The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-06-20
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN PHILANTHRoPY.-THE
NATIONALITY or TIE DEMOCRATIC FATTY.


systems Of policy by which the Of nations
developed and their trade, aud commerce and manuc-
lures are made to flourish have ceased to occupy that
share OF public attention which their vital importance
cesrly requires In the unappreciaed abundance of
gifts We have turned aside from that through which
our national blessings have flown or can aow and like
another favored people seeking after Strange gods
for alteration and guidance spirit Of philanthropy
having Its foundation in benevolence as enlarged as u
needed cannot be TOO carefully cultivated by nations
well by individuals. But in blindy following i'm
pulses matter how generous noble, we commit not
only very silly but frequently very unjust actions In
relieving the sick and needy, there is bare possibility
that have been playing the part of almoner at the ex
pense of family creditors; and in advocating gem
era system of education should not forget that our
children members Of the Commonwealth that we
wish benefit by weldevised methods of intellectual train
ing Although philanthropy, from its very nature cannot
be exercised in partial restricted manner general
rule there is occasion to go abroad in order TO become
acquainted with the rewards which its udicous practice
fails confer One OF ne great of the day
that of doubtful policy involving abstract ques
tons of right and expediency, in the peril
Gus possession Of benevolent incendaries; who, from
INDUCING in idiotic rawlings upon their own plat
FORMS seeking 10 extend the of subjugang
version by fire aud sword Society at presents unhnged
from an excess of this wildy-expansive spirit Instead
Of practising temperance home, go abroad and
seek reclaim the drunkard by the passage of sumptuay
laws By fines penalties and Imprisonment by destroy
ing legitimate trade and bringing bankruptcy upon
thousands and by shedding innocent blood with the
same freedom if we repelng the nsolence Of
invading foe. Voluntary involuntary seryitude is one
those evils which have existed from the earliest period
the history of the world and unless otherwise decreed by
overriding and interposng Providence we have every
for believing that il viii continue to exist long
the world lasts. Instead of INDUCING in blasphemous
abuse against domestic institutions which has never yet
received the seal Of Divine dsapprobaon we would best
discharge duties good Christians and good members of
socetyfwe should sedulousy strive condition
of those who placed under control by the accident
of poverty purchase inheritance But this would not suit
the Wild expansive anatcal philanthropy of the age The
halstarved aborers OF free cities crowded into holes
and novels whose atmosphere is pesence the drudgng
house-girl condemned to life Of Implying toll the
worked operatives the thousand and ten thousand chill
dren of want infamy, and crime each and all forgot
ten and The active ncendiary interference Of all Christen
dom is invoked in behalf of particular class in seryi-
ude in whose physical and moral improvement have
followed original wrong and whose labors ghtened
b. absence Of all for the present and all apprehen
sion for the future
1T philanthropsts by profession by would
confne their benevolent exertions the fields home the
world would be largely the gamer by their restricted abor
While Wiherorce advocating the emancipation ofsa
very in British West Indies, England adding year by
year. by fraud apne and murder millions slaves to her
Ind
sympathetic anguish the imaginary surngs of the
welfed wellcothed and well-cared-for blacks of ia
maica while nation numbering its millions, reduced by
mercess conquest to dependency of the British
Crown and separated from their taskm masters by only
narrow sea- subjected to ndignes cruelties and OPP
pressions almost without parallel in the history of the
world The transparent asehoods in regard the hor-
Of servitude in the tropics found willing sympathetic
believers in the palace as in the cottage while tears
she'd and but few voices raised for oppressed
and subjugated kingdom, whose people fined, i'm
prisoned and courged placed beyond the pale of law
the reach of governmental protection for other crime
than that of adherng to the religion of their fathers with
answering devotion fidelity, and faith.
This searching after foreign fields for philanthropic la
bor the neglect of home interests and home demands
not confined to the people of England 1t fourshes in
America in all the fervor Of Wild mschevous and mis-
guided action The abolition sentiment which, like many
other similar notions is of New England origin org
nay confined the tea-tabe talk of elderly ladies the
prosac harangues of orcbly feeble cergymen Like tee
totalsm, spirituaism socialism, Mormonism and other
smatic movements of the day, abolihonism first
laughed at then rallied at and finally dgnfed into sober
serious recognition At this stage in its history the ell
derby ladies and their spiritual advisers were gently
pushed aside for seekers after place and preferment
brawlng INSCRIPTIONS demagogues--had already made
it available exciting element of political strength and
influence.
Through the various political crises which we have
passed. when the sovereign rights of States have been in
vaded the constitution assaulted the federal govern
ment itself placed in peril the whole country has turned
and turned with the relying confidence of assured safety
to the democratic party Without its unchangng prnc-
pies, and its broad unyedng platform the Union never
could have whsood the successive assaults of the succes
sve enemies of the constitution 1t has harmonzed con-
hcting interests sotened the asperes Of sectional ca
ouses protected the weak from oppression secured to
every the rHits of his labor rolled back the tide of
fanaticism paralyzed the uplifted Of combined
wealth, promoted interests Mt home and main
tanned rights abroad, and il has exhorted and still
exhorts TO live in the faith of our fathers that
we are one people with destiny. The safety and
perpetuity of the Union nseparab connected with the
1afva nd If lon,