The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-03-29

Henry A. Wise is entitled TO careful perusa BY the peo
Pile Of the South Mr. Lorng writes understandingy Of
Massachusetts, politics. and his warning southern
is conveyed in Of rankness earnestneSs and eo-
quenee which bat make impression What fed
erlism, aboltonism aud combined have
made Massachusetts, they seek 10 make Virginia. and
afterwards every other southern State The democracy ohe
free States has proved itself unable withstand this
bnation aided II has been by fraction Of the disa
feeed unsuspeong democrats Mr. Loring disseets the
constituent elements this coalition with mastery hand
and gives the South exhibit Of It's designs and its OBJ
ecs which ought 70 awaken all the energies Of southern
men. We earnestly commend his powerful letter to a
careful and universal perusal
sALEa, tMass.,) February %, 1855.
DEAn In yours Of the 9th you remark, strsngr
strange these when such heresy from Massa
chusetts promulgated in the nothing address Of
Governor Gardiner. The times are indeed, strange and
considering the position of Massachusetts, State abound
ing wealth and intelligence it OF interest
every patriot inquire in what way she has reached her
present anomalous political condition. More particularly
matter OF interest every Ngnian whose political les
have taught him that his State and Massachusetts
have always occupied the opposite poles Of the political uni
and who invited follow the lead Of his long
established and natural political opponent Let him look
well to the political history of Massachusetts, before he fol
lows her example, Let him remember that in the earliest
port Of Jefferson and Madison here with their btteres
opposition Let him remember that the peculiar doctrines
whose establishment in the constitution has given tone to
whole Union started forth from Virginia. and received
with bitter hostility the boundaries of
And surveys the political condition of this latter STATE
let him shrink back horror and disgust at lending his hand
plunge the Old Dominion into that Flower deep which
furnishes Groom and enough for species OF
Massachusetts, anatcism and her against the safety
and prosperity Of our Union
travel together the road Of wnobingism Here the
way been prepared BY slow and persistent labor the
popular mind Of Massachusetts, has been cultivated for
the political paradox which sares the prudent and
trioc portions OF the community In State in the Union
have there been such pernacous resistance the prevailing
sentiment Of the messuch determined devotion to selfish
disregard the rights and wants Of other
tons of the Unonsuch bgoted political faith and such
short political endeayorsa have marked the
the dominant party here for years Massachusetts, fed
eram honorable it may have been in its origin
has brought forth that very fruit which its early
lection of the intention of government promised
Devoted in its youth of such doubtful utility
speedily repudiaed them it passed into
manhood which has left brilliant republican act to
adorn its history and has found its elimination in
political thoughts and deeds which make Mas
sachusetts politics reproach in the Union. This is fc
ton OF the Imagination. Her devotion the fallen and
dition' laws of John Adams her opposition to the large
pure liberal democracy of Jefferson her declaration in
the Missouri debate in 1920 through her senator, Mr.
Otis, that the States subservent to the federal
power and that m the constitution is strong enough
restrict slavery, must make it so; her determine
exhaust the of the Union for the benefit Of
her manufactures by protective tariffs her support Of
inflated national currency her bitter and unreenting
hostility the compromises Of 1850 her progress into the
maddest aboenism her howl of phrcnsy when the prnc
pie and the sovereignty Of the people
established by the territorial bill of Nebraska and Kansas
present spirit of notification and of religious proscrp
ton known throughout the length and breadth Of
Al. a. hay,n ul
lee In Is so Does the message
Governor Gardner contain the whole dark list Of danger
political hereses which have just enumerated? Massa
chusetts indeed found the harvest for which Its political
field has been long cultivated The stiff and proscrptve
Americanism Of John Adams the notification of Governor
Strong the aboonm Of Otis the protective doctrines Of
all her whg have eliminated in the sophries Of
Gov Gardners address, in the aboonism and proscrip
tion and antrepubcansm which pervade it, and in the
popular sentiment which sends abotonsts to Congress- and
chershes Garrison and Phillips household gods at home.
This is Massachusetts, know nohingism II is the adop
by people, misdreced by old party leaders,
theories that party and their expression the crude and
fanatical which behold Can you conceive
lar mind tainted by long previous teaching and the popular
feeling perverted during of political heresy burst
forth revolution, which fanatcism seizes upon with
natural avidty. And free and republican people, clamor
Amercansu, and in their denunciaons
Jesutsm bind themselves by party ties which nothing
but perjury break subject themselves upon
which their very livelihood depends and are willing to be
confined within the limits of orders whose lines
the Hindoos Is this political paradox
indeed Can State be proud Of the political history
which such monstrosty has grown Is there any ,empta
ton this that Massachusetts should be followed by her
sisters in the confederation 1t indeed sange that such
heresy should from Massachusetts, strange that
with her intelligence and her interests she should pur
sued the path such conclusions But would be passing
strange if she met with response from Virginia cannot
conceive of that madness which would lead the people OF
gnia this hour follow the lead Of
lead which discovers the States arrays sectional interests
against each other proscrbcs foreign industry DESTROYS
that religious freedom which forms great element of the
constitution. Virginia would develop her resources Can
She then shut her doors against the entrance Of adopted
citizens without whom Massachusetts, could not have
attained to her wealth and prosperity Virginia would
maintain her doctrines Of State rights which she has set
forth in the great crisis which has heretofore our
national fabric Will She then, place her desnies in the
hands Of party whose whole vitality the very hot
test of abolition dictatonY Virginia would enlarge her uni
verstes and multiply her schools and her churches
she do by adopting system OF religious intolerance
Virginia would maintain standard of freedom
of political opinion among her citizens do ii by re-
dueng the standard Of truth to the morals OF know
ing lodge and by the voluntary Of her citizens 10
the discipline of this proscrptive order Virginia the
mother OF States and statesmen would stretch forth her
and embrace confederation bound by mutual regard
for the rights and privileges OF each other she do il IL
the doctrines Of know notbngsm prevail and she finds
Gardner TO rule her home and federal aboonsts 10
resent her in the national counclsY
1t cannot be for supposed that the principles
which majority of the people Of Massachusetts have de