Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-10-31
Liberty and Union!

Liberty and Union!
The partizans of the Administration
have adopted the policy of hiding their
nresent discontinue under a cloud oil
boast and braggadocio, concerning what
they are going to do in 1856. Their
leading journals have led off, and the
smaller fry joins in the chorus, vocifera-
ting and shouting that the Union is in
danger! The Democratic party is reg
ularly marshaled as the party of the
"Boohoos', and professional "Union
Savers" Their battle cry is to be, ''the
Union for the sake OF the Union" OF
course their tactics viii consist of attempts
to faslen upon the Republican party the
stigma of disunion, and they have open
ed the ball with the unblushing asser-
ton of the falsehood, hat William II.
Seward is proclaiming diSunion Principles
upon the stump, in New York. Whelh-
.ersthey viii succeed in creating a Union
panic at the North, remains to be seen /;
but we are very confident that the peo-
pie are intelligent enough to detect the
hypocrisy Of the doughfaces, whose zeal
for the Union makes them throw them
selves headlong into the arms of jeff.
Davis, and the little would be aristocra-
cy of Southern nulliiers.
The Republican party declares, that
Liberty and Union are inseparable. The
Union can have no perpetuity except by
virtue of the full recognition of the ina
lienable rights of humanity. As Repub-
licans, therefore, We are based upon the
truly patriotic doctrine, that if are fcould
give oar country perpetuity, We mas make
herfree! 1t is absurd TO prate of Union
if we nurse and pamper an institution,
which always has ended, and always will
end in anarchy and revolution. The
Republican party believes that the priv
LEGGED ar%istocracy of shareholders has,
by its oft repeated breaches Of plighted
honor, and its lawless contempt for the
most solemn eompacts of "fnality,"
shown hat it viii stick atno crime which
will increase its power or strengthen its
dominion I; that it has, therefore, become
dangerous to the peace and safety Of the
Nation and that the 1chole people are
called upon by every consideration OF
patriotism, OF liberty, and of Humanity, TO
check the -encroachments of this oligar-
chy, and forever fix The municipal policy
of the Federal government in favor Of
the recognition, in the broadest sense, of
the universal rights of man as man!
A monslrous evil exists in the body
polite, and Its spread is seen to be fatal
to national existence ; yet the most I'M
heard of efforts are made to extend it
In the halls of legislation its advocates
seek TO accomplish their ends by fraud,
chicane, and perjury, and then adjourn
to muster a ruffian mob and force their
execrable system upon the doomed ter
ritory, at point of knife and mouth of pis-
tol ! These things are done in the name
of Democracy, and Liberty is insulted by
the lying pretense that they are supper
ted by the people at the ballOt-box I!
Under these circumstances the Repub-
lean party is formed as a national party,
seeking the good of the aOhOle nation,
calling upon the North to defend its lib
critics, and upon the South TO wake to a
perception of its own interest striving
by peaceful, legal means, to secure the
triumph of its principles, and with that
triumph, the perpetuity of the Federal
Union. The party presents fair issues
to its opponents, and demands only COM
mon honesty in meeting them. 1t is no
Disunion party. On the contrary, its
confidence in the tendency of its princi-
pies to uphold the Union is such that it
can afford to treat with contempt both
the threats of the nulli6ers of South Car
DINA, and the hypoeritical cant of the
sham Democracy of the North. 1t has
no patience with the lickspittle politicians
who will purchase the spoils of Office by
crawling on their bellies, before their
Southern masters, and whine out their
love for the Union whilst they suffer the
people t o be robbed of their liberties
which give the Union its only value
1t has no mind seto purchase peace at the
price of chains and slavery" but prefers
rather to meet tI'e oligarchy at the polls,
and there conquer a peace which shall
forever make the Nation take an me-
squivocal place among the peoples of the
earth as a truly free and glorious UNION.
With this end in view, we shall meet our
opponents with the rallying CRY, LIB
ERrY AND UNION. one and inseparable %
Anonymous Communications,
We have received another anonymous
letter from our friend who wrote US re-
specting the County Fair. This time he
has turned his battery upon US, and has