The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-02-27
SOUND VIEWS WELL EXPRESSED.

We have more than bad occasion to refer TO the
very able and spirited paper Published at MartinsbQrg,
Virginia by Major Robinson II doing gallant service
10 the Of sound democratic principles The follow
ing extract from editorial in his last Virginia Re
publican, reviewing some recent resolutions OF the Nor
gantown know notlng council, and in which resolutions
it is declared that slavery is sectional question, and
should be ignored by the American order
alt false that slavery sectional in the sense in which
used by the abotons and in which it has been
used by this Morgautown meeting 1t is national interest
is in express erms recognised and protected by the
constitution of tho United States. 1t Fundamental ee
the very structure Of the federal government Po
ca power claimed and by that instrument 1t was ac
corded slave population Entering into the structure
and constitution of the legislative and executive departments
of the federal government is agent in every law and in
every the government The fugitive slave is by the
express language of the constitution denied an asylum in
portion of the Union Under fair construction OF its
authority the sa yehoder has right Of transit with his
property through every State and in all the Territories his
rights recognised and protected against unjust and OPP
pressiye local legislation.
This constant TRADE against slavery as sectional institu
is used the great argument to restrict slavery within
its present msto let it rest for its support alone upon
laws Of the States where Is toleratedto consrue the
constitution hostile beyond these limits, aud to justify
species Of aggression it beyond the boundaries OF
municipal recognition. This has become the reoeiv-
ed aboonists of the North and in this doc
rine the know nothngs of Monongaia county have de-
clared their concurrence
Slavery in this country has been aggressive 1t
now and has stood the defensive 1t lie
the subject and waof nsdious and
public assault Not day, not hour is allowed to pass
that all the influences which money religious fanatio'sm
and sectional ambition command, not employed
to undermine and destroy it, For party, then, in the
South, at time like this, to announce that 1t means
to ignors its political platform the slavery question:
there remains further leap for to take and that Is
for it to actively with the Summers, Stewards, and
aIes Of the North their present dabolca efforts to light
up the OF serve and to extnguish the
institution slavery in the blood of the and children
of the South. nw .... ...
know its inception founded as its very
upon the idea of gHorng the constitution In its
Judgment slavery sectional and therefore not entitled
10 the protection rational constitution the foreigner
convict enemy and therefore beyond hepale OF
its provisions and the Roman Catholic though descended
from three generations Of patriots and heroes, slave
Of pbni6ca power, and therefore denied the protecting
gis of its guarantees. Throughout the North its ain has
been the Shareholder the foreigner and the
Catholic. In the South its hostility until lately has been
directed alone against the foreigner and the Catholic but
fear unes its tendencies checked the time
il far when object and purpose will
animate the whole Of that order both North and South. Our
only hope that patriotic aud alive OF all
ties will unite the South crush these developments 10
their birth"