The freeman. (Fremont [Ohio]) 1849-1850, 1850-03-16
The Great Tonic.

We had thrown together in our plain way,
says the Toledo Blade, few remarks for this
paper designed to give an idea of the position
occupid by the two leading parties of the day,
and the two ultra factions, when friend plac-
ed in our hands, the very able article in the
National Intelligencer, from which the follow
ing extract is taken. This is SO much fuller
than any thing we could say upon the subject,
we have destroyed our notes, and commend
it to the careful attention of our readers:
Such is the character of the two ultra par
ties which now engross to themselves the ag-
/ itation of the Union. Between these two,
stands the great party of FRIFNDs OF THE U
Mon. tits composed, equally of northern and
southern men-citizens of the free States and
of the slave States-of Wings and Democrats.
We compute it below when we say it equals
ninety mine men out ofevery hundred These
men do not intend to see the Union dtssoIved
They are not to be led or misled by ultra pol
iticians, or by any politicians, into treasona-s
BILE imaging against our great and glorious
Confederacy. They will pray for it, ifneed be
| fight for it. They will not only support the
Constitution themselves, bu. compel all gain
sayers to respect and obey it. They have had
no meetings for purposes of organization.-
They need none They have grown up ia the
shadow of the Union, and know nothing and
can conceive of nothing outside of it. They
are the men who handle the business of the
conntry; who plough and SOW, and reap; who
work at the anvil, the bench, and the loom
who navigate the sea; who ply all trade and
commerce; who fill courts, lecture rooms, and
pulpits; who buy and sell, build, plant, and
beautify the land; in short, the men who drive
the wheels of this vast and wonderful machine
of life, liberty, and happiness-our Confeder-
ate Republic
They will not endure much talking of dis
union, nor weaving of political sophisms, nor
balancing of metaphysical scruples touching
the integrity of this circle of States. They are
practical; they are prosperous, and very busy
in laying the foundations for still greater pros
perity. They are proud of the glory of the
country, its old associations of colonial history,
its war of Indepenence, its Constitution and
Union, and they do not mean to see these OBJ
liberated by the quips and outlets of super
subtle logicians. They are neither Office hold
ers, nor Office seekers nor expectants of office !;
they ask nothing and want nothing but the
liberty to go on working together, as they have
always done in past time; and that liberty as
surredly they will have, let the orators and abb
straction-mongers say what they may. AM
bitions men may plot, passionate men may
fume, and the loungers of a tayeren-porch into
tempest of maudin wrath for the nullfca-
ton of Wilmot proviso; but mighty nation
will not be justified out of its career by such
small flies upon the wheel as these.
So we stand. Ultraists on the North; ul-
traists on the South; sbetweenthem, the great
Constitutional Union Party. Ninety y-nine to
one against all disturbers. That party has
one cardinal paramount principle and duty
THE PRESERVATION OF THE UNION AT ALL HAz-
ARDS. Upon every other question it may
have various opinions Its members may
differ on the question of the Territories, on the
question of the admission of California, and,
still more, on the great question of the value
ofslavery; but they will insist that, whatever
interests such differences may affect, the ques-
tions shall be decided in the constitutional way
and aoithin the Union. They will abide by
law, and will not abide by revolution. They
i want no Nashville Convention, either to teach
them what are their rights, or how to maintain
them. We have better tribunals than con-
ventions. There is better guide in each
mans heart to teach him his duty to the
country at this crisis, than allthe stump orators
from Passamaquoddy to Saeremento.