The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-11-20
EXTRACTS FROM THE APPEAL TO DEMOCRATS
AND UNION MEN AGAINST NORTHERN FUSION
AND SECTlONALISM.

We have fallen upon times that try mems sense
ii not their souls Old parties have been breaking up
new parties being formed Every clique is inyening
its platform and begging the people for exclusive patent
TO govern them Instead of the fundamental principles
the constitution and the broad measures OF government
which for seventy years have employed the craftsmanship
Of this great republic and advanced il beyond all prece
dent in history be narrowed down, by onedea
demagogues the native bigotry Of" knoe-noaingsmn
the sectional fanaticism of dai-slauery Massachu-
ses the cradle of national liberty, holds out no
higher aspiration in either of these party organizations
separate fused than to dig its grave. The hotbed Of
all the iss of the day she has been made TO forswear
the constitution, 10 nuy the laws of the United States
TO break the faith of fathers when they formed the
solemn compact of the UNION and substitute the edics
of midnight councils for the acts Of Legislature
chosen by the people and the desposm OF nobs for stand
ing laws and the DEGREES of an Independent Judiciary
Where to look for the conservative principle the
concentration Of nationality for he safety and perpeuiy
of The republic
There Is but answer. Against this fusion OF dis.
cordant political elements the national democratic party
alone relied make successful stand Ii has
DONE aud is eminently doing so, with fidelity, mness
and constancy through It's present national aud cousu
tona Presidents and ii WILL with like and energy
continue uphold The constitution and the supremacy Of
| law in the future
Ii is hopeless TO call upon any other party than the DEM
oeratie party as national organization not to suffer
itself be dissolved by this political solvent of the quack
statesmen Of the day, called fusion There honora-
Die exceptions 10 the general denaonalizng Of the wing
party. The great memories of Webster and Clay still
held in by whg party in Massachusetts, and
some few of the free States. But could the Union
wings redeem Massachusetts, they prevent the absorp
ton of the whig party Union party in know-noth-
inesm at the South and an-savery at tho NORTH There
be but two real parties in the next presidential
testnational and SECTIONAL law and hgher-aw constia-
ton or constitution, Union disunon The demo-
cratic party will hold the flag of the Union the only
party having the same platform, the principles,
and with the candidates. national party in every
| State of the Union Around that flag every Union man
must rally if he would not, directly Indirectly give aid
and comfort 10 this fusion Of "repuJieans O destroy
/ the republic
And to what good end this fusion party Gomez
Even if the whole people of the North should
down TO this one-idea of resisting the admission of
slave States it would be simply contest for i'm
possibility under the constitution Its basis is false be-
cause it denies to the State thus attempted lie re-
srcted in its sovereignty equality with the old States
II is mpracticabe because if Congress of northern
litionis with like Executive should compel Territory
TO exclude slavery from its constitution condition
precedent of admission into the Union the people of the
State could instantly change its constitution and es-
tablish slavery and there is power in the nation
interfere Herewith
There is nothing in this idea which the fusion
party claim to be paramount" The Hartford Con-
yenon tried it and wrecked the federal party We
went MI this antsavery dogma in the Wimot pro-
vso, and beat them on IT. North and South The national
idea of the people of this whole country will always repose
in its conservatism upon the only sound solution of the
slavery queson-Sos STERREREScE CosGaEss IN SrArk
AND TERRITORY.
Hence the difference between The democratic party Of
the whole Union and the sectional party Of antsayay
rests the fundamental principle of the right of segos-
ernment inherent in the people of every legay-organd
political community under the constitution and thus this
antisavery issue is issue made up outside OF the
stitution and outside of the Union-and this makes tho
sectional quarrel between States and the sectional quarrel
about Territories.
Formerly it attempted to be applied to Louisiana,
Missouri, Florida Arkansas and Texas just hap
pens be about Kansas The abolition propagandists Of
Massachusetts began the contest by tho incorporation of
aid-emgration societies, much to settle Kansas
make Kansas abolition State. The slavery propa-
gandiss OF Missouri got up combinations to invade the
Territory and make il slave State Both alike dis
regarding the true principle of the Nebraska BILL which
leaves the final adjustment Of the slavery question there
as purely local ISSUE to the actual and permanent set
tiers. There wrong-headed men both sides and
personal rights are violated but it is local difficulty and
not national concernment The States the United
States take sides and interfere than they
could with the lynch law of California the knownoh
ing mob at Louisville These local evils work out their
own cure, without resort to civil war.
Yet the antslavery rail at the President for not
sending army Kansas to dissolve the Legislature ard
hang the Missouri interopers They know better They
know that the President is not despo and has power
invade State Territory with standing army. But
they say he called out the military to enforce the fugitive
law in Boston did Washington in the whskey rebel
lion in Pennsylvania.
The President is to execute the laws OF the
Union and when process under law of the United
States is resisted his duty nerposcs the necessary n-
tary force in aid of the civil process But legal process
under law Of the United States is resisted in Kansas No
marshal governor legislature has called for armed
posse to enforce law, the militia repe foreign ny-
sion suppress domestic nsurrec,on The punishment
Of lawlags with the judiciary, not with the er-
eeulie The actual settlers Of Kansas will ultimately set
ritory provides peaceful remedy II awess Legislature
unconstitutional laws in Kansas awless legs-
ature has just done in Massachusetts, The VIII pass
upon them.
There is the remedy like the peaceful remedy Of law and
consultations provided for all evils in democratic instr
tuons-not by violence, not by usurpaton of military
despotism by the President not by civil between
the North and South. Geographical parties cannot rem
edy these local evils Voting altogether at the North
against the South would effect nothing but sectional
ASPIRATION. and fighting would be civil war.
How plain tits then, 10 calm sense, that this
sectional fusion party of the North do good to the
slave the country The whole OF their party policy
down to the solution of the political problem how