The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-05-25

CASTOR when a new and extraordinary excitement has
been naugurated carried to excess 10 recall the public
mind to the value of vgan and constant regard over
the blessings enjoy.
II singular fact that at period in the history Of
the American people have known two organizations a.
the same time dangerous the solid interests Of the
country and plausible in their appeals TO supposed
popular peiudioes This republic Of depends not
alone upon sound public opinion at home, not alone
upon reyerenal idea of attachment the past not alone
upon hgh-hearted hope in the future but upon the de-
vo,ion the enthusiasm and the prayers Of the suffering
millions in the Old World Blot from the memories
and the ancipations of the men who stand by repub-
can principles on these shores the ennohag conscious
ness that they are laboring for generations in the Old
World oppressed and down-rodden by despotism well
as for their children and their childrens children and the
struggle becomes almost hopeless struggle against des
pair In the of things i, is utterly impossible that
the sentiment OF freedom in the Old World and the sen
ment of freedom in the New World can be dis
sociaed We drew the life of infant being from the
blood poured out against despotism hundred years
ago Every blow struck against power and against pre-
rogative planted the seeds of the republic which God point
ed out to Columbus in the 18th century there had been
no oppression prescription hunting g for religion
for opinion and for freedom IN ne antqnated nations Of En-
rope Spanish porer had hare fePenated he r Of he fec
oper the many and now at this age of the world, when
the grand experiment of mans capacity for sefgovern-
has been crowned with countless blessings and vim
dicated by numberless riumphs how profane and how
for any party to erect these shores system
the boast of which is hostility TO emigration and to the
l,ica and social equality OF the adopted and naveborn
citizen When the idea of the universal brotherhood Of
the people be destroyed these shores, step
one great stepwill have been taken in the path that
leads to national overthrow
But while we wonder that American citizens should lend
themselves the endorsement OF the idea that deprves
them of the sympathy and the energies of the suffering
millions Of the Old World how shall regard those who
content accept these sympahes and energies occupy
themselves by internal upon their institutions
and impiousy declare that there is better state of polt
cal being than that afforded by the American Union2 We
whence they draw the encouragement that leads
to this rreveent belief not by whatsoever mad
counsels they led driven not whether they
extract from the North jus,ifcaons from the
South either they attempt that which cannot be
accomplished and which, however paliated is in the
sight of God and Let those who have united with
the secret prescription which lords it the land
lay these truths diligently heart No matter how fasci
mated by the glare of present triumph or by the hope of
coming victory they and those who acting with them
have become fatally identified with the of dis
union TO escape its inevitable and its appalling conse-
quences.
In conclusion, present to readers eoquently
pertinent this subject the following extracts from the
memorable speech of Hon. James Mcdowell of Virginia,
delivered in the House of Representatives the Sd of
September, 1855:
But with standing and supreme executives, moth
ing birthrghts will be left to contend for. Cast off,
then. your national Aa, .nr separated states
into combinations that please violently or
ably and your strength Of influence and OF power for
egn and domestic gone LOFTY nission Of deliveranc1
and liberty to the nations the example which fell
like the shadow Of Saint Peter with healing and hope
the despairng and the diseased is Cones that mssersprit
which bringing the whole world into communion with
ITSELF roung and regeneratng its Millions and bearing all
things onward for good by the resess energy and might Of
its benefcent and profound progresonhat spirit too,
will be State after State will sink under conflicts with
each other all will swayed by the law of the sword
until American Maximin American Alexander,
auering ALL shall again consolidate all and stamp his foot
upon bold and the free heart which throbs at this hour
with strong Of human liberty and SO rich hope Of
vating the governments and people of the world.
But the range and the horrors OF such catastrophe do
terminate with ourselves They extend also to other
lands than own whose hopes interests and freedom
deeply complicated with Indeed whole position
into which have been wrought up for welfare
and for anspcious action upon the welfare Of Others ITSELF
hardly less than miracle in human story and in the whole
Of that story has in other been real
lied provdentaly responsibility before. From the
empire ACKNOWLEDGMENT that of Napoleon how immense
the distance how upendous the revolutions that have inter-
vene intense the fiery contests which have burned
and ages changing their theatre and their nstru
ments and leaving upon the whole surface of the globe
spot unsained by their desoang and bloody track
and yet national offspring has sprung from them all
fitted united America to redeem for the world the
agonie they have cost IT, Whatever in that long period
other nations have risen be- and however truly
and ustriousy few OF them have prolonged their day
and advanced the civilization and the wisdom OF themselves
and the world STILL of them has mbodcd such
aggregate OF national happiness political truth
republic and none like it has fulfilled the ultimate
problem of all governmentha namely of making the ut
freedom Of the citizen and the utmost power Of the State
the coexsng and the uphodng conditions Of another.
''Wh freedom only inferior to that OF Rome in the
qualities of hers those OF aggression and conquest
and superior that Of Greece in its best those Of cvza
ton and defencewh nothing but this freedom, its story
and its riumphs republic has become confederate alike
with the liberty sentiment of the world and with the
esc power OF human sympathy propagate itself; and
hence its flag is destined to only empire
mitsbe but the ilmitable empires of reborn
and selfgoverning
And that this republic Of freedom, happiness and
is heritage OF who that has shared have
done, in the countless blessings that belong iwho that
knows IT, do to be the heritage of every good which
human nature enjoy human government securewho
situated could make it could 1t the sport violent