The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1851-02-06


.ent advance in cottonis founded on no spec
uiatIve basis, but onthe interchangeable laws
i of supply and demand.
The People and the Politicians.
Tt is one of the nla4s1.etous discoveries oil
! the advocTres of secession, that the most
ultra politicians of thesouth aresfar behind
the people in a desire for the dissolution Of
the Union. Now, we do not believe there
\ is State in the Union, not even South Car
/ OHM, of which such an assertion can be
correctly made. It is already evident hat
1 even the Legislature of South Carolina
4 will decline the questionable honor of lead
/ ing off the franks of secession. They will
not separate that commonwealth from the
Union, for the simple and all-snfficient rea-
son that the people of South Carolina will
! not back hem III any such suicidal folly
| The truth is, that the PEOPLE everywhere,
/ with the exception, perhaps, of South Car
/ o ina, love and reverence the Union, and it
lis principally among the politicians, for
/ whose capacities the theatre of the Amer
Eican Repnb ic is becoming altogether too
| large, that we find an anxious desire TO
bring about a separation, the only gamers
| by which will be unprIncipled political adj
lyenturcrs.
When we .saysthat there is no desire a.
inong the American people for dissolution
lof the Union, we declare truth which
must be evident to every man of common
reflection and common sense. There is a
very easy mode of testing the truth of this
position Ask yourself the simple question
why the American People should want the
c MON to be dissolved. Does it not, as it
exists, satisfy all the reasonable desires of
human beings, so far as they can be salts
fed by human government? Man loves
freedom. Does not the American possess
.ite Man wishes to worship God according
to his own conscience. Have not the A
Inerican people that exalted boon9 Man is
contented when he can obtain employment
and an adequate reward of his industry. Is
not here a country Ill which the demand
for labor is far greater than the supply, aud
III which the laws ensure to every laborer
the recompense of his toll? Men have an.
irnal, as well as intellectual and spiritual
wants, and is not this a region of nnparal-
leled plenty. the Canaan of the new world,
flowing with milk and honey? Men love
TO belong to a community which is power
full and respected, and can any American
comp.aiR that the Union has not gratiied
his love of glory, and that it does not hold
QUITO him future even prouder than the
past? Is there an eye which does not beam
more brightly as it traces that historic page
which speaks of Bunker Hill, of Yorktown, |
of New Orleans, of Palo Alto, Buena Vis-
ia, Cerro Gordo? Is there q heart which |
does not beat more wildly as it imagines
this Republic fifty years hence--withs /
hundred millions of people-with power T
and wealth unrivaled in the annals of the I
world; and with an arm which can crush I
despotism and oppression wherever they /
show their face upon the globe.
s And are we to be told that a people thus
free, industrious, well-fed.
enjoying peace and happiness, proud Of the
past and hopeful of the itlture-desire to
strike down that fabric of government
which has secured to them all these advan-
ages! You might as well tell us that a
man in the possession Of full health is anx-
ous to be brought down with the cholera
II the yellow fever; or that millionaire
YOU apply the torch to his own palace and
make bonfire of all his bank notes and the
Donds of his debtors The thing is so pre-
9oaterous and Incredible that none but an
neurabe madfnap could give it moment s
;redence. Why, even the ass, a creature
With the lowest degree OF intel igellce
1ouch fed to animals, would know bet-
er than TO- lex over the crib from which
le is fed.
Certainly the merchants Of American
:ities know better than to destroy tfeirown
raxle; the farmers are too wise to permit
heir fields to- be plou glled BY flying aFtiiIe-
" and manured by heir own blood, the
mechanics are too inteili gent 10 surrender
hat apnty toll VIII cl secures 70 them and
hen antilles happy homes, for the purpose