The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-01-02

will allow them their due weight and effect and that you
will suffer difficulties however formidable In APP
pearance, or however fashionable the which
they may be founded 10 drive you into the gloomy and
perous scenes into which the advocates Of disunisn
would conduct you Hearken not to the unnatural voice
which tells you that the people OF America knit together
they by many chords OF affection, can no longer
live together as members of the family; can no
longer continue the mutual guardians OF their mutual
happiness no longer be fellow citizens OF one great
respectable, and fourshDg empire.
No, my countrymen shut your ears agsins! this un-
halowed language shut your hearts against the poison
which conveys The kindred blood which hows IN the
veins OF American citizens the mingled blood which
they have shed in defence OF their sacred rights
crate their union, and excite horror al the idea of their
becoming aliens rivals enemes and if novelties are
be Stunned, believe the most alarming of all novel
ties the most wild OF all projects the most rash OF all at
temps that OF Tendng pieces in order preserve
our liberties and promote our happiness"
Few public questions have ever been discussed with
greater display both Of zeal and ability than that
mentous question OF Union disunon. Indeed, this is
far true, that but little remains 10 be said in relation
to il which would prove either striking such
an assembly this But feel that hazard nothing in
asserting that all the reasons which have been at different
times urged in support of federal Union by the most
ingenious OF our public writers and speakers have gained
additional strength every year since hfoundations OF
the government were laid Let by way of illustration
merely, allude to few OF these Is not the Union
desirable as il possibly could at any time have been
as safeguard against dangers from foreign arms and
influence Is there not still reason to apprehend the
the separate border States which would inevitably spring
up and be perpetualy prosecuted, dsanon to
occur Would there be no danger OF domestic insurrec
ton now either North or South, were the efficient checks
al present supplied by strong central government to be
suddenly and forever withdrawn! Is not the Union az
important now as i ever was to our growth andpros
perty commercial people Is il not Indispensable to
the accomplishment OF the hope now confidently enter
tanned, OF our becoming speedily, and remaining perma
nenty, the leading naval power Of the world 10 not
apparent it was formerly supposed to be- that
the division OF the Union into two more distinct
ederaces. and the organization Of separate national
government in each of them, would be productive OF
enormous pecuniary expenditures. beyond what prove
amply sufficient for the maintenance of present sys
tenn But besides, it must be evident to the most shall
scheme OF disunon however cunningy that scheme may
have been projected, adrotiy urged upon consde
raon have sprung up even under the action OF the gov
Will some OF the wild abstraconss OF the present day
tell us what is TO become oil our navy if dsunion shall
take place What of the army How are the public
forts, arsenalS dock yards Sc. &c' Who TO pay the
public debit Who is to fall heir TO the millions
now in the national treasury Is a northern or a
southern confederacy TO hold ownership of the rich
mineral treasures of California and the valuable fishing
privileges along the coast Of New England What
power is hereafter to control the navigation Of in
principle OF political metaphysics we to divide be-
tween distinct and perhaps conflicting soveeigntes that
priceless Inheritance of national glory which has de-
scended 10 us from ancestors citizens OF united
America! thousand other such questions might be pro-
pounded which would be at least difficult Of solution
as these May we not therefore, venture to repeat the
language OF him who more than any other was
the father OF our present constitution, and say Every
man who loves peace, every man who loves his
country, every man who loves liberty, ought to
have ever before his eyes, that he may cherish
in his heart due attachment to the Union OF America
and be able TO set due value on the means of pre-.
serving it." But, alas it is notwithstanding true
with painful reluctance do confess i) that there are
men to be found, both in the North and in the South
OF great intellectual power of the largest scholastic
nary energy of character, who have become satisfied
and are day and night assduousy endeavorDg satisfy
others, chat the Union established by our fathers has
thing positively vicious in ITSELF and containing the
seeds of multiplied mischief and degradation hereafter
to be realized, unless the work Of secession which
has been deliberately projected shall be presently accom-
pshed regret TO acknow ledge that il saso that the
republic has been involved in great peril by these
and their unhoy Vaccinations. fear that il is sill in
danger indeed fear that that danger will not have entirely
disappeared for several months to come-and perhaps
until closer association and thorough organ2a-
ton shall have heen effected among the friends OF the
Union, North and South, without regard to the ancient
and obsolete party issues which have formerly divided
the nght-mnded men OF the country from each other,
and which surely of character entirely subordinate
to the question whether the nation itself shall be sub
veed and wild anarchy and confusion bear rule among
us. Fanahcism-ihe accused lust OF power-sectonal
lealouslyhe awless spirit OF factonconlsnpt OF the
constituted authorities OF the repubc-avesion To social
quet-impiety, immoray-and all the balcful passions
which seek their qualification amid scenes of intestine
commoton and civil buchery-have been within the last
two three years most mercessy let loose upon US
and have indeed ragged with so little restraint from any
quarter until recently, that we have been actually men
aced with the utter destruction OF all that we hold
DEAR prize most highly free. civilized and Chris
tan people Those brotherly ties which bound TO-
ge,her the North and the South the East and the West
have been threatened with instant disruption and that
majestic ship OF Sate in which all hopes a nation
of feemen embarked has been by and by the
world 10 rock wildly and to toss convuslvely, amidst
the fierce heavings OF ocean which all the winds OF
heaven seemed united in dscomposing.
Una Eurus que, Notus que crebcrque procelli.
AFRicus ct vasos volvunt ad ltora Huctus."
Never in the history Of nations have all the element
OF social mischief seemed TO be more porenously com
mingled Sedous haranguers OF the mobs Of grea, cities
mercenary and INSCRIPTIONS writer's for iunous and
ianatca newspapers and Observation-Disclosures the
forum, deDagogues OF legislative halls and demagogues
of the pulp-ancient nulfers, modern secessionists
higher-law casuiss of hyperborean reglonsand aspir
ing, restless, and dogmatzing swords-men OF more
sunny and genial cline, bastard Alexanders "follow
ing him Of old with steps unequa,') whose fiery and
arms and who are desperately signing for new fields of
and titles OF dignitythese and their allies
have contributed TO I'LL the public mind of the country
with alarm. with horror, and CONSERVATION, and TO
vince those who have heretofore doubted upon the sub
ject thai by far
"The most internal of all evils here"
% he sway q rcuy tyfan,s In a STATE; =
it being made evident now, by several pregoan, proofs
recently supplied, that
Sin all deadly things,
Which make hat enlse r. A nd onc pnotb