The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-04-05
s. MORGAN. r. s. c. S.
The American Union, what q it

Invaluable ii has been; yaluclcss it is;
hence no man can calculate either its
past or present worth. Suffice it to say.
T. PhniJHS Tnum was the n%eccssi.
ty Of its childhood but the incubus of its
manhood. The future currency Of our
Union should be stamped in plain Eng.
fish. Union, with Slavery aid quarrel ::
to dissolve the former, is but to divorce
the hitter
Our Union was f.. the mutual defence
Of three millions its dissolution will
give eacc,permancucc and independence
to two families Of ten to fifteen millions
each Weakness demanded the Union
strength requires a divorce. Large So
cial organizations are against nature and
against providence. 1t is time, high
time, for the North and the South each
to set up for themselves. 1t is the only
way to obtain and preserve peace. Iii is
the only way to divide responsibility
Let the South enjoy, with all its houors
and dishonors, her peculiar institution"
And let the North stand up before the
world a nation of free men.
And why not ? Already the free
States number fifteen millions Of free
population. Aud the North has but to
carry the experience of the past but ff-
teen years to the future, to outnumber
the freemen Of our present confederacy.
Dissolve this Union, tomorrow, and the
North would stand up, in moral grand
eur and greatness, a head and shoulders
above the present Union, and in ff-
teen years, would be numerically greater,
greater in peace, greater in war with
territory stretching from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, she would still come under
the great belt of population, of COM
merce and of power that girts the globe.
When left 10 meditation
If not, the black and white may both unite,
In their 4" peculiar institution. -
Nor is there any difficulty necessarily
attending a dissolution. The South
ought to agree on terms, or submit to
arbitration. if not, the North has but
to stand upon her territory and her
rights, while the South will be occupied
in the care Of themselves and their ne
groos. There is scarcely a remote chance
for War, if the free States are a unit
on the part ofthe South it were madness
The North in their strength can afford
to be m~agnanimous. Let the South
have her full share Of the public domain
numbering both bond and free she will
thus be less likely than now to extend
the area, or increase the victims of Slave
ry alone she will not long endure the
curse and the shame she will loosen the
bonds ofthc captiyes as a remedy against
he1 escape, and her advance,
And, perhaps it will be seen that cot
ton will grow greater profit, under cul-
ture of free, than Slave labor, aud thus
e%ffectually remove the arm of the op-
pressor,
These thoughts are not the eiTeryes-
cence of fanatlcism with the uphea,ings
Of the demagoguc; but,the sober thought
of one who hates war and would by all
eschew it preferring, however
war of a day to a lifelong quarrel
ANT-NEBRAsKA
ny The Martha Washington case
seems likely to end in Arkansas as it
did in Ohio. The preliminary hear
lngs befor the court at Helena have
resulted in the prisoners being remain
.ed for trial, but the Judge, in the
course Of his decision, incidentally re.
marked that, in the main trial, it
would have to be proved by the pros
ccution that the parties charged were
actually, and not by implication, with.
the jurisdiction of Philips county.
Arkansas, at the time the alleged
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