The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-05-01


mscreants his bosom as friends recognise them
associates And yet those who profess % Aphor ana
conemn when speaking behind our backs TO north
en audience here this floor and IN this city seek the
society and when permitted make the aequalnanee OF
Shareholders salute them equals cordially grasp their
hands as friends and court their yor with aoJec syco
phancyl
Mr. President shall not degn to vindicate my constit-
uency myself OF caumnies arocous aud so infa-
nous But i must say that those who utter them are
neither faithful friends frank foes they deceive and
misead their constituents at home ana heay them mere
they smile when present and Taduee US when ABB
sent they
:" Wear friendships mask for purposes Of spite,
Fawn in the day and butcher in the night"
Such is the conduct Of whom the from New
Hampshire Mr. HALEl reverenees as doing honor 70 the
Senate by taking his seat this oocouduet which he
humby initiates his visits TO the west end OF this
have been grossly misrepresented Indeed suppose
that senator and all Of his party have endorsed those
umnes by aiding in their publication and circulating them
under their own franks, And sir the treasury of the UL
ted States is surreptousy used defray the expense Of
enveopng their pamphlet poison for dissemination through
the mails
South represented Easy Prey for her Enemies.
Sir not only represented as people worthy Of
total desruc is encouraged and invoked by rayng
arms against not only all the world outside limits
but our slaves and the nonslavehodes in midst To
emboden outside assaans they assured that we
utterly mpoen for purposes Of resistance defence
and to encourage instruction within, slaves
| sured OF the sympathy of The world without
l
quoted ridcuing the idea that the South be driven
by any aRgresSiops dissolve the Union tells the people
OF Maine that at is and contemplate in northern
people to yield they have yielded before this handful of
arsiocras "Yes SIR says he, "ths humbug Of dsunioD
has done to down the spirit of the North than
all other things put together The fear of dissolution OF
this Union! Ny God only think of it for a momentl
dissolution of the Union coming from The puny of the
South Six millions Of people with three millions Of mortal
in their midst and mechanic arts not
the manufacture OF themselves their
rivers with Aud yet they say, If you do
terms we will dissolve the partnership Why sir there is
not business where who ii he had such part
would hesitate to kick him out at once and have done
with it,
The senator from New York mr. SEWARD in one of the
speeches quoted after speaking of the many bonds
Union upon the North says, "the SHAREHOLDERS in spite OF
all their threats are bound to it by the bonds and
that Of dependence for their safety. Three millions
q sapes are hostile force constantly in their presence
their pery midst The scrvile is always the fear
full form of The gorLd wihout synpathizes Nth The
seruiie enemy. Against that the American Uuion is
the only defence OF the savehodersher only protection
If ever they SHALL in of madness recede from that
Union and provoke that war, they viii back
again.
While "the world without" thus aroused against us
and to ympathze with the servie enemy and the slaves
within limits promised the sympathy of the world
without" these same appeal TO the pride ambition
ana envy oil Observation-Disclosures in our midst TO redress i'm
puted wrongs by subverting the privileged Glass; the
slave ohgarchy" The senator from Massachusetts, tells
them Of the magn influences which bear with oppressive
force upon free labor They tainted by the
from Ohio with the assertion that there no more liberty
for the white in the South unless he slaves than
there is for the slave himself" and by the from
New York with the assertion that shareholders enforce their
silence and their pardnship Nth phrs pistols and knicss
They told by Others less credible though less dis
tngushed-high officials of the Emigran Aid Society
that their labor is unrewarded that slavery and de-
grades them that the slave States Of small value in
deed, 10 the general government and southern trade is
comparatively insignificant And to bolster these caIum
MES not only is history alsifed but southern men are
vouched as witnesses and their speeches garbled mis-
quoted, or misapplied
Nh.
of the scavengers of literature who live like muckw orms
upon corruption but of grave and dignifed men, who a
feet the honor the decencies and prophecies of gentlemen
OF statesmen who aspire make laws for the government
of twenty-five millions of people TO mould public opuiou
TO reform public morals and enlghtcn the public mind OF
our peers tnominaly who sit this hoor the equals
OF all OF us and the enemies Of of the represent
atyes of equal confederate and friendly States If such
be the illusions Of the fountains of black repubcanism
what must be the infusons of its cesspools
Now sir, submit to honorable whether greater ag-
erosion, wanton base could be commit
ted against any society Than such arocous bes upon the
southern people, and such violent and incendary attacks
upon their domestic nsutions7 They intended and
calculated to destroy all faith in them bring them under
universal reprobaon TO subver PROSTATE and alnhnte
them. And yet
:" With that dull, rooted, callous impotence,
Which, dead 70 shame and every nicer sense,
She stumbled on some virtue unawAres,"
told there been no aggresson-no wrong done
and the PresidH assailed with bitter iuvectve by
those who participate in approve these assaults because
win true moral courage and just regard for const
utional rights be aiudes TO those citizens Of the North
OhO ociousiy termedds t0ih sociaI iHstiions and
~ho permanently organized assocafons 10 iaict injury
upon ~ by wrongful dc Whieh IroHd b Of be-
f0ecn oregR p0Tcs and only taH 10 be such sy1
because Perpetrded under cover Of The Union.
Plans and Purpose, n Abolition
The senator from New Hampshire Mr. Hale the friend
and associate Of our assaans that ali the anti
slavery men be knows diseIdin ugeyv he pUrpos, de
srs porer 70 tHeTs pih slavery IN he Sdss tyhss II
eztss There deaf as those tho H not hear
mono so blind those who EM Has he never seen
or heard Of those among whom Lysander Spooner is
prominent who deny that either the constuo the acts
OF 1898 1850, require the surrender Of fugitive slaves
who declare that slavery itself s unconstitutional and
that Congress should through It's courts backed bv military
force exert lie poDp 10 abolish the institution In the
States and for that end should arm organize and dclp
line the slaves militia Has he never heard OF q
or Wright Parker or Beecher, sage lawyer nnlps
tors OF divinity, Who conoedir- .,, au P,ous uoo
need Is he RJ pc on constitution, lava and hi
lure The - IN order 10 put down slavery, and adj
-,orh TO do 20 poaceably II Il can forcibly II II
nusl Has be no knowledge Of societies who annually
announce and advocate the same propositions 10 their
resolutions and addresses
Sir was amazed NJ the declaration even from the lips
o. the senator from New Hampshire for notwithstanding
bis imputed addiction 20 trhng and or credit for
sincerity did not think him willing to 20 into voluntary
bankruptcy No one can doubt that the senator knows
many more snt-savery than any soutberner does
who willing ready and eager 10 assa slavery In the
States and only bde the time when they think they can
do 50 safely and efficiently he only deceives himself II
he supposed such declarations from him deceived any one
else need not out Of this hall find those who have
avowed ansavery sentiments can be utter
ed, and express the purpose and desire 10 interfere with
slavery IN the States where It exists The from