Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-07-27
Union or Disuniou /

Of tho United States are now called on to de-
terminc. The organization Of great party
upon a single issue win complete the formation
Of an antagonist party. So soon as the signal Of
conflict shall be given, men win abandon all sub
ordinate issues and rally to the one or the other
banner, as they may belong to the one or other
section. There may and we trust will be a
conservative interest which values the Union
high enough to forego these sectional animosi
ties and thus settle the controversy in favor
of the Union. But that is as yet uncertain
We copy from the New York Herald some
forcible views upon this point to which We
ask the attention Of our readers:
The GREAT ISSUE BEFORE THE CoUSrHr--THr
DESIGNS OF THE ABOLIrIosIsTs-Chase In Ohio
Seward In New York, Wilson In Massachusetts,
an illustrious trinitythe nucleus and soul of the
republican party now In progress of organization
ON the distinct bases of aboltion--0ccupy mos
prominent position before the country. The worl
of these men Is complete In Ohio--the issue there
| is fully made up. Abolition is backed and sus
| tanned by the coalition or fusion of all the ex
tremes Of the past.
There is not sign In the political heavens that
does not portend storm. The barometer Of pub
lie sentiment Is full of warning and Of solemn ad
| monition The ship Of State, which has rden SC
far in triumph and has borne its precious cargo In
safety, Is threatened with mutny by its ungratefu
| crew. These are no mere forms of rhetoric--no
words Of idleness; they are signals raised by the
hand of patriotism, prompted by conviction of i'm
pending danger. They have their source In the
movement Of men and Of parties in this country.
| Never before has it been deemed possible to
bring on direct issue between the North and the
South. Efforts have not been wanting within the
last fifteen years to preciptate trial between the
great sections of the Union; but the existence OIL
two controlling parties, sustained respectively by
enlarged and statesmanlke views, constituted q
breakwater capable Of resisting the angry surges
of fanatcism. In the rapid movement Of opinions
in the United States it Is difficult indeed to keep al
account of the past But day has elapsed since
opinions, now sounded in bugle notes Of triumph
now avowed as basis Of party organization-nov
proclaimed as necessary condition of union be-
tween the North and South--were uttered only in
secret places, and their authors screened from the
penalties of treason only by the utter contempt ir
which they were held.
The end proposed now Is revolution. 1t Is nc
longer a disguise; its purposes are distinctly
avowed 1t is fusion of all the hnatical elements
of public sentiment in the North into great party
with view of forcing the abolition Of slavery in
the District of Columbia-the prohibition of the
slave trade between the States-the limitation Of
slavery to its present State boundaries-and, final
ly, its total abolition by Congress
The machinery which ia to effect this end is in
motion. It has been operated in Ohio in the nom
nation of Chase and few weeks will witness q
kindred movement in New York, Pennsylvania,
and in the entire North.
1t is time that the subject should be understood.
II Is plan OF revolution, and 1t needs only to per-
fbaG rot ~ Of ~ nc
success. The integrity of the Republic can be
maintained only on the basis Of protection to all
its material interests. That Its existence Ia wholly
incompatible with the existence of two rival par
ties embracing the free and the slave States ought
to be obvious to all. 1t Is not necessary to 90
farther than to secure the organization Of these
parties upon such basis, to assure the overthrow
Of the government. Pretexts will not be wanting
in such decline Of patriotic sentiment, under the
influence of sectional hatred, for movement, hav.
Ing in view the dissolution Of the Union. Indeed,
we regard that event as sure TO follow such divis-
ion Of public sentiment in this country
AT precisely this point we view the movement
Of the Abolitionists at the present time They
have uttered the war cry on the Kansas pretext--
the repeal Of the so-caled Missouri compromise.
That compromise, which never had the merit Of
either legality or control; which is mere histori-
cal record of q criminal contention between the
North and the South which exercised no earthly
influence upon the question Of slavery, and was
adopted only as a convenient means Of escape to
the sgitators Of 1890, is now magni6ed in an ag-
gressivc assault by the South upon the freedom Of
the North. The Missouri compromise was great
political fraud, and the use now made of Its repeal
clearly enough shows that Ii Is still performing its
legitimate services in. the work of mischief
The object Of the coalition is the subversion Of
the government--the overthrow Of the Constitu.
ton. The compact is in the way Of their cherished
purposes They regard II as Of less value than the
abolition Of slavery. They present the issue Of the
government or slavery-not both. There Ia but
one process Of reaching this result, and II Is TO
this that all efforts are now directedthc orgsni!
zaiion Of two great parties on stricty sectional
basis