Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1845-09-17
For the Por,ae. Sentinel.
Our whole Counlry-Our Coun-
try,s cause-Our whole Union.

try's cause-Our whole Union.
The hours roll onward! !. The time is
fast approaching! The -destinies of this
great Republic bid Kings tremble while
their crowns totier on their brows. The
political prowess of this great nation,
-wields an influence. mighty. powerful,
certain, and plainly indicates. yea, too
significantly tells the allied powers of Eu-
rope they must wlther into insigifcence.
The death warrant of her crowned heads
lis inscribed on the flaming roll that shall
>enfold the future triumph and glory Of
Free institutions, cherished by Fee-men,
sby our .twhole Coz ntry'' by our whole
Union, by the principles ofFreedom,
@'our country's cause" a si a
Do we Imagine that the crowned heads
of Europe look with calm complaicency
ON a nations proud prosperity that car
Gies in her peaceful. triumphant wake,
ahe desolation Of kingdoms, empires and
provinces? -<''
e4ssWhen every nation on earth is tribu-
tary to her vast and increasing popula-
tion and wealth, her luxariant soil, her
purer principles Of human liberty. ground
toithe earth with the foreign tyrant's
frown. their bosoms swell amid such
changes to plead the cause Of liberty,
to defend her rights.
Does not Europe know this? Can not
: her nations councils now feel the cons
vulsive agonies Of their final dissolution!
Do they not burn with indignation at
the ASYLUM Of the oppressed and the
home of the free? They dread the result
OF .our whole Umon,' and the union Of
the hearts Of the brave and the free from
all cIimes, wrapped up and concentrated
in this great Republic.
While the stars upon our banner are
shedding a purer light upon the dalk>
ness Of their tyrany and despotism, we
visit the allied powers with stripes that
make them quiver with the convulsive
chill Of their own dissolution. And is
it so? Yea, it is dispassionately. it is
tlaly SO. These facts in the march Of
time stand like letters Of FIRE upon the
prospects of European supremacy and
warnthem in deep thunder tones Of their
dissolution.
al sOur whole Union'-the North and
South, the East and West, in one great
and glorious brotherhood, must be main
tanned by every true patriot, by every
honest man. Our whole country claims
the whole, heart Of every freeman in ev-
cry section, in every State. to sustain
unimpaired the friendly Union of this
great federal compact Our country's
cause is 'our whole Unioi, and 'our
Union, Uhole, unsevered. unbroken. un>
dylng in the cause of Liberty, will be
the glorious triumph of it's proud Princi>
pies. over slavery aud the world. ea M
- This Union now demands homage
from the proudest monarchs of the earth.
1t gives majesty TO our national treaties
throughout the world, and dignity to the
councils of all her States. It gives valor
to her ships on every sea. and triumph
la her arms on every shore. Finally
this 'union' is the great uniting ligament
that gives majesty, virtue and power to
International policy Of mighty phalanx
oftwenty eight sovereign,les bound up
in one glorious and chiyalrous compact.
and tone to the political supremacy OF
this great nation, and establishes moral
bulwark against the world.
O. An Ashburton came to Washington to
bow at the shrine other supremacy-a
Cass changed the destinies Of France.
and severed the cord that bound togeth-
Ell the allied powers. A Polk. fred the
bosom Of the Lords Of Britain. A Pack.
ingham awaits the pleasure of tho Union
on the Oregon question. The thunder
tones Of British threats have subsided i,
and she sits quiescent at the feet of this
great Republic awaiting the pleasure oi
her councils in the person Of a Packin-
ham Britain sues for peace, and trem-
bic, at the anticipation OF her iroWn.f
n To dissolve this Union would be to
sever the spinal marrow of this body
polite, to paralize the glory Of this great
republlc-to neutralize the sovereignty
ofevery State-and to extInguish the
diguity of its Ministers in every foreign
court, and to give its proud principles to
the 3destruc tive influence Of foreign
powers, land, finally. to leave ITS hallow.
ed institutions at once desolation and
,awreck on the shores Of time.
AZ Our whole Union Where, On
where is the American, the citizen o
this great Republic tha. would triat
with this sacred bond Of brotherhood--
the Union: Ask him where's his patri
otism. Ask him what are the proud prin'
ciples that are secured BY this holy com
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