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

ela strength Of the three candidates Under the opera
ton the rule the debates have lost much
their interest The House adjourned over to Wednesday.
LETTER OF GEN. JAMES WATSON WEBB.
The letter of the editor of the New York Courier and
Enquirer in another column, replies TO editorial article
in the Union of Saturday last We propose brief review
of those portions of this letter which glringy exhibit
the dogmas which he stands committed and The difficult
ties and the dangers which result from any attempt
carry these dogmas into the legislation of the country
Passing by the somewhat convenient disavowa of the
editorial burial Of the Missouri Compromise BY his recog
nised associate it may good purpose show how
of and experience sometimes delihe-
ratey attaches himself at with every settled
principle of good government Probably nothing in po
cal history he found similar the serious efforts Of
certain party leaders to effect the mpossiby of
storing the Missouri Compromise. Gen. Webb has con-
demned himself to the hard work Of rolling this great stone
of sisyphus up the HILL only that may roll down again
crush his hopes He INDUCES in this exercise with a
stubbornness of will and perseverance of effort which
his admirers may applaud an exhibition Of industry but
which reasonable will only condemn. We had given
General Webb credit for wisdom. We thought him
better politician than to persist in such Quixosm.
Mr. Seward has clearly ignored Restoration and his voice
the first TO demand it in the Senate of the United
States Mr. Greeley has abandoned it in his Tribune The
leading fusion conventions have passed it with silent
con,emp and the New York Courier preached funeral
sermon over it months ago, which, told,
was not an authorized surrender and far from being
caedra that the editor has since then offered up the
most eloquent doxoogics in its praise. --~y,->~~
General Webb TO- therefore, thoroughly identified
with ultra abolitionam than Mr. Seward himself He
plants himself upon what he must is notorious mpos
sbility and demands of the South yield it. II is
wonder therefore, tina, he should be willing toener in the
same organization with Garrison, and to cultivate COM
panionshp which he boasts Of in the letter pub
fish to-day He says he woud cheeruly unite with Garr
son and the aboonsts 10 restore the Missouri Compro-
mise but that accomplished separation would he
prompt and enectualD He would "cbeerfuyp do that
from which Mr. Seward and his republicans have recoeA
lie would "checriully unite" with a man-Wiiliam Lloyd
arrison-who on the l4th of November last hurled The
following infamous TRADE OF the purest and ab.est
statesmen of the North and South who had been invited
to lecture in Boston by the antislavery committee We
COPY from the Boston Liberator Garrsons organ;
can these stand committed before the world the most
gnan enemies Of the antsavery the most bitter
contemners Of the North, Especially Of Massachuscs and
the defenders OF the accursed slave system to
are stepped pollution whose hands and garments drip
ping with the blood of ensaved millions and who instead Of
being politely invited and handsomely paid by you to utter
their basphemes against the God OF freedom and the rights
of man. deserve be captay executed without benefit of
clergy f capital punishment be permissible in any case,
which do not beeve) under the law of Congress
which they themselves endorse, making it pra.ca act
worthy of DEATH to ensave any native born African, by
bringing him this country for that purpose for the crime
consists solely in the act of ensavemen matter what
pretence.
"Magnaninity, generosity, good spirit are all commend
able virtues but sound discretion moral propricty
fidelity principle. required by the spirit Of Chris
tany it is not in accordance with the eternal fitness
things to invite guilty of the highest kind of theft to
from remote part Of the country and accept prof
ered civtie that they show us the utility and excel
of robbing millions of our countrymen Of their naepa
BILE rghsof tut ming them into perishabe property and
ces Of merchandseof forcing them live in a OF
beasy unceannes by aboishng the sacred institution
marriage perpetratng upon their bodies and spirits all
ontrages and then to them ier-
ally the slavery treasury for this inexcnsabe and
horrible Of vlany Why, gentlemen this is char
ty and good will into the ground 1t has parallel among
straightforward and earnest 1t almost gives air of
carcature entire proceedings 1t is not freedom OF
speech inconsde it is not generosity, but
providence il overcoming evil with good but placing
good and evil in the category making them equally de-
serving Of public courtesy and equally dubious to which
,houd prevailF'
And in the number of the Libcrator of the l4h Of De-
cember Garrison says:
Every ephst applied to them [Mcssrs Toombs Wise,
Douglas, Butler, &c truthuly descriptive and de-
manded by the occasions unchristian
than to call "a fig fig and spade spade. As ] have
asked elsewhere, repeat the question The
makes chattol of his broherwhst is heg They who com
pei three millions Of men and herd together like
brute beastswhat they? They who sell mothers by the
pound and children in lots to suit purchasers-what are
tbey2 care not what terms used provided they
pcable IL they thieves, they men-steal
crs should like to know what is their character and
by what they may be called Are they honest hu-
NAME upright, Christian gentlemen"
General Webb it must not be forgotten also supported the
Seward ticket in the late New York election and there
fore accepted the nominees with the resolutions annexed
Of that most reckless organization. The following arc
some Of the doctrines avowed by that partyl
Resolvd That the federal government being or de-
fined and limited powers among which the power enave
human beings not found, earnestly deny ito right
to establish, uphold tolerate slavery any portion OF tho
public domain to conuve at its establishment the tede
raj territory by any whatever.
Rsolpsd That since there be no legal slavery the