The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-09-30

nor the District of Columbia entitled to no vote al ALL
hfieen TO fifteen Ia establishing great national plat
form
And now my countrymen tell me- you who have and
you who have not joined this and midnight junta-
tell me- in the candor of men, and the sincerity Of Chris
tans you content with the poor guarantee which
furnished by this record that you shall heneefoward enjoy
twelve hundred millions of your property Why II no
guarantee at all
Already you have been told BY Wilson and Others who
the master spirits of this party that AT the very next
Congress the bills be proposed that ruin you
That bills shall be brought forward in December neat
70 repeal the ugtyesave lawto repeal the Kansas and
Nebraska lawto restore the Missouri Compromise--to
abolish slavery in the District OF Columbia Lave these
delegates brought you home any satisfactory
that their northern allies win stand by you and protect
your property Why, you know they have not; you
know that the knownotng States OF the North have al
ready had their elections and have returned to the next
Congress maority-a large majority will vote for
every one of the bills have mentioned Yon stand there
fore this day. ruined in the House of Representatives, and
your only hope OF salvation is in the Senate Have the
knownothng delegates brought you any guarantee that
their friends will stand by you and prop
ert in that body No not the least for there stands VIII
and every of his newly eleeed knownothng
rades standing sword in hand eave you and your prop
ery down the moment the next Congress shall meet On
whom then, can you, and on whom do you rely, in fact
for the defeat of these odious bills the Senacl You
bound say that you rely the southern and north
ern democratic senators to defeat them On democratic
senator's Why, then have you entered into this unhoy
conspiracy to have them beaten and turned out of the Sem
ate Chamber Why down into the secret places of the
EARTH and your deuded followers everywhere
your order when you acknowledge that at this the very
darkest and most trying moment the South ever saw, your
only hope for deiverancc democratic senators? Tell
me- again. honest candid men-if these virtues have
not fed the earhe me- if these should chance
to pass the Senate where would be last lingering
hope OF safety TO your property but in the veto oil Frank
lin Pierce2 And yet ow-nothng delegates many OF
whom mere broken-down political hacks, or disap-
pointed otce-seekers who have neither the talents the
character to attract attention. undertake 10 denounce
Franklin Pierce and the democracy which nominated and
elected him Maevolence could poison the jave!in but
the puny of the assaant feeble TO cast it
high enough to reach the destined victim. Democracy
smiled at the impotence Of the deed and only wished that
ito ngratitude might not wound the spirit OF the santed
Jackson.
But gentlemen whilst decline further notice of these
puny assaults the democratic party and the President OF
its choice have not done with this knownohing Phila-
dephia convention yet demand to know what authority
did the southern delegates receive from their southern
constituency to go into convention with open, notorious
and avowed abolitonss of the Norh2 Why it is these
very abotons that have for years waged this vindicve
upon your peace safety and property What right
had you go into consultation with them and shake their
bloody hands in amity and friendship? The know-nolh-
ing councils Of Ohio Of Massachusetts, of Vermont of Con-
neccu, and nearly all the rest, reekng in the fumes OF
abotonism had officially notified you that they
Were still your enemies and would never give over their
aggressons upon your rights. Even Barker, who pre-
sided over your deliberations had proclaimed to YOU
in the way Of trarning before you assembled that the
views of northern know nolhngs conceded the sla
very question with those of William u. Seward, What
! right had you, then, with this warning sounding in
your commit the fate OF the South TO any such
holy consultation, when fifteen States of the North told
you by their votes against your proered paormwhen
twelve Of them told YOU by seeding that they sconed
any association with youwhy did you not yourselves in
dignanty withdraw, and proclaim, as the southern wing
senators did the Nebraska bill Except one) that all
hopes of corporation with the know nongs of the North
on the slavery question vain and nugatoryY Then
you could have returned like patriots and instead of pour
ing out anahemas the democrats the only friends you
have left in the world and Franklin Pierce (whoseevery
action has been true steel to southern rights what
you may think Of his administration in other respects
frIxlo
4 ing your friends and kindred and countrymen of the
South, to against each other longer about the
Gent points of party differences but like band fsu6eripg
brethren 10 be OF one heart and one mind i'll the great crisis
which approaching. But instead of exhibiting noble
and patriotic spectacle like that what lowe behold You
come home hourishng platform which was never pass
ed either by States or according to the votes OF the cleo
ora college, and vainiyl will not cay alselypretendng
that you have obtained guarantees from the North which
you have not obtained for they were voted down by tie
vote in your that slave proper
y shall be protected in the Territories well in the
Stateshat it shall not be abolished in the District of
Colunbathat the fuptvesave law shall be re-
eaed and that attempt shall be made to exclude Kan
any other State from admission into the Union be-
cause they may tolerate slavery Under such vain pre-
ences by exertons the most indegabe and means the
most questionable, you seeking TO hold your oath
bound egons together and to obtain triumph over the
only party in existence that is either willing able
to save the South. Your oathbound egons 1t is that
OATH if hingm prevails that has dug the grave
of the South and buried in it twelve hundred millions OF
4 her property
cal far this order is concerned will comply with
the will ofthe majority, though it may conflict with my
personal preference
will comply with the will Of majority Though a
Seward, Hale, Wilson, shall be nominated for Prcs
dent there stands the Inflated and luckess OATH and
what may it be redeemed Say that color this
picture too darky Say not that in the event of anom
nation that is fatal to all that is and dear to the
South, the knownothing leaders would call upon their
followers to dsband and the horrid and Internal
oath they have taken. BE not deceived The conscientious
and good man may doubt whether he renounce that
oath after has been recorded in the high chanccy
OF Heaven Herod thunderstruck when the head of
John the Baptist demanded. he knew it would be
cruel and nnprovoked murder Nevertheless tie oa
sake he delivered it in charger will comply with the
will of majority Jephha too, when in the act of sac
rhcng his only daughter and when be would willingly
have surrendered his life to have saved her. felt inn
PEELED by false but everything morality and exclaimed
have opened my mouth 10 the Lord, and cannot 90
back" Execrable oath Abhorred be the that de-
vised it 1t blow struck the noble faculties of
and conscience the guides of human actiona
fatal blow to the rights of the South to the constitution,
and the Union.
Her wing shall the eagle flap DER the fasc-hearted
His blood the wolf shall lap life be departed
Shame and dshonor sit by his grave ever,
| Blessings shall hallow it never Oh, never !"
From The Morgantown (va.) Telegraph.
HON. G. J. FAULKNER.
In locking the list of members Of the next House Of
Representatives, the gentleman whose heads this
paragraph ut once presented to democratic vision likely
tn he nrnlin of.