The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-04-16
THE WASHINGTON UNION.


c,sat.sioas, Atmosphykic, hsf, s1galic, aud cpl,
Gatic. Precisely SOFT with - hsdy- pslitc; and
isis and ever viii the provhcssf thu ins~sss a
Anaticism- they will come in every conceivable
form--to apply their poisons where they can be
most effective in the work Of undermining the CON
stution and in impainns the general health of the
system.
The abolition naniag in this country which has
grown broad aud deep enough at length 10 sustain
the republican psrty--in fact, to make party
which, hcm ITO numbers. have power ocontest the
control Of the general administration-up to this
time has had tho powss 70 control in the
least possible degree, the destiny Of American sla-
very and it is as certain as the laws Of gravtaion
that it never will have so long the federal gov
eminent exists. a,ir,i,y ,sss tafte,4
We have belief that slavery is an instrument of
politics in any sense Whatever. We are confident
that political management cannot create it, nor abol-
ish it where it exists 1t ia institution of the
place but whether it is to remain, such depends not
upon political dsquistions and abolitionist denun-
Citations on the one hand, or upon an indiscreet
advocacy of its admirers and supporters on the other
1t is enough to consider that have in this country
three and half millions of the black race that they
are to great extent, employed in profitable labor,
capable of yielding them subsistence and of yielding
profits to their employers. They held in slavery
by men who have right to hold them; and under
our system of industry, though they exclusively
no portion of American labor which il not, directly
Or indirectly, connected with American slavery
We hear much of the Z" free labor of the North.
Those who talk about it and parade it, as contrads-
tngushed from slave labor are the merest quacks in
political economy if they suppose any /" free labor
of this country of constitutional free trade and
homogeneous production, exists as an independent
system of industry. It might as well be claimed
that the iron coal business is Independent of every
other branch of industry; that commerce exists in
dependent of agriculture and manufactures or that
religion is to be found in the church. and not in the
character of its disciples. Every American inter
est, every department of industry every branch of
lawful business and intercourse, springs from
mon fountain under this government and has inn
parted to them their true character, well as the
profits to which they are entitled Those who pa
Iaue Tree laDOT ab jill dutaSObu 10 sIaVc ldOOH Anu
uice rersa, are either shallow empires ignorant
pretenders. Ours is compound system Of indus-
try, governed by common laws, dihfused down to tie
mnutes details that the profits of each are blend
ed with and made dependent upon every other, 30
that branch be successful without receiv-
ing it's contributions from all Tonrge that they are
in opposition, is to urge that the arms and legs
should rebel against the belly, that the mouth
should be charged with the food it receives for the
benefit Of the whole system, that the head should
be off because it is incapable Of performing
ual labor. Not more truly is the human body one,
nance, and carnations.
Then why is every trnng disease Of system
being hyblown by the bite of fanatical vermin that
nfest this and every other country?