The daily union., 1856-10-22
CHANGING THE FORM OF GOVERNMENT AND DIS
a"" #"" UNION. f.
QAs grea body 81 Frsmonfs friends intend 10 destroy
present form Of government

large portion Of them. Nearly every of that party
denounces portion all of constitution. The
Kansas difficulties treated small temporary matter
by most Of the agators. Senators Hale Wilson, Seward,
and Others severely denounce the compromises contains
concerning slavery without which all know it could
have been made adopted They denounce every
provision which does not conform to their views and
wishes however necessary to continuance OF the Union
In his Detroit speech Seward preferred general ndict
against the whole supersructure Of government
and all its parts Nothing pleased him, but everythi
represented wrong So with the others The ba-
sis of congressional representation is dounced as unequal
and wicked; the senatorial is repudated UNJUST the
vsto of the President is pronounced ranncal the Su
peme Court an aunmitgated despotsmp y and the whole
government contIivance of abomnations. These
plants we all have heard. What is the remedy7
Shall the Constitution be ahered9
Do readers remember the difficulties encountered in
framing and adopting the present one? The convention
nearly separated without agreeng upon it, and the people
in States very reluctantly assented The dicultie
mainly grew out of the basis of representation ia the two
houses involving the very questions agated and the
ratio of taxation. Franklin the author of the COM
promises existing the North asserting to the slavery
basis of representation and the South to corresponding
~'
don, Sherman Rufus King Livingston Patterson Dayton
Morris Mihlin Clymer lngersol Wilson, Fitzsmmon, Car
roll Rutledge Pnckney and Others soemny assented to
it. Are the agators of the day more WISE learned pat
rio or benevolent than the fathers of the republic who
framed and urged the adoption of this noble instrument
Who will assert claim to such superiority Can we
make better instrument?
What Sas Wright said 10 his nghbors on this subject on
the An Of July, 1889.
Are there any will blame our venerable fathers the
delegates in the convention 1887 for giving their
to this clause Of constitution? All the old Thirteen
States assented to it and the other and
which have been mentioned connected with
the subject OF domestic slavery people of all the
assented to them and fifty years of internal peace and
abundant prosperity have aested the wisdom of the
ton the patriotism and of the States to the federal
Onon and the Intelligence and Justice faith of the peo
ple What American citizen will arise and claiming 10
than Washington President that
purer and more patriotic than the sges who supported him
In the great work Of forming constitution as thew had
previously In the achievement of independence will
the first stone at that temple of human liberty which thew
erectedY Who that loves country will again N,
delicate and troublesome soemny formed
thus settled and consecraed by time
rence with the hope of reaching better from the
en temper and feeling Of the Who will cast unon
the Of time and chance the invaluable blessings wo
have gained the triumph to human liberty we have
Tor the dark and stormy prospect which presents itself T
more perfect success in efort2 Who will wantonlv
rample the faith have solemnly pedged t opr
brethren of the other States upon entering the conEda.
means of moulding them more Welding dsposton
in future compactG Who will boldly strike AT tbs
Union Itself and stake its fate against his sympathes for the
"ls it not then, unwse well as unfahf To this sscrd
compact and dangerous to the permanency of the Union
for the people of the free States now to disturb the
of the country by threatening violation of those com
promises which disposed Of the agitatng question of do
mestc slavery in the country by virtue OF which
question remained at rest for nearly the century of
the existence OF the republic under the constitution
pretend that the subject OF immediate abolition Of
In the country can be seriously urged upon national
islature without disturbing these Of the
tuton is to disregard as well the ain provision, AZ IN,
spirit of the instrument and 20 persist in the agitation
gadess OF those considerations, to the object above
the constitution ABOVE the value the Union above tho
peace of the country, and above the most solemn obg
ton OF the citizen to observe and regard the rights of othe
while In the enjoyment Of his own"
Will any friend to his memory repudiae these appeals
DO they not well and orcby apply present times
hhaG pond hare occurred the Union had not been formed
We know that the present slave States would not have
concurred In the constitution but for the compromises pro-
posed by Franklin If they had not assened 10 them the
free States would have been limited to New England New
York. New jersey, aud Pennsylvania The territory in
cuded In TIE free western Sate except Iowa. then owned
by foreign power originally belonged Virginia then
and now slave State With her immense territory she
would become empire herself So would North Caro-
lima, which owned Tennessee we'll as Georgia which
owned Alabama and Mississippi II the confederacy bad
failed, the cessions by these three States under well
known rule Of law would have Injured themselves Had
the slave States been excluded from the Union under the
constitution at this day there would have been but nine
instead Of sixteen free States with SIX free Territories with
the probability Of seventh The compromises though in
tended and preserve the political equality OF the
South have failed to accomplish that purpose The mag
nanimy Of Virginia in hsr for the common good
given Eve free Sstes-Ohio Indiana Illinois Wis
consip and Michigan, with sixth nnesota In prospect
The political power Of the Union in both houses Of Congress
Is with the free States They determine who shall at the
head OF the executive branch This northern
continually increasing We change the consu-
ton without the Of Of both houses or
the application Of Ord, Of the State legislatures and
tho ratification Of three ohs Of the States Does any ra-
tonal man suppose that twohrds Of the States will ask
for or hreeourths Of them to- abandon oompro
misses so deeply affecting fifteen Of present States Is
expected that all the free and eight OF the slave States
will consent to change basis vital to the political i'm
porance Of the atter7 No thinking will say So Then
a change in this respect is impossible Win the six New
England States and New Jersey, Delaware and Florida
consent to change the senatorial bass7 Unless they do
a . bo al nonu