The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-02-10

time, they acted on for months Asr they are
made"
AT this point come 10 the efforts making by the
new secret party emigration from the old World
By which the wilderness Is redeemed civilization industry
encouraged the public increased and the way
gradually but surely prepared for the abolition Of all
indirect In the shape Of tariffs upon people
Defeated before and with results that We can never
TOO highly appreciate the federal leaders now Try.
ing to arrest emigration that ths noble policy may
be destroyed Mr. Benton charged these leaders twenty
FIVE years ago with being guilty Of the monstrous
offence denounced against the King q England by the
signers Of the Declaration Of Independence in the fol-
lowing words
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His Majesty the King Of England profcssed like the d
er leaders OF old and the present secret party under the
control Of federal and abolition leaders be affection.
aely devoted to this country He too wanted AmcrI
ems to rule America meaning himself and his msrceua
ries) The ederasts desired limit the boundaries Of
the Onion and the party tolls effect the same OBJ
ec even while the whole world Acknowledges the wisdom
Of our policy in regard the oppressed Of other nations
BY stopping all emigration to the United States
The whole OF the federal party has been marked
by The most strenuous efforts prevent the extension Of
our territorial boundaries prohibit the creation Of new
States aud keep the great rivers in the OF mo-
narchcal powers Let those who deceived by the
professions the abolition leaders keep their eyes fixed upon
these facts and they win find how harmoniousy the pres
project Of abolition and intolerance agrees with te
federal policy asserted and maintained with rare inter
missions, for sixty years.
Strange too that from the very Massachusetts, which
now sends the rankes enemies Of the Union the Con-
gress of the United States and the relentless foes Of
the adopted citizen first voices raised against the
expansion Of our beloved Union. John Quincy Adams
admitted this in October Of 1873 while American minister
the Russian Speaking of the growth Of western
States and admrug that distance the sublime speea.
Gle he exclamss How is this voice Of the past In lie
application the Massachusetts, of 1851
IN New England (says Mr. Adams) Closes her influence
in the councils of the Unon IL win not be owing any
diminuon of population owing these eigraons ITO
the West oH be from tAn PARTED, sRcrAulAx, or A.
Hamilton called It, clannish spirit mhich makes many
@ her political leaders jealous and enrioa 81 e Sos THs
sPinir NATURE NARROW AND CONTRACTED and
il always works by like ITSELF Its natural tendency
to excite and provoke couneractng spirit of the char
and it has actually produced that effect in
1t has combined the southern and western portions
the United States not In league, but In concert OF po
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the great Legislators of antiquity founded upon their
vances to strengthen and multiply the principles aitrac
ton in civil society Oar legislators delight ~ mnh
plying aud fomsHtiny he principles ef repusioa."
The doctrines of Massachusetts aboliionism have
regret say since made rapid progress in those free
ern States whose progress they long and violently
resisted Their avowed hostility to emigration however
after long silence that favorite federal dogma
show to the West that the SNAKE is only scotched
killed and that opposition to the rights of the South l.
now sp closely identified with luminosity to the growth
of the West
The leaders anxious in 1886, 1881 and lTsS
to surrender the navigation Of the Mississippi Spain
The federal leaders, in the first ordinance for the
sale Of the public lands refused to sell less quantity than
hundred acres refused reduce the price for
actual settlers.
The course Of such men as Josiah Quincy Of Boston and
those who believed in his doctrines and followed his
ample in opposing the acquisition of Louisiana is
event familiar to the youngest readers of political
history The element that controlled them then was hos
tility 10 the admission of hourshing people and
noble region into the Union and they commended with
memorable bitterness against that memorable acqus.
on In the midst Of the excitement this question how
ever, Thomas Jefferson chosen President TO obtain
Louisiana matter Of the greatest Importance
mcfciaiy anu poHushiy- Aht VEST says behoh
"was filing up with people, and covered with wealth
and population. 1t no the feeble settlement
which the Congress Of the Confederation had seem and
whose rights few they TO this free navigation Of
the Mississippi had given birth the arduous stug
gle in Congress States bad superseded these n
FAINT settlements Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee had
been admitted into the Union the Territories Of Indiana
Illinois and Mississippi were making their way TO the
station. The western settlements Of Pennsylvania
and Virginia lined the left bank Of the Ohio for half the
length Of its course. All animated with life gay with
hope independent in the cultivation grateful soil and
rich in the prospect of sending their accumulated products
TO all the markets of the world through the great chan
mel that conducted the King Of Rivers the bosom Of The
The treaty with Spain had GUARANTEED this righd
passage
In 1902 this right violated and New Orleans was sud-
denly closed against Che States aud Territories alluded
aboye thus producing dismay disaster and bankruptcy MI
Jefferson took bold and rapid acquire Louisiana
He Livingston and Monroe France negotiate bf
purchase and in the Senate Of the United States the
confirmation Of these two distinguished gentlemen, ever
federal vote from the free nes including nearly all from
New England, cast against them The result
known and Louisiana was acquired but not without
fierce and relentless opposition from the federal leaders
Congress Massachusetts, the first State TO raise -
voice against the admission Of Louisiana State d
this Union We copy the following resolutions, rePors