American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-08-07

swindler.
NOBLE SENTMENr-Tulue Of tie Union-
In the course of letter to the late Liberty Con-
vention at Cincinnati, Elihu Burrit, ''the learn
ed Blacksmith, d" though himself an aholltionist,
speaks out boldly the sentiments of patriot
concerning'the reasonable suggestion OF "A dis
solution Of the Union
"With such an aim and end as this, in the
inception, prosecution, and issue OF this great
work of philanthropy, shall we talk of dis
SOLVING the Union? that Union TO which the sue
cess Of our efforts must give elements of cohe-
sion stronger than ten thousand chains of ad-
amant?--that Union, the concentrating nucleus
of the hopes and interests of the future ages of
humanity2-that Union to which the abolition
of slavery would give a moral power that
should lift up the race from its darkness and
depression? Dissolution of the Union! What!
cut in two the Mississippi, that lugular vein OF
the New World, and sever all the mighty ar
teries of the Union, and leave it to bleed to
death in hostile segments, both writhing in the
cauteres Of mutual hatred! Nature itself
would repol this protane disruption OF Sys-
tenn to whose integrity every stream from the
Sabine to St Johns, is as necessary as any
vein in the human body. Dissolve the Union!
ran the amputating knife through the child Of
all that the progressive ages OF humanity have
produced of freedom and virtue! and that be-
cause one OF its members is Injected with Gu
taneous disease, which not drop of blood less
than that which now circuates in its whole
system will remove Does God or mankind
require the sacrifice of this Union, this Isaac Of
the race, in which all nations should be bless
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it, not as an act of faith, but of pusillanlmous
distrust in God? If nothing in the natural re-
lioon of patriotism could stay their suicidal
arm, let every lover of his kind pray that the
Almighty who arrested the patriarch's descend
ing blow which was to sever his son, nay open
the cloudy curtain Of his pavilion, and inter-
pose cheaper victim of immolation; or that
might
tCsme thick night,
And pail it in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That lis keen knife not the wound it makes,
Or heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
Tocry Hold! lIold!'
Dissolve the Union! dissolve the whole moral
power we have and need TO abolish slavery
May God grant that your Convention may
Danish that treacherous idea from every Anne
rican heart. | trust that its Satancal Inca
ments will be detected and detested, should it
of an angel of light. No! you will not meet to
dissotre but to eUolre the Union; to renovate it
on the basis of the fathers of the Republic
That basis is broad and deep enough to unite
the world. A better foundation cannot be laid
by fallen men. You will meet as our fathers
met, you will begin where they begun, and
where their degenerate children left off to
build. You will meet, TO FORM MORE PER-
Feet UNION, establish justice, ensure dossestic
tranquility, proride for the common defence, pro-
mote Ike general Weyare and secure the blessings
of lbe, ty TO ourselves and our posttrity This is
the work you will unite to resume. This is
the foundation to which you will descend to
lay the first stone that has been laid therein
since our "fathers fell asleep" AS the nations
round about Judea contributed materials to the
erection of Solomon's Temple so the world,
with all its moral wealth, will become tributa-
ry to the structure of the Great American
Temple of Liberty, founded OH such a rock,
and hail its completion as the asylum and ad-
miration of the race. The Union! it is worth
the world to the destiny of human nature for
the abolition of slavery; and the abolition of
slavery will add the wealth and moral power of
the world to the Union. May we speak of the
ralue of salvation, and the ertent of intinity,
then, for lack of a more religious term, let me
express the hope and belief that your Conven-
ton will enhance the raue, because it shall in
crease the strength and vitality of the Union In
that hope and inspired imagination with which
am wont to contemplate the destity of the
American Republic, have fancied that in the
lifetime of the present age, some heaven-kissiLg
monument, the offspring of the It'll of June,
might be erected from the bed of the Ohio, OPP
posite your city, as kind of centri-mundane
column, saying TO all things that shine and sing
in heaven, and all that can carry the news on
the wings ofthe wind; saying to all ages, to all
men, to all bondmen grooming iii the undiscov-
cred habitatons of cruelty:
''I stand the plan proud period;'
pronounce the work accomplished, the war
fare closed, the victory won, the TRIUMPH OF
THE AMERICAN UNION.
A New WAY TO CArcHA THIEF. A good
story-if not true, truth-lke-is told in the
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