The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-12-12

upon which they prepared to push The combat 70 the
ur,besi extremity brought and sxetsd BY their own
un~ise and unnecessary act
But you repeat IL is calm. Ths may he admitted, and
II contributes nothing to the r~tutAon Of It's abolition
character loa only get the benefit of this admission
by the fa Acknowledgment Of its undenabe tendencies
Il il calm bat camness often resorted 10 for the worst
purposes IL you candd In your Communications you
have been caught In the trick IL is the exact mode best
calculated catch the They say !, s eai there
fore IL Is the likely TO have proceeded from prudent
aud discreet counses The burglar The incendiary The
assassin calm from impulse cndanges the
Of his Aeis aims BY the bursts Of pren'oniory
passion The Turk the synopsis Of human magnity, AS
proverba for the certainty Of revenge for the intensity
Of vndicvenes seeks tho redress Of his injuries under
the dictates Of noisy and turbulent excitement bat patient
and enduring calm and nquiring acting FROM reflection
and not from impulse submits in silence TO his wrongs
and conceas his till the perpeator comes
within his fatal reach Calmness is not always for
commendaon 1t characerizes the murderer and the in
cendary we'll the philosopher II energy concealed
1t much be feared TO be praised is weapon
good for evil 1t stimulates alike to truth and to
crime.
Shall pursue this point any further II is far from
pleasant task TO follow "calm views and patriotic sent
mens through the vermiculaed process by which they
up the probabilities that the repeal Of the Kansas
years. and cphering down with the GOODNESS of peda
gogue teaching the country urchn up his task in
simple addition, through the executive ueo they TO
the reluctant conclusion that the achievement cannot be
in the time mentioned account of the OBJ
strucon of perverse aud impractcabe Senate Secret
and concealed the purposes of these deductions may
SEEM it escape observation and conviction that
they directly intended to aid and abe the abolition
party Seeing that this article casts whatever
but upon side of this contest and consequently what
of aid and encouragement could be impaired by the
knowledge and information here systematically intro
duced would alone rebound to the advantage of the oppo
site party the silent though obvious exemption Of the lat
from all elimination in contest which had otherwise
been equally meorous but which involves in its
quences the forcblo Of the ties that have
knit the States together points to the current Of
the sympathes Of the piece, with the certainty with
which the the spire tells where the wind
blows Can any one, after witnessing the general bent
and warp of this article, read the following words
1thus until the session Of Congress Of 1867 there no
hope that act passed repeating the Kansas bill would
escape the executive condemnation and fail to recognise
the dependency and alction of who in the
sting state Of public affairs the temporary least not
the ultimate, disappointment of his most heartfelt and
ardent hopes Sraws show which way the wind blows,
and from the abundance of the heart the mouth speake
In connexon with the accomplishment of the same object
the repeal of the Kansas and Nebraska BILL the words
usedait be acved in the next four years. With
out otherwise looking to the magnetic dip Of this article
the of the word achieve would be unerrng index TO
the proneness of the feelings that side which applied
This word means something than the mere accom-
pshment of object II is expressive of desire for
the time that conveys idea Of the merits of
pletion. You would not call accomplic in an
honorable transaction than you would say he had
perpetrated deed of benevolence and charity. So
when looking to the genealogical forco of the word
achieue you far from the rules Of good and
grammatical accuracy you would be from just de-
scrpton of the object you refer to when you in
praiseworthy
The article proceeds "Nor is the prospect Of success
any better for those who seek decide at once the
ton to the domestic institutions of Kansas and to force
into the Union slave State Whilst the present ex-
citement ia Kept up there 10 probability that Congress
will consent to its admission into the Union slave
State 1t is useless to shut eyes to the fact that upon
this question the whole North deeply excited and that
viewing the Nebraska act breach Of faith they will
uncdy resist the effort to by the recogni
ton Of slavery in Kansas. ~
If it had been the real ingenious and sole object of all
this to show that those who design to make Kansas
State could succeed in that object it would have
ended with the first sentence and with the exclusion Of
any language which could express more; and had il
stopped at this point might have been considered fair
candid and proper assertion Of fact which could safely
be referred to AZ argument to quel that spirit of
crcion and violence which clearly imputed by the words
to force it into the Union slave State But this
would not the purpose of the article II is not
content with the plain and simple statement of fact
and then to leave the mind to its calm and dis
passionate consideration It is instantly followed up with
the declaration that Kansas he admitted into the
Union slave State "whist the present excitement
kept up" which excitement had already been sui-
GENTLY assured received its Aenergy and vitality solely
from the ant-abolition party Was there ever more
adroit effort to carry conviction by surprise to nsn
nate crimnaty under the of seemingly fair
though insdious, statement of controversy
The fact is plainly introduced here only to let the
world know that the antiaboiton party could never sue
coed in their plan Of forcing this measure but that the
whole fault Of the contest lies with that party If this
meaning doubtful the closing of this QUOTA
ton would remove all uncertainty In this we are told
the whole North deeply excited and that viewing the
Nebraska act breach Of a they will untcdy resist
the effort to By the recognition of slavery
The North here represented not in the light of an Of
Tending party but MS acting wholly under deep excite
ment created, told entirely by party who are
seeking by their efforts to act which can
be viewed in other light than breach Of faith Can
there be covert purpose detected father to the eca
ration before the country Of tho astounding fact and to
which warned it ia useless shut eyes, that the
whole North is deeply excited and that viewing the Ne
braska act breach of faith they win unitcdy resist the
effort to consummatc it by the recognition of slavery In
Kansas? When we remember that it had already been
oracu"ry asserted "that there but little prospect Of