The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-12-29
The UniOn-Savers.

"AiA -
fire, a lot Of doughfaces in the Com
mercial centres of the North, who have
Silks, Calicoes, Cloths. Tape, Boots anG
Shoes, and other manufactured articles,
including principles, to sell, begin to
tremble, to turn pale, to implore a stop
page of agitation, to denounce the anti
slavery cause, and finally end by going
down on their knees and declaring % the
South that they may demand any thing,
and it shall be given, if they will only
consent not to destroy the Union, nor re-
fuse to buy what the said doughfaces
have to sell. Several times in u polit-
zeal history have these gentlemen gone
through this tribulation, and exhibited
this abnegation, debasing the North
and rendering more imperious the
South, and we are now having an.
other exhibition oft. A few political fos.
sils, taking to themselves tie name OF
conservatives, because they have lacked
the power of discerning the progress of
events, and, standing still, have been left
as solitary monuments of obsolete idea
and issues, egotistically believing, and
absurdly c~ontending, that the political
world must come back to them, not they
go forward. A few of these, such as
EyERErT and WINTHROP, and WASHING
TON Hunt, anxious to show that they
were right and the judgment and heart Of
the people wrong, have consented to
head, and in a certain sense to dignity,
another movement of the week-kneed
commercial doughfaces, who, with their
tape and calico, sell their principles, and
the result has been a series of Union. Sa-
wing meetings in Eastern cities, at which
it was resolved, as it has been resolved
scores of times before, that slavery agi-
tation must stop-that the South is the
victim ofNorthern fanaticism, and an
less resistance TO the demands of the
peculiar institution ceases, the Union
will be knocked into pi.
The most noticeable of these meetings
was that held in New York, and the res
olutions and speeches read and delivered
there show very plainly how much more
affection for the peculiar institution il
now requires to save the Union than
formerly. The great speech at this NEE
ting was that of CHARLES O'CoNoR, who
is probably the ablest lawyer Of the New
York bar-a man who has always been
a firm democrat, though refusing politi-
cal prefermcnt, and dares therefore, tellex-
actly what he believes Democracy is and
should be. In taking the ID emocratic
side, and the Union-Saving side, of the
question of slavery, Mr.. O'CoSoR refers
to the law of God and the principles Of
natural justice as indistinguishable.-
The wisest heathens had given the rule
of conduct between man and man in the
words Live honestly 4; injure no man,
and render to every man his due
Christ had given the same rule In one
brief sentence-"Love thy n~eighbor as
myself" He wanted the people to act
up to these maxims, and asked if they
the assertion that negro slavery is
If it violates that great rule Of
human conduct, render to every man his
due, he would pronounce it unjust
% But" said he,
81 insist that negro slavery is not unjust.
Cries of :" Bravo."] tits not only not unj ust,
but it is just, wise and beneiicent. [Applause
and loud hisses-cries of bravo !" and disor-
ler. / maintain that negro Slavery is not un
ust cheers that it is benign in its infiu ,nces,
both on the white man and on the black. IA
That is SOL / maintain that it is or
lained by nature that it is a necessity of both
aces that in the climates where the black race
IAN live and prosper, nature herself e%njoins cor
elati We duties on the black man-and the white
cannot be performed except by the pre-
and, if the Kissing gentlemen please,
" the perpetuation of negro Slavery. Voices
-"That is right" Cries of GOOD y and
heers. J. U
In continuation, he also said
"These are The principles. gentlemen, Which
he extreme measures of Abo!itionism, an d its
bettors, compel Us to enforce. This is the ground
e must take or abandon our cherished Union.
1e must no longer favor political leaders who |
Tx about Slavery being an evil nor must we
Ivance the doctrine that negro slavery is a
ing which, although pernicious, is to be toler- o
ed merely because we have made n bargain
tolerate it. We must turn away from the S