The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-12-25

But not this alone. He supported Mr. Seward in the
taordnary hereses Of his Albany speech of the 18th
October accepting among other things the following basis
ofoperations;
slavery ia not and be- perpetual. Ii viii be
oyerthrown either peacefully aud lawfully under this const
tuition will work the subversion of the constitution
gether with its overthrow. Then, the Shareholders
would perish the struggle The change can now be made
without violence, and BY the agency the baobox The
temper Of the nation is just liberal forbearing eH
tribute any money and endure any sacrifice effect is great
aud i@Portant change indeed, Is haf made already"
Such the doctrines which General Webb has
voluntarily taken 10 his heart They are Of his own
choosing
General Webb controls leading commercial newspa-
per- which cireuates among the educated classes of New
York. among those who dependent upon tranquility
in the national legislature, and among the people, and
whose whole sentiment is continued protest against the
very agitation in which he is embarked. He
oessay deny that he ia working vanly effect resto-
ration Of the Missouri line he admits almost as much
and with this fact before him. he adds the weight of his
character and bis counses those who boldly work for
dsunion and who agitae the question Of slavery the
beat way to accomplish that dire result
Let us take another view Of this proposition General
Webb tells that the South did demand the repeal Of
the Missouri Compromise Admitting this for the sake of
argument does he know that the entire South looks
to The proposition which he advocates, to carry which
he willing unite with Garrison the greyous
insult that could be put upon her So them after the
repeal has been accomplished he says without request
the part Of the South he is eager to insult the South
by pressing offensive upon her by way of pun
ishment
We do not desire go back with General Webb for the
purpose of recounng the history Of events during
tweneght years that he has been in politics. and par
ticulary show how far the North has regarded the
very compromise which he would now restore but we
viii to say that if he viii exhibit to the
files of the newspaper with which he has been connected
during that period we will chow him denunciaon
danuncation of the very of legislation which
is necessary to the peace aud tranquility of the Union
Twenty osthese years ohs have part
y been devoted malignng and weakening this Missouri
compact Twentysx Of these tycgh years of attacks
upon the South whenever they attempted 10 enforce it,
twenysix of weniyegh years of ridcue upon all those
northern Statesmen who have stood by ittweny-sx of
twcnty-eght years of unccasng opposition to the de-
mocracy because they stood committed in good faith to
the execution of the guarantees of that compact in spite Of
their unconstitutional objections to it. II is only within two
promise panacea which all the ills of the nation
and calm the troubled waters of sectional discord
Nor need we say TO him how after this compact had
been violated by himself and his northern coadutors after
they had refused to apply it's provisions to territory
by which this very Nebraska bill would have been render
ed unnecessary, the Of legislation of 1854
became essential But General Webb does stop with
his demand for the restoration Of the Missouri Compro
mise; he places himself boldly upon the still offensive
platform of hostility the admission of any State that
may be formed of Kansas unless it shall to Con-
gress with free constitution However he may seek
avoid this issue gather nothing else from the fol-
lowing passage his letter. lie says that "he only other
alternative which the South present. should the rsto
ration of the Missouri Compromise fail is 10 admit Kansas
free State; Y and he literally dares the South to refuse
yield to this alternative We ought not to be surprised
that General Webb should follow Mr.. Garrison TO the
verge Of disunion. When he is seriously committed to the
restoration of the Missouri Compromise it is natural that
he should be prepared for the fatal step Of resisting the adj
mission Of States into this Union according the stand
ard OF Garrison and those who agree with him. thus sr
king at the very root Of State sovereignty and State equal
ity and boldly raising the banner of discord.
But the storm will pass over; Of that have
doubted General Webb is Palnurus, find the haven
through the tempess that often disturb the political
He has always been awkward and impulsive pilot and
cries for help at every cloud in the horizou and at
every gust that fanatics raise We remember how he
thought the country ruined when General Jackson
took the great bank by the throat, and hurled it, of
reehug corruption to the earth. The tariff tornado
the catastrophe which frightened him from his propr
city therepeal of the bankrupt the next aud doubt
less alone owing the providence Of God that goed
through all the dangers and errors of the annexation of
Texas and the acquisition of California with the Generals
prophecies hanging upon destinies, and forebodng
Unreasonable evils to common country. And we
will emerge from this Kansas clamor with equal
success and triumph A great principle will carry us
through, General Webb That is the by which the
democracy trims and guides the glorious ship of the
sttuton 1t is conquering principle principle which
foes rendsa principle which will be acSnow
edged and nppauded by yourself before this contest is
The experience of the past viii be vindca,ed in the
thick-coning of the future and the democratic
party will be rewarded and honored for cuging to the
grea; truth which is at the heart of all this grave
terms of unmcasured menace and mendacity. We read
The horoscope OF the coming time by the light Of abundant
reason and of impartial history, and put down the
words we have written prophecy by which we will
stand to the last in the fixed assurance of its complete
fulflment.