The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-05-01
CITY OF WASHINGTON THURSDAY MORNING MAY |, 1856

SHE danger Of exading slaaey" his text and expaated
upon the oa0uS and iHsdoRs aggysSsoHs and bold
PdtioRs Of "he pyiVyed casS" the Stare Gristocraey :"
their sectional paruay in denying protection 10 northern
t0oot ehitS freely giving to the sldvsAoIas sugar
gtv49 millions et acres Of public land 10 Atabana for rail-
roads or aS grates uhe not dollar be obtained for
internal Improvements iR NeO Fork and the humiliation
exaced OF northern representatives the price Of
10 He old soldiers!
The senator from Massachusetts [Mr SuMNER takes as
bis text for discourse in Faneui Hall The Sape ogdrchy
and ns usnpions against whom he prefers like charges
and utters yet stronger denunciaons.
The senator from Ohio Mr. WADE in stump speech
IN Maine last summer denounces the slave power
system Of 0atrage dggressioh and Crog and declares the
men OF the North and the South nimcal than
the Russians and the English, and that The pretended
Onioh RoW e1tsttRg Is all naerefrio0uS"
Aye sir, the republican party was proessedly formed
to repe southern aggresSion If It's leaders can persuade
the North that their assertions true they must achieve
sectional victory in the coming elections They invoke
TO their aid not only hatred of the South enemy
vengeance for the wrongs she has inflicted indemnity
past injuries and security for the future but the instincts
OF selove and selfpreservaton. If their assertions be
rue II is not only the duty OF the northern people
tain them at the polls but if unsuccessful there in Wrestling
power from the tyrants who oppress them, to take up
arms and resort to revolution has been attempted by
the republicans in Kansas aud is approved by their ad
yocaes here The plain import of the sentiments avowed
by their leaders that only the people of Kansas but Of
the northern States suffering ntoerable wrongs and
oppression and the inevitable tendency of their appeals
10 cvll war and revolution II their counsels prevail,
sincerely believe civil must and will come. The
Union formed by the several States as friends and
equals and designed Justice tranquility
and equality TO every State II il has failed to its
purpose it is truly meretricous Union, and its days viii
soon be numbered
In order the truth otheRe assertions determine
this issue of southern aggressons and uurpaons tender
ed by the black republicans, and TO vndcae the President
from their aspersons propose state briefly the account
between the North and the South Let which
on has added more and which has appropriated more of
the federal doman-which has contributed more, and
which enjoyed more of the federal easure-and which has
disturbed the tranquility of the other the harmony of the
Union The facts are neither new nor strange but may
be found IN documents published by Congress
TtrritoriaI arrangements.
At the conclusion of peace l7s3 the States then north of
Mason and Dixous line had l64 0sl SO. no
The States then south of that line had 6i7,202
Pending the revolution the Northwestern Territory excited
as Mr. Madison expressed U he lucrative desires of the
northeastern people to degree threatening the existence
of the conederacy That territory belonged to Virginia
by repeated royal grants well as by conquest achieved
at her sole expense and by her unaded To satisfy
those desires quiet the contest and harmony and
peace she surrendered to the conederacy and the od
of 1871 devoted it to free soil That surrender
duced southern territory nearly onehalf and increased
northern territory nearly threeod Northern territory
was thereby sweiled to 425,76l So. m.
and southern territory reduced to 3s5,52l
The Territory of louisiana acquired in which slave
ry maintained by both French and Spanish laws and
guaranteed in the treaty of acquisition was by the Mis-
souri, restrcon so divided that the North took excu
sive of Oregon) 659l3S So m
and the South retained 225456 :"
By that settlement the South surrendered of savehodng
territory to the North about threeourtbs and retained
about onefourth But including Oregon part of the
Louisiana purchase, the North took 972,605 So m
and the South retained 225,456
Thereby the South surrendered than foar-ffbs and
retained but one fifth Of that territory.
The acquisitions of Oregon, (if not included in the Lou
sana purehase) Florida and Texas resulted in dvis-
ion by which the North got about 4l5467 SO m
and the South retained about 27l,268
BY that arrangement the North obtained about three
hftbs of those territories.
The Mexican conquess engrosed by the North added
her limits about 40l 1873 square miles The South has
grown from 64 202 to 2245 miles having added
but square miles to her since SO. In the
time the North from l640sl has grown TO 204 square
miles having added in the time l73sl23 square
miles to her limits The South has increased ess than 90
per cent the North loo per cent In territorial
since the revolution. The South commenced with
than four times the territory of the North the North
has near two and hat mes the territory OF the South
The federal government never held foot OF territory
east OF the Rocky mountains that free soil when
quired and indeed question whether she held any
west of them that free soil The northern States
ceded foot Of territory the United States and
yielded foot of territory that free soil when
qulred TO the of the South but have retained 1t all
The South has cedsd of her exclusive territory
26l67 square miles and has renqushed Of other slave
holding territory when acquired belonging in to
all the States sos square miles and of slavehoding
and nouslavehoding territory in all less than 1885,
l23 square milesan empire eleven fold greater than the
entire Of the northern States at the peace Of s3 and
than double the entire domain OF the States OF the
confederation When stronger and richer than the North
she magnnnmousy gave up nearly half her domain 10
bush the camor Of envy, Hvarce and ambition and pre-
the confederation. When reduced by that suicidal
10 minority in both houses Of Congress, the app
cation Of Missouri for admission into the Union the North
for the FIRST time avowed her purpose 10 appropriate all the
Territories 10 Ter sole and exclusive use, and 10 refuse
admission another slavehodiug State into the Union
The South then yielded 70 the demands Of dominating
power than she had given In the prodgaiy Of her
wealth TO the mportunes Of dissatisfied weakness She
surrendered ourfhs Of slavehoding territory TO the
North and submitted 10 that odious intcrdct inhbing
her from holding slaves north OF sc deg 80 min
0F thp dfnfar NJ and The
her territory sopt Of that line Yet in less than twelve
tbs northern free soilors violated the msced
promise by refusing TO admit Missouri and from that day
the present have persseuGy endeavored TO transges
that line and TO deny the South the enjoyment Of terri
tories and admission Of States south Of it
No impartial mind contemplate the history Of these
territorial contests without beag impressed with the
giant demands the part and the generous but unwis
concessions the other part Instead Of ngRressng the
South has been etrogessng instead Of eneroachng
non-slavehodng territory she has been surrenderng
slayehodng territory instead of demanding and
cisng equal partcpancy in this domain she has
been conceding the right until she almost regarded
by northern freesoilers a tenant by suersnce
And yet in seeming ignorance disregard Of these
denabe truths Of history, told by Of her
just and rapacou that the North has never been ag
gressve that she has always stood the defensive only
asking 10 stand equals nothing and that the
South has always been acquiring territory for her aggran-
dzemen and cutting or selling giving away territory
at the North for her snfeeblementl
Hcah Of South, and Worth Of SLAVE Labor
But SIR in seeming apology for the attempt to exclude
Shareholders from the Territories of the United States we
modesty told by the from Massachusetts Mr.
WILSON that Stare labor biass and the SOIL and are
assured by the senator from New Hampshire mr. HALF