The Washington union., 1857-08-22
From tho Albany Argus
THE EXTREMISTS.

the Albany Argus
THE EXTREMISTS.
We wish that our feow-ctzens of the North who are
persuaded by the decaations of presses and politicians
and perhaps by their hasy impulses that their
section of the Union is suffering oppression and injustice
from southern aggressons could know of the real
feeling at the South and of the deep conviction which
there prevails that it is to the southern portion of the
Union that wrong and injury are done Could they
understand that their southern brethren less hon
than they in the belief of injustice committed it
might lead to sympathy in mutual Distress respect for
each Others feelings and regard at least toeton for
each others opinions.
Extreme men in each section of the Union are now
rushing asunder and rushing out of the Union because
each side is fully persuaded Of the hostility and oppression
of the other We have before In the Charleston Mer
curry an illustration of this feeling at the South. That
paper is always able calm, and dignhed and yet 1t de-
spas of the Union and what IL deems the
wrong and injustice of the North, which defeat the real
ztion of its intended benefits For the information Of
northern readers, and to show that the of in
Justice is all at the North copy from the Mercury
the following glowing tribute to the Union and eloquent
jeremiad its supposed impending dissolution
1--WE have never anticipated dissolution of the
Union as thing lovely in itself We not ig-
of the position of the United States in the world
not to understand its external grandeur its prospective
glory its mighty example for good amongst the despot
sns of the world. Give the Union of the constitu-
ton in its plain, simple truthfulncss with the rights and
protection it would just and equal in its taxation
and in its expenditure observing the limitations the
sttuton prescribes Letting alone with our institu-
tons excepting to fulfil its plain duty in them-se-
curing to equality with confederated States, in
Washington in Territories everywhere rights
and their obligations demand and there none in the
broad expanse of the broad lands which stretch from
ocean to ocean beneath the Union who win more de-
vouedy pray and fight for its continuance. Such was
the Union fathers supposed they had bequeathed to
us. Is this the Union which now prevails over the
South /?
'sTurn to the North and sec the angry sectionalism
which lifts its head in stern and deadly of in
sttuons. Listen to their pulpits prescribing
worthy of Christian fellowship and association. Read
their papers pouring out bitterness and scorn upon our
pretensions of equality with them Look at the general
government cheated, stripped of partcipa-
ton in Territories plundered by tariffs and their
penditures ylifed baited bullied, degraded. We
no longer equals with the North We longer
people. The people of the slave and free States
distinct and separate people exist the globe 1t is
not possible in judgment to keep them together un
der one government terms of equality One of them
must be the master. The inevitable Of things
proclas that the mastery must be with the North The
mastery Of the North in the Union must be the ruin Of
the South. Not only every principle of liberty and of
manhood but the brute instinct of sefpreseryation,
Union, or dissolve it,
For ourselves we have despaired of reforming it. For
thirty years this paper has struggled to make its rcforma
tion consistent with the rights of the South The
stitution is now weaker and sectonalism potent
ard furious than The fate of the Union, in our
judgment is sealed 1t must be dissolved. We bow to
the necessity and may mourn the catastrophe but can
not prevent certainty inevitable as the rolling OF
the seasons. 1t is only question of time. We have
not done it. When impartial history to write its
epitaph it will say KILLED by the aggressive injustice
Of the North and the gnoble submission Of the South
Although the injustice Of the North did beat upon its
proud BARRIERS they would have fallen but for the
base delinquency of the South in not using her power to
protect her rights and enforce the constitution until
was too latetoo late for the Union but not too late
we trust her salvation Upon which section of the
Union will rest the deepest of future generations II
is not for us to anticipate.
Can our coteInporaries of the blac-republican press
utter anything tragic than this Do they enter
tain grief sincere indignation profound and
sorrowfu and can they pour forth lamentations more
touching and eloquent
We hopeful than these lugubrious extremists
of either latitude We not prepared to despair of the
republic We see in nation the elements of youth
and growth and vigorous manhood, and the generous
and just attributes which will discard sectional oppes-
sions yield to constitutional obligations and obey the
promptings of noble patriotism
We admit that the aggressive movements of black
pubcanism at the North naturally tend to produce
responding aggressive movement at the South of the
character recommended in the following extract from the
Mercury:
We in favor of organizing southern party in the
South to meet the tsouthern organizations against
in the North Duty to ourselves, fidelity to the Union
itself if it be saved with those who think that
it be saved, it appears to demands this policy
Sectionasm for aggression must be met by sectionas
for deence-united power must be opposed by united
power the dsorganzed strength of the South must
fall and be fittered away in feeble regrets and gnoble
murmurings, vain, abortive efforts for redress "
In the place of these mutually hostile movements we
would substitute organization different basis
that of mutual good will and faithful discharge of
duties citizens and members of this great confedccy
of States in the spirit of the constitution leaving each To-
cay and community to think and act in its domestic
matters in its way
Such the position of the democratic party of the
Union and while its conservative and moderate theory
and action condemned by sectionasts at both
tremcs Of the Union, they command the assent of pru
dent and intelligent patriots, of the friends of stability
and ORDER and the pcrpeuity of republican nst-
tions all the country.
TO The Editor Of The Union:
The official In your paper of yesterday Of
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