The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-03-17
FUNDAMENTALS OF FUSION.

FUNDAMENTALS OF FUSION
The Hon. Arson Burlingame, recently elected to Con.
gress by the aboionsts and know nothngs OF Masachu
ses speech delivered before public meeting Dos
short time ago endorsed without qualification by the
Hon Henry Wilson, lately chosen senator Of the United
States by the combination laid down the platform o.
the fusionists in the following memorable words
W. haze aati-.iarery Constellation, an oaG.
slavery Bibie, and onti slavery GodP
This addressed TO assemblage Of the people Of
Boston, the capital OF State claiming be the re-
hgous, moral enlightened, and educated law-abiding
member of the American confederation by the they
had chosen represent them in the Congress the Uni
ted States and assist in making laws for the government
Of twenty millions OF feemen and this
toned by wholesale, and in the explicit words by
Of the United States also recently chosen by these
same religious moral enlightened well-edueated law.
abiding people Coming abroad, then, under such high
sanction presume these points mbody the great
fundamental principles on which the fusion party based
and az such they call for strict analysis Let there
fore calmly inquire what is their meaning and to what
ends their practical application win lend
awe MUST HAVE ASrrsEAvnRy cossrfrurios'-thath
TO Say constitution revoking all the guarantees which
intended secure and protect the right OF hf
teen States to the possession Of property amounting
some fifteen hundred millions Of dollars Is IT possible
conceive for single moment that these fifteen States
any one Of them viii voluntarily assent to this ansa.
very constitution by which they win be not only beggard
in property but revoutonzcd In their social organization
and domestic relations Or is II possible to conceive that
legislative coercion can compel them TO make these
sacrifices Did the wild rawlings Of hnacsm, or the In
sdous seductons Of Hypocrisy achieve such mira
Gle No who looks into his own heart and invest.
gates the springs that govern human action believe
for moment
An an-sIavery constitution Isl therefore, only another
phrase for the dissolution Of the Union Peaceable
sion or violent and bloody revolution must be the nev
table result Thus the first object OF the who repre-
sens the sonists of Massachusetts, in the next Congress
is the dissolution OF the Union for that is the plain Eng
lish of an ansavcry constitution To prove this DO
not resort to mere inference The abotonista fused
in with the knownothngs have and again pub
licly declared they would give the Union for the abe
ton Of slavery"
awr MUST HAVE AN AsrrsLAvray BnLE,p quoth the Hon.
Arson Burlingamcthat is to say, must discard that
volume which the basis Of the Christian faith, and with
out which it cannot stand and either adopt
modify il to salt the views Of the Hon Arson Bur
HhRaiuc ana MS inspired Inc Iropbet
rson the Angel Gabriel and Abby Foster super
sede all the law and the prophets and the sacred edce
which has withstood the test Of time and the cmpcss Of
thousands Of years must be pulled down heads by
the Samsons Of abolition know-nothingsm.
"WE MUTT Asri-sLAvsaY GoDp Does not every
sincere Christian shudder with horror and shrink with dis
gnst from this blasphemous annuncation2 The God Of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob the God who spake unto
Moses from Mount Sinai the God the Father Of the Re-
decmer of the human race give place to the God Of
the Hon Arson Buringame the God Of William Lloyd
Garrison the God Of those who believe in God the
God who has attribute but that Of the antislaycy
God We recoil with ncxprcssble loathing from such
basphemous balderdash and nothing but the solemn
obligation we feel to the people Of the United States
against the consequences OF the adoption of such prn
pies could possibly induce TO sully columns with
such execrable rawlings which mediate the prosraon Of
the laws of man. the laws Of God and Of God himself
Such then ia the creed Of the abolitonsts least Of
Massachusetts now fused with the -nothing and
shutting party
But the Hon Arson Burlnaame does not stop herr
He would have foreign consus take aides with the
noble KossuhSwho has just published wholesale libel
the people and government Of the United States; aud
he would have judges who believe in higher awmean-
ing doubt judges who win pay not the slightest respect
to any other law than that which prompted Mesrs Sew
ard sumner and Chase violate thoir official oath in
order quiet their scruples of conscience The Hon,
Arson Burlingame does not relish your Judge Lorng
who administer the laws ia conformity with their oahs Of
Office. He wants judges who win govern themselves BY
higher law that renders all other laws nugaoya Law
which every makes for himself receives implicitly
from the great prophets Of abolition Of your paliry
legislative rules legal dieta from unregeaersisd ndg
who take them guides instead Of the inspired dognas
Of the Hon Arson Barngame and the Hon Sen
ator Wilson, his endorscr whose conscience % doubles
rather would doubtless be most infaliibe guide
did not 50 often turn and give him the dodge
II Is only because this has become AN organ ena
representative Of principles which, they attain The A.
tendency win carry with them the downfall Of Chrssa'
y the overthrow Of the empire Of the laws tho disupoa
OF social sysiem and the dissolution Of he Unoh
that we have noticed him. Though insect be Gao
sting and his senseess rawlings derive consequences from
their author being identified with combination the os'
dangerous that menaced the peace and happiness
the United States.
MR. NAsoNsg HEALTH