Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-07-17
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MR, Enron ! hope you YIN permit me touttel
: few words in regard to Pennsylvania, New Jer
sey, and New York, which regard as the heart O
the Union, the last seat Of It's vitality, which viii
continue TO throb when the extremities become
cold and pulseless, and which may still reanimats
the whole body polite, even when the doctors
themselves shall disagree and despair. Your lead
! ing article of the 18th inst sounded the right key
note and ID Is to be hoped its vibrations will bs
extensive and peryading
Nature made these three States the centre o
the Union--the keystone of the arch, the sources
Of patriotism, the safeguards Of the country, i
| was here the first Congress assembled, here thu
battles of freedom were fought, and here the Con
stitution was framed--which, may God in his mer
cy forever defendl Here, in the event Of dissolu
ton and civil war, viii the great battles be fought
and when freedom expires, the warmth Of extin
guished patriotism will lngsr the longest Bu
these three States may be able to maintain the
peace, to stand between the incensed belligerenti
and keep them apart--to uphold the Union and
WELD the balance OF poweS If united, they car
and win make the next President, and they car
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is unquestionably the true meaning and interpre.
tation of the constitution Of our fathers.
But the assailants Of the structure fabricated by
such men as Washington, Franklin, Hancock, JET.
ferson, &C., must be rebdked, and you have begun
the work well in the article referred to. Seward,
Wilson, Greeley, Johnston and other Infamous
Abolitionsts and enemies Of the sacred Union, are
ceaselessly striving, openly and insidousy, to In
snuate their venom In the heart Of the Union.
Good men rely upon yirtuous actions for success;
but, nevertheless, evil deeds may accomplish much,
and base men, who can corrupt people, may sue
coed in ruling them; and there those who would
rather reign In hell than serve in heaven.
Ex-Governor Johnston was tempted once, and
fell forever. Some $4,000 Abolition votes were
promised him If he would sacrifice some 5000
merchants in Philadelphia. He agreed to it. But
he learned too late the influence Of the men he
condemned and regarded as the serfs Of the "slavc
power" He was badly beaten. Rising from his
fall and having committed certain ambitious edi-
tors with him, he was enabled to procure the NOM
nation Of q friend who did succeed-not by means
of any strength of J. or bis party, but in conse-
quence Of the unpopularity of the administration
at Washington. But he does not think himself
politically dead; and it is supposed that the North
can be arrayed against the South--in spite Of the
merchants to whom it would be fatal, and who
would be the first victims--when, being overthrown
within the Union, the conspirators may triumph
over it's ruins. e. W ii
But the merchants and manufacturers have the
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reason to believe the inclination to put period to
such proaigate schemes. To do this, they must
have change Of presses or editors. The infuen-
tial papers that pander to the infamous political
schemers, cannot exist a month without their adj
vertsements, and yet, many of these presses be-
tray the interests Of their patrons. Owned either
by some candidate for the Presidency, Or Vice
Presidency--or established by some aspiring Sena-
tor, with more money than brains and honesty, or
conducted by men who have themselves designs
upon certain Offices, there are but few who have
the ability and desire to subserve the views of the
judicious merchants who most indulgently support
them. Indeed it is not to be doubted that the ex-
Governor has sworn vengeance against the mer-
chants, and would, If he could, bankrupt them all
at one blow But they win be reused to the danger
and will avert the calamity. Iallude, particularly,
to the Jo56rs---the most numerous and influential
class ia our great cities and the only one in init
mate and constant Communication with the bust
ncssmen Of the interior Of the central States, and
Of the entire West and Southwest ~al
They know their own Interests, and the grave
duties incumbent on them, and knowing, will main
tain or perform them. They have too long been the
passive victims of the politicians, and Of the ar
rogant editors set over them. The editors who
have sssunsi,ts teach them, hardly know the diff
ference between jobbcr and commission pner-
chant. A large number Of the commission mer-
chants, Ike the bankers sre not citizens Of the
United States, and jet these are the men, the
pompous editors mostly CONSULT A commission
merchant sells by sample, to..a hundred jobbers,
and the hundred jobbers, In personal intercourse
sell to FIVE thousand country merchants. The e.
Governor was not aware Of this when branding
the jobbers as comparatively insigni6cant class
to be probably sacrificed for the abolition, disunion
votes Nor did the presses in his reesoil interest
seem to know 1t MI 80 n '.s +. l.e.l
The jobbers must be aroused to action. There
Is money ana taient 70 esthonbhcef prcsSeb winch
win be true to them. Their fortunes, and their
great cities, their responsibility, their virtue and
happiness, and the welfare Of. their posterity, de-
pend upon the preservation of the Union and the
maintenance Of the constitution. Corrupt and
broken down politicians, and dcspicable plotters
against the unity of the States, may sneer at them
as the serfs Of the slave power" but they win be
sufficiently fortified by the Consciousness that they
are adhering TO the landmarks Of Washington,
Franklin and Adams--of Clay, Calhoun and Web
ster. ttf ~ ~
If slavery is an evil, so is the brothel in Boston;
and yet Florida, which has no brothels, does not
interfere--docs not employ lecturers and establish
presses 10 abolish them; does not send incendi
aries to burn holy thieves TO stesl does not petit
ton Congress TO abolish or abate--nor appoint
southern Greeley to administer moral catapasms
and rabid vituperation. lift be an evil in Masss-
chusetts, Florida is not responsible for II. She
leaves her sister State 70 manage her own donles
tic concerns without any impertinent interference
on her part-and she merely desires her sister TO
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