The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1848-07-13
IS THE UNION INVULNERABLE2

Very few, even of the widest Abolitionsts OF
Pro-Slavery men, are Disunionsts IN intention Sc
far as we can observe, there exists among all parties
and sections, deeprooted love for our whole coun-
try, and willingness at least to admit that the pre-
servaton of its unity is immeasurably important to
the cause of Freedom and to every interest of our
nation anG our race. But the delusion under which
fearfully increasing multitude at the North
listing in mad crusade against THE LAST NATION
AL PARTY, is that the South cannot and dare not
dispense with the Union. Even the Editor of the
Tribune, with vision suddenly and strangely blurred,
can neither see nor see that he does not sec, and
meets the question in the following equally courteous
and satisfactory manner:
GO But You will dissolve the Union Ny friend
you are cowardly blockhead or YOU knOU better
The South will never break away from us merely
because we will not consent to the propagation Of
Slavery"
Now we will make bold to undertake showing Just
how this logic fails to hit the mark. is most true
that the South will never break away from us
merely because will not consent to the propaga-
ton of Slavery; and this very fact ought to quiet
all unnecessary strife on the subject We no more
believe that majority at the South arc in favor of
this hellish plot, than that majority at the North
are So But this is not the question. This question
has nothing whatever to do with the election Of Gen.
Taylor. 1t has been wisely excluded, to be settled
where it should be, in the Legislative elections
The great question now is whether we shall will
fully burst asunder the last great grdle of political
sympathy which holds the otherwise discordant sec
tons together and join to swell the fratricidal cries
of strife and defiance with which the blind and fierce
fanatics of both extremes goading each other to
wilder madness and forcing better men reluctantly
to join the unholy war-unt weshal be all involved,
with or against our wills, in universal melee, and
its din shall drown the voice of reason, patriotism,
old friendship, and even enlightened selfinterest
We scarcely know how to set about the proof of
an axiom so plain as that from the commencement
of such strife, the fate of the Confederation is
sealed. From it there can be no retreat for either
party. No matter which side is victorious; no
matter who will prove The losers or the ruined in
the event of dssolntion passion and sclf-will will
be the umpires, and prudence and fraternity will
be alike forgotten.
Men are by nature insensible to danger until it is
ready to burst upon them. The man who should
have predicted last New day that in less than
six months Europe would be revoutionized and its
thrones Frustrated in the dust would have been
greeted with shouts of dersion. Let us not feel too
secure that things as strange may not be awaiting
as 1t is far from safe to blow the sparks of con-
tention among the combustible materials which COM
pose our confcderacy. Let us leave this business
to the ayowed Dssolutionsts of the South Carolina
and Garrison schools, and lend no aid to their parr-
cidal breath; planting ourselves on ground common
to Constitutional Wings everywhere who deem it
wrong to convulse the nation with n war for Or
against an inhuman plot with which they have
nothing to do and which will die with its orignators
the Tyler, Polk, Cass and Hunker dynasty, whose
days are already numbered, and whose footed re-
mains have only to be shovecd of the land in No
vember next.