The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-03-20

George Il. Wright, Tappahannock, Virginia, reappont-
ed.
Oliver Dewey ocracoke North Carolina, reappointed
John Adar Oregon, Oregon reappointed
OPPOSITION PRINCIPLES AND PURPOSES.
Since the failure of the effort to array one portion OF the
Union against anothec and TO elect President without
reference to his political anteceden the opposition leaders
have been somewhat reserved in the publication OF their
principles and purposes They opposed to the democ
racy and their efforts to promote the welfare OF our e-
Gems but the grounds OF their opposition and the meas
ures they would recommend not openly and clearly
developed They assume that democratic principles are
wrong and will lead fatal results but how ley donot
inform u.s. and that their political theories will all the
evils which they assume exist; but they utterly fail in
showing how these things to be accomplished. If
NAV be permitted suggest the reason it is because they
do not know themselves how to produce the results they
promise But their real principles and purposes be
wholly concealed Their principles subversive of the
theory of selgovernmen and their purposes 10 rule
uinto control the Union or destroy it, They deny
that the people in the Territories capable Of segovern
ment and insist that they should be restrained their
powers to act should be limited to those who agree with
them in opinion and views They insist that the hardy
pioneer should act upon his own Judgment regard
interests which he deems dear and important to him. but
should be restrained and guided by those who more
familiar with the artificial wants Of city than the real
and natural ones of the frontier They insist that no flu
ture State shall become member of glorious Union
unless it shall have moulded its views and objects to fur
ther their schemes of power They insist that no State
shall be admitted which does not raise the sectional ban
ner and offer fight against the equality of the States II
they cannot thus secure political power then their pur
poses are to destroy the Union hoping in that event. to
control portion of it at least European potentates
do conquered countries They expect to enlist and
troll the passions of the people the North and direct them
against those of the South and also lead them to the
fatal step Of attempting defy the authority of the Union,
and to establish government which the leaders may
control and bend to their uses. This is apparent from
known facts Those who control the opposition move
continually making assaults upon the constitu-
ton and laws. They assume that everything is wrong,
and leads fatal consequences They complain of the
basis upon which the election of President rests They
insist that the Senate is unusy constituted and that the
House is unjust representation They claim that the
election of President rests upon theory that leads to in
justice and that the Judiciary is not properly constituted
but its very organization leads to wrong. Not one fea-
ure of the constitution satisfactory to them While their
leaders are publicly assuming such grounds their sub
ordinate corporations preparing and circulating
frank and open views in the direction One discusses
the value of the Union another that ele-
mens must be introduced into it before it conform to
JUSTICE while Others boldly that actual dissolution
il the only remedy" for the pretended evils In New York
aud Boston, if not elsewhere there offices for the pub
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anonymous and others contain the names of the authors
including those who prefix Rev. to their These
tracts gratuitousy circulated broadcast the
land wherever it supposed that the principles they enforce
and maintain obtain Judgement active sup
portes These blackrepublcan mssives form portion Of
the responsble circulation which the ashady" party
sany distribute The whole operations of the opponents
the present administration tend to point indicating
beyond controversy their purposeso wit, to control
or dissolve the Union. They seek power; and II they
cannot acquire it under the constitution, their pur-
poses to destroy the Union and erect upon its
ruins at the North another government which they hope
to control and shape to their purposes Of personal
and political aggrandizemen leaving the residue of il
TO form separate organizations They seek to sepa-
rate under different governments the graves of our
WALL than of fire. between the haowed ground
where rest the ashes Of Washington Jefferson, and Mad
son, of Monroe Sumper, Rutledge and Patrick Henry
and that where repose the mortal remains of John and
Samuel Adams of Warren, Hancock Greene and Putnam
Of Schuyler Hamilton and Franklin, and the patriots of
majority Of the original thirteen States Like selfish heirs
they seek to control the whole patrimony Of glorious
ancestry, or to subject 1t to confscation destruc-
ton They wish to the descendants of these and other
heroes and patriots grasp each other by the hroats
and engage in dea,h-strugge for political asccndency
Did the heroes the revolution pledge their fortunes their
lives and their sacred honors for any such fatal purpose
Did the sages of 1884, who framed constitution and
the patriot constituency whose will consecrsted the
bond OF union look to any such result Did the fathers
Oh the republic whose devotion to the good was
manifested in giving life energy, and wise direction
DER our great charter design expect II to fall prey to
sectional strife cupidity We know that 1t is not
for more than half century, national ami
rsar the voice Of the patriot has assured to the
hNy.
Until the magn influence of sechonalism assumed inn
posing and defiant FORM candidate for public favor
ever failed to pledge himself to the Union and the whole
umon No one could command the SURFACES of the peo-
PIE who not heart and soul for it, now and in all time
come Beneath the dark cloud Of sectionalsm other
Views gained hotbed existence The frost of dsappoin,-