The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-10-19
SEVEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.

brief outline of her news which does not appear be Of
an important character far operations in the Crmea
are concerned The and financial intelligence
is full Of meaning. The late Of the allies have
failed the well-founded apprehensions Of bank
and capitalists in regard to the partial failure Of the
grain crops in England France, and other portions Of
western Europe As matter of further precaution, the
Bank England has again advanced its rates Of interest
Consos have declined to 7s}being aggregate decline
of per cent within month. The eyes of European
statesmen are turned from the Crimea TO the
flowing granaries of the United States No wonder the
London money market and the Paris Bourse in
sitve condition.
MR.. Stewards LAST ASSAULT UPON THE CON-
STITUTION
The leading object of Mr. Seward in his late speech at
Albany seems have been to bring the constitution into
odum upon the ground that the compromises in it in re-
spect slavery have created and psrpetuaed privileged
artocac class of citizens n the persons Of the
ers of slaves The clauses in the constitution which estab
fish aristocratic class according to Mr.. Seward,
those which secure the restoration Of fugitive slaves and
authorize the enumeration of hreehs Of that population
in fixing the ratio of representation 1t matters not to the
archeader of the republican party that these clauses
were the result Of compromise but for which the fathers
Of the republic must have failed in framing constitution
Abotonism could clamor loudly when the Of equal
justice which animated the last Congress expunged from
the statuebook mark Of degradation and inequality to
the southern States which had been submitted to for
than thirty years Its keen vision in that act
nothing but objectionable outrage and acregous Vi
olaon of compact that had been consecratcd and
dered sacred by time But Mr. Seward forward
expose the hypocrisy Of his friends when he assais
a compact far sacred than he his friends
claimed the Missouri Compromise to bea compact much
longer consecraed by the acquescence of all parties and
originally made by patriots and under trying circumstan
ces to embam it in the hearts Of the people monu
of patriotism which could desecrate with mpu-
nity-that compact is the constitution, and the very
clauses in that constitution which secured its final adop-
ton.
There was truth in the hypocritical clamor which
Mr. Seward and his friends raised against the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise the violation Off solemn compact
1t had element Of compact but it had element
which rendered it impossible that it could be compact
it infracton of the constitution and repudate
wholly the doctrine that there be such thing
binding compact which violates the fundamental law of
the land. No length of time consecrate that
which is in itself @gross breach Of solemn compact But
that the constitution of the United States made it was
by independent sovereign States compact Of the
highest and solemn character and that those clauses
in the constitution against which Mr. Seward directs his
assaults peculiarly the result Of double compact
without which the whole effort to make constitution and
found Union would have been failure, will have
the ardhood deny Yet Mr. Seward singles out those
clauses thus doubly sacred from the in which
they adopted and the parties by whom they were
adopted and undertakes to make them odous by falsely
impung to them the effect Of creating privileged
arstocratc class in our country.
If Mr. Seward is right in his objection to the compro
misc clauses in the constitution it follows that fathers
failed to accomplish the great object Of the revolution and
the people, from the year 1889 down to this day. have la
bored under the delusve idea that they living in
republic. According to the late speech of Mr. Seward
constitution has made for us, not republican but ars
tocratc government 1t is hardly possible that those wise
old patriots who framed the constitution ignorant Of
the character of the work they performed but they did
not make republican constitution they must have been
either ignorant they worsc-they dishonest
They certainly signed the constitution and sent it forth
to the people charter Of repuS;canism and such
urged the people to ratify it AS such republican const
tuition the people did ray it. and have since lived
and prospered and grown great and powerful and happy
nation under what they supposed to be its wise repub
lican principles We submit the question whether WASH
tutlr
right in supposing and in declaring that they had
made republican constitution, whether w H. Seward
is right in assang IT containing clauses which
aristocracy in country We know what will be the
verdict of the American people The heart of the nation
will revolt this coldblooded hyena-ke assault upon
the memories Of the iusrious dead whose wisdom and
whose devotion popular sefgovernment thus de-
MED by Mr. Seward.
We had supposed that when Mr.. Seward promulgated
his hgheraw doctrine he had exhausted his in
devsng modes Of warfare upon the constitution lie
not to discouraged by the indignant rejection of his
hgher-awism By ali true friends Of the That
enormous hcresy he resigns the southern wing of
the enemies of the constitution who seek apply it to
those clauses that instrument which guaranty civil and
religious liberty to ALL Whilst his southern know-nohing
allies laboring render the guarantees Of civil and
lgious liberty nugatory by means Of public sentiment
which shall override the constitution Mr. Seward strikes
those other clauses which guaranty to southern
equality Of rights in the government He seeks to under
mine the constitution by making odious to northern men,
containing provisions which privileges to south
ern men not enjoyed by them.
II win be observed that Mr. Stewards present position
only new phase of his hgher-law eaormity To most
minds il IS enough to know that the assertion that the
stuon contains clauses which recognise and perpcuate
M Inv tho of