The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-01-28

despair Of our own country There was time in This
worlds history when all the instincts Of our poor hu-
mainly seem 70 have been dinegarded When imperialism
nsarp@d the functions Of repubcanism Rome, partially
virtnous became Rome utterly lAseirous the Tber
with blood statues were erected 10 commemorate the
grosses crimes murdsr became honorsble temperance
rcpudiAted a weakness; rigid virtue commanded
sdmiraton and elected prsise; cruelty 10 and
brute proof Of manly courage night brought rest
and day sgnAlizsd by honest labor the dungeons
of the sevenhed city emped of scoundrels that
they might be filed with patriots luxury and guttony
esteemed primary virtues last Of all female chastity
assaed by the universal depravity Of the times
changed for unbounded lust Nor was Byzantium any
better than Rome; possible she became LATHE
wanting in either city to resct the inauguration OF he'll
Now what is the lesson 10 be learned from the written
pas Does not the awful record teach us that we have
TO deal with practical not theoretical philosophy The
question in world generally is nogha ogh 10 be
but rhat beP The abolition party Of America deals
only with distractions ii makes allowances for
tuAl aus ii stops mot to consider the fact that our
government is great Improvement upon all the govern
ents that have gone before there neither checks
balances in its economy, but it rnshes bindly into
of distractions and leaves nt the mercy Of the
waves The grand and reasonable question is, Win
greater good be accomplished by the preservation by
the destruction of the American Unoni Aboitonism is
not prncle but heresy there Ii nothing practical in
it but evil the only possible consequence Of its triumph
would be the immediate and unconditional overthrow Of
the government Of 1882 And you sir have loaned your
psn the encouragement Of this faction yon hare talked
Of negro slavery without inquiring whether the condition
of the African has or has been improved by his trans
fer from the continent Of Africa to that Of America You
say indeed you would not personally emancpate the slave
population the South If you had the power because
you observe ih all the sudy hare been able 10 gi
10 The eject discover condition possibIe al pres
en for he Of that population superior 10 that IN gsie
they Humanity to1ards that population ynotling
else lDouid repent from being abotionist But The
Sonh cannot be ignorant that she has The epitizsd Worid
against her. and If she seeks in earnest oist her domes
tic institutions territory under the constitution
free she will meet in the free States resistance which
even her chiyalry will not be able to withstand This is
the "unkindest cut of all" What do yon by the
words civsed world p If you that opposition to
slavery test Of civilization what portion of the inhab
tied earth is civilized Surely you have no rcf
to England Her ideas of freedom entirely poet
ica her factories filed with miserable wreches,
white as Queen Victoria, who hardly permitted 10
breathe the open air and subject eternay the rod
of their masters One hundred and thirty millions OF
Asatcs groan under the tyranny Of British bayones and
the modern Magma CAarta. England has no other rights
ir Hndostan than those acquired by conquest Why did
she not while beratng her slaves in the West Indies lib
crate her sers in Asia The principle that justified
required the other. The plain truth however u.s.
acknowledged in the discussions in the British Parliament
England liberated her West India slaves for the purpose
disturbing the harmony of own republic She ina
gned that the geographical proximity Of free black pop
uation would render the long continuance of domestic
peace in the United States imposble and evidence
that she moved by considerations of philanthropy
Bn1TsH MERCHANTS, OWNING SLAVES SOME
Or BnAziL ARE PROTECTED ny BRIT
| lsH BAYoNETs CANNON.
We not now discussing the abstract question OF ne
gro slavery and shall merely observe that every prominent
government under heaven recognizes directly by imp
cation the right OF the superior control the inferior
and that this right has been recognised history
forms the face Of the EARTH every nge ten
ure by mar. lsa.a @a.aa.5 e...l.sss Y asa
We have endeavorod in the foregoing paragraphs TO
present Tin to the able article Of the New York
Quarterly Review In opposition to the KansasNebrasa
actl few of for concluding that the wisdom
Of thspast furnishes inale guide for the direction
the present. that the empire of Rome-thc lib
eral and enlightened of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. few preccdents
worthy adoption that the history OF man, from the
Garden of Eden to the landing of English humanity
the rude shores of this continent is history of murder
and rapine and that finally government is the
nobles and purest that has existed and will only be
prevented by insanity, avarce fendish malrvolence
from performing its glorious mission in the earth In
future numbers shall refer particularly to the
character of government the condition of the African
in his native land and the highly probable though but
partially developed ambition Of the god Terminus Amer
lea GEO. P. BUELL..
WASHINGTON, Jan. 81 1861.
. y a.s .-.