The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-11-18
WASHINGTON CITY,
THE EMPIRE STATE.

THE EMPIRE STATE.
New York has become Of @debatabe land as the
borders England and Scotland called in the heroic
ages commeinorated by the aWizard OF the North IL
in fair way of being overrun by speeeh-makers
from all parts Of the Union who, not finding al home
sphere sufficiently enlarged contain the oyeriowngs OF
the fusion kettle or audience sufficiently saltihed 10
comprehend tho occult mysteries Of abolition and know
nothingsm ;hhe take wing in focks, to propagate the
sublime doctrines of the higher law and unfold the light OF
the dark lantern Whether like the reverend missionary,
Henry Ward Beeche they do this by contract or farm
themselves much per speech lecture we can
divine but certainly if they not paid out OF Mr.
Stewards abolition fund by the SISTERS Of Charity at
Sutherland House. they say the least very disiner
eted give rather throw away much eoquence for
nothing First there is Mr.. Senator Sumner, famous Tor
his saed speeches and almost as great rheorican as
Aristotle himself Who it is said, frequently exercised his
np enuiy in proving what he had conadictcd and con-
aaetng what be had proved Thus, the representative
Of Cradle Liberty first exhorts his hearers to oppose
the by force of if necessary and ihen in one and
he breath advises them by all means to keep the
peace. lie recommends the revolver and the bowekniie
the runaway slave and enforces the sublime doctrine
that he condition of slavery absolves them from all the OBJ
legations of mankind but them he does not Counsel VIC
lencep his phrase, He is himself aw-abiding
man, belongs law-sbding community, and is as
meek Moses and the Quakers. In short he not only
blows hot and cold with the mouth, but in the
breath He is moreover profoundly skilled in higher
logic only split hairs, but split them
even they incapable Of divisibty For
example pledge himself before God and his coun-
try support and maintain the constitution of the United
States a SENATOR while in his private capacity and as an
orator large reconcile it to the higher law and
the scrupe of conscience 60 crusade enforcing
doctrines utterly incompatible with that obligation while
at the time melting the good people of the United
States to violate its provisions and ocby oppose the laws
based on that instrument
The iinerant senator from the Cradle of Liberty has
ingenious and inabe mode of reconclng these APP
parent Inconsistencies In order to evade the mpuaton of
violating his official OATH he argues that the constitution
has definite precise meaning, and that every man.
and especially every senator Of the United States has
right to interpret it he pleases When therefore, he
pledged himself before God and his country to maintain
and support The constitution he did not the consttu
ton according to its letter and spirit but as he understood
hat is to say directly in conradstinction to BOTH If
this does satisfy the delicate sensitive conscience
do not know what will. We recolect case in point,
recorded in of ihe books An honest Irshman
aTraigned for kidnapping stray sheep which proved
to have been branded with the letters NJ, being the
initials of Sir Giles Fiz Maurice the The culprt
made other defence than that he really interpreted the
letters NJ to stand for good fat mutton and consid-
cred them in the light Of invitation to and it.
We do not remember whether this plea held sufficient
but it certainly is quite good that of the tneran
senator We wonder if Mr.. Sumner ever met with this
precedent.
Then the happy New Workers lately favored with
the exhoraons of Mr. Neal Dow the great enemy Of sma
glasses and champion of thrtygaon casks His lectures
had wonderful effect almost miraculous those of
Senator Wade in Maine.
Then, too they have at this moment certain Mr. Ford
from Ohio probably the Connecticut Reserve so happily
represented by Mr.. Giddings This missionary from the
Empire State Of the West understand doing wonders
in the back track But unfortunately he is out both in
latitude and longitude and ances himself in the Connec-
ticut Reserve where said the process fusion going
swmmingy. We hear that Mr.. Ford has loaded his
pistol the muzzle that it has burst in his hands
He has pitched his keynote high and preached such
broad and papaby reasonable doctrines have
ragged and Disguised every rational hearer opened the
eyes Of many conscientious persons who have heretofore
been blind to the ultimate objects Of the abotonsts 1t
is whispered that Mr. Seward among his other wants
wants him very much to 60 home and frequently reminds
him it is almsst killing time !" but he swears he will not
stir peg till he has fulfilled his mission though all the
swine in Ohio should live to the age of Methuseahs pig
We advise Mr.. Seward to send for Senator Wilson, who
would bray this Mr. Ford into insgnifcance and
lence him by making twice as much noise, and putting
him out Of countenance by his superior erontery There
is nothing like little hair Of the dog and ac-
cordng the theory Of certain learned teachers those are
the best remedies that begin by aggravang the disease
We have little doubt that the senator before the coming
session is over will manage disgust every rational
in the Senate with abolition and every other ism that Mr.
Seward has enlisted in the Republican partyo The
republican partyl What next2 The democracy should
disdan TO recognise them by that title 1t will bring re-
pubicaniam into disgrace and contempt But we hope
the senator viii go he has begun Strike while the
iron is hot Mr. Wilson apply the sledge to the anvil
fully and who knows but You may become the Vulcan
The new dynasty of heather detes.
But all these tnerant missonariesall these inspired
apostles of abolition and the higher law--aided by Abby
Folsom, Lucy Stone and Mr. Frederick Douglass are as
nothing compared with the great apostle himself who
lately taken the field in the Empire State AS coored
orator said the other day at convention in the Cradle