Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1850-03-02
DISUNIOy.

The present session of Congress has been
probably, the most Improbable and disor-
derly that ever occupied our Capitol. From
the first moment it met until now, some of
its members have used the most strenuous
efforts to prevent any thing like legislation,
and by their outrageous conduct and trea-
sonabe sentiments, have not only polluted
the sacred place they fill, but brought dis
credit and dsg race, as well upon the Re-
public as the districts they represent. They
have done all they can do, to lower the
American people in the eyes of the rest of
the world. Our citizens blush with shame
at proceedings in that once honorable body,
that the Red Republicans of France would
disown.
Our Union is too firmly established, too
deeply rooted in the patriotism of the peo-
pie, to be shaken by the feeble breath of dis
organising demagogues. However loudly
they may buster, and iercely hurl about
bloodshed and civil war, there is no real
danger. The people have too long enjoyed
the blessings of union and harmony, TO ruin
their prosperity by following the lead of
fanatics into disunion and discord. The
Hotspurs of North and South themselves,
have not the most remote idea of dissolving
the Union. And least of all would the
South be willing to take step that must
involve her utter destruction. The slaves
are more than three to one Of the whites,
and the secession of the South from US,
would be the signal for the blacks to rise and
massacre their masters. II is only through
fear of the whites in the North that the
slaves are kept in subsection, and were that
removed by dissolution of the ties that bind
us to protect our brethren of the South, con-
sequences more frightful and blasting than
the world ever witnessed would ensue.
The whole Of our slave country would be
the scene outrage, bloodshed and desolation.
The tragedy Of the French West Indies
would be reacted there. Nothing could
save them from utter annihiliation.
But in spite of the menaces daily hurled
forth by the representatives of Southern
chivalry, there is no danger of dissolution
Their speeches are idle vaporing and will
end as they began, in nothing. They do
not utter the sentiments of their constitu-
ents. The Southern press is filled with
denunciations OF the course of these hot
Drained madmen. The people ofthe South
are as devotedly attached to the Union as
we are. They will not consent to, much
less advocate, its dissolution. There are
still men enough in our halls at Washington
upon whose wisdom and patriotism the peo-
pie can depend TO shield them from the
fearful ruin, in which the present course
of affairs threatens to envolve the county.
1t is crisis like the present which will
show to the world the frmness of the tie
that binds our Union. The spirit Of CON-
promise, which has always actuated our cit
izens when antagonistic sectional interests
threatened to disturb our harmony, is now
ready to spread its healing wings over the
wound. That spirit which guided ours rulers
ever since we became nation, will not de.
sert us now. Governed by its influence
we neeG never fear that our glorious pro-
gress shall be stayed by the blasting effects
of disunion.
We give the subjoined extract from pa
pers published in the South, to show thu
feelings Of the people in that quarter:
"lf the slavery question were settled thi
very day, the Aot,pur, Of South csrolin'