The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1855-09-28
THE BoHoos CRYING.

The ally ofthe Southern sec,ionalists, who
presides over the columns Of the Democrat,
has entered upon the work Of producing
weekly, q series Of SOLDERING, blubbering
articles upon the Union and its preservation.
Number opens with dissertation upon
this question; "Shall our free government
be preserved and a pretty good idea
Of its character and force may be obtained
by judicious arrangement Of the materials
Of which ii is composed, in the nosegay
form, after this manner - Disunion sem
timepts - fanatical aspirants = social and
religious science - seeds OF longevity haz.
ardous experiments - American eagle
culver upon posing wing - monied power
- fanatacism sharpening its knife - work
Of butchery - ineendiary doctrines - false
philanthrophy - schemes OF revolution -
bypOcritical professions - servile war
travelling political mOuntebanks - vague
theories - ianatacal enthusiasts - consum-
nation Of bloody .spcctacles - disorganizers
&c.
A skilful and adroit hand, by changing
these terms and forming new combinations,
can always produce 6rstrate article upon
the disunion theme. and operate With IL
upon the tender nerves and weak backs Of
those who see in every movement ,o'prevent
the spread and Matchmaking Of slavery, the
approaches Of disunion. For few months
10 come, while the question OF admitting
Kansas, as free or slave state, is before
Congress, ..and perhaps until after the presl-
Dental election is over, this bugbear cry Of
disunion is to be echoed and re-echoed across
the land by editors who are either fools or
hypocrises, or perhaps compound Of both,
and every man who stands upon the ground
OF opposition to the extension Of slavery
alone, is to be stigmatized as a disunionisI,
seetionalist - and howled at by men who,
Ike the editor OF the Democrat. who once
declared that ga iap Jorerr excluding
siarery from our netriy acquired territories
ENBoprEs THE Democratic dottrinssn - and,
like the Democracy Of Massachusetts,, who,
in ls49, solemply declared themselves COP.
posed 10 siarsry IN erTy form and color, and
70 FREE 81 wherever man lives
throughout Gods heritage
The Republican party stands upon the
simple position Of preventing the extension
Of slavery-it seeks no interference with
slavery in the States-ond demands only
that state institution should not be taken
under the fostering wing Of the nation. Its
position, instead Of being sectional, IS IA.
tioual. 1t is slavery only tina, is sectional
and he only is the sectiOnalist who strikes
hands with its advocates, and demands that
it shall be made national; or who, through
fear or cowardice, or baser political cousid-
erations, allows himself to DO used as an in.
strument for such purposes. No Northern
Democratic editor can give shadow Of rea-
son why slavery shall be extended, while he
pratcs about disunion-and no man who is
not Shareholder at heart, or, what is worse,
tho lickspittle Of slavchOlding master, will
desire to see efforts to prevent its extension
abandoned.
Shall our free government be preserved
Weauswer, that ii is cOwardly hypocrisy that
prompts such question. Our free govern
ment in dauser-because the people are la
boring, in constitutional way, 10 prevent
the further spread Of slavery! Out upon
such nonsense. Look around upon the CON-
munity. What man Of any party desires
the destruction Of this free government -
Not one. There are thousands, aye, mil
lions, who ore opposed to dwarfing them
selves politically, and disgracing themselves
socially, by consenting to the spread OF sla-
very - but absolutely none who desire
the destruction Of this free govern
ment. The trainers Of "this free govern
ment" never contemplated that liberty could
be preserved by fostering and encouraging
human slavery, and they wisely. provided in
the early days OF the Republic asains, its
blight and mildew cursing the virgin soil oil
the Northwest. They were not afraid to
appeal to the powers Of the government in
constitutional way, for protection against the
further spread Of great wrong-and shall
we who desire nothing more, be frightened
by the cry Of disuniOn coming from South
ern scc,ionalis,s and base men actuated by
selfish partizan considerations, who do their
work Of deiamipg and disappearing the
views and purposes Of the friends Of constr
tutional freedom in the North.