The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-03-21

sons of law Legislative emancipation in the slayehod-
ing States is through the fundamentally, indefinite
y postponed. But permanent consequence OF all remains
behind The seeds of dstrust and disaecton are sown
between the different States of the contederacy State
embttered against State private feeling is aienated and
that sentiment of common nationality which should be
nurtured and cherished of priceless value neglected
and thrown away for iusory and worthless absrac
ton The hopes of the country, which are identified with
its affection and peace and the eyes OF mankind which are
fixed upon u.s. will be disappointed II we would cultivate
the virtues OF those great who wrote the New Eng
land articles OF le4a Of those who passed the abolition act
of Pennsylvania in $780, of those who shaped and carried
the celebrated ordinance of 1887 If would obey the
constitution of the United States and remember the great
and patriotic men by whom II was formed if respect
the acts and yenerate the memory of Washington who
signed the fugityesave law of l793 If would defend
in their integrity the in which Clay and Web
and Calhoun concurred in the year 1850 we would
stay the unfia and suicidal hand which uped to de-
stroy them all The North have it in their power by alb
staining from the mischief of such interference bring
back those noble hearts OF the South which beat unison
with those of the North in all those of patriot
ism and nationality which will make us mighty and hap.
Ply people.
conduct if motives such here presented cannot ami
mate enlghten and direct it. For the single purpose of
giving freedom to few runaways who perhaps unfit
ted for its enjoyment may break down the proudest
monument of human virtue which reared we
may coHvuse the land with civil connections and drench
it in aternal blood. And may do all this at the in
stance of whom Of nation whose whole history is at
with all its professions and whose theory of domestic
government and maxms Of foreign policy laugh to
the very lessons they would teach How wsald Eng
land have resented any tendency in this country to excite
the discontents of Ireland to foment by word deed
the spirit of demagogue agitation and acous insurgency
there Let alone she has commenced system of gradual
correction and proceedingvery ardily it must be ad
mittedto those complaints Of Partially and mis-
government which, for above century, have formed the
staple of Irish literature and oratory.
Let in conclusion, cast hasty glance at expand
ed country the permanence of whose undivided greatness
is threatened alone by misguided benevolence and Grim
perversity towards fugitive slaves The political State
nv Tho
MES mighty and colossal in its BIRTH The bound
aries fixed with England by the treaty of l783 enclosed
an area OF eight hundred thousand square miles But now
by eessons of territory from Span France and Mexico
the national domanthat which the national flag
triumphanty wayes-has been quadruped in extent. Re-
cent surveys make grand total Of nearly three and third
millions of square miles OF the extensive and beautiful
surface presenting every variety of SOIL stretching into
every variety of climate and including the richest tracts of
the world not foot of land has been acquired by ind
ectsn or conquest The acquisitions have been made in
every case after open negotiation and for fair equiv
alent.
The tonnage of the United States at the commencement
of the present federal government amounted to tons
In the year 1855 the commercial marine of the world
computed to be about TONS or this vast aggre
gate the tonnage Of Europe and Asia was about ten mil
lions of which amount, the half enjoyed by Great
Britain alone Nearly the whole residue is the present
tonnage of the United States-hat is 5250000 This i'm
mense marine than one-thrd of the entire
tonnage of the globe and exceeds the magnificent supreme
cy of Great Britain herself the proud and peerless mistress
of the Without any figure of speech if cooly
look at the hgureS OF arithmetic them the
maritime glory of this country, and calculate that great
to which she is fastening The commercial marine
of Great Britain has for the last thirty years. increased
twent EIGHT per cent in every of years while
that Of the United States in each decade for the pc
Rod has advanced fifty eight per cent II we recall the
of commercial navy as 1t existed in $780, accord
ing to the of the following year. and consider the
vast augmentation which the intervening period of sixty
years has effected it does not require the gift prophe
cy forete that American tonnage will not only
surpass that of Great Britain and the of other nations
al transcend
bined maritime aeets of the world
American imports have swelled in degree correspond
ing with this expansion from oOoin 1890 to $3l5
600 900 in 1856. The annual revenue has gone in
progressive ratio of augmentation from oQ0 the
former period till it reached nearly sevenyfour millions
of dollars in the latter. The wonderful and unheardo
spectacle presented OF nation having greater
than of her public men, crippled by constitutional
scruples knew how to expend And yet the increasing
demands of gigantic commerce. with mighty rivers and
immense extent of unmproved coast stretching in
line Of nearly twenty-five Thousand miesfresh from the
hand of benignant nature-require it all and than
ench revenue can supply.
The exports the country fairly express grand
results of its productive industry From $40 which
the of American exports in the $780, these
exports have gone increasing to S3l05000O0, which
they attained in the last year. But when reflect upon
the of domestic consumption and the stupendous
schemes of internal Improvement which the elastic energies
and sagacous enterprise OF people have set foot it
apparent that the OF these in nowse repre-
the real of the United States Above two
thousand patents were issued from the bureau of that de-
partment during the last year. More than twenty thou
sand miles of railway raversed by passengers and
merchandise the electric telegraph is penetrating to the
remoest settlements of the land; and magnificent pro-
ect has been conceived of uniting by railroad the Attain
tic with the Pacific Is it, them surprising that
while the annual exports are numbered by hundreds of
millions the annual products Of the country amount to
as many thousands of milions2 1t be shown by
peent data that the industrial pursuits of the country
ated last year. and contributed to the wealth of the world
the sum OF 81 0o0 This sum- the product Of
single year. it has been strkingy and aptly said is
greater by an eighth than the whole debt Of the British
Kingdom which has been sccumuatng for more than two
centuries.
The population Of the United States number nearly hir
y millions Of inhabitants, who governed by constu
ton which regarded by of the greatest and wses
of Europe the most perfect political instrument that
man. any age nation, conceived framed The
and powers referred to must in h nature of
things give to the United States the undisputed rule of
empire among the nations of the earth. To what
indebted for this commanding aggregate OF national wealth
and greatness2 Do not it all to the binding force
of that great constitutional charter which concentrates
powers and naton--that sacred charter
which it seems TO be the study Of of people,
in reasonable combination with certain English phiian
thropists to tread under foot to profane and Destroy
Shall slight the suspicious designs of Providence In re-
gard this country and disappont the hopes of freedom
publican government Shall extinguish the brilliant
promises of glorious future2
But whatever eulogy this greatness may be worth a
greater glory than all remains behind, We may boast
of territory its imperial amplitude and its boundess
fertility of inland and extended line of coast OF
the improvements which activity enterprise and wealth
imparng to Industrial pursuits; yet than
all these have something better to be proud of and to
cherish The population of this country represents the eff
fects of free institutions and the influence Of free schools
where the future fathers of the State educated to the
high level of segovernment They exhibit that unshacked
Thought