The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-10-05

has vet appeared that subject Col Johnson IS epha
icay practical man. and his mode OF presenting his op-
econs TO know nothngsm will strike the reader as pc
culiary foreibe and effective Nothing could he more
gratifying the prompness and earnesness with
which the democratic of the country have come
forward to repe approaches and the attacks OF this
secret foe TO civil and religious liberty Under such
crushing blows receives from COL Johnson 1T cannot
long survive in the unferng democratic State which
so faithfully and ably represented by him in the Senate
THE PROCESS AND THE PROGRESS OF SECTIONAL
AGITATION
II the people of the South should fall into the Of
regarding such Journals the New York Tribune, or
Times or Post reliable representatives and opponents
of northern senmenor if the North should commit the
bunder regarding such journals the Charleston Mer
curry as rejecting faithfully southern sentimenthe main
tenance of those faernal relations between the two sec
tons which are indispensable to durable union would
become hopeless These journals, and their like, assume
that the people Of the two sections enemies to each
other and would not to care how soon they were
marshaed in bloody, civil warfare. Who can read the
following paragraph from late number of the Charleston
Mercury without feeling that the spirit which dictated
would rejoice to aparaton between the North and
the South even separation could only be attained the
result of civil war:
War sectional war war upon institutions and rights,
and in all the North amid the marshalng hosts
ansayery the in vain to discover any hope OF
alliance which avail With the exception Of lit
tie poweries handful all is hostility and remorseless ag
gresson. The democratic party itself Is in wretched mi
norty there to the South the lesser
tion only of thate minority Of minority. Yet this
party upon which the South called to rally and this
the security in her coming trials
n this extract is assumed that the overwhelming
majority Of the northern people are waging war upon
southern institutions and rights and that there none
be found amid all the antslavery hosts who furnish
hopes Of alliance that avail southern 1t
necessary that stop to conrovert and dsproye
the assumptions and assertions contained in the extract
above II is enough to refer to the wel-known historical
that in every instance when tho constitution and the
Union have been in danger Of violation and when the
guaranteed rights of the South have been threatened by
abcou aggression there have been TRUE enough at
the Moth give ecctual aid and support to the South
The same yet Mt the North animated now by the
same noble nationality which las mpeed them in times
past brave local preudces and passions for the preser
walton Of the Union. They are not 'the minority OF a
minority asserted by the Mercury but they possess the
power whenever the exgency demands 1T to arrest the
progress of disunionism whether it sngy from the
North the South in combination from both To
sumo the northern democracy has become powerless
and has sur rendered to the combination of iss which
swept over the free States the last elections
unjust odum on as sound reliable body of devoted
friends Of the constitutional rights of the South in every
northern State as ever was organzed-a body of true
hearted patriots who are and be conquered
but who are even now marshang their forces with the
confidence approaching victories The glorious example
set BY the true national men Maine in indignant
ponse to the reasonable appeals of the abolition mission
aries sent TO preach dsunionism will be followed by the
other free States The Mercury is msed by its wishes
more than its Judgment in regard to the assumed
weakness and ineficiency Of the northern democracy
Fortunately for the maintenance OF the peaceful rela
tons Of the sections that journal is the representative
and exponent Of the wish of lean and mpotent minority
of people, in the PRONUNCIATION of sentiments
SO totally irreconcahe with sincere love of the federal
Union Fortunately, too the people of the North have
not yet led into the of mistakng the wishes Of
few extreme southern enthusiasts and fanatics for south
ern sentiment
We are aware that il is common practice amongst
those the North who seek TO increase sectional jealousy
and agitation refer with confidence to the sectional SEN
snts Of the Mercury evidence of the hostility OF the
South the North. 1t cannot be doubted that the ultra
ism OF that Journal conducted is with uniform ability,
and commanding respect by very fankness and bold
with when ~ urges
has contributed much TO the diffusion Of antsouthern
sentiments amongst the northern people The anatical
men az the North eagerly seize upon the annorthern de-
nunciaons Of the Mercury and dwell upon them
elusive proof that the whole South actuaed by similar
hostile feelings towards the North Considering the
disputed fact that the Mercury deems dissolution of the
Union MS essential for the best interests of the South it
cannot be unfair suppose that is altogether agreeable
to that journal to itself relied by abolition fanatics
for the purpose of swelling the torrent of sectional aga-
ton and OF Fastening the final overthrow of the Union
With how much eager delight the New York Evening
Post copied the article below from the Mercury sustaining
tie late action Of the Massachusetts legislature in its nu
fcaton Of the fugvesave law, be readily imagined
but we have no right suppose that the Pos, is better
pleased at receiving such support from the Mercury than
the latter IS at seeing its contributions to abolition anat
cism thus readily appropriated by its organs We cannot
but express our qualification the opening remark Of the
Post IL has been business with TO differ with
both Of these Journals and congratulate the de-
,nocracy of the Union that neither of them makes any
tension 10 fellowship with the democratic party Extremes
often meet and therefore, it is not remarkable as the
post snpposes thai hostility TO the federal
Union aud to the democratic organization whose leading
object is the maintenance OF that Union shond make bed
fellows Of northern abolitionis and southern disunon
will he'd