The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-06-22


democrats. They have been guilty Of grevous wrong
and have justified You In The agitation for which they are
really responsible and upon which the safety OF the Union
has been impered But inasmuch as it not as who
perpe,ra,ed this wrong aud as humbiy confess the
offensive character or the acts Of the guilty wings
and democrats We pray you spare the federal Union
bv submitting 10 the obnoxious acts and violated
pledges of our offending brethren OF the old wing and
democratic parties and by consenng abide BY these
obnoxious acts and violated pledges as a hnal and
conclusive settlement Of the slavery subject Let il
be remembered that this argument and this appeal are
made the champions of the combination formed to
restore the Missouri line and exclude any more slave
States or to bring the Union close Is it credible that
such an argument and such an appeal made with
either hope or wish that they would be accepted II
was in effect an invitation to the northern delegates to
persevere in their efforts accomplish their objects IL
was virtually announcing them that all effective obsta
Gle to their final removed since the whg and
democratic parties ruined aud since the southern know
nongs have abandoned these parties and have conceded
that the grounds on which the abolitionts have based
their agitation correct II tantamoun to decla
ration the northern delegates that they have but to per-
severe and the South will surrender Under such crcum
stances, il act of folly papabe to ask such
fanatics ruled the northern delegation to stop short In
their career of reasonable madness upon the msy sug
gestion that submission to the obnoxious laws would in
volve no dishonor that reject all belief that the appeal
was made in How could the northern delegates
have excused themselves their respective constituencies il
they had granted B prayer of the southern delegates with
such confessions admissions and concessions az they had
made Could they go back TO the North and say We
met our southern brethren in council they acknowledged
tina. we are right in arguments they prove to us that
we pesevere we will succeed either in excluding any
more slave States or in dissoving the Union but they
beg us to spare the Union to which they ardeny
devoted we have agreed grant their prayer and to
abide by and maintain the obnoxious laws and violated
pledges against which we have been agtating and
bning for the last years This is what they must
have said and no one need to be told what would have
been the response of their hnatica constituencies 1t is
established therefore, that the southern delegates submitted
proposition of compromise with their abolition brethren
which they knew could not be accepted In submitting it
they made concessions and confessions which show them
be in heart sympathzers with the aboitionss in the
reasoning which they maintain the abolition side of the
issue and which must have the effect of inspiring nat-
csm with hopes and exciting them to persevere in
their career of aggressive agitation.
To illustrate distinctly the Of con-
cusons have but TO to the action Of the abolition
delegates upon the proposition Of compromise submitted
them The proposition Of the southern delegates was
adopted by the council by vote of eighty to fy-nine
and by every rule of deberave bodies became the law Of
the organization BY this law every member of the order
was bound to acquiesce in the terms of the creed
withdraw from the order be expelled for nsubord
nation The dissenting delegates forward to the
number Of between fifty and sixty and entered their pro
test it has been authorativey announced that they
did not secds and dissolve their connexon with the
ganization The protest in the form of appeal ITO
the citizens of the United States signed by delegates from
twelve northern States and airms the following princi-
pies
.The unconditional restoration of that time honored com
promise known the Missouri prohibition which de-
sroyed in utter disregard of the popular villa wrong
lapse of time palate and plea for its continuance
can justify and that we will all constitutional to
maintain the positive guarantee of its compact until the OBJ
ect which has been by the
admission of Kansas and Nebraska as free States"
Another protest made by delegates who are under
stood have remained in the council and acted with it
the close which is not less important to be considered
II is signed by delegates from Pennsylvania Illinois, New
Jersey Vermont Delaware and Connecticut and makes this
declaration:
II
made part of national creed then in that we
consistently act with fidelity principles and
professions, with any national organization whose
action the question Of slavery will result in endorsing the
act and which refuses its sanction the
principles of the Missouri Compromise act Of 1920 That
believe that time honored compact honorable and fair
adjustment Of the question of slavery We desire to place
this protest upon the journals of the council that
ture time the undersigned may be charged with nfacton
of express implied faith to their fellow in failing
to support the majority resolutions
look the of things presented by these
several proceedings The majority Of the councimade
up chiefly OF southern delegaesadop creed for the gov
of their organization The minority repudates
the ceeds adopedone portion appealing the country
by their protest and the other offering their protest the
council but both declining to withdraw from the organi
zaton The majority proceed in the business of the
Gil recognising members of the order delegates who
creed What is the necessary conclusion from these facts
The FIRST is that the organization does require isf
members either to approve concur in its platform
principles but recognises good know-nohings well
those who openly sectional well those who claim
be lovers of the Union those who VIGOROUSLY labor
ing to destroy the Union well southern prosavery
northern abolition fanatics If this be So how
expel the dissenting delegates but actually proceeded
the close of their abors with portion of these dissenting
delegates acting and cooperating in their proceedings