The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-05-02

Choir Of safety but amid the torrent u rdicule the auns
upon some and the affected sympathy for Others by the
exa,ng black republicans il is possible that all the true
men Of the North would be poweress in the best efforts
they could make 70 hold the people of the free States in
alliance with those who would be accused OF using our
statesmen and then cody turning their backs upon them
and seeking other victims, 10 be used in like and
thrown away WORKOUT and worthless politicians.
Would 1t be safe thus experiment upon the feelings
the northern peopeY We submit it to our southern fell
low-czens whose rights they have sustained and sub
init Il TO all national men, in whatever section they may
reside
This the spirit in which northern democrats re-
who is not identified with the Nebraska struggle would be
and smoke of the battle They do not insist that
is essential requisite his selection that the candi-
date should have been in the ght but they protest
esty against the fact that democrat the thiekest
of the battle being made objection to his nomna-
ton. They do not contend that can be trusted
a. reliable who show no scars, but that those
who show should not for that be pro-
scribed unacceptable to northern democrats They
take the ground that, whilst ought to be nomi-
mated because he identified with the struggle,
ought TO be rejected because he identified
with it. They appeal TO southern national men not
to listen to the suggestion that the northern demo
Gratis less devoted to the principles OF the Ncbras-
ka bill than the southern democrats. What they ask
is candidate who stands heart and soul on the Nebraska
issue whether he in the fight not For such
didate they tell the South that they viii rally the entire
strength Of the national of the North and they beg
their southern friends whatever else they do arbor
the caumnious suspicion that they prefer availability
to principles, IA.
1t ought not to be overlooked that If it is allowable to
prefer presidential candidate who is entirely reli-
able the Nebraska issue, although he has not been
identified with the struggle because he has not been den
fed it is equally allowable prefer candidates for Con-
gress for the Senate and for the State legislatures for the
same The inevitable consequence will be that the
recognition Of such policy in the selection of candidate
for the presidency will be followed by its recognition in
all other elections and it requires great sagacty to
oresee that the final result will be the Generalization Of
houses of Congress and in the presidency If the nation
al in the North who have braved the opposition of
natics on the Nebraska question are to be prescribed
and oversaughed because their devotion to the consu
onal rights of the South be expected that they
will continue to be sacrificed when their very devotion to
principles is treated crime to be punished with Danish
nent from public favor The true policy then is that
which the national men of the North Insist uponto Sc
ect the presidential candidate because he identified
with the late Nebraska struggenot because he not
identified with but because he is cordially and thor
oughy identified with the ISSUE and because his election
will be an unmstakable triumph Of the principle of the
Nebraska law.