Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1844-07-18

paper in Harrsonburg, will be rewarded"
We never had a thought of coming 10 the
aid of our worthy neighbors Of the Register
they are competent no doubt to defend them
selves, whenever they shall feel themselves tc
be aggrieved by the man at their elbow. II
for reasons best known to themselves, they
choose to pass by the ebulhent effusions of tho
Republican, it is no concern OF ours; we acl
for ourself, and upon our own responsibility:
nor will we call to onr aid any Of our neigh
bors, or the pens of our correspondents.
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1--WE connot see how any true patriot can
much longer continue to support Polk and
Dallas, when the leaders of focofocoism in
the South have made the Texas question
mere pretext for dissolving the American U
mon, and forming Southern confederacy.-
Harison6urg Republican
If the leaders of the Democratic Re-
publican party in the South have made
"the Texas question mere pretext for
dissolving the Union," they are GER
tainly culpable in the eyes of every pa
triot. Ii there is one word in the Eng
hsl. language that has a more terrible
sound in our ear than any other, it is
that word of inexpressible, eternal i'm
port, D1sUNloN. But, in the South, ii
doesno sound more harshly than itdoes
in the North. If the Democrats Of the
South, in the heat of their defence of
their Institutions, talk of (lisunion, it is
not less culpable for the Wing Aboiti-
onists of the North to threaten the Union
with dissolution, if Texas is admitted
to shine among our glorious galax f
stars. And we may affirm, without
any fear Of successful contradiction, that
Disunion is not more yehemently talked
Of among the Democracy Of the South
than it is among the anti-annexation-
Whig-Abolitionists ofthe North. u
pom the subject of annexation and
disunion, we subjoin an extract from a
recent letter of Mr.. James Lyons, one
of the acknowledged champions of the
Wing party in the city of Richmond
81 am aware that the late Treaty is de-
nounced for the manner in which it was ne
gotiated, and the motive from which it is aid
to have sprung, and the cry of disunion has
been raised to damn the whole cause. | am
not tie defender of this Treaty-but for
Heavens sake let the evils of Mir. Tyler's ad
ministration end with it, and entail them not
upon the country, and stain not the South
with enduring reproach to punish party
leader. ] do not concur in politics with Mr.
Tyler or Mr. Calhoun, and utterly condemn
even the talk of disunion, and | cannot ap-
prove the sentiment, that men are traitors. or
should be hung, if they do talk oft, and still
less can l agree, that the friends of annexa-
ton at the South shall be involved in one
sweeping denuncation as disunionists or ra-
pacious spectators. No man is more ardent
Iy attached to the Union than ammo man
would bear more to preserve it than would
-ant! would not willingly barter the small
test state in it for the proudest Empire on
earth, because that would be disunion. And
yet there are greater evils than disunion.-
And one of these is the abolition Of slavery in
the South, and another is a despotism--that
worse than iron, inquisitorlal, despotsm, that
despotsm of the mind which shall denv men
under the penalties of treason, the right to
express their opinions about their rights and
government. o'Connell IN the Richmond
Penitentiary is more free than the citizens of
such a Republic. But why should the friends
of Texas at the South be put under the ban
with the cry of dsunioEl-B ecause a few in
discreet men talk of disunion if tl:eT fail in
obtaining Texas, which they do, not because
of the loss of Texas merely, but because, if
lost, it will be by the objection ofthe anti-sla-
very men tC the extension of the Influence of
the sisTeholdmg country Their threat if I I'M
derstand it, is not to dissolve, because of the
loss OF Texas merely, but because, if lost, it
VIII be on anti-saverv ground. Fhis is fool
lsh and rash, and in lures the men who indulge
III IT. but is it any worse than disunion in mil
der language openly expressed, or broadly in
tlmated at the North! Is it not as criminal
to talk of disunion if Texas be admitted as if
she be not admitted; and why is it that little
or nothing is said of the Northern disunionists
while streams ofdenunciation are poured u
pom the South, or the proud little State of
Carolina l confess l see more danger in
tins temper than in the idle talk of Disunion,
or the annexation of Texas The annexation
OF Texas, believe, will strengthen the Union
and prevent dissolution, while this denuncia
ton endangers it, Gas it will destroy our par
ty if persisted in.) l judge others by my.
self as well as by what they tell me of them
selves, and confess that my own blood kin
dies, as j know that of many others does, at
these denunclations. regard the people al
the North as brethren of the same family
bound to us by all the ties of interest and
consangulnity; but am Southern man, and
Southern man with Southern feelings. and
cannot but feel keenly and deeply thu de
nunclatons which are poured out upon South
ern men, because they advocate a measure
which they believe is to strengthen and aid
the South, as it viii enrich and thus strength
en- the North Let this habit of denunciatior
then be discontinued"
Ehe language Of Mr.. Lyons is the
language Of the patriot, and shows :
magnanimity Of soul, and rectitude o
purpose, unknown to the disingenuou'
drlbbler of the Republican.
it is true there are those in thu