The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-04-10


often reproduced In the Virginia assembly In reply to
croakers ike Mr. Foufnoy Mr. Henry said and his Ian
guage would fall upon the people of Virginia now AS his
celebrated appeal fell upon the hearts Of the people
Of the colonies in the dark hour Of their peril:
ENCOURAGE EMIGRATION" said Patrick Henry |;
the husbandmen the mechsnics the merchants
Of the World and settle Ia this world OF promises
make il the OF the skla the Industrious and the hap
py as we'll asylum Of the distressed fiji the
population speedily by the which
Heaven has placed in power and venture to prophey
there those living seao a this forord land
the porfa earth. Yes sir they will see her great
in and golden hsryess running immeas
urab extent her penetrating the distant
and her sencng the vain boast OF those who
affect 10 rule the waves"
But then, Patrick Henry was not Mr. Stanhope Flour
noy and the latter will deaf such APP
peal in favor Of emigration he will the commentator
OF the Catholics by General Washington.
The policy Of Mr. Fournoy, hostility to emigration and
envy and hatred of especial religious Sect
dismal contrast however alone such examples
this II is the dsgraceful of the noble and
mandng policy Of the democratic party, led by Henry A.
Wise Flournoy resurrects the offensive and putrd
theories Of those when hung each other for differ
religion and hunted down their political enemies
like beasts Of prey Wise behods Virginia with the eye of
Patrick Henry and nvokes her to be equal to her future
in strains of splendid eoquence He appeals to her to be
worthy of the advantages secured to her by her geogph
ical position and her mitable resources and to
her energies in the competition with her sister States He
points her superior climate aud products to her nte
gent populations and to the broad fields offered to enter
prise and to exeron many arguments against the
contracted and migrate policy avowed by his competitor
Such is the contrast between the two. a
There is one passage in the letter of Mr. Fournoy how
ever which should excite the contempt and of every
uchearted southerner 1t is that in which he sets up his
claim support for especial devotion to the interests of
the South, seeking--by most craven expedent by a
mean and miserable trick-to cast upon the adopted
citizens the odium Of especial hostility to their in
erestsl The danger that threatens the South at this
moment is from native-Amercan agitators, and not
from citizens of foreign birth Indeed, in proportion
abolition and know-nothngsm have become identified
consolidated have such adopted citizens had been
misled into the former fallen back with renewed enthu-
siasm the democratic ranks Mr. Flournoy need not
be told that the most dangerous foes Of the constitution
are the knownothng agitator Except Mr. Seward land
he is playing game of his his reelection to the
United States Senate by know-nothng fully shows
there is scarcely abolition leader who not the
time know-nothing Dare this Mr. Flournoy deny that
of the great knownohng majority already chosen to the
House Of Representatives of the 34h Congress- nineteen
twenty abolition wings pledged unseasng
war upon the rights of the South He dares not for he
knows this to be unanswerabe fact Who is it that
in Of the States of the North nufy and defy the
fugtiyeslave law Is it the adopted citizens who rallied
SO nobly to defend the constitution ia Boston when c-
Of Virginia assaulted in his person and in bis prop
ertv No II ia man sworn as nd
aboltioniss Are they adopted citizens the knownoth
ing legislatures who have passed abrogao
tended enforce the the federal constitution
ris Judge Lorng only because done
his duty in the Of Burns Were they adopted
citizens who defeated the gallant Shields of Illinois,
known friend Of the Sonth born in the Emerald Isle
These questions themselves Is Johnston of Penn
syvanathe leader of the know-nohings there who re-
allow the prisons Of that State be used to con-
fine fugtves from the South-unknown Mr. Flournoy
Is Judge Conrad-he mayor of Philadelphia, elected by
the know-nohings whose late order removed one Of his
officers for aiding fugitive saveunknown to
him. 1t was know nothing legislature that elected
Wilson, Massachusetts the foe of the South
1t knownothng legislature that defeated Dodge
Iowa. devoted friend of the constitution And 1T ia no
syvania Mr. Cameron had first to pledge himself to the
whole creed of abolition doctrines before be could get their
nomination for senator But need elaborate an
argument which is familiar to all minds.
And while Mr.. Flournoy is himself attached to
pAhryths proscrptive organization against both
the rights of the States and the rights OF the cizenhe
has the hardihood forward and to Islander the
adopted citizens the foes of the South And the
when his associates in the free States
enng the lives of the adopted citizens and denying them
the rights guaranteed under laws Mr.. Flounoy holds
up this class of prosecuted the foes of that region
of the Union for which they have always been ready
contend the field of battle Could hardhood and in
gratitude go any further7
AN AMERICAN APOLOGIST FOR FOREIGN POWERS
Nothing could be agreeable to the Spanish rulers
in view Of the fact that for many years past their oppres
ons and corrupons have been condemned by the writers
and travellers of every civilized naonthan the fact that
they enabled to refer to the existence the capital of
the United States, of journal which does not hesitate on
all occasions defend the acts Of the agents of Span
matter how despotic insoent extraordinary they may
be Even when these entirely satisfactory to
Spain itseas in the instance Of the Black Warrior
rage, from which Spain is glad recede-t is a rare