The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-01-04


THE PRESIDENTS OPINIONS On THE SLAVERY
QUESTION.
There never Was dangerous delasion than aboli
ton there never deasicn which depended en-
trely upon faction and fsehood Like Other exeitements
has bora permitted gather streagth unt ia very alb
sardes have passed into tsms and its most shameless
assumptions hare come 70 be adopted solemn facts
Sach phrensy abotOl grows strong from being no
gArded with oonsmPl BY sensible who viii believe
thai attain any serious influence NATL they
rufansla dsying the las and negroism aspiring
tendency ia the social scale The President az the United
States entities himself the gratitude Of the American
people Cor taking hold Of Of the plausible pre-
Of the abolition natc ard ieArsssy exposing them
70 The world The philadelphia North American L. how
ever more AggrieFed tis part Of the message than
Horace Greeley himself
ws do speak a those passages Which relate 10
foreign arair the internal administration OF the
government bat Of the dsqauon on The Consultations
relations Of slavery which, Judgment Is wholly oat
Of place annual message Of the Chief Magistrate Of the
rspubAehe head Of section bat the nsonas AZ a
insulting and offensive ths whole northern portion Of the
confedsraey.
The North American did not follow the noble example
Of Senator Clayton who the Presidents stand upon
great question with foreign power, and who seeking
no quarrel with him about other topics periodically
ained his argument against British pretensons Il does
not need that the North american should admit that
could not rise 10 the dignity Of such example The
passages objected By that paper wholly oat Of place
in the annual message Of the President Of the United
StAiesr Everybody remembers the critics who said as
much Of General Jaekson protest and Of his farewell ad
dress but these critics have prevented those State pa
pers from becoming immortal We recollect too, when
President Polk in Of his ables messages laid down
the doctrine against appropriations for internal i'm
by the general government be was denounced
for preaching democracy ou Of place y but the denuncia
ton has passed into oblivion while his argument stands
out in ANNALS like great fortress Of truth.
The irresistible reasoning of President Pierre the
subject Of the constitutional relations OF slavery out Of
place annual messags Truth is out Of place
and sach truths he speaks should be written 10 be
read and remembered BY all Abolition has ad
vanoed from sneaking and snarng faction TO bold and
bullying anacsm Ii has tried lis prentce hand upon the
Modification Of State laws and comes TO break up
the foundations Of the constitution 1t has governed State
legislatures and aspres to federal power boastng
with rude and ireverent hAphemy, that Its maoriy in
Congress may give IL the government itself And
this advance Of The potent adversary Of political
system results from the fasehoods OF able and abandoned
demagogues who have themselves work TO misrep
the history the men, and the memories Of the past
and who rejoice that they have succeeded in bewdering
and misleading the puoic mindl To expose this fatal de
lusion in Of angry discussion but with the calm
and well considered arguments Of statesman who
from facts and who draws his inspiration from the estab
Hshsd theories Of governrnento confer such bene
ct upon our common country denounced Of place
in a Presidents annual message
It n place for the President 10 discuss The revenues
the expenditures the foreign relations the army the navy
and the post Office bat is not in place point the
dangers the constitution expose The enemies Of the
Uuon reerate the principles Of the fathers and in
resigaie The myriad iaees Matched among the fertile
resources Of foreign and domestic foes saeh is the de-
csion Of the discriminating umpire Of the North Ameri
can
The President takes up Of the fAvoriA theories Of
the enemies Of the constitution and subjects them The
unerring analysis Of principle These theories have been
scattered broadcast the land They
social political and religious atmosphere They blind the
intellect and ss the Judgment Of the They are
like the lice Of Egypt and inesi every Of TIE largest
half Of tbs Union E the hands Of abeaad sdrot writer's
and takers they became potent engines Of mischief breed
ing revelation and parts OF the country alien
alton and dsirusi 10 all The President takes them up in
detail and annihatss them and for this we say be de-
serves a nations gratitude.
We repu5iish few Of the passages from The message
which have given much offence TO the North American
and Invite the attention Of the general reader 10 them Test
them BY sny testify the style in which they are written
the force Of the angnag and the genuineness or The facts
and tel Us wherein they wanting
cit has been matter Of painful regret 70 see States con-
rpicuous for their services in founding THE republic and
equally sharing s advantages disregard their oonstitu
tobai obligations H. Although conscious q their in,i
~ heal admitted and paptbe social evils OF their own
and which completely within their ardic.ion Ier en-
gage IN the offensive and hopeless undertaking Of reform
ing the domestic institutions other States wholly beyond
their control ard authority. In pursuit Of eods b.
then entirely unaainab and which they nav not legally
attempt compass they peril The VERY existence Of the con
stitutop and al the countless benefits which has conferred
While ths people Of the southern States coune their a
ton their Affairs presumipg ociously 10 inter
mvdde with the social Institutions Of northern States
Of the ohabtants Of latter are permanently or
CANNED 10 associations insct injury on the former by
vronza scts which would be of as between FOR
egn powers and only fail be such system because
pcrpctrstsd under cover Of the Union"
Need recall the personal---very. act Of Massaeus.s
The persistent and violent course Of northern Abolition
lists against the southern States The facts set forth 10 d,
following extract cannot Be over-estimaied They cha
lenge Successful contradictions:
Is !, possible present this subject As truth and e
occasion require without nsng reiterated bat arouDd
les. segatian thsi the South has psrsis,enty asserted