The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-08-20


the sobermnded and rejecting people Of this country from
their proprey by suggesting impending danger TO the
Union II my shor. Political eares those who are IA,
all times sgnalized my devotion the Union in all my
public acts Andi has BEEN sir because have had
an abiding confidence in the wisdom virtue and patriot
good tune rescue the ship Of State from sandng on the
breakers lily concealed beneath the raging pillows that
Threatened TO engulph us in one common ruin.
We have passed unscathed through several most alarm
ing periods in the history Of country In 1889 por
ton of the people of the South driven to open oppo
stion to the general government in resisting the tariff act
Of l828a that forced upon by the repre-
sentatyes from the North and marked by spirit of
injustice inequality and oppression in its operation upon
the people Of the South We have passed through two fear
full conflicts the question Of negro slayerythe first in
1920 and the last in 1885, just thirty years Intervening be-
tween the two periods and each met with peaceful solu
ton from the statesmen and patriots who prominent
actors in public affairs at these respective periods in
countys history The slavery question has again doomed
up in the political horizon and has assumed aspect that
orebodes danger If not destruction, to the federal Union
The North section is arrayed against the South and
has announced from all her high places in the most solemn
and FORM from her halls Of legislation and her tenn
Piles Of worship that she will make an uncompromising
upon the domestic institutions of the South by pro-
hibng its further extension beyond Its present limits II
is declared that this institution Is to be hereafter by
the power Of majority section Of this Union confined to
its present limits 1t is to be abolished in the District Of
Columbia and in all other places where the general govern
ment has exclusive Jurisdictions aud especially do they main
tain that i s to eprohihed By positive legislative enact
sequence these positions they boldly declare thatno more
slave States hereafter to be formed and admitted into
the federal Union This is the position Of the backrepub
can party, and if not expressed as part Of their plat
form is maintained by the great body OF their adherents
while many Of those who are now acting in concert with
them in this contest openly their intention to abol-
sh slavery the States where it exists This black
republican party proclaming these principles have to-day
majority the House Of Representatives who are ready
any and all times to vote for any which will
in effect consummae any Of these political revolutions
They united In electng Speaker who has openly de-
cared that he is willing ITO let the Union slide rather than
to allow the people OF the South the full enjoyment OF
equality of rights and privileges under the constitution Of
the United States We have the same party in this
House force through enacments to repeal the existing laws
of the Territory of Kansas because they made to
protect the rights of the citizens Of all sections
of country And they have passed act for
the restoration Of the Missouri Compromise line. Nor
have they stopped at this they have soemny refused to
make appropriation of means from the federal treasury
for the support of the army unless ammeed with the
that no part of the funds We're to be
used by the President of the United States enforce the
laws passed by the Legislature of the Territory of Kansas
they have openly maintained and avowed willingness
to arrest all supplies support the until the
tona democratic consent to therestoaton of
the old Missouri line of restriction And this party have
sembled in convention and Notwithstanding they
ged and differed, until their harmony was serious endan-
gered upon personal preferences and other topics Of
discussion the subject southern submission and north
supremacyon the question of perpetuating to the
South the rights which u enjoys under the constitution
and which it will surrender while the Union lasts
this subject find most extraordinary concurrence
of sentiment and of action 1t convention in which
no compromise of union for the sake of the Union
be toeraedno halfway measures TO be entertain
edtheir resolves to breathe naughty defiance to
the Sonth and to the national of the North and Of all
secons-they to declare that section hence
forth lord it the UnonS and the language
of one of their leaders in the other wing of this Capitol
the time for compromises was past And they had de-
termined demonstrate the sincerity with which this de-
ance and these resolves then proclaimed They made
choice of their candidates. John O. Fremont for the pres
dency and VIM L. Dayton for the vice presidency both
of them citizens Of the nonslavehoding section Of the
Unon-both sectional candidatesone by apostacy, the
other by birthand both If elected to carry out
the revolutionary platform of principles upon which they
stand before the country and the world In this plat
form they declareand they stand pledged to carry out If
elected these reasonable purposesthe impacable host
ty Of one section against the otherhe majority section
In point of numbers arrayed against the South the mi
norty section Of this conederacy The minority ii Is al
legged aggressive in its acts and principles upon the
rights and interests Of the majority and this one Of the
ayowed objects of this sectional combination But their
position is well understood The people of the southern
States too enlightened to give them any considerable
support in the approaching presidential election.
In the State of Kentucky alone of all the slaveholdng
States have any portion of the southern people dared
hoist the black banner Of black repubcanism This Is
simply demonstration for political eecto relieve this
party from the odum of northern sectonasm and has
not and will not deceive any wellinformed In any
section Of the Union In the North they glory in and
boast of the fact that they represent the North and that
it is their purpose to teach the South in this election that
the North Is to be the Union that having the majority,
this majority shall rule this great confederacy in all future
time They have defaoed and sectonaiized our
ona banner because its and stripes Represented each
Of the United States and thrown the breeze their mutt
lated emblem of sectional supremacy and its fods
only be stars and stripes representing sixteen mpe-
rial non-saveholding States What does all this
Is 1t the commencement Of revolution the out
burst Of fanaticsm mad And shall hesitate
TO look these facts full in the face and draw faithful and
honest conclusions from them | confess, sir, | am
alarmed the hostile position assumed by section of
the Union against the other and do not hesitate TO say
here In place that these be
mated in this country without dsrupng the ties that bind
these States together in the bonds Of brotherhood
and OF common conederacy II is insult to the South,
under the existing excitement aqueson Of such vital
and interest to them and to their descendants bring
before the American people these two sectional candidates
for President and Vice President OF the United States and
there is southern who !, traitor to his
domestic institutions that does not feel indignant at the
boldness and impudence Of this spirit Of aggression upon
onr rights co-squals and co-heirs in our common
ides of November disclose the fact that majority Of the
people Of the United States have by their votes elected the
back-repubcan nominees for President and Vice Pres
dent this government for eighty years the hope and
der of the world will be shaken TO its very foundations
What southern would soop low as In the event Of
success 10 accept position under such administration
What southern would dare 10 sit cheek by jowl in
cabinet composed Of such Greeley, OF New ork
and the senior member from the State OF Ohio mr. GIp-
DHss n II there should prove to be one craven spirit who
would consent TO barter the rights Of himself and hs
ton under the Of the United States for the van
empty trappings Of place and Office confess do not
know who that man Is would not do my most violent
personal and political enemy such injustice believe
him capable of much baseness and eachery Could
administration organized exclusively from hostile
ton hope to have quiet and peaceful reign2 If these
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