The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-05-16
THE EMULATION OF ABOLIrIoNlsA.

Ahciionsn to have had a real jubilee in New
York during The past week The Civilizations Of the Tnb
une indicate confidence in the early accomplishment Of
its great design Of severng tho conedeacy which may
well awaken the attention and enlist hs energies Of the
friends Of the Union The which FIRST calls forth the
exuan; Of that journal that the aholitioniss
hare Deen allowed assemble night after night and to
put forth their reasonable doctrines before large assem-
bliss and jet that effort made either 10 disturb or
prevent their proceedings In other times ii says that
when the Summers Wilson's Pbiiipses Parkes and Gar
rsons attempted to harangue New York audiences they
assaed with Kisses and driven out with violence but
SHE and enthusiasm of these antislsvey
gatherings only unexamped but seemed to
grow the sessions protraced and yet there
Captain y nders there stand upon the platform and
command the American AntSavcry Society to its
discussions In The strain the Tribune proceeds
:. But what changsi New York that blot
in her escutcheon with ample repentance She up the
proud flag OF free discussion hope TO be displaced
Al t members OF Union committees ask OF Is the Chrs
tan charity Of bsag Forgotten The mobbed exed
take possession ard crowd that the Tabernacle
walls could held gathers its sessions And who
speakers Massachusetts, senators That Governor
Everett doubted the Yankee right ask questions has
then been in the Senate and faded out from pure ne
His the Metropolitan Theatre
say amy party which lifts a6nger slavery
will die ought die and that he will do his utmost
make il die Mr. Webster Massachusetts, SENATOR in
1850 pledged his ready Submission the ugtyeave bill
ito its extent, exsea His
call law asks the country in the Of justice
aud humanity dead letter and five thousand
half his emphatic period in the uncomfortable
burst Massachusetts, calls back
Burns Der Legislature orders her slave commissioner
to instead with all the aacrity Mr.. Web
ster advised
Heretofore the city Of New York has been regarded by
southern sound the sectional question but if
the picture of the progress of aboonsm drawn by the
Tribune is greatly exaggerated that city be
in danger OF losing its former reputation But the Tr
bune finds Of exultaon in the fact that aboitionsm
has triumphed know-nothingism and usurped the
very organization which had given it its power Southern
men who have been cheated into the idea that abolition
ism and nownothngism combined together and
who RELY upon the fact that the Tribune opposed
-notringsm, will be pIofted by the following
nouncenent by that journal:
whe potent club organized in secret and rooted deep
in sscsran and national hate wakes in blank astonshmen
70 orgoassotion has been taken pos
BY the genius si0veyy, and gsn Aosted
lips agaa Catholic oad foreigner, srned full the
poge the exultant genius touches the White Hills, and
they smoke Sac elects Ssaard spite Of tie rage Of many
foes eouiaed Massachusetts, legislature
auspices cool hardihood nannng wholesale re-
distance the slave power all Hunkcrdom pale
Before southern men become know-nothngs they should
study this significant declaration of the leading organ of
abolitionisn W lannsd organization has been takss
possession ~ by Me genius Of anti-sarsry In this an
noanceent have the clue to the progress Of abolition
ISN'T has combined with know-nothngism, taken pos
session Of organization and controlled the results
of elections allowing the know-nothDgs the empty honor
of shouting over their victories.