Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1851-07-24
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vyh,sf Would Follow from Dissolution

ty to the Constitution would have been regarded with
as much horror and calumnious imputation
upon the virtue and patriotism Of WASHINGTON The
brand OF namy would have bstered the lips oil the man
who should have dared give expression TO the treason
and he would have been Stunned political eper,
stricken with loathsome and infectious plague. Never,
amidst the utmost rage OF political STRIFE and sectional
violence animosity and evaporation had such idea
been dreamt OF from the frozen hills oil Maine 10 the
orange groves Of Florida
Twenty years ago, the country numbered among its
most gifted statesmen, man whose wonderful powers
of generalization, whose metaphysical acnmen whose
imprisoned oratory and strange faculty oil influencing
Others as by a species of political mesmerism whose
unbemshed private character, and simplicity OF lille,
united to selfish inss liable and inscriptions ambition,
will long render him of the most noted characters in
modern history He had fixed his fiery, aspiring eye
uson the highest honor in the gift of the peoples and dis
appointed bitterly here, had concluded with the great
author of pride and urhallowed ambition, that it was
better to reign in hell than serve in heaven that the
dictatorship of South Carolina, arrayed in reasonable
hostility against the country at large, would be more
glorious than peaceful and loyal, though perhaps nie
rior station in the Republic
The notification movement followed He found
people admirably predsposcd by an inwrought arsto
cracy OF character, to take the ground which he ndca
ted and the first note of discord then for the first time
disturbed the grand chorus OF national harmony The
nerve and decision of General Jackson crushed the
cent revolt. But the heart which has once harbored
treason does not easily learn to beat true; and the
mouth that has become familiar with the language of
dsloyay may indeed cease the vocileratons, but not
readily the whispers and low mutterngs of sedton,
ed in louder boder and nsolent tones than ever
and ds-union which before only contempl plated
possible consequence OF resistance to the collection OF
the revenues is advocated by whole convention
| inevitable imperors and sacredly incumbent.
/ We are not among those who apprehend sny danger
to the integrity of the Union from the present demon
sraton There is no prospect whatever that any other
southern State will make with South Car
DINA in her mad hopeless and Infamous designs; but
the contrary there is the onges moral certainty that
should matters reach crisis, the States of the south
Of Tho. ~. ft,o -
the east will struggle in generous rivalry with the
States of the west, in supporting the constitution and
the laws, and in preserving intact and unmarried the
symmetry and unity OF the nation.
We will suppose, however the accomplishment Of the
result which South Carolina has been long aborng TO
produco-the south arraycd against the north in lratrc
dal strife We have a country vast in extent, with few
military Notifications, and where nature: IT to dis
courage the very idea of civil war, has made little prov
sion for the protection OF section against invasion by
another Few mountain Businesses offer their lmpcrv
Gus shield against hostile force. The boundaries oil
the several States purely conventional
Our cities are constructed with eye defence against
Il beseigng army from without, or against armed and
sanruinary hosts within. Let the dogs of intestine
war be let loose and of horror would ensue
which history present no parallel, and which moi
even the widest imagination could picture by anteipa
tion While begerent expeditions would issue from
the south and lay waste contiguous regions of the north
a servle would be raging at home; millions Of semi
savages poweress the general peace and tranquility
would be clothed with frighul strength amidst the an
sanctty, recognizing distinctions; and excepting
condition. as cruel and unsparng when in the ascendant
they meek and abect in their dependence upon
superior
Once lighted the flames of civil discord would reacl
from one ocean to the other excepting region of
happy country. The fact of our social oneness-tha
while sectional political, commercial and manufacturing
interests ALLEVIATE TO extent from each other
recognize unity amid the amenities of private life
would add terrible feature TO contest like that we
suppose You may make the banks OF the ST. CrOiX The
anc and Gull scaoard until stand the shores
the Rio Grande and you Will find the blood of Texas
commnglcd with the blood of Maine and the of th
Empire bound by the strctest ties of consanguni
ty the Caroinan and the Georgian; and pushing you
Journey the utmost western limit, you will be told o
fathers and brethren and friends closer than brother
that have been left behind in the abodes of wcorere,
life on the coast Of the far distant Atlantic. war be
tween section and section individual states would b
a war of father against son. and between the member
of the same household. The enacted in unhappy
Jerusalem when surrounded by the bcea gucrng host
of Titus they graphically described by Tacitu
and Josephus would be repeated and transcribed al
over the continents and future historians would find III
vocabulary Of the English tongue too poor in ephets
meagre in phrases TO set forth to their shuddern
readers 1.-THE of the horrors Of war; begun to
dress the ancied grievances to console the wounde
PRIDE and CRAFTY the naughty and unrepublican spirit
a single State.
But this is not aH We have no reason to assum
that In of such contest, it would be
the savehoIdig States, united interest," against tn
free States as such The doctrine OF State sovereignty
as understood 10y South Carolina would perhaps wor
widely she intended. 1t might divide gion
along the entire Southern Atlantic board which
utterly aenated from each other by interests habits
Il SOIL climate, social character and social institutions
Let be up into thirtysix Independent
eighties, and what guaranty has South Carolina that tn
> up country" where there few slaves where ia
climate and soil encourage white labor where the pee
d pie have little refinement and more political well
social democracy than the inhabitants oil the sandy
gion of the coast; what guaranty would South Caron
have OF her State integrity! Why should not tb
hardy and industrious mountaincer commend the mgr,
ents of the poisoned chaiice the lips Of the ndoer
nabob of the growing aud cotton producing plains
There is nothing in all human probability likei
than the supposition of national dsmemberment, III
: whole up country" from tho Cape Fear to the Alta
maha rivers, would declare their independence of tn
low country" Unendina divisions, discussions, an
" mostes instructions, brols and heartburnings woul
IT be everywhere the result until this glorious and sci
governing people. whose moderation political sobriet
and respect for legitimate authority have been the adm
ed anarchy the precursor of that absolute pow
which in all such steps in to compose the chao
l. confusion.
q The hopes of the friends of civil liberty and repubca
institutions throughout the world would be quenched 70
. The "orphans of the heart" would longer
to Us and example for refreshment consolation an
y encouragement The effete and exhausted old wor
% would have longer place whereon it may undergo
s. reiuvenatng process and live its life again under
more bracng sky and in another hemisphere The sha
on the dial Of human progress would go back by
A. space of a century. The highest and enduring
l. teress Of mankind those that survive the tomb and reaC
forward to endless fe interests that are here ou
shng under the protection and equal federation of
that show sectarian preferences and partalties
are rapidly throwing wide their branches and strkir
deep their fertile soil these would he cripple
stunted and withered And all for what! The quest,
"a is more easily asked than answered.
10 THE DTyTERENcE.-When the negro Long was a
4 rested at New York and brought before Judge on
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