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


all the currents Of national being towards the setting
like that Of our astronomical system itself towards the dis
tan eonsteation-this hour is 10 kinde emotion, 10
inspire no duty to ncucae truth but TO abhor' and
avoid the aristocracy whose apacous insdous
fabrication Of opportunity strikingy illustrates the
body of the constitution.
Oh how soothing and elevating TO turn from this TO
the meridian brightness the descending orb, the whole
clear day Of our immortal webster How sweet how in
sructive 10 hang again on the lips mute still speak
ing whose eoquenee whose wisdom all given ever
his whole America How grand to feel again the beat
Of the great heart which could enfod all He saw too,
and he depored the spread of slavery lie marked and be
resisted the phensy Of the politics by which an admins
traton gave il impulse by annexng Texas and
making with Mexico. lie bad surveyedno man had
so deeply done he growth OF his country from the rock
Of Plymouth and the river Jamestown 10 the western sea
But did he think il just trace il all TO the aggressive
spirit of the astocraoy who hold slaves Could bis bal
need and gigantic intelligence and his genuine patriot
ISM have been brought believe aud 70 teach that the
single desire 10 find field for slavery TO till has in
CITY years transformed strip into national domain
larger than Europe?
Is nothing ascrbed to the necessities Of national
situation ana the opportunities of national glory moth
ing TO the sober collected judgment OF the people of all the
nations nothing to the foresight of some great men
like Jefferson and john Quincy Adams-@ho loved not
slavery nor the expansion Of the of slavery but who
did love their country dearly and wisely and knew that
that evil would be than compensated by the exceed
ing good nothing diIused, vehement nationality
grave ambitious, and conscious of mighty strength
burning try itself against the resistance Of oregn
tact and finding on its and southwest border
equal force hold il back nothing to the blindness OF
mere party tactics and the power OF popular admnistra-
ton nothing the love Of glory and contention and
danger which flames and eves in the adoescent national
hearth Is it all and sheer negro needing and negro
A., All, lie tn
be ascrbed The influence OF northern aggression against
slavery provoking by an eternal law southern rally
its defence and propagaon2 Have these great read
Of history forgotten that as far back as S05s
s0lhe presssome influential portions Of he press OF a
large political party the Northbegan to denounce the
election and reelection Of Jefferson triumph of the
slave power? The acquisition of Louisiana, that absolute
necessity of our peace-how much more OF our great
ness las another triumph of the slave power that this
form of seconasm already assaled the slave representa-
ton of the constitution and tried strike ii out that il
bore its part-a large partn influencing New England TO
the measure of the Hartford convention that hushed to
silence by the ervd food of nationality which swept the
country the close OF war; breathing into the full
first inspiration of American life il awoke again the
application of Missouri for admission that slenced
more by that adjustment few years later it took the
more yirulent type of aboitionsm and from that
ment helped by the general progress Of the age it has
ceased for hour to make the institutions OF
the South TO assa the motives and arragn the conscience
of the stakeholder teach abhor" and to ayoid" him,
and to enouuce the Union compact with hell
possible that part Of what they call the aggressive spirit OF
slavery may be reaction against aggression May II
not be that in this recrmnaon Of the sections and in the
Judgment of history there may be blows to take @ well as
blows give That great whose name have spoken
could see and he dared to admit the errors OF both sections
In those errors hate and in this dread which
the new party would organize he the supreme danger
of his country To those errors to aay that dread
to turn that hate to love- the sublime aim of his last
and noblest labor. ~ looking OUT he said not for
my own security safety, for am looking out for no
fragment on which float away from the wreck if wreck
there be- but for the good of the whole and the pres
ervation of all speak to-day for the Union. Hear me
for my causep He could not have abandoned himself, he
never saw an hour in which he could have any more
abandoned himself to this gloomy enterprise Of sectional
ism than Washington could have done IL STOPPING from
the Farewell Address the leader Of Israel could have done
it, as he stood 10 that last hour in Psqah and surveyed in
vision the widespread tents Of the kindred tribes reoc
ing together in the peace and in the light of their nations
God for hour of such life, and all not yet
lost