display in breasng the
storm of fanatcism and standing firmly by the rights
guaranteed by the constitution to southern
The extract which we make from the Atlas is rather
below than above the prevailing tone of bitter vitupera
ton with which the abotonists assa those at the
North who cooperate with the South in maintaining the
compromises of the constitution. That is grossly SLAM
derous all just will concede when they turn to the
and that ia aimed at some of the unrest
men, the ablest statesmen and the most exalted patriots
that honored country Mark the purport of
the denuncatisp-ho the North who have co-ope
rated with southern in those great struggles in which
the democratic party has from time won its nobles
victories charged with having been either
by southern men, frightened into southern support
of their ,imidy controlled by appeals their
coreousnes or purchased on account of their penal by
promises OF official recardsi Now call over the roll of
democrats the dead well the living
to whom these denuncatoy terms applied by the Atlas
and reflect upon the enormy of the charge made against
them and the revolving character Of the caunny. Take
the names of Wright Woodbury. Atherton as illustrations
from amongst the honored dead who bore alo the stand
ard of the democratic party in many hardfough battle
when the great issues involved the rights guaranteed by
the constitution to the South Yet the Atlas would make
OF peHdt poll
ticans We need call the roll of the illustrious ma
tional democrats who still live to overwhem the Atlas
with shame What has he to say of Pierce Of Glass; of
Douglas Of Marcy of Dodge Of Bright of Shields of Buch
anaD of Toucey of Richardson and Of host of others
who standing shoulder to shoulder with
southern in support Of the constitutional compromises
which guaranty their rights to the South Yet it does
not to have occurred to the Atlas that northern
be sound national democrat upon disinterested
and patriotic convictions Of duty but that he
sarily be aboonst, or be leagued with southern
from fear agarce corrupt ambition. Is it burn
ing calumny charge the whole northern democracy with
cowardics aparice renaty9 And yet such is the
fair Interpretation of the language of the Atlas These
says that Journal fare the Instruments by which the south
course of the government into suserueny to their be-
hessr We do not stop to express the contempt which
southern feel for the spirit that impc the fanatic
characterize them "ask-masters Our object at pres
ent ia not to show the injustice done by aboonsts to
southern but to northern men,
1t would be gratifying If we had reason to suppose that
the Atlas had been hurried by momenary excitement
into SO gross atnck the northern democrats
that apology cannot avail On subsequent day, and
with even Of deliberaon the offence is repeated
the following language:
"a few words and have done for to-day We
have something of respect for the individual who surround
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