The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-12-12
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a Mace cannot consent ina, am in The situation Of
10 whom the word exriaiion applies in ts ial deini-
ton agree that have "orsaken my country or
renowned allegiance yon may well imagine hen thas
am still alive everything that may be passing ~ the
world Of my country which tends TO disturb the harmony
of tho great States of this Union, much less when IL
threatens that Union with either mediate or immediate de-
struction And, standing OFF aar, as do, from All the
excitement OF party prejudice and contenon may some
what hope with what little capacity possess 70 llahe oi
the course Of parties the country which buI too ecenuy
has distracted the peace and quiet otoar people to pass on
their neasures with The greater impartality and airess
and that doing So IL whnt shall say shall be addressed
to the reason, it may have the greater effect
i have been led to address you BY reading IN your ssue
Of tho 9th of August last article COPIED from inc hau
moro American headed the "Soro Question: and nshefea
in y an earnest comnenation to the fayet'e Observer
under tile ascrption the wrcrof Calm views ano Ia
trlotic Sentiments
Ia doing this you cannot but know that you equally
commend these views and sentiments to the whole Amer
can people The brief in which you present this
article and by which you give the whole prestige OF our
valuable and widely calculated Journal neither evinces the
weakness of your convictions deracts from their eec1
upon The public mind have used the word yaluaplei
for although differing from you toto caio must say rs
valuable 1t Is from the very fact that you adyoeo
doctrines the very antpoes Of those Of the great repu IL
can party Of tho country and with the greater ability me
greater value Ours Is government OF freedom Of oph-
ion and freedom Of action The one governs the o,hei
and is therefore important that the first should be gh
as governs and shapes the latter Your paper has always
SOUNDED the depths and shoals of public measures ana
haa therefore presented the strongest views on the side you
advocated Thus inquiry has been provoked and by The
time the public mind could bothS OF the question
the people have been in situation to choose the best
The great and agating questions arising out OF the
constitutonality of the United States Bank, protect
i've tariff the system of internal improvements the Ann-
can system aud the system of dcposites in the United
tN thpS
ali had their aay and been settled The reputation OF all
these measures By the people and the country rrevocab
hope) no longer remains In the mere annals OF the DAY,
but is now elevated to the dignity OF historical truth
Public opinion upon these points 50 long the subject Of the
severest party analysis is hard, naleabe fact NO
longer susceptible solution by the application OF party
menstrums the measures of the great republican party,
based thereon assumed all the appearance OF perfect
and stand forth before the country as solid
and as pellucid diamonds of the first water
Had you no hand in oil this You had You contrib
uted more largely than any other journal Of the Union 10
keep these gorgons before the country The United states
Bank the edusa of the day you especially esponsed and
the zeal with which you defended that institution would
have sgnalized Neptune himself in his amours with tla
celebrated daughter fPhorcys and Ceo When Its head
was cut off by the modern Persons yon even defended the
nnuerabe snakes which sprung from the drops Of blood
that fell from the wound and continued long after to in
fest tho country.
Are you satisfied with this retrospect? Do you con-
gratnate yoursrc have taken s useful and
valuable in the settlement OF these vexed questions II
ii is because you have become convert to the settle
ment or more probably from the recollection of the fact
that you did not them ut the time the elements Of
fatal discord the inevitable agencies of national disrup
ton Thus far, them you may have been useful, and
will even admit that you might still, ein reviewing your
own judgments Of the truth and justice and public worth
your aims journalists have secured your own appro-
batonn will yet 90 further that that general good
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happy land the universal JOY and exultaon at the
and fortunate settlement Of all these great que
tons may ct hold in allegiance harsh sentence
upon your course indeed it did not award you the full
benefit OF negative acquttal.
But another era has arsen The question of the aboli
ton Of slavery applicable to our national legislation,
has in one portion Of our Unon been made practical
test This question: however, is by means new one
1t has been lurking in the vensnay, tho hearts-of
northern people since the adoption Of the federal con-
situon Until the year 1850 with but one exception 1t
used mainly in Congress mere staple for the low
faconiss and fanatics TO manufacture speeches out or
The single instance Of its dangerous presentation on tho
occasion the introduction of the State of Missouri into
the Union served only far it disclosed the dangerous
tendency Of the doctrine beacon to the vrtuous and
patriotic The settlement difficult 1t seemed at the time,
by an expedient furnished by the ready tact genius and
patriotism of the distinguished satesman Henry Clay in
the shape Of what called the Missouri Compromise
was nevertheless seized upon with almost equal avidty by
all parties upon the principle Of "any port in Storm
and up first period mentioned had remained only
on the wide expanse Of Tho political waters the fearful in
dcx TO the presence OF macsrom hell gate AT this
period the peculiar condition Of things which existed in
the public administration Of national affairs arising
out OF the temporary ascendency Of party whose pocv-
cs have always been with the ascendant of the day,
TOO truly afforded the monster aboltonism rallying
pont and gave ut "a head and front" Rising then,
from its own ashes under the proptous breezes Of wing
dynasty II flashed into fame and, but for the efforts OF
Clay and Webster possibly operating upon the 'r'uons
and patriotic of their own in conneyion with the republic
can party glorious and happy country must have been
ruined by the dissolution of the Union.
Snch has been the sporadic character sueh the pore-
tous eyiNnces OF the existence of this diabolcal fsn
Now il has assumed different phase II has become ep-
deic II not indeed containing all the pestiental quai-
tes OF contagion and Infection II Is fast taking on ali the
maun,y Of the most direul scourgc Of country AZ
an element Of national legislation, il s about 70 make
test higher than the nws and the constitution NO longer
confined In its discussion the limits ofegtmae poemie
IL abou, 10 come with All the ghny horrors OF revoH-
tionarv movement From the low muerings Of suberre-
mean likely with the eruptveforceof
m active volcano and to this fair land with lava more
burning and destructive than issued from Ena or We
suyns The plaques Of Egypt would be nothing in com
parson with the horrors directly proceeding from the as
tendency Of abolitionism in country The hrst we
see had an end but we can only form idea OF the
oonn,v md sbuddering terrors Of this unuerabe calam