The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1844-08-14
For Representative in Congress,
GEORGE P. MARSH.
"DISSOLVE THE UNION"

This is now the Var Cry of the Third
Party Abolitionists. We know our readers
will start at this and every mind not under
the influence of passion and strong pdrtizan
feeling, will shrink from harboring an idea,
that lead to such disastrous result, as open
ly advocated by the leaders of the Third
Party. The honest portion of that party. are
earnest and honest in their e~ndeavouring TO
do away the great evil of Slavery. But they
look to the accomplishment oftheir, and we
say our desirable object, 1.-THE emancipation Of
the oppressed in a pcaceable manner. They
and ire also will go to the fartherest verge Of
The Constitution TO procure the Abolition of
Slavery. In this course a right humanity,
and stern justice will applaud. But the
leaders Of the Third Party one after another
are coming out for the dissolution of the
Union. Nay farther this spiritis not confined
to these leaders as politically such, blu. a
Christon denomination, a sect, are preparing
to take the same ground. IN this, we speak
uhat zee knou, as we shall hereafter more
fully show. The power Of sympathy we
know is strong, and when directed in the
right channel, controlled by reason and Judge
ment, cannot fail Of bringing about glorious
results. But our feeling in this respect, may,
ifnot under the guidance of an enlightned
mind, produce the very reverse of what we
intended should be produced; and instead
of alternating those calling for our SYM
pathies, be the means OF pctpetuating their
sufierings, and tightening the chords that
bind them to their sorrows, wretcherIness,
and woe. But 10 return. We must ac-
knowledge that we were moi prepared TO wit
uess a disposition on the part of amy but
reckless desperados who have no character 10
loose to tear this s%loriousU uion in pieces and
scatter its fragments TO the four winds Of
heaven. The Constitution, the work Of our
Fathers who now sleep with the noble dead
TINT have for centuries honoured the tombs of
earth, must BY reckless hands be torn. mutila-
ted, and destroyed. The spirit ofcivil liberty
that breatlies through its wholesome provis-
ion, must be counted of no worth, and as base
coin. We are free TO acknowledge however
that there are features in it, that We hope TO
see obliterated. But because those features
are there, we are not justifeiia giving coun-
~tenance to any disposition that may cvince it.
self to destroy the whole. We consider our
position as a watchman upon the walls of our
political Jerusalem, as imposing upon us a
duty to give warning when an enemy ap-
proaches from abroad, or rises up in our
midst. The Constitution is an Instrument
susceptible in its own provisions of amend
ment. 1t was a wise provision inserted BY its
founders. In several instances the people
have awaited themselves of the prcrogatiye
thus given them. to propose amendments,
and those amendments have been ingrafted
into the original instrument. 1t is no. to be
supposed, that any form Of human govern
ment can be at first perfect. Human nature
:. liable TO err. Our Fathers were as sensible
Of tie 'ruism, as we are; aud upon the truth
OF this axiom, they based their actions. In
the formation Of our noble Federal Constitu-
tion' the difficulty of adjusting the p~erplex-
ing question of Slavery was one of the first
that presented itself for consideration, Slave
ry had previously existed in the Colonies. and
the lrst form of Government The old Confed.
Grafton distinctly recognized the system.
In the formation Of the new Constitution !,
was found. that the States who had the evil
fastened npon them by the reckless eupiditv
of that now rery benerotent and philanhropic
na:ion Great Britain would not come into the
Cuiou unles left to the enjoyment of their
former privileges. Nay more. they required
rho insertion ofa clause nf liz Constitution