Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-06-15
elections.
From the National A. s. Standard.
The Glorious Union.

"TnEY that are whole need not a physi-
clan, but they that are SICK" was said Of old,
and we suppose is as true now as ever it
was. II so, the Glorious Union under which
wo live must needs be sick unto death, iionc
may Judge from the throng Of regular and ir-
regular practitioners that flock 10 its rescue.
Not one of State physicians at Washington,
whatever may be the school of his practice,
but must try his hand at the restoration to
health of this most interesting patient Not
a quack, North or South, but must interpOse
his nostrum between the Union and its de-
mise. Not u Speech can he made ~ Con-
gress or in State Legislature, not toast Civ
en- at festival or patriotic banquet, but III
wolves some prescription for the disease, OF,
at least, some prayer for the sufferer. Ihe
political papers, OF all compeXions are as
full of panaceas for the body polite as of en-
piricnl remedies lor the corporal essence, aud
OF puffs of tie one us OF the other. And yet
the tone in which the Union is spoken of is
usually one applicable to an immortal soul
rather than TO perishable body. Its immor-
taity is assumed, aud still every body seems
to think that il is in imminent danger of
violent death, which can only he averted by
the unanimous interference OF all the doctors,
apothecaries, nurses and gossips in general,
TO say nothing of mountebank quacks and
their jack-puddngs, the Sangrados, the Sag
anarelles, the Stops, the Lasts, the Camps
and the Prggs, that this great country can
furnish forth.
Now il is very certain that all this outcry
Is not called out by natural and normal
state of health. This kind of fowl is not con-
gregased together by the SAVIOR OF good health
any more than carrion crows and turkey
buzzards by that of u wholesome beast. Peo-
II. Ne
health of a friend whom they have no reason
20 believe TO be in other than good condition;
nor are prayers offered up in the Churches
for John Smith in robust health, but when
he is "very weak and low" Such II general
anxiety AS seems to prevail us to the pulse OF
the Union, and such desire TO postpone its
dissolution as is everywhere expressed, must
inevitably stand for some type III Nature, for
some distemperature that lays siege TO the
citadel OF lie. Protestations OF loyalty are
not loud when the crown is in 10 danger.-
Ii is
"When dubious title shakes the madded land, =
that men think il necessary to renew their
professions OF allegiance. The TACT Is, that
men feel, North aud South, that the iounda-
tons of the Union are not everlasting, nor
laid in the eternal nature OF things. Though
tDc RIcul anu ltTIlDlt NillNl We ulb
bid 10 lall and worship, has Il front OF brass
and limbs OF iron, lis feet are but clay; and
the stone is already cut out OF the mountain
and without hands which will break it in
pieces and grind it to powder. And this is
felt in the secret chambers OF all mems
thoughts, who have any TO which to retire
aud il is made manifest in every political and
ecclesiastical demonstration in this direction.
And this is the inevitable consequence OF
men being made as they are. When antag-
onist principles are harnessed together 10 any
political chariot, il is ALWAYS rough riding IN
il, until the one has destroyed the other. Aud
even then il is not 50 annlhilated that il will
not rise again and endanger, ii not upset, the
machine at last. In Europe the monarchi-
cal and popular principles have ever been III
collision with each other, until one or the
other obtained temporary supremacy; but
even then the vanquished antagonism was
not dead but sleeping, and often awoke to q
terrific vitality. In England the popular
principle brought Absolutism to the block il
l649, and, after struggle of a generation
the middle term of Constitutional Monarchy
was invented in 1853, which, by the elastici
ty inherent in il, has lasted TO this day. Ii
France the principle which was typiied by
the cap of liberty which Marcel placed OF
the head of Charles the Sage, when Regen
after Poitiers, was by the cunning from which
he derived his sirname oycraid by its oppo
site of which the round and top OF sovereign
ty was the emblem. by the skill and lucl
OF his successors, the rights of the people anC
the power OF the mobiles were melted dowI
into the iron sceptre Of Louis XIV; but il
1898 the terrible revival OF the long-smother
ed popular element shivercd it and the sys
TEN which il allegoriZed into atoms. -
throughout Europe has the history OF ever
nation That has emerged from barbarism pre-
sented this struggle of antagonisms, now Ill
one and nov the other predominating. Rus
sia, the "despotism tempered by assnssno
tion," being perhaps the only exception; "
in appearance only, for her civilization
hardly yet begun. The last two years hay
been but the contemporary exposition of thl
great law of conflict.
All this is but another Statement of I'll
existence of Divine Government, whicI
whatever Mr.. Webster may think, is the tru
model of the schemes which men may see