The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-04-10


cessity and urgency must its passage to black
republican favor.
THE SOUTHERN ABETTORS OF NORTHERN BLACK
REPUBIICANISM FATE THAT is PRE-
PARED FOR THEM
Lest they might frighten their southern allies and
drive them to desertion when they will be most
needed the blackrepnblican Journals have been re-
markably circumspect in their comments upon the
recent action of the House on the Kansas question.
But with all their and caution they have not
been able fully to conceal their real feelings The
cloven foot has been exposed on more than one oc-
casion and the feelings of joy with which they were
filed at this result have peered out from more than
one discreet and carefully -worded article. The New
York Tribune after modestly denying that the adop-
ton of the Montgomery amendment was victory
for repubcanism, could not help exclaiming "Cham
pions of Freedom and Honest Rule! (by which it
means abolitionsm and republican rule,) let us re-
ioice and take courage!' the Republic of this city
Z" returns deyout thanks to Almighty God for his
great deliverance' from the slave power The New
York Courier and Enquirer says, that it secures
precisely the same result that the Missouri Com
promise was framed to effect 1.-THE exclusion of sla
very from the Territories j the Ohio State Journal
pronounces il triumph over slavery and the slave
holding influence j" and the Albany Journal which
proclaimed, ON hearing Of the action Of the House
that g Freedom (abolitonism) had rimmphed at
Washington has since given vent to its feelings in
the following exulting language;
"The vote in the House of Representatives virtually
pudiating the scheme of vany nauguraed by the bor
der rufans Of Missouri with the connyace of President
Pierce and eliminating In the Lecompton fraud under
Buchanan gives hope and courage to those who began to
despair of the republic Conscience about to
its reign in region from whence it never should
have been banshed For ten long years. nearly, the
moral sentiment of the nation has been deteriorating
The sense of Justice the love of liberty and allegiance to
God have all been waning Neghboring nations have
been robbed men have been reduced to slaves within the
shadow Of Faneu Hail. and the higher ,U has been de-
no1ced and derid Infdes to humanity scofers at the
law Of God and recreants to freedom have revelled in
powe4 and plumber But day of reckoning is at hand
The nations heart throbs with now feelings Hope is
giving place despair and freedom is asserting its claims
to reverence. Everywhere at the North, and The
SouM we see that the spirit of liberty (aboonsm) is
working among the people, and The recent vote Congress
but an ner Of hat feeling This awakening of the con-
science of the people should inspire Nth zeal and ad
TO redoubed Efforts in he Of freedom BLACK republican
sm The ooerthro~ Of the slnOe pOacer is approaching
We commend this extract to the especial attention
of Messrs Crittenden Bell, Marshall, Ricaud, Har-
rs, Underwood, and Gilmer. They are some of the
new converts to higher-lawism they the men Of
the South who have given hope to abolitionism in
asserting its claims to reverence it is their action
that has inspired the foes of the South at the North
"with new zeal, and led them to redoubed efforts
in their unholy war upon the constitution and the
independence of the States and it is because they
have proved recreants to the rights of the people
who sent them here that the enemies Of those rights
are now confidently predicting that "the overthrow
of the slave power is approaching
1t was bad enough for northern men, who claim to
be national to be found acting in concert with apary
whose avowed purpose it is to break down and des-
troy the institutions of entire section of the Union
but is infinitely to find the representatives Of
that section ITSELF to whom its people have in
trusted their rights, their interests, and their
honor basely betrayng the trusts con6ded to
them, and openly and unblushingly uniting with
| it's sworn enemies in their warfare upon it. But
there is day of retribution coming. The apos-
tacy of these has been marked, and WILL sooner
later, receive its appropriate reward at the hands
of betrayed and indignant people. They may tell
their political friends at home that the admission Of
Kansas under the Lecompton constitution was dem
ocratic administration measure, and its success
would BIO claimed democratic administration
triumph triumph of that party which had warred
upon their organization and its principles and utter
ly demoraIized and broken it up. Under ordinary
circumstances such plea might be received as salts
factory but in this it cannot and will not be
The measure against which these men have voted il
democratic measure, but il is something more II
involves great principle upon which national mel
of all parties agreed and upon the successful
scrton Of which alone the minority section Of tn,
Union-the section TO which the men of whom we ar,
speaking belong must depend for tho maintenance,
OF its equality and independence in the Union
The ties of party strong among the peo
pie OF the South, but they inferior TO tbs