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

ito prepare the people Of the United States for civil
by dblug everything in their power to deprive the consl
tuition and the laws of moral authority and 10 under
mine tbs fabric Of the Union by appeals 10 passion and sec
uonal prejudice by ndoctrinatng It's people win recp-
roca bated and by educating them to stand face to face
as enemies
Sir, deny each-every oneay all of these charges.
There the semblance Of truth in them IL the ser
pent that stole into Eden that begued first mother
which the angels
Squat like toad close at the ear of Eve"
had gded into the Executive Mansion that serpent could
not have hissed into the Presidents words skill
fully adapted to express the precise and opposite Of
truth Sir these accusations against as Intelligent and
patriotic rallied around the standard OF free
dom untrlhiu and malignant showing that the shafts
hurled the conflict through which we have just passed
rankle In his bosom. 81
Senator'S express their surprise that we this side
Of ihe chamber should utter the indignation which men
who have any spirit, any of honor should feel
at these malignant and false charges OF the Chief MaRs
of the republic SIR he has undertaken to arragn us
before the world making pretensons to line OF policy
when We Intended TO act up TO another lie has charged
with engaging ia revolutionary movements de has
charged with having entered line of policy that
has possible outlet but civil and disunon. He has
charged with thus acting in the full knowledge that our
path leads ravaged elds burning cities and saugh-
tered populations. He has charged with undermining
The constitution and laws OF country with arrayhg
the people # section against the Others learning them
to stand face TO face enemies Sir should meet the
and contempt of all honorable men if we did not
utter the feelings which these unjust unuhfu and
gnant aspesons upon the people whose representatives
excite in our hearts. To to the people he has
bitterly assaed these expressions OF the Presidents
personal opinion of very little Importance We know
his weight Of metal and the limited range of his vision
The New Hampshire Patriot, the Boston Post aud the
Washington Union little calculated to convey to the
Executive that exact full and accurate information which
would enrie his personal opinions much consideration.
These charges however, derive some little importance from
his high position.
There is one member of his cabinet whose hand some
think they in the message, who knows full II the
character OF this production mean the learned Attor-
ney Gtnera His acquisitions and tireless industry,
bis early associations and correspondence with the aoo
tionss of New England all teach him that these
tons against the people of the North without ounda
tion For years he in correspondence with the lead
ing aboitionists of the North remember sir the public
letter penned in his nght-dress dictated by the poet
Whittier which he wrote abolition votes re-
member too sir that when Wise made the insoent threat
that they would introduce slavery into the North he in
dignanty answered that before they could introduce
slavery into the North her cities and villages would be
levelled in The dust that squadrons of cavalry could
gallop them unmpeded the steeds sweep over the
boundes paries of the West He should have restrained
the pen which lbels than hundred thousand
Of his native State whose only offence is that they have
resolved that slavery shall be nGcduced nto the
North Sir these aspersoDs of the Executive upon north
will recoil upon his head He will go out of
power with the stern condemnation of hundreds of thou
sands who instrumental in elevating him to that
lofty position from which he has hurled his envenomed
shafts
The first charge that associations have been formed Of
persons pretending to seek the restriction of slavery in the
Territories but who desire to interfere with slavery in the
States This does not apply to the Garrison abolition
stshey do not pretend TO act in favor of the restriction
of slavery in the Territories; the Gerrit Smith abolition
lists do make that pretension Tnese words apply to
the republican party of the United Satesa party that
has given larger in the free North by nearly
hundred and fifty thousand than any party gave there
beloe-a vote within few thousands "a lrge Taylor
received in lS48 Scott in 1852 in the whole Union.
Bst the senator from Ohio lMr. PUGHI undertook to
break this CHARGE the other day by telling this side
of the chamber that if positions stated them
be- the President could not have intended this attack
upon that he meant it for the little Organization OF
abotonsts in the North surprised that the
should have invented such for the Chief Ma
gstrae tell the SENATOR and tell other senator's that
this excuse will do. The President intended arragn
the electors who voted for Fremont his words do
ply to the Garrison aboonists to that class Of radical
aboonsts who supported Gerrt Smith for the presi-
dency
Sir who have undertaken to sustain rather
apologize for this extraordinary of the President
have condemned the discussion of the slavery question du
ring past few years commend to senators who
the people for these discussions the of James
Madison that
tona expense safety becomes of every part
of the Union and proper subject for the consideration of
those charged with the Of the
ment." ## a.
Surely senator's be surprised at the discussion
questions vast those which grow of the slavery
nearly four millions of in America American sa-
the obligations these connexions and relations impose upon
men, citizens of the States and the United States
make the overshadowing issues of the age in which
live Pbilanthropsts who have sounded the depths and
shoals of humanity scholars who have laid under conr
button the domain of matter and of mind of phiosophc
inquiry and historical research statesmen, who inn
pressing their genius upon the institutions of their country
and their age-all illustrating by their genius
learning aud eoquence the vast and comp Gated issues
involved in the great problems we of this age in America
working The transeendant magnitude of the in
involved in the existence and expansion OF the
of human bondage in America is arresting the
ton of the people, and stirring the country its pro-
foundest depths
The senator from Tennessee Mr. JosEsl quoted re-
mark OF mne to the effect that this agitation Of the slavery
question would never cease while the soil of the republic
should be trod by the foot of slave That sentiment
peat here to-day believe it. GOD is the great qGator
While His throne stands agitation will 60 untthe foot
Of slave shall press the soil of the eastern
continent
Would that senator suppress all aspirations for human
liberty commend to the senator the words of Henry
Clay, whom he followed dcvotedly while living by
whose bedside he stood when dying and whose memory
all generous effort for freedom in America Henry Clay
said:
They must blow out the moral lights around u.s. and
tngush that torch Of all which America
critics. happiness And when they achieve all these
poses their work will be yet incomplete They must pene
trste the human SOUL and eradicate the light
the love OF liberty Then, and till them when universal
darkness and despair prevail you perpetuste slavery
repress all sympathes and all humane benevolent
efforts among eemen in behalf of the unhappy portion Of
doomed TO bondage"
commend, Mr. President these words Of the great
American statesman to who would silence every
noble pusaton of the human heart which beats for the
liberty Of the poor unfortunate held in perpetual
bondage.
The senator from Mississippi mr. BRowN] told us the
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