Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-01-26
SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1850.
THE "UNION."

Our readers will be gratified TO learn from u.s. as
we do from The Union Newspaper of Thursday
that that organ of the Coalition against the Admin
stration of President TAYLOR dsclams being either
privy or party to any concerted action against THE
UNION OF THE STATES. 1t is great point gained'
to have this assurance Of the sole organ that u
is not embarked in any scheme for rending " the
Union to pieces, as was fairly nferrible from It's
intimation that, before the day when New Mexico
should desire to become State, events were likely
to occur which would /" shake THIS UNION 10 as
centre" No other event could be foreshadowed
by such language as this but Dissolution OF THE
UNION, or, in equivalent terms, CIVIL WAR
We are happy to receiye-and we are not pre-
vented by the unmannerly epithets applied to us by
the Union newspaper for making the inquiry from
giving to that paper every advantage which may be
afforded to it by this public acknowledgment
its broad denial of disloyalty to the Union The
alluson to the probable dismembering or breaking
up of the Republic Shaking it TO It's centre was,
therefore, nothing but a feint Of the Union news
paper trick, to scare Congress and the President
from the faithful discharge Of whatever they may
deem to be their Constitutional duty in regard to
the Territory acquired from Mexico by the Treaty
of Guadalupe. Let trust that the necessity for
this denial may serve to the writers for that paper
as caution, that, for the future, in regard to a
matter of such vital interest as the UNION which
constitutes us one People, when they mean nothing,
they should say nothing.
Whilst upon this subject, we may be allowed to
say that the sentiment Of utter aversion to unneces
sary and unreasonable illusions to such fearful
event as the wreck of our thrice-glorous Union is
with us neither new nor of recent date. We have
entertained it, and have not failed to express
on suitable occasions. Irelue gears ago lin the
National Intelligcncer of January 4, 1889 we
expressed that sentiment in the following terms:
FROM NATIONAL ISrELLIGENcER JANUARY A, 1888.
In the Senate yesterday. after the passage of some
private bills, the resolutions on the rights and duties
of the States were called up and the remainder of
The sitting until nearly five o'clock, was consumed
in debate on the exciting topics aimed at by the
resolutions, namely, abolitionism and slavery.
We confess, as we listened to this worse than
useless debate-for so we view all debates on the
subjective should have been glad to have
had the privilege of offering substitute for these
and all similar resolutions, on which side soever
they may or might be, and that substitute would
have been somewhat in the following form:
Resoled That tue Members of Congress of either House
not elected for the purpose Of debating the dissolution of
the Union, or entertaining any notion doing any thing,
which shall tend shake the Union, or in other words st
ALLEVIATE any portion of country from the rest
feeble the sacred ties which link together the various
parts" Therefore,
Resolved That when any Member Of either House of Con-
gress SHALL in public debate either by way of menace aena
tive hypothesis talk about discovering the Union, it shall
be the duty Of the Chair call him to order and being
called to order, he shall thereupon take his seat.