Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-17
WASHINGTON, d. c.
WILLIAM M. BURwELL, Editor.
The Union. Can ID be Preserved :
N FKIDAY, AUGUST u, 1856.

propriate To the foreigner, burdened with
taxes and oppressed by power it will seem in
explicable. But il is nevertheless imminently
important Frequently in the history of the
government we have had violent local resist
sncc to special acts of legislation denounced
as unequal and unjust, but never before has a
deliberate organization been attempted upon
the ground Of geographical division alone Yet
we now see, in rapid process oil formation,
party of the North, and we may anticipate, as
an inevitable consequence, party OF the
South.
We do not believe that fanaticism has had
much to do with the formation of this Northern
party. Fanaticism is always consistent If
it embarks in the cause Of abolition, it will seek
the liberation Of all men from every species of
bondage. II will not aid the black man to es.
cape from his master, and repel the white man
who seeks to escape from European oppression.
But this party Of the North, under Henry Will
son, proposes to agtate the abolition of slavery
by every means in its power, and at the same
time restricts the immigrant by political dis
elimination against him.
The meaning Of this Northern party is this:
The patronage and power Of the Federal Gov
ernment is the chief prize in our political lot
terry. II appeals at once to the cupidity of the
mean, and to the ambition Of the lofty.
Every division and subdivision of the Amer
can people has been tried to secure the COM
nand of the government. The majority has
been appealed to with questions Of principle
and expediency. Under the specious title of
Democracy, we have been ruled by mercenary
aristocrats Under the honorable appellation
of Wings, we have had governments which
practised as many abuses ms their predeces-
sors, and instead of exposing and correcting,
adopted, and, if possible, improved upon them.
But the sham Democracy has been imposed
upon the people, until it can bear repetition no
longer. The rival pretensions of the Wing
party are no more worthy Of approval, than
would be the nostrum which one quack propo-
SEES to remove the deletefious effects of the drug
which had been administered by another To
organize majority then requires a new divis-
ion. II is plain, from the census, that major
ity Of the electoral vote lies north of a given
line Of latitude 1t is plain, from universal adj
mission, that the larger amount Of the Federal
revenues arc collected and disbursed in the
same region. What then is more obvious than
that If any organization can be formed which
will enrol the whole vote of the North against
the South, those who side with the strong
side must obtain the government, its honors,
and its rewards
This is the cause of the extraordinary efforts
now making to postpone all other questions,
upon which the American people differ to the
settlement Of question between the two sec
tons. A question we will say, which, however
settled, can have no practical bearing upon the
prosperity Of the country, whilst its agitation
must involve consequences Of the gravest and
most pernicious character.
Whilst we see men of all past opinions rush
Ing into this organization, most of them with
the honest belief that there has been some ag-
gression upon their rights, we are satisfied that
with them the chief purpose is to correct the
imagined wrong without disturbing the frame
work upon which the government rests. But we
apprehend danger which such men do not
foresee. We see in the continuance of this agi-
tation the danger that the oscillations of the
earthquake bring to the solid tower II may not
shatter the adanant, or sap the foundation;
but il destroys the cohesion, it disturbs the
equilibrium, and leaves it to mouldcr, to de-
cline from its proud perpendicular, and at last
10 fall a shapCless mass Of ruins.
We know there are honest men who believe
that the Union viii stand any act Of legisla-
lion. Their confidence in the vigor Of the
body polite is such that they believe il can
Withstand the extirpation Of any physical de-
iormity.
We appeal to the friends Of the Union
if il can stand such continued shocks
We are told that perpetual repercussion so
changes the integral structure of the most
compact metal as to destroy its cohesion. Will
not the continued violence OF sectional col
lision have the same effect upon the moral or
eanization Of the Union
We fear that unless this strife be ayerted,
the forms of the Union may continue for a
short time TO exist, but the spirit Of iraternal
pride and confidence will have fed forever
II is in this sense that we regret TO see the
National InteHigencer, a journal which should
he, in the midst Of this conflict, aiding to com
pose the strife by sustaining the most moderate
propositions for peace, adopting line Of neu-
rality, moving itself out Of range, and looking
"a with spy-glass, AZ II it were war Of
strangers We regret particularly to see its
opinion Of the capacity Of the Union to resist
MI domestic discussion, correspond with that
expressed by the Tribune, the Times, and Mr.
Wilson. The opinion Of these journals seems
to be that there is a physical power in the ma
jority to enforce the law against individuals"
and that MS the Federal Government is ac-
cordng to their theory, agovernment Of the
whole people Of the United States any Oppo-
siton to it would be regarded as rebellion"
and would be put down, as in Poland or Ire
land, by the military force under the command
Of the Executive. Wewill not pause to COM