The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-05-24
A CoNTRAsT-TREAsoN AND PATRl

/ OTISM
We do not believe the Union in any pre-
sent danger; yet we say most distinctly that w
should prefer To belong to a peace loving, art
devel, ping, labor honoring, God fearing con-
federacy of twenty millions of ireemen rathe
than to a tillibu,terIng, war making, conques
seeking, slavery-e ending Union of thirty
millions, one sixth of them slaves 'lf this b'
treason, make thu most of it, We believ,
the avowal of a like preference by the peopl,
of the North emnen,ly calculated to strengthen
and perpetuate the Union, by keeping it neare
the line of right, justice and honor; others viii
! Judge for themselves. IN Y Tribune.
/ This is moral treason Witness the contras
furnished by patriot: IS The unity of govern
ment, which constitutes you one people, is als'
now dear to you. 1t is justly go: for it is
main pillar in the edifice # your real indepen.
dence, the support of your tranquility at home
your peace abroad, of your safety, OF you
prosperity, of that very liberty which you Sc
highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee tina
from different causes, and from different quar-
ters, much pains s.will be taken, many artficei
employed, to weaken in your minds the con-
viction Of this tfuth-as this is the point il
your political fortress against which the batter
les of internal and external enemies will bt
most constantly and actively Chough often CO
verify and insidiousy) drected-t is of infinite
moment that you should properly estimate the
immense value of your national Union to you
collective and individual happiness; that yol
should cherish a cordial, habitual and immova
BILE at achment to il; accustoming yourselves tt
think and to speak of it as palladium of you
political safety and prosperity; watching for lis
preservation with jealous anxiety; discounte
nancing whatever may suggest even suspicior
that it can in any event be abandoned; md in
Il al, Ybo Fret n nj
erery attempt to aEenate any portion Of 0u'
country from the rest, to enfeebie the sacred tie.
,chich no1 link together the Furious parts.
For this you have every inducement of sym
pathy and interest. Citizens BY birth choice
OF common country, that country has CHI
to concentrate your affections. The name o
AMERIcAN, which belongs to you in your ma
,ional capacity, must always exalt the just
pride Of patriotism more than any appelatlon
derived from local Determinations. With slight
shades of difference, you have the same rel
ginn, manners habits, aud political principles
YoC have, ia common cause, fought and tr
umphrd d together. The independence and llber
ty you POSSESS the work of joint councils
and joint effor,s, OF common dangers, suffer
ings and success.
" But these considerations, however power
fully they address themselves 10 your senslbillty
are greatly outweighed by those which apply
more Immediately to your interest Here, every
portion o: our country finds the most command
ing motives for carefully guarding and preserv
ing the union OF the whole.
"The Worth, in an unrcstrained intercourse
with the South, protected by the equal laws Of 4
common government, finds in the productions
of the latter great additional resources of mari
time and commercial enterprise, and precious
materials of manufacturing industry. The Souti
! in the same intercourse, benefiting by the same
agency of the North, sees its agriculture grow
and its commerce expand. Turning partly
into its own channels the seamen of the .N0rtl
it finds its particular navigation invigorated ane
while it contributes in different ways to nourisi
and increase the general mass of the nationa
navigation, it looks forward to the protection o
a maritime strength to which itself is uneGually
adj ,ted The East, in like intercourse will
the Vest, in the progressive improvement o
i interior communications by land and water, vii
more and more find valuable vent for the com
,nndi.es which it brings from abroad manu-
! fac ures at some The Vest de ives from the
! East supplies requisite to its growth and cam
/ for; and what IS of still greater consequence
/ it must OF necessity owe the secure enioymen
of thr ind spensabe outlets for its own produc
/ lions tD the weight, influence, and future mari
time strength If the Atlantic side ofthe Union
| GireCitQ by an lnulSSDluDte community VI III
terest, as one nation. Any other tenure BY
which the Vest can hold this essential advan
tage, whether derived i.on its seperatt
strength, or from an apostate and unnatural con
nexlon with any foreign bower -:s: .... DC intran
.s'r.., s'ra precarous
While, then, every part of our country thu
feels an immediate and particular interest il
union, all the parts combined cannot fail to. fint
| in he cd mi of off. 10
strength, greater resource oportionably create
security from external danger, less trequen
| interruption of their peace by foreign nations
and, what is of inestmable value, they mus
derive from union an exemption from thos,
| bros and wars between themselves which 81
frequently affl ict neghboring countries not tir'
together by the SANE government, which thei
own rvalships alone would be sufficient to pro
duce, but which opposite foreign alliance, a
tachment, and intrigues would stimulate ant
embitter Hence, likewise, they will avoit
the necessity of those overgrown military es
| adjustments which, under any form of uova--
'nen., art lnaos .5.,us liberty, and whic
| are to be regarded as particularly hostile to re
publican liberty. In this sense it is that YOU
union ought to be considered as a main prop
your liberty, and that the love of the on
ought to endear to you the preservation of th
other.
i These considerations speak pers fsiv
language to every rejecting and virtnous mnd
and exhibit the continuance of the Union as
primary object of patriotic desire. Is there
doubt whe her a common government can EN-
4 brace so large sphere' Let experience solv
| it. To listen to mere speculation in such
case were criminal We are authorized t
hope that proper organization of the who lie
| with the auyiiarNaoency of Governments for tn
respective subdivisions, will afford happy issu
Of the experiment Ii is we'll worth fair an
full experiment With such powerful and oh
vious motives to union, IF citing all paris of ou
country, while experience shall not have den
onstrated its impracticabiiy, there will Away
be reas n 10 distrust the PATRIOTISM of those VIII
in any quarter may endeavor to weaken il
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