The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1845-02-26

ungoyeruable fury. Some gentlemen ma
ready panacea for the impending evils, which
seem inseparable from this subject, IN the
dissolution of the Union. They would divide
this goodIy confederscy, and carve out OF IL
two. three, or four independent republics, or,
it may be, empires. as if body polite were
like the poIypus, which multiplies by division:
But have gentlemen weighed the practical
difficultis which attend this measure! Have
they defnitively settled where the lines shall
be drawn! Are they quite sure that the
northcrnmost slaveholding States are prepar-
ed. in case of division,t to make common cause
with The extreme South Have they deter
mined the proportions, in which the public
property and the liabilities shall be divided
DO they remember that the public domain
that inexbaustible source Of national wealth.
lies chiefly in the free States and Territories,
and is il safe to calculate that the strong man
in possession will yield to his weaker brother
a right which he is unable to enforce Have
they forgotten the old question IN respect 10
the right of those who inhabit the valley oil a
uayiyabIe river TO follow its current to the
occanl Is it certain that the mighty west,
connected, as she is, with both the North ana
the South by vital bonds, arteries which II IS
death TO sever, will, in any event, permit a
dissolution i? What hope is there, that such
uestions as there can ever be settled by any
arbiter but the ultima ratioof nations and IN
case of war between the North and the South,
who will protect the fireside of the Southern
or against his fearful domestic enemy, while
the father and the husband marches TO the
northern frontier, to embrue his hands IN the
blood of his brother!
DrPnarPd to FISK
the moral and political effect OF the self-lm-
notation of this mighty empire-this model
republic! Do they not know that the hrst
stem towards dissolution. the first outbreak
Of violence, will be hailed by the vultures OF
Europe as token that their prey awaits
them, and as a signal of richer partition
than the dismembcrment Of Poland!
Sir, I.have barely touched, not exhausted,
a single branch of this vast argument.
would gladly look at this question oil expe-
diency in other and less delicate aspects to
say nothing of the pOrtentous constitutional
obstacles, which inexorably forbid the ac-
compishment of this measure. 1t would,
for instance, be an easy matter to show, as
the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. HamiIn)
limited, that by annihilating the sovereignty
destroying the political individualItw, APP
proprii ling the resources, and assuming the
ultimate dominion Of the soil ofTexas, you
legally land and morally incur all her I'M
known liabilities; not her pecunIary aud
liqudated debt only, but her obligations for
revolutionary services, and for indemnlica-
lion for twice granted lands, her pension list,
presen. and future, and all the thousand
claims which will spring'u against her the
moment you become her paymaster. But,
sir, mine hour is come. must surrender
this vast subject to ADLER hands; and | dis
miss it, with the repeated declaration, that
while we of the North repudiate and disclaim
all purpose Of impairing the moral or legal
rights Of the South, I'VE are yet resolved that
the extension and perpetuation OF an evil,
which is its misfortune, shall not be our
fault.