The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-08-04


forming IN the free States is that its purposes with regard
essential element ia our poity are such as leave no
room for compromise accommodation They are such
appeal to alone settle The bare condition
Of would be equivalent to revoluton-a reyolu
ton in social poty far beyond what took place the
time the thirteen colonies severed from Great Britain
Then the coonists took up avoid change for
the British administration determined break up their
local governments while the people determined TO main
tain them.
Now this northern free-son sectional party advocate
doctrines the slave States exactly such Great
Britain advocated the old colonesi e. right to
rule them, control them Their argument is that IF
States hold slavery, which is contrary to the
law Of God and therefore that they have right to at
tack it and do away with it, And when the provisions Of
the constitution pointed to reserviug this slavery ques
ton TO the States and when ii is said thatas dealing
with it. there is contract compact agreement
compromise entered into By coequa States which stands
barrier 10 the political action which aboitonsts pro-
pose the given is that this very compact
promise is in conflict with higher law which they owe
obedience and that they obey Gods divine law rather than
mau's human law
This is tho doctrine Of William II. Seward His utter
law with freesoiler and abolitionists His for
mua is brief but Terrible THERE IL A HIGHER Law
CONSTITUTION and he applies the maxim po-
litical action slavery He Classics the American
people into two parties His words are "These elements
freedom and the party of slavery His exact words as to
the constitution II is written in the constitution Of
the United States that five slaves shall equal
freemen base Of representation aud Oricn also
ia ciolaoa Of dos t that shall surrender the ugi-
tive slave Slavery be aud must be abolished and
you and can do it, He then proceeds to lay down
course of political action whereby this be done Adj
dressing the free States he says Correct your oca error
H4t saUerg has any constitutional guarantees ehich mag
Be released and ought nat % be reyngShed He gives other
advice and says DO his and you cH soon bring parties
into a'ectiUe oppression upon Staeery7
These notions have been adopted generally by abolition
lists and all higher-law men They have followed his adj
vice and there aggression The last letter of Sena-
tor Wilson described what this aggression is He writes
10 q party OF Garrison aboonists June 80 1856 adj
dressing Wendell Phillips, as follows!
hope my dear sir that We shall all strive TO unite and
combine all the friends Of edomthat shall forget
each others faults aud shortcomings in the past and all
labor that cooperation By Wac aioae TIE sao is
be eaRcipated and the dyiadoa Of his master broken
let as remember more than three millions of bondnaen
grooming under nameiess Doss that SHALL
10 eproach each other and that labor for their dir
dace.7
Such is the object of them all it is to abolish slavery
They raduce the fathers Of the republic by tering their
formation Of the constitutional compact "a fatal STEP
Rev Edward ISeecher in his fremont Temple an-savery
discourse considered that We h5eyy consented 90 into
convention ruth sacery 10 farm constitution ii took
atal ste7 and his object show hoe the consti-
tuition had been placed a5oUe Christianiy and how the
business should be 10 piace Christianity abope The cofs
tion We need not quote Theodore Parker William
Lloyd Garrison, who both regard the constitution be
agreement with hell and null void slavery lmi
atous hold the idea of union with slave
holders
The docriue, rben iucu.tated in abolition speeches on
the floor The United States Senate in and pull
pit and everywhere, *, that what trary the di-
vine law should be obeyed and that such the cnse
,tt,. If
the rule incuicaed mans dealings with man the
individual a d political system--a system
necessary his political well-being is the air he
breahes his physical well-beng. All this have no
other meaning than that each individual is be the Judge
whether provision contrary to the law Of God Now,
when pretend be loyal and the constitution
and obey in what they think is right but regard
nuity in what they think is right it is clear that they
but follow their own Judgment inclination, passions
convenience and not the constitution. When such
happen TO 90 with the constitution they do obey the
constitution; but they go according the higher law,
located somewhere in the third heavens Such notions
sap the foundation of all aw--of all contracts What
would be the of of who after having
entered into them by solemn oath and seal and signature
should say, that much OF such they deemed right
they would yield to- and much seemed to be extor-
ton or wrong they would refuse abide by And sup
pose ges upon this rule How long would society
keep together? How long would priceless state Of
peace lie continued How long would it be before pri-
yatc war would be it in the dark
ages
Such are the tendencies Of this whole abolition system
They radical revolutionary, anarchca striking at the
foundations Of prosperity The principle that
strikes obedience obligation the constitution
strikes obedience to all the obligations Of this nstru
ment If one provision be nufied BY one State an
other can be nui6ed in another State and thus the bond
will he rittced away There be with these higheraw
men practically such guide for their action const
tutona guide; there be such thing constita1-
onal barrier between them and the stakeholder; there
be no such thing as State rights.
These purposes of the abolitionissof Seward, Wilson,
and their coaduors of all strpescanno be carried ont
without radically changing politywithout breaking
troll the domestic institutions Of the States They cannot
attain their endsthe emancipation of three millions Of
bondmen and their devcrance from the domination of his
master us Wilson has put it--without doing this and
their pioneer work to nullfy the compromises of the
cons1ution-o. consider its guarantees null reach
them by one, attack slavery, and then to
abolish it. These the ends Of this party.
Now he knows little of temper polity who sup
poses that fifteen States Of this Union would submit, to this
control, this change this revolution 1t would turn our
system from OF independent and sovereign localities
into of complete ccntralizatona Capitalization gov
erned by majority Of the whole people This would
be change far revolutionary than what took place
when the colonies severed from Great Britain Then
each State retained its local policy aud each went on in
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