The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-12-03


enliar principle Of civilization TO expand it begins
TO decay The empires Of Cyrus, VI Cesar, OF Charlie
G--..u, Mshornc were all them llhktsatiys Of Oils
significant truth Fra.ad d present he eadiIg powht
OF the world reaees It, aud with expanding toothod
on the continent of Europe is theoretically building up
her gigantic empire i'm Asia scrupulousy guarding
and unscrupulousy pushing her nominations in every
quarter of the habitable globe Napoleon the Great fully
realized u In the depths Of bis own profound thought
reduced u 10 practice IN hs DAILY action and booking
tht0ugh his own too rapidly and hence too loosely
struced empire into the future France and Russia in
accordance with his suggestion To the then Car Alexan
der dividing the continent of Europe between them At
time in the history Of that continent has the tendency
of these great powers absorb the lesser been marked
at the present day Russia having absorbed Finland
on the north, Poland the west, and Asatc PROV
ince after another the east but for the Crmean
would have absorbed Turkey the SOUTH and of
may yet live TO hear Of another conversation OF the
Russian Car with foreign ambassador at Sc Peters
burgh proposing to administer in advance upon the eff
feos of that sick and dying certainly not with
Engshman, quite certainly with Frcncbman ;
for could look into the heart Of the Emperor of the
French-nay, could read the soul of French states
manshp-we would behold there inscribed the mani
fest destiny of France the extension of her eastern
frontier and first of all to the banks of the Rhine. D
yded Germany tenbles with the apprehension of Rus
sian encroachments the north and French encroach
mens the west 1t is notorious that deepseated
easness pervade the political mind of Europe Why these
armaments naval and military, rapidly equipped 30
energetcay disciplined, if II be not that the political
thinkers OF Europe recognise the workings Of this prn
cipe OF oanson aud In the signs of the times,
and in the claims of advancing civilization that the lesser
powers must be merged in the greater The discoveries
aud inventions of modern scieneesteam the electric
wire the rapid transportation of matter the still more
rapid transmission of Thoughtful enable govern
ment to discharge the duties which formerly required
several Why keep Ia motion surplus useless and
ly machinery Geographical divisions, discordant Ian
guages, conflicting governments with their various APP
planes their civil establishments, their standing ar
mics, their custom houses and taxation all of them
stumbling in the path of advancing civilization
The idea of perfect civilization calls for but religion
language, universal law and the question will
eventually be not the number of to be seized
to the wealth of the nations to be robbed in
cordance with the old Pagan idea of conquest basng
self upon the brute principle of force, but what govern
ment will render the greatest good to the greatest
ber in harmony with the vital principle of the Christian
religion, which is love and it is because furthes
upon that line of modern civilization that meet with the
unanimous opposition of those governments which stand
upon different principle Yet of the great think
of Europe have not failed to do justice Guzot
the great political philosopher of France has said that
republican government is that which places the greatest
number of heads in the sunlight, and what volume of
thought is imboded In the paegyric pronounced by
Lord Brougham upon Washington Hereafter the test
of nations civilization will he its capacity to appreciate
the character of Washington = And why the test of a
nations civilization if the civzng idea be found in
the fact that first and foremost among men, Washing
ton, declining to place crown upon his own brow,
raaeriqized the principle tf government taking it
OF material OfllS ana pa ing III IN the hDSlTaCL law
There it stands cold yet pure unsympathzng yet ncor
rnptble crowned abstraction, holding the sceptre Of
empire in its pulselcss hand the constitution OF these
United States Cheers Sublime reflection that the
American citizen is the subject only of thought Exalt
ing prerogatlve that wherever whoever he may be,
whether seated in the Executive Mansion at Washington
the nations chief, following his plough iii the broad
blaze of the day sun in the solitude of the western
wilderness he recognises material medium between
himself and the soul of all thought of all law, of all
TRUTH and that when he kneels he tnecs alone his
God [Cheers
At the commencement of the last session of Congress
the South occupied enviable position in reference
her rights. After wandering through wilderness of
doubt aud danger, where encountered W the idea
that Congress could egate slavery out of Territory
f2) tbs idea territorial legislature could do that
act and 90 that underlined and, it seems TO me, in
denable thing called squatter sovereignty, the country
had finally come back to the constitution and all branch
of the government had united in proclaming equal
rights in the Territories that the southern STAKEHOLDER
has the right under the constitution, to carry his slave
property into any Territory and there to hold it
vested right to be Invested by congressional egs-
ton, territorial legislation by the people
themselves when they shall come to form State const
tuition.
This principle was first announced by northern man
in 1885, in the representative chamber 1t Hon. j.
CLANCY JONES' of Pennsylvania and | beg permission
to read what fell from his lips All honor to him for
it
''Mr. Cox. Will the gentleman pardon for asking
teman believes that the laws established by the egsla
tue of the Territory of Kansas are under the constitution
of the United States, null and void
''Mr. Jones Certainly will the question and
/ think what have already said must make my opinion
evident upon that question. have said already that
III my opinion tie constitution limits the power of
gress to the extent of prohibiting them either from
tablishing aboshing slavery in the Territory. Nd
hitting that view 10 be correct suppose it follows,
matter of course, that the constitution of the United
States oonfcs upon the people of the Territory right
to dispossess any OF his right property whether
it be slave any other property And, therefore. the
legislative council of the Territory though they may
pass laws regulating the disposal and protection of prop
erty have right to administer those laws either
to establish abolish the right to hold that properly
Debates the organization of the House of Represent
atives Friday, December 81 1855 See Appendix Con
gressional Globe page 35.)
may remark, in passing, that this gentleman spe-
cal friend OF the President of the United States was
marked object in the last in Pennsylvania and
defeated by mad appeal to antisouthern prejudces
and sectional passions and that the President has
red upon him the honorable appointment Of minister to
Austria. What southern does not wish him God
speed as he goes upon his mission What southern
will not hail, with still greater satisfaction, his return
hereafter to the councils of the nationa fCheers
Subsequently 70 this, the same principle was affirmed
by solemn decision OF the Supreme Court of the United
States in the bred Scott case which must be familiar
all That decision undoubtedly controlled by The
democratic elements upon the Supreme Bench for when
political question up in court of Justice, po
cal thought must OF necessity control it. And may re-
mark that the South ably represented on that
bench. Two Of the justices Gcorgians by birth
One of them, Judge Wayne by years of service has nc