The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-11-02

think that II is accidental unnecessary the work Of n
eIesled OF anatcai agatoi, aud therefore ephenera
mistake the case altogether 1t pressie Conflict
between opposing and enduring forces and Il that
the United States must aud will sooner or later become
either entirely sayehoidng nation or entirely free
labor nation Either the cotton and nee fields of South
carolina and the sugar plantations OF Louisiana, will
ultimately b. titled by free labor and Charleston and
New Orleans become marts for legitimate merchandise
alone or else the rye fields and wheat fields Of Masschu
setts and New York must again be surrendered by their
farmers TO slave culture and to the production of slaves
and Boston and New York become more markets for
trade in the bodies and souls ofmen."
That two systems Of labor caunot exist in the same
coniederacy is the theory Of the sectional party of
factions which has to-day arrayed itself against the
democratic party and their purpose u.s. at every haz-
ard and cost 70 abolish involuntary labor in all the
States. How shall the work beginY Mr.. Seward
answers for his party, and all its allies-for Mr..
Crittenden, for Mr.. Bell, for Mr.. Winter Davis, for
Forney, and for the malcontent democrats who have
marched off with trailed flag with himself and Doug
las into the camp of the sectional party The open
ing declaration in his speech we have already given
the democratic party dislodged from power" He
repeats it in the body of his speech
There Is only one way The democratic party must Be
permanently dissqed from the goueyruiea The reason Is
the designs OF the shareholders, which have described
He reiterates it in his conclusion:
81 think, fellow citizens that have shown you that it
is high time for the friends of freedom rush to the
of the constitution and that their very first duty is
dismiss the democratic party from the administration Of
the government"
'' know, and all the world knows that revolutions
never go backward Twenty senators and hundred repre-
scntatves proclaim boldly in Congress to-day sentiments
and opinions and principles Of freedom which hardly
many men, in this free State, dared to utter in their
own homes twenty years ago. While the government Of
the United States under the conduct of the democratic
party has been all that time suuendering plain and
castle after another to slavery the people of the United
States have been less steadily and perseverngy gath
erng together before the forces with which to
back again all the fields and all the castles which have
been lost, and to confound and overthrow by de-
csve blow the betrayer of the constitution and of free
dom forever"
Such is the PLATFORM and such the programme of
action upon which the opposition to the democracy
unite to-day in FIVE of the free States. We charge
that it is fusion recommended, encouraged, urged
by misguided and reckless men at the South that
the example in it has been set by such Mr..
Crittenden that its proprey has been urged by such
journals as the Richmond Wing, and that its con-
summation has been largely promoted by the active
sympathy of the southern apologsts of Judge
Douglas