The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-06-24

We have charged that the most active leaders of
the Democratic party have been engaged in a sys-
tematic plan to get the State of North Carolina
pledged-committed beyond escape to the mad and
reasonable schemes of South Carolina! Much OF
their work has been carried on in secret-in the
dark--through private correspondence, and under
equivocal movements; but sufficient has reached
the public eye to convince any that there is on
foot nefarious plot to chain State to the car OF
dsunion; in other words, to make her a guilty
participation in the treason which the Infatuated
leaders Of the secession in other sections
are Matching! In their eagerness to get the people
committed to the theory of secession, they may
disclaim all intention or desire 10 carry it into
practice, but the device is too shallow. Their pur-
pose is practical disunion! They are aiming al
Southern Confederacy; and at this very period,
when good men shudder at the contemplation of
the awful consequences which would be produced
by rupture between southern State and the
General Government, these very leaders are en-
gagged in urging on, encouraging, and applauding
South Carolina in her runous course, ruinous not
only to herself but the whole South whose interest
and honor she most arrogantly PROCESSES to be pro-
tecting and indicating.
II behooves the people to look to the record.-to
observe what ia passing around them that they
may mark those who thus bent on mischief
mischief the most direful in its effects upon every
interest, every right civil and religious, and all
the avocations and business of society. Nor is the
hypocrisy of such men less cunning than their
rashness is daring and INSCRIPTIONS. They affect
to deprecate the application Of force to keep the
Union together, and yet they wink at, encourage,
and justify South Carolina in all her military pre-
partitions, and all her threats of violence towards
those of her citizens who may refuse allegiance
to her, in violation and disregard of their solemn
obligations to the Constitution of the United States!
They proclaim that this Union can be preserved
by compromise slone-thatit s Union of consent;
yet the next moment they pour out their most vim
dictive denuncatons upon those very measures of
Compromise which were intended to restore har-
mony to the country, and on all who thought it
their duty to sustain them! Such conduct proves
most conclusively, that these aim At the dsso-
luton Of the Union, and the overthrow of the Gov
eminent. No concession whatever would avail to
allay the fury of their desires and purposes They
pretend to have persuaded themselves that the Union
is curse, that the Constitution has failed Of accom-
plishing the purposes for which IL was intended,
and that they owe it to themselves and their pos
tefity to break up both, and dash themselves and
all others, however prosperous and contented they
may be, into the whirlpool Of dscord and civil
war! Things are rapidly approaching crisis,
here and elsewhere. Elections are to be held in
TINS ana other southern States during this fall,
which will test public opinion upon the great and
momentous Issues which have been made. In some
sections tho question of Union Disunion has been
distinctly presented. With US matters have not
reached this point. The secessionists havc not up
to this time, told the people what their Interior de-
signs are. This they are afraid to do But this
concealment is practiced for other purpose than
to ensure their own advancement to political Office
and power. When this has been accomplished the
mask will be thrown off with air Of bold def
ance. 1t may then be too late for the people to act
efficiently and remedy the evil. We appeal to
them to move NOW. Let the friends OF the Union
those who adhere to tho Compromise, who oppose
fanaticism North and South, and believe il dan
gcrous to the country, in whatever place it comes
make up their minds promptly to meet the issue
with frmness and courage UHIoN and DIsuHIoH,
that is virtually now, and will soon be practically
the issue here