The Washington union., 1857-09-15

shall not vote 10 admit her the Topeka constitution
because the movement not of the people but OF par
g was not by authority Of law but In violation Of law
and therefore revolutionary. Nor 81 all inclined to
indulge the rebelious spirit of those in the Territory who
determined TO set the laws at defiance If they will
! not act save in their way and Kansas becomes a
slave State by the voice of those who do act the response
bity must rest upon them.
But have been wandering from my text, and neglect
ing the republican candidate for governor wish to
make more extract from his speech and then shall
have done. IL Is one of his best gems and reads as
follows
with respect to the labor question: it is alleged by
tho democracy that have sympathy for free white
labor that all our tears are exhausted on the black
Now leave the chivaly of the South to the noble Of
flee of hacking negroes God has laid heavy hand them
and seek not to press the harder upon them The
chivairy may have all the glory Of horsehPay We and
selling Their babies. Democracy may trampe their rights
under foot if they please but tell you that the inter
ests OF all humanity God has ordered it,
that do deliberate and systematic wrong TO
other men man be tyrant q despot without
staining his own SOUL and without becoming beast and
a demon"
How idle, If not unmanly, it is for man who uses
language OF this character on question entirely beyond
the reach of those to whom II is addressed TO become in
dgnant and denouncc the democratic press debased
''venal," Corrupt" and n the pay OF the slave pow
er, because it has designated him abolitionist
wild impacticable theorst," What else could he
expect What else could truth telling press say Does
not the whole tenor of his address justify this conclusion
Is it not wild theosm to excite the minds of the peo
pie day after day, about great evils without telling them
how remedy be applied and whilst oonfessing that
they have right to interfere for against such evils
in the States and acknowledging the binding effects of
definition of the constitution which shows that they
not be reached in the Territories Is 1t not abotonism
to describe the institution of negro slavery odous
that 1t should not be tolerated in any civilized country
involving that of tyranny and oppression that
practice it ''iciiom staining his SOUL with
out becoming beast and demon - Is it not vile dem
agogusm thus to infame the passions and prejudices
pf fhn nf nnn of pfrN qaInEt
the institutions of another to subserve the ends of
party? Mr. Wilmot must not conclude that his sickly
recognition of the rights of the States and his ungacous
bow to the decision of the Supreme Court will protect
him in the of such offensive language the forego
ing. The use of such foul asperson in way i'm
prove the morals politics of the country its institutions
or its customs can do good to North South, to
white black 1t is not my habit to deal harshly
with the character actions of public men, but should
do injustice to my feelings not to say that much
of Mr. Wilmots address, whether considered decara
tion of principles specimen of logic literature
falls far below what his friends had to expect 1t
rank but little above common place antayery rant
wanting in method, and useful suggestion, in the
ordinary graces of even partisan discussion LIS posi-
bic that the republican party cannot maintain their prn
cpcs without resorng to such dangerous ncendarsms
Unchartabe elimination of the South to be their
only source of partisan capital Assuming Tespecor the
constitutional rights Of the slavcholdng States they are
sure to discourse in such way as to lead the natica
abolitioniss to believe that in way other, at
no distant day, through their agency, the institution
is to be uprooted everywhere 1t by such
in the last presidential election that they gained
to Fremont Garrison Parker Beecher and all that
school of fanatics Unable to devise practicable scheme
to improve the condition of the black man. they persist
in the work of agitation their most fruitful of
political power. They know that they could do but lit
tie to improve the condition of the black man. though
the whole subject under their unresraincd control
Suppose all legal difficulties to be removed and the sub
ect placed within their reach by emancipation the part
of the South conditioned that the negroes be properly
M ,lnk,
the slaves that they might escape the dreaded
kicks and be where would '4horseachp The uornen
and sell their balesP How could they be clothed and fed
and how elevated in the scale of moral being? Would
they be brought North to compete with present Ia
boring population? the free States would never
agree to that But suppose they should would that in
sure Improvement in the physical and mental condi
ton of the slavef With what political and social
dgnities would the black be clothed, that they
might live easier and happier and attain to higher
degree of civilization and Christianity Who will stand
up for equality for them in the Northi Let us have
these questions answered. and have practical scheme
for the elevation of the negro, less of the agta
ton The continuance of these criminations between
the Nola III and South may readily disturb the peace
of thirty millions of white people, but in way
relieve whatever of hardship there may be in the condi
ton of the three four millions Of slaves now in our
country Nor is just patriotic to allege national sin
against country because Of the condition of the
African, when the authors of such aspersons cannot
point to the spot earth the period in history in
which the condition of the curly haired negro better
than at present in the United Stateswhen and where
he enjoyed greater physical comforts attained higher
degree of mental cultivation, embraced better ideas of
Christianity His country is tone of slaves and
masters and the ancestors of those have slaves
of the lowest class when taken from their country
To restore those in the United States to that original
condition. such thing possible, would be out
rage upon humanity and civilization. If then the
dton of the black has been really improved by
his lowest estate among u.s. wherein consists the national
sin that constantly besets the conscences of these po
ical doctors?