The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-10-16


care not how quick il comes
Hark to Erastus Hopkins He says
~" peaceful fail US aud driven to the last
extremity where ballots useless then wen make bull
lets effective"
Bullets ctctipso for what2 To conquer the South to
the fatal policy OF the socalled republican party.
Gen. Watson Webb says
ION the action Of this convention depends the fate Of
the country ii the republicans fail at the baotbox
will be forced 10 drive back the sayeocracy with fire and
sword
If this be not d,on what do all these and thousand
other similar declarations meanf What does IL signify
that the soealed republican party haunt flag in their
processon5 with but sixteen stars gtterng its folds
Is not all this significant of disunon desgnsi Is 1t not
enough to awaken the resentments Of the South Is 1t not
calculated to excite the painful socude OF every friend of
the constitution Is 1t possible that southern gentlemen
to be held the northern mind traitors because
in view OF such open declarations of hostility TO their
ton they ventured the opinion that the Of Mr. Ere
mont viii probably lead to dsrupon2 Sir who resist
the conviction that the Union peril The leaders of the
Fremont party they prefer dsunion TO the defeat of their
policy aud the South the OF their policy wdrve
the sayehoding States from the Union Such the state
OF repubic who contemplate ID without the
painful emoton IL under the influence OF such views
that expressed the opinion that the election OF Mr. FIRE.
mont would seal the fate of the confederacy suppose
Mr. Fremont if elected, will prove true TO his decar
atons to the platform Of his party and the expectations of
his party supporters. If 80 his election will naugurae
line of public policy and congressional action that must
drive the southern States dissolution He may dceipe
his party traitor to all its principles and blast the
hopes Of his supporters If So his treason may the
Union by its defeat of the plans Of his party But this
you will allow, is rather broken reed for the South
lean upon and therefore his election will be the signal
her TO prepare for the worst If he redeem his pledges
his party and bis party redeem their pledges to the
try II will not be in the power of human wisdom TO
the Union. This is threat but merely the indication
of the inevitable result Of tangible Let the respon
sbility and the odum rest where it will belongupon
the so-caed republican partywhose very banner il the
emblem OF severed Unon and whose leaders their
to consummate their policy at the price of
the Union.
1t is in vain to hope to evade the full force of this view
by the pretence that mo party existing political party
at the North desires endange interfere any degree
WITH the ownership of slave property = and that the
most extent to which party OF influence in the country
proposes TO is that slavery shall be extended
Such preence is contradcted by the declarations of the
leaders which have quoted But If true it gives
ry TO the South since tho policy is do that gradually
and indirectly which cannot be done all under the
sutution. What will be the effect of prohibiting slavery
in the Territories the admission of other saveholding
States into the Union, and Of erecting all Terrific
ries into non-saveholdng States Win it not destroy for
the equilibrium between the two sections in the Senate
of the United States2 Win it not very bring into
Congress sufficient majority from nonsaveholding States
to amend the constitution confer the power
abolish slavery in the States If they have power does
any deny that they will exercise it The South
has the sagacy to this result in the future the
tain fruit of the success of the policy Of the Fremont party
And seeing it. is it to be supposed they will quietly await
their run2 viii they not take their protection into
their own hands in advance Of the catasrophe2
But suppose attempt should be made of the character
Just indicated still, what must be the effect of confnng
slavery within its present limits? In few years the
groes will become crowded that the soil will refuse
competent support and their condition become the
deporable and wretched. What then 2 Shall their own.
emancipate hem2 This will not benefit either the
master the savecertainly the atterfor the laws
of the savehoding States prohibit free negroes from
entering within their bounds Hence they remain
where they are die starvation or be extermi-
mated in between the If this will not be the
result would like for you 10 designate better fate for
the negroes of the South under such circumstances
il supposed that the South is blind not to fore
these consequences and ii be expected that she
will stand still and await their arrival before she will
to defensive acon2 Yam and idle is such an ex-
pectaton. She is loyal the Union but she will
sacrifice all that valuabe-propery, serespec and
ca happiness-upon its altar just and generous polit-
ica brotherhood would not ask her to do it she will
to II at the bidding Of her enemies who hate her
bitterly Benjamin f. Wade says they do. How fully
the above designs of the Fremont party
and avowed by William H. Seward conessedly their leader
and The ablest In speech, delivered Albany the
18th of October, 1855, he sad
Slavery is not and be perpetual 1t viii be
overhrown, either peacefully and lawfully under this
sttution, II will work the subverson of the consttu
ton together with its own overthrow Then the slave
holders would perish Ia the struggle The change
be made without violence and by the agency Of the
balobox The temper Of the nation is just liberal and
forbesrng II will contribute any money and endure any
sacrifices effect this great and important change in
deed II is half made already"
repeat the nearous design Of the enemies Of the South
transparent 70 be mistaken IL is destroy the in
sutuuon OF slavery, or idng In tha TO destroy the
Union The southern States TO be deceived. True
TO the instinct Of seEprcservaton il not mpeled by
higher impulses they will not wait until they fetered
before they resort TO Of defence II they can
sBtance If they must
You TO be sorely exercised in relation 10 certain
statutes passed by the territorial legislature OF Kansas
which il alleged yioauye Of the liberty Of speech and
OF the press But why these laws still permitted to
remain Is II not notorious that Mr. Toombss bill for
the prospective admission Of Kansas into the Union con-
tanned clause declaring imperative and void all such
sws2 That bill passed the Senate twice and received the
support Of the southern senators Why did the House
concur in is passage and thus strike death-blow to
thoss sws7 But they refused all the republican members
(being majority Of the House) voting against IL and
therefore their lips should be closed and their amor ST.
fenced II Is by their that those laws remain In
force r. indeed, they not unconstitutional Why7 L.
not obviously preserve the preteIt for agitation for
innaming the public mind and misleading the Of
the people Such inconsistency disgracef in the ex
believe the people Of all parties and all sections
honest and patriotic; and IL they could know the
whole truth in relation the conduct Of the so-cacd re-
publican party in Congress the subject they would
visit upon them the burning rebuke they richly deserve
Worse than this In the face Of II all the South Is repre-
seu,ed TO the northern people insisting upon the execu
ton Of those laws and the establishment Of slavery In Kan
the point OF the bsyonet Was asehood ever perpe
trated with such brsEenfron mpudence7 The South
not whit for those laws almost unanimously
her members in both houses Of Congress voted for their
rogation she insists upon the doctrine Of Intervention
she IL willing abide the decision Of the bona fs settlers
in Kansas for against slavery when they shall form their
State constitution aud ask for admission into the Union
declared In my speech In Independence Square and
challenge the production Of title Of proof Of solitary
act OF aggression slave propagsndsm the part Of the
southern States All they ask ever have asked or ever
win ask be let alone keep the rubct out Of Congress
organize tho Territories irrespective Of the question OF ala
very; let the people settle II In their way let slavery