The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-12-14
AGGRESSION AND INTERFERENCE In THE Az
FAIRS OF THE TERRITORIES AND STATES.

FAIRS OF THE TERRITORIES AND STATES
The secret of most Of political and social troubles
in the United States is the spirit of aggression and inter
ference and charge that in every instance this spirit
has been set foot omened and pushed to extremes
by the opponents however called Of the democratic party
The spirit Of the constitution is that of nonnervenon
and equahe independence of the States in their local
affairs consistent with their relations for general purposes
to the requirements of the federal compact Wisely fol-
lowing the lead thus clearly marked out by the fathers the
democracy from the days of Jefferson down to the present
moment have studousy avoided all nterpositon against
that highest of all human franchises the right of the
people to manage their affairs.
If we glance back at the prominent land marks in our
history we shall be strangely startled by the spectacle pre-
scented in confirmation of these premises The Bank of the
United States was wanton, persistent and organized
interference with the government 1t set itself up as
rival against the federal power and because it had
aged to control local politics and State legislatures
ganty assumed to domneer the Chief Magistrate of
the United States and the representatives of the people
Happily for poserity and the in those days.
this great rival encountered in Andrew jackson the
personcation of that truly national sentiment which still
lives in the breasts Of the American people About the
time abolitonism attempted to interfere with the rights
OF the States by pouring into the South myrads OF nam
matory documents against the institutions of fellow c
in that regon but the democracy resisted and arrested
the undertaking. The tariff of 1912 fragrant inter-
ference with the rights of labor and put down by the
democratic party nhe midst of unprecedented camor
The bankrupt law nfractlon of the obligations be-
tween and man. and had not been sterny and
repudated by the democratic party the widespread ruin
which marked its brief existence would have convued
the nation from its centre to its circumference the
present hour.
Nor has this spirit of aggression and interference been
confined to party in midst Its base of operations is
in Great Britain and the enemies of free institutions
that part of the world initiating abotonsm in its hatred
of the example set to the oppressed of the Old World by
the of liberal laws these shores has sought every
occasion crafty its hypocrcal hostility slavery by
intrudng Extensively into the affairs of our citizens
And at this day the sign by which abotionism hopes to
conquer is aggression upon the rights of the States and
interference in the affairs of the Territories
The black republicans under Seward fear to trust the
people. They repose their faith not in the popular will
whether in settled communities in those organized
sembes which States created but in the DEGREES
OF Congress- in the dication of arrogant and impusve
rnaiores and in the ntrigues of aspiring demagogucs
who themselves the superior power of managing
for others who best able take care of themselves
fore their eyes specimen of congressional unanmy and
dignity in the present Congress These the would
masters of the American Territories This divided and
dscordant array of factions unable keep itself together
utterly incompetent to manage ITSELF aspres with ncon
cevabe nfauaon to extend its desolang misrule over
the affairs of the people and to up its own rash udg
meuts against the whose destinies ntertwincd
with the future OF our territorial system.
What but aggression of the grosses and most fragrant
character Is the doctrine enuncated by Mr. Seward in bis
Albany speech that State shall be admitted into this
Union unless the constitution of that State shall suit him
and his followers To illustrate the dangers which must
spring from the application of this doctrine let suppose
that South Carolina should set itself up interfere with
the of New York. and should attempt teach
the people he Empire State another system of morals and
should say that the voice Of those Immediately concerned
should decide but that comparative strangers should
be the arbiters What would be the answer Need we
say that the attempt would be epulsed with inesbe
and Indignation And yet while Mr.. Seward and his fol-
lowers would resist the application of their own idea to