The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-10-11
THE DAILY UNION


years and ne dictates Of his unbiased judgment fort ss
Of authority and the gains Of o6ieeor such the editor Of
the Atlas has an unmtgated contempt that finds
preston in words and have all honorable Such
wretch deserves to be dashed with whips of scorpions by all
true patriots but when the Atlas forward 10 pro
nounce sentence it may be amss to remind him thai
it is best not judge too rashly lcst he be Judged Il is
quite as easy to make the charge of sesbness and
naliiy against one who Nth who against
the popular current and much easier make il against
him who first against the current whilst he enjoys
the smiles Of authority and the gains of Office aud a.
rHards wh the current With all proper regard for
our late co-laborer in the cause of sound nationality
must say that the abuse he heaps upon his late political
associates would have come with much more grace from the
Tribune the Post the Liberator These journals have
prescrptiye right to call northern democrats doglec
but for the Atlas who has scarcely yet got all the dough
off his face to undertake TO compete with them in Willy
ing democrats is rather the coolest instance of
impudence we have witnessed
We do not make these remarks to excite special attn
ton TO the Atlas know that the language used by this
journal is less violent and offensive than that con-
stanty applied by the INSCRIPTIONS and fanacal
abolition organs all northern democrats. they refuse
TO join in denouncng southern and the institution Of
slavery, they hunted down, vfed the tools OF
slavedrve rs doughnces lacking the courage to
repe southern dication the integrity to resist southern
bribery. Religious bigory and natcism appealed TO
for the purpose of swelling the tide OF antisayery eng
into irresistible torrent of fanacal agitation and pro-
scrpton It is against all this and much more that the
northern democrat has contend To their eternal honor
be it faid they have failed in any crisis resist
with success these combined assaults The South has
found her interests deserted by the true Of the
North Some Of the nobest exhibitions Of moral herosm
that our history furnishes have been made by northern
democr sacrificing all hopes and chances Of uture po
litical promotion defence Of their conscientious conyc
tons of duty in maintaining the constitutional rights of
the South against the aggressions OF agitation
The Atlas would deny that such patriots atuated by
dsinterested devotion the requirements of he const
tuition it would charge that they either controlled
by Sowardice avarice corrupt ambition. When the
northern friends of the South forced TO maintain them
selves against such assaults becomes southern to be
cautious how they underrate the sacrifices which made
at the North for them.
At this the whole power of northerA abolition
being combined for the prostration Of President Pierce
and the only offence which they lay at his door the fact
that he has adhered with unshrnking rmneB and
stancy to the compromises of the constitution in regard 10
southern interests Although his President has
been in exact conformity with his past action both in
public and private life! yet aboonsm pursuei him with
its vndicve abuse and denies TO him either dsinteest
edness or honesty the discharge Of his executive du-
ties.
We have said before and repeat that the great
battle between abotonism and national democracy is TO
be fought at the North but it would be the extreme of
folly and ngrattudo if the people of the South failed TO
extend oil the aid and sympathy in their power towards
unfolding the national engaged in the contest at the
North These noble champions of the constitution want
know that their southern brethren app ecate their la
bors and their sacrcesha they discard and repudate
n caumny the suggestion that there sound
tional at the North. In word, it is genital that
southern should appreciate properly the real enhar
rassmcns and obstacles which northern democrats have
encounter If they win do this there will be difficulty
in preserving those aternal relations and those conca-
tory dispositions between the North and the South which
will perpetuae the democratic party and, in so doing
perpetuate the federal Union