The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1840-05-30

cause. They have associated with one Of
the most dangerous political sects that has
been airayed against the sacred union of the
States, which the Father Of his County, in
his last address 10 his children, thus solemn
ly commends 10 their care
"lt is (he says Of infinite moment that
you should properly estimate the immense
value of your national union TO your col
lective and individual happiness; that you
should cherish cordial, habitusl, and inn
movable attachment 70 il, accusIoming
yourselves 10 think and speak of il as Of
the palladium of your political safety and
prosperity; watching for its preservation
withjealous anxiety;discountensncing what
ever may suggest a suspicion that it can in
event be Abandoned; and Indignantly frown-
ing upon any attempt TO ALLEVIATE any por-
tion oi our country from the rest, or TO en-
feeble the sacred ties which now linz to-
gether The various parts"
Such are the parting words Of the great
and good Washington The federal wings
pretend to cherish his principles; and TO be
governed by his admonitions and example.
Yet they have, at this very time, made CON-
mon cause with the Abolitionists--a politi-
cal sect, whose objects and measures have
direct tendency to dissolve that Union
which he SO earnestly and pathe!ically re-
commends; whose organs have denounced
the written compact on which il rests, as
containing principles at war with the rights
of man and the laws of God: who have
openly declared that they prefer emancipa-
,r,iet ;,h.
cipation; who have, by calumny and mis-
repre- Jentation contributed to make one por-
tion Of our fellow citizens odious to the 9TH
er; TO foster sectional feeling; TO change
brotherly love into bitter antipathy;and who,
if We may credit the declarations which
some of them have made; would willingly
see the political fabric uptooted from its
deepest foundations, provided their favorile
system Of measures could be built upon its
luins.
The social duties, the rights Of property
the charities Of life, the domestic relations
are all disturbei / by the conduct of this mis-
guided sect, and if it were possible that
their influence could so far prevail as TO
produce an interference on the part of the
National Legislature, with the institutions
OF individual States, these great interests
would become sacrifice to wild, vision
ary, and inpracticable, if not a designing
schethe OF philanthropy. In the prosecu-
lion OF this scheme, PORTIONS OF our fellow.
ciIlzens have been dsholnced as robbers
and man-siealers, foreign emissaries have
been encouraged to travel through the coun-
try, utIehng and disseminating atfociods
MISREPRESENTATION and infammatoty haran-
gues, s,calculated 10 excite serviia instruction
and intestine war; and money has even been
solicited aud procured of enthusiasts in 9TH
er Countries, and expended here, in scatter
ing the firebrands Of dIscord and dsunion
throughout the land, Those Who see these
results; aId persist in the measures wAich
have produced them, will not be deferred
by The sketch we have drawn; but if there
DO among them others, whose attention has
been turned away by exaggerated and excl
ting representations, from the great p.inci-
pies of lor6earance, mutual concession, and
compromise, upon which the Union was
founded. and by the sacred preservation of
which alone it can be upheld, We appeal to
all such 10 say whether connection, which
impeaches their Judgment, their patriotism,
their justice, and their devotion to our Re.
publican institutions, should not be renoun-
ccd al once and forever.
The limits of an address will not permit
us to extend our remarks, though the field
is broad, and the harves! could not fail TO
be rich. We must, therefore, lsave the de-
cisiou'of the great issues we have raised to
the sovereign people Of our beloved county,
and to the intelligence, honesty and patri-
otism of our fellow-ci!izens; not under the
belief that we have sufficiently discussed
those issues, but in the hope that we have
said enough TO awaken their attention to
them.
Our prime pies and objects have been a.
vowed The purity and freedom Of the e.
leetlve franchise; the exemption of our
country from a dangerous foreign influence,
and the preservation OF our Union against
the uuconslill tiOnal and fanatical spirit oI
Aboltionsm, are the great points in the
pending contest, and we proclaim them Il
our cOuntrymen as matters Of vital interes
tO our free institutions.
TSe candidate We present as the expo
nent of our principles, has been tried. His
views upon all thess questions are distinctly
known, and have been severely tssted.-
As TO him, therefore, the people may sc
with confidence and certainty.
Not so with our busy and confident Op