The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-05-17

the minority Of the arepabliean party they win rule and
monopolze il in It's day Of triumph if that day shall
come They have secrecy unity OF action and clannsh
ness Of purpose and viii therefore prevail they
heretofore done republican victory will therefore
prove an American 'know-nothing" victory and this
will initiate and fearful in the legislative
tive and judicial administration and diplomacy Of the
country Every agent OF the government viii then be the
sworn instrument Of secret and irrepon
Sibe council and freedom and federation, and justice will
no longer prevail
do not say this In opposition TO Americansm far
as i ayows itself to the wordsworn to secrecy Of council
aud OF action though il ber thus II is impotent in the
presence Of the intelligence and magnanmity of the true
American people. direct il toward the American or
der as II approaches under the guse of the republican
party which II serves but to betray.
In asking myself with what party shall hereafter act
il will not appear strange that neither Of these present.
cd TO my mind. With the secret plotter of political
schemes and the secret denouncer of his unoendipg
neghbor can have sympathy For the sentiments Of
the republican who is, whether wisely not impeed
by feeling OF true benevolence have great respect
Born In slave State, and having passed many years of
my youth and manhood among slaves have ever cher
shed for them lively sympathy impelled by which
have in past times assumed positions with respect TO them
the wisdom Of which do not approve. | have much
respect for consistency Of opinion but with all Difference
TO the opinions of the world have more for consistency
emanation The present comfort and prospective eeya-
ton OF the negro are the purposes cherish The
ures by which these to be secured matters Of opn
ion, upon which may honestly differ Some regard
the demand for the freedom Of the slave by single as
legitimate and wise although that demand may maniiesy
entail many evils upon both the slave and the freeman
others scrue not to violate every law enable individual
slaves to escape from homes and climates congenial to
hem that they may fly TO regions in which they held
in political and social degradation and have endure
climate for which they are by habit and nature unsuted
There highly-credabe exceptions to this rue--the
exceptions of colored men whose talents whose industry
whose integrity, and general moral worth command the
respect and good will which would not be denied EN- ia
the South If they had opportunity to develop them there
But the general proposition is true that the removal
Of the free negro to the North, any more than the
removal Of the slave thther does improve his con-
ditiou his capabilities. His tendency is towards the
South 1t is there that all his faculties are best de-
vsloped, and the work of his Improvement should be
prosecuted there not the sudden liberation and fact-
tons Improvement Of few detached from the rest of
their race but the steady and persistent improvement all
by wise and udcous the early steps of which have
been well indicated by able senator from Georgia in
lecture recently delivered at Boston Georgia Ala
bama, Louisiana, and other States have already taken
steps toward preventing the separation of parent and
child enforcing observance of the marital relation
among slaves by preventing the separation Of husband and
wife, imparting the light of education to the mind of the
slave and placing the protecting of the civil power
between him and oppressive Movements in this
direction cannot fail to crafty the phanthropic heart
for they bring blessings, not to few hundreds even
few thousands Of fugitives but three and half millions
of human beings whose appreciation of them may become
such as to dspe the desire of clandesne eopemen es-
pecay ifa modified condition Of slavery should be
navor OF servants whose merits may win for them this boon
within the limits of the slave States At present it is noted
as harsh incident of slavery that it does tolerate the
presence Of free negroes but condition of personal re-
sponsibity to authorized and worthy guardian is not
incompatible with degree of liberty which there are few
negroes of the South who would prefer to m exile
from all that is hallowed to them by every object of
DRY and every tie Of Affection TO other pursuits of life
than those which custom has rendered familiar easy
Entertaining these views much at variance with those
likely to be promoted by the Of the American or
the republican parties, it is manifest that
operate with either of them and look the democratic
party for views Of principle and policy identical with
those entertain. That do recognise them all in
that party 10 the strength and ceaness with which they
entertained by the old wing party, true; but the
issues which Of them then applied no longer
exist Upon the issues that living and practical do
there End them. find nationality Of pu rpose conserva
tism Of principle and submission to law to be the watch
word of that paryprincipes among the proudest
claimed by the whg party, and such entitled to
my honor and support upon whatever banner they may be
inscribed. ... S.. .a..e
shall, therefore, still uphold them through that party
in opposition to all Others nd through the continued
Of that party hope for the cessation Of strife and the
restoration of that condition of peaceful tranquility and
general confidence without which cloud may long nger
country, the depressing influence Of which will
nowhere be keeny felt than in the capital Of the
ton suffering undeserved rebukes tho hands
Of men from both the North and the South who fail to
cherish the chosen neutral ground only because they
have ceased to cherish faterna feeling for all sections OF
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