The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-08-27

go for emancipation. Such scheme would be utterly de-
structiye TO the negro aud in its results would oeca
sion fearful paralysis in all departments OF trade every
where from which galyanism all the restoatyes with
in reach, could save you
II this country has grown To be great and has increased
beyond all human calculation in power and moral gran
deu must not be forgotten this astonishing result has
been effected with negro slavery existing and operating IN
all its yigor in midst Will you tell Massachusetts
is great7 From whence mainly sprangl From our
social system quickened aud enyened by the products OF
slave labor and not in spite Of it. The South has derived
less advantage from il than the North. You have COM
manded workshops and you have increased to your
present stature upon the troubles tolls and Efforts OF the
South They have been the hewer of wood and drawers
OF water They have furnished the material with all
the negro slavery II il be obnoxious TO
your charges whilst you have had the ultimate profits
Such has been the ordination of Providence and the South
has submitted The existence of government ilself-
sustained believe by providenta interposition It's
precedened rise progress and increasing power and
iies destiny, with slavery OF It's incidents,
comforting the greatest practical good upon that groyeng
race be relied upon corroboratve and conrmaory
evidence of the abstract and relative proprety of our heo
res upon the subject orsavery IL it be Of God will
prosper; but, il not ii win came 10 naught.
Let us briefly survey progress as nation. At the
time OF our independence in T76 progenitors occupied
but small extent OF country skrtng along the margin
OF the Atlantic and subssted very much upon the boun
ties Of Nature, by hunting and fishing They had abund
ance OF wild game from the native forest and from the blue
waters all the Inxures common to that element. All told
they did not exceed three millions OF soulsnot az many
white people then In the country have negroes
Now We have some thirty millions of inhabitants Cities
and towns have sprung up everywhere; The arts ana
sciences have increased astonishing facilities for travel
and for the diffusion of knowledge have been put n sue
eessu operation and the high road TO addition
al discoveries and improvements Already vastly opuen
and great In moral power have most extensive cote
minus domain, extending from the Atlantic to ahe Pacific
sweeping through the western hemisphere Our country
through all the degrees of latitude necessary to en-
able il TO produce all the staples Of life Ihe shore lines
of the Atlantic aud Pacific oceans and of the Gulf of Mex
leo, full twelve thousand miles in extent, and
euaed Chain Of navgable lakes forms northern boun
dairy Our rivers afford forty nine thousand miles OF
navigation, and our northern lakes thirty five hun
dred Five thousand miles of artificial navigation com
pee this network of internal communication sturther
increased by twenty thousand miles of railway finished to
which will be added thirteen thousand more in
progress all tending ultimately to unite the Atlantic and
the Pacific by uninterrupted lines of railway Al
the revolution we had manufactures; now we have
5OOooOoo0 invested, producing annually in value more
than thousand millions. Our commercial marine,
registering nearly five millions of TONS the greatest
the Our agricultural and mining resources are
boundless and incalcuablen We thus blessed with all
the elements of physical power and wealth.
Do all these omnipotent and conclusive facts our
system to be wrong establish its absolute and incontro
vertble proprety2 Will it do for the North talk of her
comparative advance the South forgetting that you
are but part and parcel of the system? AS well
might any member of the body complain of its neghbor
If you demonstrate that you have grown great without
the immediate benefits OF this intimate connexon then you
may have You should recolect that the Union
with all its untold advantages has BEEN in most eminent
degree tributary to your pre-eminente; and now you
would abuse and destroy your political alma arl When
ever such folly shall by Just and avenging God, be per-
mtted to triumph, from that fatal day your anscendntc
may be in the ascendant but your greatness in all
that constitutes substantial wealth and power, will have
departed dream, and you will find very that
your condition is not unlike that of Nebuchadnezzar of
old When you speak Of your greatness you do not mean
to say that all classes amongst you without exception
but you have reference to the aggregate for
doubleday you have penury and destituon within your
borders So, when we speak Of the glory of this great
nation, it is in its combined identity Some sections may
be Impoverished. There calamites and msforunes
incident to human nature in its best esatea be
wise all cannot be happy couenment is the true philos
ophy of life The South is satisfied with the government
under which she lives State and federal Shesands upon the
sensible Developments of the immutabe fitness OF things
and the gates Of hell shall prevail agans her Pogs
and msts may enveop the northern atmosphere the hurr
cane of anatcism and folly may blow in its wrath they
win exhaust themselves and natural sky will
still shed s gladstone rays upon the sunny South Her
fair fields shall be by the Cloths and Yandas
until barbarism shall be permitted again proclaim its
desoating sway the nations II disruption should
take place in this glorious conederacy the East might
go of In tangent and join the northern comet its fiery
tail but the North and the teeming West with all that
tensve section washed by the that make for the
Gulf Of Mexico the natural allies of the South and will
surrender their association with this favored region
The star Of empire Hest and South North and East
The land flowing with milk and honey will command
the strong affections Of the votaries Of freedom
The North has bad the full benefit Of the Union thus far
and has certainly reached high point Of prosperity Has
II arrived at the acme Does she now fear rerograde
movement-tha the growing power of the West and the
inherent facilities in the South about TO check her
speed Are considerations Of this sort also mixed up with
her fanaticsm? The West Is the natural ally OF the
South The enormous trade of the West which has here
toore had its outlet at the North is about being diverted
somewhat. II the South and West with all their natural
advantages shall apply their TO themselves
essentially Independent by manufacturing for themselves
and by other agencies appropriate their means such
policy may well occasion apprehension and alarm in the
East That section has been thus far highly favored under
system although less contented In fact than any other
Proud in her positon-ungraefu In her neighborhood-
oyerbearngin her aggressions upon other sections that
have been mainly tributary TO her advancemenshe
be overtaken with those caames which the God OF Prov
dence occasionally visits upon the ungraefu and disobe
dent Let her consider well ber proper and true position
in the Union weigh with deliberaon the accidental adj
vanages that the Of has bounully thrown
In her path She is essentially dependent upon the South
and West; and, per contra they comparatively indie
How sublimely philosophical Christan-lke and patr
otto let mention Ia this connection the sentiments
Of the heightened clergy OF Massachusetts In the days Of
the revolution They perpetual spring Of patriotic
gatulaton, 70 which may turn when annoyed by the
senseess eapap OF the moonshne and raYing illusions Of
The pulpit in Massachusetts nowadays Let commend
these oldfashioned notions OF her early patriots her
rising generation, who not yet corrupted by the fsnn
cism OF the day Let wholesome reform be ntrodu ced
iounded upon The revolutionary basis of Massachusetts, al
she then exhibited herself in the glory Of her youthful
reer announced by her clergy and statesmen From
Of patriotic and highoned sentiment will refer to
few extracts from their speeches In the venop worthy
OF everlasting commemoraon and sufficient to redeem
that God-forssken old Commonwealth, In her present
leading strings from the most unnatural braldom In which
degenerate have placed her fame. In Eliots De
bates, page 49, Rev. Mr.. Shutc said:
Mr.. President, object the stter part Of the para
graph under consideration, which excludes religious test
b am sensible very popular for The most Of men,
gon disposed impose them upon others
OF truth. II, In my sentiments upon the point In view,