The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-03-20

dissolution in spirit That union ordained OF Heaven,
which lies al the foundation OF society and uphods and
adons all that is sacred and beautiful in social sys
TEN, displays not its value its moral beauty, because
man and woman are bound together in the bonds OF le
galized marmony, but because they fulfil the relations
which wise Providence ordained. and mutually height
en- the Joys and alleviate the which attend
through the ehequered scenes OF this eyenul pilgrimage
and when they hopeessy fail to discharge these recip
roca duties and mock each other with elimination and
recrimnaton is better that the tie which binds them
as one were severed The value OF this Union does not
consist in the binding together OF thirty sovereign States
with hooks OF steel and chains OF adamant but because
they stand united together for benecent purposes form
ing one great and shining ghta beacon TO the weary
and tempest tosseda terror to tyranny and usurpaon
and each still independent star in the constellation of
political hope But II they must stand arrayed against
each other, section against secon, instead OF kind
offices and friendly relations they are TO exchange angry
reproaches and threatening menaces that moral beauty
which has hitherto attended them has deparedthe life
and spirit which gave birth to the Union has ceased TO
animate IT, and fatal step has been taken upon the
road TO dissolution
Nothing can subyert this happy Union but the forma
ton of sectional parties and that ii successful, will
II is but institution of man, and cannot and ought not
to survive the successful organization OF factions. Ii
sectional President and Vice President should be elected
upon irritating sectional ISSUE and sectional cabinet
be fomed-and no other could be-if from the South,
northern representative having the least remains Of the
spirit OF his fathers would ever enter the councils OF
such government; and if from the North, southern
man could be found so debased as to come into one,
formed upon terms OF compromise for the whole, when
ton might rise upon its ruins. As northern man, |
would the portals OF government brought
into power upon southern sectional issue, and would
animate my countrymen flee from il from conta-
gon And boldly declare, after the Of Pitt,
that were southern man, as am northern one, |
never would consent to recognise for moment an adj
mnisration brought into power upon northern sec
tional issuenever never, never This attempt to Gre
sectional parties the evil tendency OF the times,
and he who seeks to foster Them be his purposes real
avowed. what it maywheher to minister to the era.
wings of mean ambition to crafty fendsh linger-
ing revenge whether he has been laden with the honors
of the people and pampered at their treasury whether
he be the incendary, whose price OF purchase is less
than thirty pieces of slverhe faint OF treason and per-
fdy will cling him in after times like the poisoned tu-
mic OF mythology; God will set mark upon him, as
upon the brow OF the first murderer OF man. that all shall
know him. but il will be mark for destruction, and not
ferocious and venomous beast He will be saved
by the counteeited cry that he is merely opposing the
extension of slavery; but like the murderous captain OF
the host, the vengeance of indignant people will STAY
him at the very horns OF the altar