The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-11-03

poured by populous and unknown north from her
frozen oin How mad how contemplate to deliver our
selves over to such yelled enthusiast this Better the
urn and the lot Of Solonbeter the fantastic chances of
hereditary descent thousand fold.
Well on their single speciality Of slavery what are
they going do And say that we have not one par
tce Of evidence what specific thing or what thing
In general they TO do slavery than on anything
else do say this however that those honest men who
in the simplicity of their hearts have sympatbzed with
this party in the hope of having the Missouri
Compromise restored have not particle OF assurance
that they would do it If they could or, that II they
could they would there within half the globe OF IT,
Loud they their reprobaton OF the repeal So are
we all But is il restoration they seek No. nothing
so little When, few days ago, respectable wing gem
eman presented himself at of their meetings and be
ing invited speak began by saying that they were all
there unite for the repeal of the repeal they Missed him
ncontinenty. Less discourteousy in the manner of it
quite unequvocay they have set forth in terms the
explicit in the address of their convention that the
restoration of the Compromise of 1920 is not what they
desire What they TO do them if they win power2
Either nothing at all which wings could not do and would
not do if wise and large craftsmanship permits it
they bring conflict which separates the States Moth
ing all which would do our fidelity to the
sttution would allow u.s. that which under the cons
tuition be done Nothing at ALL just what their
agitation from 1885 TO this hour has accompshedrvet
the iron chains the slave loose the golden bands of
the Union. So much for the good it will do.
| But now survey the evil it would do We cannot, Of
course foreknow exactly what would do If could
how much exactly it could do il it would We cannot
know, in other words exactly, where when how if
it attained the whole power that il seeks it would bring
the final strife. But thing know, emitting this
that they cannot by possibility through the process of
merely and completely organizing such party but by
deliberately and carefully training the this side of
their line to abhor" and "avod' the the other
The basis of the organization reciprocal sectional hate
This is the sentiment at bottomths and nothing else
To form and heighten this to forfy and justify it. to
show that is moral and necessary the whole vast en-
gnery of party tactics is to be put in request If the in
genuity of lsll tasked for device to ALLEVIATE
and rend asunder immature and artificial national
/ ity it could devise nothing electual | take my
stand hore resist and deprecate the attempt TO
form the party don't expect to live it succeed in
its grasp at power am sure hope shall not but
the attempt making. think | see the dreadful nlu-
ence Of such attempt That influence would expose
VOL wol to the of such seed as this! 1t may per-
ish where it falls The God Of fathers may withhold
tho early and later rain and the dew and the grain
may die; but to the hand that dares to scatter it.
Painful it is to see some of whom higher hope might
have been chershedon motives and with views dare
say, satisfactory to hemseyesgivng aid and comfort
such thing.
| In looking anxously out of my absolute retirement
from every form Of public life observe how the movers
of this party to urge it upon the people, what
topics they to employ what aims they pro-
pose and, above all what tone aud spirit they
breathe and spread and what influence to the
ona passions the national sentiments of country
had occasion read something of their spoken and
written exhortaons this Inauguration eoquence of
tionalism, and think comprehend it. And what work
do they make off t2 Yes, what? With what impression
of your country your whole country that is the true
test of party platform and party appealdo you
from reading this exhortaton2 What lesson of duty to
lxftl, fall &c
you? Does not our America to lose her FORM her
color her vesture you read Does the magic of
the metamorphoss come to her Her spirits faint Her
blooming cheeks paid tint and her form
remains Does it not If onehalf Of the map
botted rolled up forever from your eye? Are you
not looking with perplexty and pain your spirits in
dreama bound upon different, another and smaller
native land Where do you find in this body discourse
one single recollection that North and South compose
common country, to which most pous affections are
due and whole service engaged Where beneath this
logic and this rhetoric of scctonasm you feel hrob
of heart capacous Of our whole America The deep full
burning tide of American feeling hard counterfeit so
hard to chill does it gladden. and glory this inaugua
ton oratory and these Inauguration cecmoncs
the of it all that the shareholders of the South are
astocracy be aabhorred and ayoided % that they
insdious and dangerous that they undermining
our republic and at all hazards to be ressed2 Do
they inaugurate the party the basis of recipro
cal hate and reciprocal fear of section section Hear
this sharp and stern logic Of of the orators: Arsoc
racy through all hazards is be abhorred and avoided
But privileged class to beconlenay, are-an
arstocracy already The local southern law and the ma
tiona constitution make the Shareholders privileged
class They are therefore, arstocracy be abhorred
and avoided Such is the piercing keynote Of his speech
To this he sets his whole music of dscord To this he
would set the whole music of the presidential can
To this the of thousands of the free States are
to march, "Abhor7 and avoid the arstocracy of the
South Organize to do it the better They nsdious
and dangerous They undermining republican liberty
March to defend It'll Ay, march it the burning
by the light which the tossing of the lake
casts pale and dreadful.
al might show" the orator proceeds that the
constitution is wrong in thus conceding to privileged
class. ! might show, priori, that such class would
be dangerous. choose, rather, TO teach you so to
read the history Of America that you shall find its
| one great lesson will be hatred and dread of the
aristocracy of the South, for its conduct
| than for its privileges And he unrolls the
map and opens the record. He traces the miraculous
story; he traces the miraculous growthy from the birth
day of the constitution and from the Strengthened margin
of the old thirteen States through all the series Of expan
sion-the acquisition of Louisiana the adoption of that
State into the Union the successive adoption also of Ken
lucky Tennessee Mississippi Alabama and Missouri the
annexation Of Florida and Texas and California Growth
in fifty years. from heritage between the Atlantic
and Allcghanyhe sprng-heads Of the Connecticut and
the mouth Of the st Mars in Georgato the dimensions