The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-11-10
POWERFUL LETTER FROM THE HON. II. A. WISE
TO THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC MEETING IN
NEW YORK
ONLY, (near Onancock,)

NLN WIN.
ONLY (near Onancock,)
Thursday, October ls5 1885.
GENTLEMEN gratefully acknowledge yours Of the 10TH
post marked the 18TH and regret that IL is not in my power
10 accept your invitation to attend and address mass
meeting the national democratic party Of tbe city ana
county Of New York. at the Metropolitan Theatre on Mon
day. the 22d inst The situation OF my family such that
canpot before time after the 22d inst and
could not the date receiving your letter. reach
New York 10y tina; day in person. but give you Ter
vent, nnd would gladly make il an sfecua, response
have carefully examined the platform which You en-
closed of your late convention, held at Weng Hail. In
The city Of Syracuse August 49, 1885, and hail the
tonal democracy New York brethren worthy TO be
accredited in aith and accepted in fellowship by every
trot in land You national not in the sense Of
consolidation but 10 the constitutional sense are
tiona opposed 10 exclusive and sectional and
national like the party of ebony and topaz not like
the "ghhouses in the skies of the younger Adams in
1923 nor like the fusion confusion party these days
Of later "isms;p not national republican but you
"natonal Democratic You your devotion To the
constitutions e-endorse in theory and practice the resou
lions 81 The Democratic National Conventions of S4s and
1852 and you obey the lesson of The fathers by recurring
70 rugaiy and economy, and to all 'the fundamental
principles Of free government in the administration Of
public affairs la all these heartily and unite still
nrler with you upon the doctrine of State rights and
siicI OF the constitution applied to all
qtsons aud particularly to domestic Slate questions
aud the principle Of non-niervenon by Congress,
u 70 deprive States o their sovereign rights individuals
Of their private rights and the people of the Territories OF
their just aud natural political powers.
The cob tuion and not any temporary and tempori-
sompromse STATUTE is the true and only standard OF
uaonsl right The constitution, in its strict sense, and
mol according to the iattuc marian construction Of loose
fedei al surity the constitution which leaves all powers
granted where il found them the reserved
rights OF the sovereign States the constitution, which
created certain federal relations and rights of private cit
along tue important OF which is perfect equali
" between citizens OF the respe tive States the
grounds Of fed raj jurisdiction perfect comfy between
The crzens Of State and State and common property be-
them in the national domain and dominion the
constitution is the law of contederacy IL is
specter OF PERSONS II holds all alike and equally under
its protecting guardianship wherever it applies. 1t prizes
your private possession into mine 1t knows
whether you species of property another
Ii recognises only citizens Of coequa State sovereign
ties who conedeated under its shield and it provides
protection for whatever right belongs to either Of
ground which belongs to both The municipal
authority the Congress, deprive States and their
CITIZENS Of this equality this comfy and this
properly of the conederacy.
IL you may go to the common territory with what is
rghltuiy yours in New York, may meet you there with
whatever is lawfully mine in Virginia Congress may not
say that shall not migrate with slave property and hold
it there; if tey may say that they may in like man
that you shall not go there with horses and house,
hold goods and hold them and if they may declare
against the right OF either they may invade inaenabe
rights and enact laws not within the competency OF egs
laiion.
The sovereign act of defining what shall and what shall
not be enabe property by the citizen be determined
only by the conventional power of the people, forming
ganic law constitution changing Territory into
State. Until the State comes into being no power
upon earth lawfully deprive you of your horses and
household goods of my slave in Kansas unless
private property be taken for public with just compen
aud quiet OF the country demand that should left to
the people Of the Territories determine themselyes
nat le.r constitution OF government shall be- net only
In respect to slavery but every other local question The
Iubc peace Is endangered by this "disturbng subject
is practical question of right and threatens to be
OF force Force has already exerted the border
and in the face of this danger an organized stu
son which must it persisted in, compel a to arms
IN oaer 10 resist evil spirits combined to repeal the Ka
sasSebaska BILL and to reestablish the Missouri prohibit
ton
Prior to 1920 the constitution regned supreme on
this subject II then invaded by rcpealabie partial
sectional statute called the Missouri Compromise II
the rst separation CT the States first sectioned the
country like survey of the public lands it first said
the people the dividing language of Lot and Abraham
TO some go NORTH Ego south J" it was the first
nne winch divided North from South more in feeling than
~ iaet DID II not make geographical demarcasiona
he % iaue the boundary of legal limitations and de-
erinne that what constitutional on one side Of it
should be unconstitutional the other side of it? No
sd lis friends at the time of its passage slavery
20 be governed by the law of climate II is cmatory
not territorial sectional line II means to "foow M
rr 70 let Jack Frost be king Of the subjects slavery
was profitable SOUTH and frost puched negroes toes
and fingers TOO sharp north of 36 30 for 1t be prota-
bie there the question should be rnsed consayery
south nor prosavery north of that line of latitude Well
admitting this to be consistent and rational con-
structou OF the agreement to disagree did the fanatics
OF isiouo abide it? Neverl In every phase Of III,
compromise, first and last they have broken its let
ter and spirit necessarily they have raised the ques
ton con-savery South and North, East and West
everywhere in the States and Territories and District
N the Indian country the trade in transitu between
States Districts and Territories the acquisition of ter
rory, the organization and admission Of States into
the unon questions peace and war; ever everywher
always In season and of season. they have raised the
question against slavery, until they have on various
OCCASIONS nearly raised the very demon of civil war and
dsunon Ihey have harboed English emissaries raised
iofe'gn dnds welded associated influence and capital
wefa Congress with petitions fatgued the public mind
WIN compromises filled it with reyiling aud abuse PEN
s"hea press pulpit, preacher, teacher underground
rroahs spirited away runawuys have scattered broad
Gust 'aies OF holy horrors painted the stage scenes
Written Iog-caidn novels ectured, ranted, rioed until
u'ey ha.e made us divided people until they have cut
have separated churches apart socially at the
wa'e luz and other places aud until they engender-
ca sectional antgonsn becoming enemies in hos
e array than tolerant neg hbors even much less united
ptthfeh7--cldren of one falher-children of common
only children the Father of that country ever
nall whose farewell is still warning.
within the year have stood the rock of Point Pleas
AMI overlookng the grave OF Cornstathe
between the Indian and the Long Knife faened by the
blood Ct he conquest whereby Virginia secured the emf
ncnt domain OF the whole Northwest Territory There be-
fore me spread out that vast domain giant group Of
civilized sovereignties empires Of powera compact tier of
frce States! Who made them free States? Their mother
slave State Virginia by her deed of cession on her own
condi'ops with berality large a love of continental
county, made Ohio and her sisters Of the Northwest Ter
ritory free States Hers Wilmot provso II was
whole and entire grant to freedom the first made
upon earth like it. and made before the constitution OF the
United States formed. After "a more perfect union
WAS formed permanent uniform universal, organic law
began TO 1t left the domestic institutions with tho
States II defines the only where the federal author
ny can intervene One of the that OF slave v
ing from State he hall ha