Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-06-23
.sAvI THE UNION"

Under this heading, the Boston Atlas, in
an article CONF osed of badinage, sarcasm
aud seriousness, pretty efectually ridicules
the Southern fre-ea,ers, whose panacea
for all real or faneied political evils is dis
solutiou of the Union. II also notices with
out compunctiou the supple-kneed demsgo-
gues of the North, whose mental articu-
iation S sre as flexible as the bodily joints of
the India rubber man who travels with the
circus Referring to the charge that the
North wishes to dissolve the Union, the
AflGs says:- 81
ave dissolve the Union What have We
no, done to preserve il! Our knee joints
are stiff with cringing-our tongues are
blistered with falsehood-our consciences
are callous and corny with subterfuge-we
have been content TO leopard our religion
and our iaws-we have placed atthe service
of slavery our courts, our churches and our
camps and all this has been done TO pre-
serve the Union And now, after AL this
| self denial and shame, we are charged with
designs against the very institutions for
which we have remorseiessly sacrificed so
and retributive sting in the accusation, but
We DENY its justice. What demand OF the
North implies dissolution We ask for free
dom in the territories; but what man in
possession OF his senses will deny that under
the Constitution Of the United States, sla-
very is an abnormity--a moral monster un-
worthy of propagationi The right to hold
| slaves in South Carolina, cannot by any
! ingenuity of construction be tortured into
( right to hold slaves in Utah or Nebraska.
4 The pro-slavery emigrant carries his human
cattle with him to curse virgin soil, not
because free labor is impossble-not be-
| cause servile labor is the most profitable,
He transpiants the evil into new territories,
that he may strengthen and sustain it at
home-that he may send Senators and Rep
resentatives TO Washington, to care for
the perpetuity and prosperity Of slavery in
South Caroline. Are we traitors for resist
| ing this must pa lpable injustice II may be
uncivil, it may be annoying, it may be i'm
/ polite for Us to demand the restoration of
the Missouri Comprom Sc; but Jefireys him.
| self, if once more in the flesh and his drag
! pled ermine, could not twist the offence into
treason. We advise the dyspeptic gentle
men who manage the finder and touchwosd
departments of the Southern Journals. Sc
rio usy TO consider these things. When,
without assigning any decent reason, they
predict the dissolution of the Union, plain
men will be apt to consider the wish the
father of the thought. A little explanation
may save us from mutual Misunderstanding
These oracu!ar people know best their fu.
ture purposes, but since they fail to unfold
them, it il not very unehartable to pre-.
sumo, that new schemes against freedom
are on the tupis--that new territories are tc
be seized-,hat new statutes are to be en-.
acted-that fresh breach Of faith is con.
templsted The South may be determined
to provoke dissolution. The printed trea
son which daily reaches US hardly admits o
any other explanation. Yet it will fail, ant
miserably fail of its purpose. The con
feceracy has well recognized claim upor
the mind, the heart, and the hands of thu
people, and il will be sustained agains
every form Of fnnaticism and every assault
of folly"