The daily union., 1856-12-23
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From editorial sketch In the Ltsgnc Of the speech
delivered in the Senate Friday last by Hon. Mr. Wilson,
Of Massachusetts,, we make the following extract;
IL true that the republicans opposed to slavery
in every FORM and wherever found but they recognised the
right OF the States TO hold their bonden they thought 1t
right or expeden to do He had enjoyed peculiar faci
ties In the late for ascetang the sentiments of his
their speakers presses had counenAnesd the idea Of touch
ing slavery in the States He challenged contradiction
this point" ##
The issues made and the sentiments uttered by the
blaekepublcan orators and journalists during the
presidential fresh in the recollection of the
people, and neither shame nor alarm on the part Of their
makers and authors viii change the record. The
files of the UnOn since the nomination of Mr.. Fremont
will not only furnish frequent evidence of the openly
avowed ratorous objects of the who advocated his
election and who assisted in procuring his nomination for
the presidency, but in than instance they win be
found contain from the harangues of backre
publican orators in which the speakers bitterly and
pronisingy waged against the domestic institutions
of the southern States recognised and guaranteed under
the federal constitution Mr. Wilson may be conveniently
obvious to the mad sayings and doings OF his political
associates during the recent canvass but what can he or
will lie say to the following sentiments lately put forth by
the Springfield Republican, paper published in his own
State2
"A servile insurrecon is doubtless very horrible affair."
but s horrible than slavery The slave has just
good right, in Nature and In Christian morals, to
kill his MASTER can the has to ensave
kill him, if he In that little phrase he is con-
tanned the entire code of the prosavery morals We dep
boodshed but must be avery fool not to
that oppressed people have the undoubed right to vnd
cate their manhood and regain their liberty WHAT'S
for the goose for the gander No justifying sa
dodge this conclusion unless under the special plea
that the white has the right ensave the African, and
that the rule doesn't work both ways"
The political affnities between Fred Douglass and Mr..
Wilson, and Fred Douglass and the blackrepublican par
N fully and widely known Almost at the very time
that Mr. Wilson declared in the Senate tna he chad yet to
learn that single of their (black republican, speakers
presses had counenanced the idea of touching slavery
in the States Douglass penned and published the follow
ing atrocous sentiments
awe do therefore, hail. with heartfelt satisfaction every
sign nsurrecton not because delight in boodshed and
carnage (for Heaven knows do not) but because
above all earthly things wish to end put to the
MURDER CARNAGE which, unrebuked, has gone
for ages and which likely to 60 till the Heaven
daring yrants shall learn that it is longer safe to perpe
trate their Internal outrages.
conclusion while sincerely desire peaceful emanci-
PATTON and will earnestly labor by pen, voice, and example
abolish slavery, and thus avert the ument of Gods
heavy Judgment against American rsns and
shall welcome and rejoice in the downfall of slavery by
and at whatever cost realizing that under the whole
heavens there can be nothing worse than slavery"