The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-01-31

the track of single idea, TILL u leading them 10 point
beyond which the tyranny Of the mind will permit no
turning aside any turning back. They obcying
law Of progress the same that human nature obeys
when na % IN rome
il finds itself more easily misled second tme and ever al
forwards until finally driven adopt the society and
the practices Of the dssolute Il might be profitable for
them 10 remember that
"vice is a monster Of so frightfal mien
As TO be hated needs but to be seen
Yet, seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
If abolitionsm be the vice from which they have been
shrinking il nevertheless aboonsm they are enduring
itying almost embracing The history of the northern
wing Of the old wing party its gradual absorption into
sectionasm is instructive and full Of warning on this
point and 30 the history of those OF the demo
cratic party who first yielding to erroneous views Of the
power of Congress slavery have gone till they
too urging the demands of sectonasm Thus their
progress. They march on, and deny that they march
march ON again and still deny that they marchj and If
not reformed by awakened Of the degers Of their
evil course win continue this till the end before them
The leading abolitionists understand This better and
congratulated Themselves accordingly upon the complexion
of the late Hence hear Gerr Smith saying
chat the few radical aboonsts who refuse to vote for
Colonel Fremont are after ALL to be numbered among the
effective supporters of his election leave them there
fore ito ply thepublic mind with their radical doctrines
ehowever they shall vote Colonel Fremont will have been
great gamer and Wendell Phillips saying that the
publican he first sectional party organized in this
country il does not know its face and it calls itself
national but it Is not nationalit is sectional ii is the
North arrayed against the South and Garrison saying
when he his Judgment of the republican party that
in proportion to the growth Of disunionsm will be the
growth OF republcanism and freesoilism and that
animation Of the map Of Massachusetts, would show shat
in those places where there the aboonsts who
have DISTINGUISHED themselves for conscience and for the
slaves sake the heaviest vote is thrown for the ee-so
ticket These men, standing forward thus hail the coming
of their co-workes They patient with any reuc
lance they witness for the march is Slow still there is
progress and they feel assured their waiting will be
warded.
10 81 laaJar af A.
party have let loose wild spirit against her which
they cannot control if they would and If does OK
haust itself in its furious conflict with the better spirit Of
their section its of mischief Is begun for it
reads path that leads through burning cities and
aged fields and slaughtered populations Our only hope
is that the past in the future the democratic party
will stand firm barrier to meet and check the
that the solid rock receives the sugng and
it into spray 50 will that party receive and dsmbody the
cncr0aching tide OF anti-slayery fanaticism
The urged for disturbing peace are not Of
kind to weaken conviction that great wrong threa
ened Are we reminded, as by the gentleman from Ohio
mr. BINGHAM OF the exceency of freedom and censursd
that we smother it in the expressions and outrages Of
slayeryi This imports nothing less than that slavery
should be extinguished and whether VIC will or not ex-
nguished by those who have better understanding
its injustice than have Do hear ations over
the condition of the negroi The inference is inevitable
That the negro should be relieved and will not re
eve him. that it should be done by others who are more
humane Is the condition of the white in the slave
States depored? You cannot the idea that
thing more meant than idle wailing Are upbraidcd
that the South inert stagnan desoate unsked in the
movements Of the age and wtha blind and
Who can believe that the painting of such picture for
our inspection has other end than to crafty tastes
or mortify our vanity?
answers purpose To show that all such excuses for
hsrassng US are founded in vicious philanthropy in
mistaken views of the life and condition of the South
visionary love of freedom prevents the access of correct
knowledge and colors the fact slavery with black
mess that darkens all else For instance what would it
avail to show to the freeso partisan tina, the South is
not he insists lying under blight of desolaon that
she has in fact multiplied her population both white and
unulf nd has kn.
her railroads. her productions her commerce. her wealth.
at rate unapproached in the history of progress except
by her sister States that her older States Notwithstanding
they nave contributed largely, avshly, to the
building OF newer of which outstrip
ped them have grown and strcng and improved the
condition OF their people steadily through every decade
mere glance at the win exhibit these actss and
yet they weigh nothing in the minds of those who decry
our institutions The free States having progressed more
rapidly Ia some respects they look only this fill their
minds with exaggerated contrast and exa themselves
TO superiority which their great modesty rbds them
to attribute to anything but the bad influence of
very. II they could be led to imagine for a moment
that there North could forget her existence while
looking elsewhere then perhaps they would be able to
cover that the of the South has bsen constant
rapid grand wonderful and that there much TO admire
and commend in the growth OF her feeble colonies into
mighty empire in the march of her bold pioneers through
the hewing the for the approach of other
States with their standards Of civilization their embs
OF grcatnesa and their armoes of power In the
gy ana hardy industry with which she has vanced the
fruits OF her soil into an unexampled controlling magn-
tude in the commerce and markets of the world But all
this Is shut out from their point of vision WIN ? Re-
cause tney are absorbed with enmty to our institutions
and with the secompacent idea that their own should be
forced IN TO suppant them because they have been led
captive by habit of mind which concerns itself only with
war upon slavery and which will be satisfied to release
them short of Its determination.
The President is right Mr. Chairman Those WIN have
Joined the freesoil movement have entered into path
which leads nowhere unless be civil war and dsu
non ana which has other possible outlet To believe
to believe that the South will submit to all that
she holds to be wong unjust, unconstitutional and de-
structive. ~ Wv
When contemplate the arraying Of a strong PARTY
oen upon giving the direction to northern power cta-
TED by the prevalent ansavery sentiment and unmind
u OF the high guarantees by which southern rights were
meant to be secured and can find no opposing oroanz,
ton but that the democratic party of sufficient strength
10 Wnsand lts aggressive purposes il cannot be sur
prsng that should indulge the pride of partisan in the
result OF the recent election What is it, in fact but The
pride OF patriotism great calamity to the country has
neen by my party and shall not ion
the PRESIDENT IN words OF satisfaction that it is so With
All my heart DO shall accept the triumph as the prom
se OF still hopeful future trusting that the incoming
counses will he ruled by the wisdom discretion and
age 90 much needed to keep down the adversary and to
the power which conques usurpaon and wrong
But should this trust fall and the sectional party continue
TO grow then-but will not speak despondngly Even
then may be that higher wisdom would but prepare
TO enforce anew the old lesson
glove strikes the Titaps down.
NOT when they set about their mountain pilnp
but when another rock would crown their work"
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
INTERESTING TO THE GERMAN FREMONTERS
The Germans who voted the backrepubican ticket nj
the late election getting we'll paid for their
Confidence. Simon