The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-01-24

For Union.
LETTERS TO DR.. o. A. BROwNSON, ON THE INCOM-
ING ADMINISTRATION.--No.3.
DEAR quote from your pages the following para
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aWe shall be believed when we say that we do not OPP
pose this policy slavery antslavery grounds. We
condemn that policy solely for its bearing the dstrlbu
ton Of power and the administration of the govern
The slave States constitute not the strongest section
the Unien but the slave interest is stronger than any
other interest in the country and Is more than match
for all the others taken singly 1t combine larger
political minority in its favor than any other though after
all only minority To combine all the savehoding States
around that interest and them the administration
of the by the aid of one two three demo-
cratic free States against the votes OF all the rest Is really
to place the in the hands of the sectional
slavehoding minority because that minority s the im-
majority of the party that elects the President To
suppose such policy to be permanent is to suppose that
the slave govern the country and that the
majority of the Union is to submit to the savehoding
minority If fully carried out and consolidated the policy
would virtually dsranchise to the general government
the majority Of the American people, and render the
slavehodng States the subjects ultimately the slaves of
the minority held together by particular interest and
that interest soch has right to enter into the poll
tics the Union No statesman worthy of the for
one moment believe the free States would long submit to
be thus deprived Of their legitimate influence in the affairs
of the country and quietly acquiesce in the domination Of
some three hundred thousand Shareholders in single
geographical section. Having as they well know, the
absolute majority having also, as they fully believe the
and form northern sectional party do their best to de-
feat and subject the slave interest and in their turn attempt
to bring the slavehodng States under the domination of
northern manufacturers bankers brokers' and stocob
barsn
Into the above single paragraph, which your friends
must regard unworthy of your political history you have
compressed nearly all the unreasonable preences and fall
laces Of abolitionism You have clearly demonstrated
that the slave States both majority and minority
that they weak and strong that they possess the
or to override the Union while they at the mercy
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well to his laures they will be borne away by the dis
tnguished editor of the Quarterly Review The Tribune
does look upon the of the South brethren
protected by flag, and indulging hope
Of glorious future for country 1t affects regard
them generation of vpers conclave of Agerines
whose only mission is to prey upon the civilization and hu
mainly of the world Its propretora have amassed SPLEEN
did fortune within the last few years by protesting all
ceeds and nurturng into life and power every phase Of
political and social error.
You say the slave interest has right to enter into
the politics of the Union" By whom that interest
brought into politics but by northern agators You
say that northern statesmen will attempt to bring the
South under the domination of northern manufacturers
bankers brokers and stocobbersn Have not these
facturers and stockholders already arrayed themselves
against the interests of the South If the republican
leaders willing render the Justice to the South
which the South has not denied to the North should
occasionally see instead of vituperaon and abuse heaped
upon southern politicians senator representative
from Louisiana Tennessee Georgia. spoken Of in terms
of the highest praise The object of these not con-
cord they do not expect the South conccds thing
they would be disappointed if southern were
render any Of the rights which they enjoy under the
suton for the sake Of preserving the harmony Of the
nation their real object is dissolution Of the Union
and they cannot consistently adopt any other method
of treating their southern brethren than that of violent
and unqualified denunciaon they privately exulting
the prospect of riot MURDER and devastation conse-
quent upon the liberation of the slaves Of the South and
nothing less will satisfy the morbid appetite Of abolition
ISM The most ultra Of these never admit that there
is any virtue any honor any patriotism south of the
Ohio river We told by these serve caterers to IA
naticism in general that only blood-hounds in human
FORM dwell upon the plantations of Mississippi Alabama
and Georgia that there all that is noble and generous
and of good reporal the lines of beauty and chastity
and religion and truth are blghed oy the mildew and
suffocated by the pestilential air Of slavery.
Now sir such pictures do good, buta great deal Of
harm. We taught in childhood to love the South
to regard it just regarded New England, the Middle
States and the great West--and cannot now believe
that the North and South moving in opposite direc
TONS The community of feeling the patriotic
love of country the noble impulses of charity the
determined spirit Of opposition to despoc power and love
republican liberty which, in the dark hour of the revo
luton, distinguished alike the inhabitants of New York
and the Caronas characterize their poseriy to-day who
shall say that bravery displayed by the gallant
Putnam Of New England than by the noble Marion Of the
South Who shall draw line Of distinction between
those who died at Eutaw Springs and those that fell under
the mnrderous fire of Bunker Hill Who shall decide be-
the patriotism of Jackson and Hamilton Did not
the of the revolutionary tempest roll and desc
the beautiful valleys of the and sunny South as