Washington telegraph., 1851-07-30
ARE WE ALL UNIONISTS?

ARE WE ALL UNIONISTS?
We frequently hear the charge of Dis
unipp against Mr. johnson replied to By
the exclamation--"It is absurd. fol-
lowed by the assertion-"We are ALI
Unipr sts."
+ 1T certainly is an absurdity tot Dis
unionist. but it is nevertheless lamenta-
BILE fact that we are not all Unioaises. -
Think you that either the fiery Ultras Of
South Carolina or the run mad FaRatics
of the North put proper estimate upoa.
this Union? Think yon. that either they
OF any of those tinctured with their sem
tmeLts and opinions are Unionists!-
Think you that true friend of the Union
would, do. any thing calculated TO, DIS
solve IT'D
Aholtionism darkens the North, and
we Of the South have felt its injurious
effects. We cannot control the opinions
aud belief of any portion of our people,
they are entitled to them; and so long as
they do. not encroach upon our rights,
we are in no danger from them. We
have no Jus: cause of complaint SO. long
as the North offers no impedimept to the
enjoyment of the rights and principles
secured to us by the Constitution.
/ Although we are annoyed By fanatics,
who care not whether the Union be dis
solved Or not, the people and authorizes
of the North are ready to sustain the
Compromise measures, and show no dis
position to trample on Southern rights,
or to dissolve the Union. We do, not
regard the unprincipled madness OF a
pack of furious bigots as proper ex-
PRESTON Of Northern feeling, Or as an
evidence of a fixed determination to
trample on the rights of the South.
Respect for our ancestors and pationa!
pride should at least dictate to US a con-
ciliatory course, and turn US back, in time,
from the gulf Of disunion, into which a
rash aud headlong course will inevitably
plunge us We have been injured and
our rights disregarded by Northern fana.
tics, but the sober minded and patriotic
will frown down their efforts aud silence,
by their stern mandates, their NEEDLE.
some drawings. Is it not better to at
tempt to remedy this evil than to rush
into disunion-ap evil beyond cure
That the North itself will discounten-
ance its fanatics, and cover them with
meriteA scorn, we have the guarantee OF
its former fame-of its revolutionary days
Of glory-oi its distinguished sons who
have taken SO prominent part. both IN
the council and the field, in the establish
ment of our government. Think you that
the patriotism Which has achieved so
much. is already extiEguished? Think
you that the spirit which sacrificed all
for freedom, has been already changed
into a deamon of oppression! Think
you that those who love order and law
will refuse to enforce them? Think you
that the disposition of the North towards
the South is 10 be judged Of by the
fanaticism which disgraces it? Think
YOU not that this evil may be remedied!
Tell US, if you can, what remedy there
is for disunion?
We should be all Unionists, but the
excitement on the subjec., in other States
the warmth and agitation of the can.
vass in which we are now engaged, tells
us it is not So Gen. Jackson's S Farewell
| Address, which will be found on our first
| page, tells US we should be-but Robert
w. Iehnsop's Address, upon toe same
page, informs us it is not SO.
Read then. and as you admire the Old
| Hero's patriotic sentiments and his devo-
ton 10 the Union, you will be bothered
! to know how MIR. johnson, the author Of
the address upon the same page, can call
himself jackson Democrat
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PoLITICs IN VERMoNT.-Hon. Lucius
B. Peck has declined the nomination Of
one Of the wings of the Democrats, the
Freesollers.) for Governor. because the
convention which nominated hum passed
eo,,o rocOIut;opc bich he did NOT ly