The freeman. (Fremont [Ohio]) 1849-1850, 1849-12-15
The Vulon--Tbe Upion Forever.


The clarion voice Of Henry Clay, we rejoiced
to see, is again raised to calm the wbrlwind of pas
sion and prejudice, which menaces the perpetual
ton of the Union. A rebuke is administered to
the traitors who dare to talk of banding together
for dissolution of the ties that binds these States
as We'll timed as it is just,-and We are sure it will
find sincere and fervent response from the heart
lof every lover of his country, be he Northman
ESouthrun. The veteran statesman comes for the
last time, in all human probability on this side of
the grave, TO cast his influence in the scale against
the malicious macl.lRatioRs Of desperate men, who
under the opposite preteNts of ultra abolition on the
one hand and ultra pro-slavery on the oter, are
boldly conspring against the peace and permanen-
cy of this confederacy. 1t is in great emergencies
like this which Congress and the country about
to face the lofty patriotism and undertaking recti
tude of Henry Clay, stand out in bold relief, to chal
lenge the respect and admiration of the world
May his example be not unworthIy followed by
1.-THE other great minds in either House of Congress
Should his counsels be scorned, and his warnings
unheeded we fear there is crisis at hand that will
shake the Union TO the centre! Henry Clay may
surely speak on this matter now, among the law
makers at washington, as he spoke at Baltimore, to
the people, without having his motives mpugned
in any quarter, or by any set men, Wing or Dem
ocrat, Northerner or Southerner. He has now
reached that period in life at which he cannot be
supposed to participate in the ambitious loneings
of some of his less experienced colleagues in the
United States Senate. We trust threfore, that
his influence and example viii be propotionately
powerful in the decision of the vexed question
which, after so many years enlbroiling the legisla
ton of the country, is now toreach, ferSently
hope, fnal and peaceful solution
Let the great minds who this day assemble in
the Capitol meet the crisis as men and patriots
should meet it. Let Senators and gentlemen of
the House of Representatives remember that the
eyes uot of their own couutrymcn alone. but Of the
whole world, are fxed upon them. California gaz-
es wstfeiIy upon their deliberations and anxiously
listens to hear her declaration fort reedom-her
Magna Charta-approved ratified, and confirmed,
All Europe without any exaggeIatlon we may say
it, is looking on. too. by no means disinterested
spectator If there is any sincerity in the loud pro-
fcssons many of us have been making for continent
al libertv-if we love liberty in Hungary, Italy,
France Ireland-let us give practical proof of it
now, in helping to build up and strenthen, rather
than break down and weaken, the Temple of Free
dom we have built on this side of the ocean for
the outcast patriots and oppressed of all nations,
who have not elsewhere to lay their heads. The
United States has been the polar star Of every
great mind that has. within the few months past.
striven to emancipate his native land. Ifthose eff
fortsfaed still their is left the consolation that
long as America went on prosperng and to pros
per, so long there hope for the nations tempo
Irarilv crushed bv the crowned despots of Europe
We cannot believe that there is one member who
takes his seat in the Senate House of Represent
atives this day ready and willing 10 hide that bea-
con light, or take away that consolation, which is
all that remains cheer up the lover of universal
liberty. We cannot realize that there are such
rpcrpants among U.S. and we shall not believe it un-
til indeed, we witness practical, bona fde attempt
made to carry into effect the damnng threat of dis
solution, which we are fan TO believe, has been
whispered in our ears only by the ever-ready erh-
oes of one, or two, or threp-perhaps of a half a
tdozen-members, who say in the street or in the
paror what selt-respcct and too earnest devotion
10 the happiness of their common country would
cpnstran them TO avoid saying on the floor of the
Srnate orE1ouse of Representative. The enemies
/ Of popular freedam--monarchs and advocates of
monarchy--we all konw, have long ago made up
their minds and have so expressed themselves, that
slavery is the rock on which the Republic would
SPLIT. Is this the time, then for to make abso-
lutiem stronger than it is and to make the outraged
cause of European Liberty mockery and Jest :?
Members must answer not only to their own imme-
diate constituency hut to their country and the
whole civilized world; for with the union of these
States once broken who can calculate the discour-
agement or the extent of the disaster that mnst be
its inevitable result to popular liberty wherever in
Europe or America n dream of popular liberty is
indulged. n Y. Express.