The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-09-06

MR. MERRITT Although the City and
County Of Dubuque has been true to her Ma
tional impulses in the recent contest for Num-
cipal and Congressional supremacy By un teddy
giving your efforts to arrest that tide Of popular
fanatic, sectional, enthusiasm, which has seized
upon the dangerous and delicate quest on Of
Slavery, to the imminent peril Of the Union,
and to that conf Fraternity Of sentiment SO essen
tial to the harmony of tie Republic, for the
base and wicked purposes Of eevatng to place
and power tho. whom cool and discrim nat
ing public sentiment has repeatedly pronounced
alike antagonistic to the public welfare and re-
puyt ant to public sent m mt, | fear that a
me-serving, puritancal, New England policy
and commanding position which she has SO long
and so deservedIy ma ;ntained in the American
councils. The Slavery question, among the
million and one that enter into our public poll
mand, and does command, peremptorily, every
passion and pulse Of the national heart, and
therefore, in these alarming and overmastering
qualities, the solitary one upon which We are
sectonally divided, and hence the only one upon
which it is possible that our Union can be
wrecked; and whoever undertakes, for wicked
pattzam purposes, 10 exasperate and arouse up
a'resh, the some " hat mprb d but soothed con-
dit on of the national feeling upon this delicate
quest on, is entitled to the unmitigated execra-
ton Of all the friends Of lao as we'll "a liberty,
and should be branded as piotters Of mischief,
and aiders and abetters for the overthrow OF
their country That phiIanthrophy which seeks
a foreign beneficiary as peculiarly worthy Of its
black munifcense is philanthropy of the
cheapest possible kind, and usually advocated
and practiced by that class Of your citizens who
vote to sell your towns poor at auction vote
to limit the pay of your Superintendent School
Committee, and are always deaf to the cries o.
poverty and blind to target of rags; men who
walk through your streets in a manner strongly
indicating that their thoughts are seeking some
eminent headland, where, taking upon themselves
the enobling vocation of peep, they may timer
ate beyond their christian domicil and saintet
North, and view the alarming sins that are 81
soon to swallow up and obscure their great bu
benigh,ed Southern neighbor
To follow This class of citizens, as they stane
in Maine, into all their various windings, ant
witness their subteranian assaults upon private
and public character, would exhibit the mos
dangerous and impracticabe set Of men know
to New England society.
That heterogeneous and conglomerated mas
of chaotic confusion which has just brough
shame upon your State, under their new alias
Republican party, is now forming in our OIL
Democratic State of Maine, and old "Feds,
+" Wings" "Abolition," "Free Democrats,
"Know Nothings," "Moral Democrats" AM
all the fag ends and spancked ends, and old an
| tagonists are twsing their armies in connub,a
fondness around each others necks, and lying
down in the same truckle bed Of political cor
rupt,on and spotted leprosy!
That syren song, which is as old as the en-
sign Of this Republic, is again being sounde
upon the public ear with new notes "enlarge
and improved" all to the words, old "part
lines are being broken down, are added, "par
| ty ties for party principles are disgraceful t
| freemen'' Restoration Of the Missouri Com
promise line "Repeai of the Fugitive Slav
Law, unquali6edly," 'No more Slave States,
" Abolition of Slavery in the District Of Co
lumbia," and general war upon the domestic
institutions of the South, are some of the lead
ing notices Of this new tangled party, AM
which is countenanced and led on by Elk. Fed
Members of Con .ress, but nov real " Republi
| cans"
To my m nd, the first great effort Of all Ma
tional men should be to correct and do ava
with that spirit Of animosty and sectiona
hostility, which now exists between the differ
ent members of a common family, and to erec
upon its ruins, spirit of harmony and unit
of sentiment, which should forever silence tn
| parrot sounds Of the croaking demagogues an
polt cal mauntebanks that have converted til
husings into disgrace.
although the Democratic flag which has h"ate
| in breeze for almost three foufths Of century
may, for short tim, fall from its proud e'ni
hence, and play and flckler in the dust, an
blaze in the ranks Of fanaticism. She viii
again leap into the full blown condition Of
magnificent majority, for the fulfllment OF thu
great mission, which she alone is commissions
! TO consummate.
Begging your pardon, my dear Sir, FOR sayin
thus much upon this question, at this time,
will defer further comment until the econ
promise" shall be completed in Maine.
! especially,
| r.