Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1850-08-15

iorishing empire. They will shut their
ears against this unhallowed laneuace,-
They will shut their hearts against the moi
son it contains. The kindred blood which
flows in their veins, the mingled blood which
they have shed in defence of their sacred
rights, consecrate their union, and excite
horror at the idea of their becoming aliens,
rivals, enemies
In conclusion, on this topic Of slave ayita-
ton. the National Address says
We call upon all, upon the ambitious as
well as the deluded, in their zeal Of fanala-
cism and party. to look. if they dare, at ca.
lamlties that might rush in and deluge this
fair land if their Efforts could succeed, and to
pause before it be too late to remember that
the progress of disaffection is often inseusi-
be and invisible and that the mighty spir.
II which they are attempting TO excite, if
once reused, can be aliayed neither by the
cannon nor the sword, by law nor by
blood. Ii is, fellow citizens, against this
dangerous spirit of discomfort and division,
against these unhallowed attempts TO weaken
the bands OF our glorious conlederacy, that il
becomes the duty OF every wise man, of eve
ry honest man, OF every American TO watch
with sleepess vigilance. That watch can
only be set IN deep and abiding affection to
our holy Union, upon the preservation Of
winch depends not only our own liberty and
happiness, but that of the world
Such was the sound constitutional platform
upon which the national democracy placed
itself in The first inception Of this startling
issue of disunion by slave agitation. Fif-
teen years have passed away, and the same
appeal, almost in the same terms, and in no
more eloquent language, is now made in the
Senate of the United States by Clay and
Webster, the wisest and ablest of the whis
leaders. They are extolled throughout the
Union for their patriotic conduct in coming
to the rescue Of The Union, and addresses are
made TO them, and demonstrations exhibit
ed in all parts oflhe land, as if they had. for
the first time, discovered and proclaimed this
palladium of constitutional union. We will
not detract particle from their just merits,
but de mocrats will not forget that it is rs i'm
itators and not authors, as disciples and not
as founders, hat they are entitled to the plau-
dts of their counirymen. But when they
are so extoled by the old opponents of the
democracy for the nationality they now as
sumo in the discussion of the Wilmot pro-
viso, il is firing to go back 10 the origin of
thai erea doctrine of union, and trace it as
we have done, from Madison, lie clear
sighted statesman Of The democratic school,
to its embodiment as the creed Of the demo-
cratic party by the national convention Of
1885.
Under that creed, Van Buren was elected
in lS}6,b the union of the democracy, north,
west and south, and for time The plague OF
slave agitation and disunion was stayed.
We propose further TO show with what un-
iformty and fidelity The democratic party, in
IFS national aspect, has adhered to this doc
trine, which is now so universally admitted
to be the only basis upon which the Union
can stand, and which has become the rally
ing standard Of the Union in Congress, and
in every section ofthc country Boston Post