The daily union., 1856-04-02

together in harmony. The sentiment elected an en-
husiaste response nom all present whether democrats or
strong enough and broad enough to sustain all true
hearted Americana 1t Is elevated glorious platform
which the downodden nations OF the earth gaze with
hope and desire with admiration and establishment Our
Union the star 10 the West whose genial and steadily
influence win ut last should We remain united
people, dpe the gloom OF despotsm from the ancient
lions Of the world Its moral power win prove be
potent than millions of armed mercenares And shall this
glorious star set In darkness before 1t has accomplished
half its mssionf Heaven forbid Let all exclsim
with the heroic Jackson e Union must and shall be pre-
served"
Aud what Union this has been The history Of the
human presents parallel to it, The bit OF striped
bunting which was bs swiftly swept from the
by the British navy according the prediction Brtish
statesman previous to the Of 1872 display ed in
every and in every port of the habitabe globe Our
glorious stars and sr'pes-ths nag our eoqntry-now
zen the proud exclamation which every where
shielded ancient Roman from insult and injustice ~
American citizen s now an exclamation Of almost
equal poteucy throughout the civilized world. This Is
tribute due the powers aud the of these thirty
one United States. We have lately presented spectacle
which has asonshed the greatest captain Of the age
At the call Of their country irresistible host Of armed
men, too skilled in the best Of armssprung
like the soldiers of Cadmus from the mountains and the
valleys Of our great conederacy The struggle among
them was not who should remain at home but who should
enjoy the privilege Of Drawing the dangers and the prva
ons Of foreign In defence Of their counys rights
Heaven forbid that the question Of slavery should ever
be the stone thrown their
make them their against each other and per-
ish in mutual conflict
Whilst our power as united people against
the injustice aud assaults of foreign enemies what has
been our condition at homer Here every citizen stands
erect In the proud proportions bestowed upon him by his
Maker and feels himself equal to bis eow-man. He is
protected by government OF just awsn the enjoyment
OF life liberty and property lie sits down under his own
vine and his fig tree and there none to make him
afraid confederacy composed Of thrtyone sover-
egn and independent States open before hm, in which
be feels himself to be everywhere ut home and
where throughout its extended limits SEEK his pros
perity and happiness in his way The most perfect
freedom of intercourse prevails among al, the States
The common sulerngs and common alores of the past
the prosperity Of the present. and the brilliant hopes Of the
future must impress every patriotic heart with deep love
and devotion for the Union Who that now citizen Of
this republic extending from the ST. Lawrence to the
Rio Grande and from the Atlantic to the Pacific does not
shudder at the idea of being transformed into citizen OF
one of its broken jealous and hostile fragments? Wha.
patriot would rather shed the last drop of his blood
than see the thiry-one brilliant stars which now float
proudly upon aag amid the battle and the
breeze rudey torn from the national banner and scattered
in confusion over the face OF the earth
Rest assured that all the patriotic emotions of every
truehearted in favor Of the Union and the
constitution shared by the southern people What bat
e-feld has not been illustrated by their gallant deeds
and when in history have they shrunk in sacri
fees and suerngs in the cause of their country What
them the muttering thunder which hear from
the South? The signs of the times truly portentous
Whilst many in the South openly advocate the cause of
cesson and disunon, large majority, as firmly believe
still fondy cling the Union, awaiting with deep anxiety
the action of the North the Compromise lately effected
in Congress Should this be dsrega and nulihed by
the citizens of the North the southern people may become
united and then farewell long farewell, to our pleased
Union | am no alarmist; but brave and wise man
looks danger steadily in the face This is the best means
of avoiding it. am deeply impressed with the conviction
that the North neither sufficiently understands appre-
eiates the danger For my part have been steadily
watching It's approach for the last fifteen years. During
warnings have been dsregarded now soemnly declare
as the deliberate conviction of my judgment that two
things are necessary to this Union from the most
imminent danger:
Agitation in the North on the subject of southern sa-
very must he rebuked and put down by strong ener-
getic, and enlightened public opinion.
The fugitive-save law be executed in its letter
ana in It's spirit
On each Of these points saa offer few observations
Those greatly mistaken who suppose that the tempest
which now raging In the South has been raised solely
by the acts and omissions Of tho present Congress The
minds OF the southern people have been gradually prepared
for this explosion by the events Of the last fifteen
Much and devotedy they love the Union many Of them
taught believe that the peace Of their esdes
and the security Of their families cannot be preserved
without separation from The crusade OF the abolition
lists agans their domestic peace and security commenced
In 1885 General Jackson, in his annual message TO Con-
gres " December Of that year. speaks Of 1t in the follow
ing emphatic language must also invite your attention
TO the painful excitement produced in ths South by
empts to circulate through the mails nhaunatory Ap-
peas addressed TO the passions Of the slaves in prns
and various of publications calculated 10 stimulate
them TO instruction and produce ell e horrors Of ser
vile war" q
From that period the agitation in the North against
southern slavery has been ncessau by OF the
OF Stale Legislatures State and county conventions aboli
lectures and every other method which fanatics and
demagogues could devise The time Of Congress has been
wasted In violent harangues the subject Of slavery n-
tammatory appeals have been sent forth from this central
point the country the inevitable effect OF which
has been TO create geographical parties much dreaded by
the Father Of his Country and TO esrangs the northern
and southern divisions Of the Union from each other
Before the Wilmot proyso nterposcd the abolition
Of slavery In the District Of Columbia had been the chic
theme Of agitation. Petitions for this purpose by thou
sands-irom men, women, and chdren-poured into Goa
gess session after session The rights and the wishes Of
the Of slaves within the Dstot boldly disre
garded Slavery denounced u national ain and a
national disgrace which the laws Of God and the laws OF
ought TO abolish, cost what might II mattered not
he fanatics that tho abolition OF slavery Of the District
would conyert into citadel 10 the midst Of two slave
holding States ofn wbiGh e abotoDiss could securely
scatter arrows frebrands aud death al afogud il mat
tered not TO them that the abolition OF slavery 10 the Dis
rict would be violation Of the spirit Of the constitution
and Of the implied faith pledged TO Maryland and Virginia
because the whole world knows that those States would
have ceded 1t 10 the Union had they imagined it
coulj eyer be converted by Congress into place from
which their domsstc peace and security might be assaed
by fanatics and sbotonists Nay the aboltoniss went
still further-they agitaed for the purpose aboshing
slavery in the forts arsenas and navy yards which the
southern States bad ceded the Union under the cons
tuition, for the protection and defence OF he country
Thus stood the question when the Wllmot proviso was
interposed, TO add fuel to the fame and excite the
southern people TO madness
u would be the extreme Of dangerous inratuation TO
suppose that the Union then In serious danger
Had ihe Wilmpt EToyig3 become a law bad slavery
been abolished in the District oF Columbia nothing short
OF special interpOsion Of Divine Providence cogd have
prevented the secession Of most not all Of the ssyeb0d