The daily union., 1855-10-18

have made il however without any promise as 70 such
future action placing myself entirely upon the cemeuy Of
those who have the power to act in the premises.
Taunton tIass.) Democrat
THE NEXT GREAT ISSUE
The presidential election of 1856 win be the grand
of the stability of the Union II viii be positive and
unequivoca meeting Of the Of slavery and
abolition in hostile and reconcilable conflict There viii
be-there beno farther concessions compromises
in the matter The issue is simple manifest and well
derstood For long time there has been active training
going in either section OF the Union prepare for this
crisis There have been southern conventions called
feel the public pulse the question of secession the
abshment OF southern confedeacy. AT the North the
abolition organs have lent themselves senuousy fo
mentng the spirit of discord by every and
hand There is doubt then, in the minds Of either
party, to the subject of dispute the battlefield
which the contest is to be waged No other question
public policy will be allowed to interfere with the free and
uninterrupted collision which both hope take place
The arih-the public lands-inerna improvements, and
host of minor quesonswill be sunk and swallowed up
in the superior issue of that day It will be- In fact
have styled it. the next great issue and will require the
strongest conservative principles of both North and South
TO avert that danger to the Union which would follow de-
feat in such struggle.
In such contest that overshadowing the future veal
of the republic the people will he called upon TO act
with pretty much such spirit determination that which
win naturally have divide themselves into two great
partieshat in favor of the union Of the States they
are and that opposed TO the ground OF possible
probable extension of slavery into States yet formed
That this latter fear il sufficient form the groundwork
Of party not yet prepared 10 believe Be
Of the present troubles in Nebraska and the bitter
ness to which reguated measures have driven either
party terebecase of the determination the hand
introduce and the other exclude slaveyve cannot
justify ourselves into the belief that the South whole,
intend any very serious onslaught upon any Territories
hereafter TO be created. At the North we, Of
eorse wished TO the triumph Of freedom any and
everywhere If consonant the wishes OF majoH.y OF
the inhabitants of either Kansas any other Territory
about asking admttance to the Union would rather
hail them free than slave State but il The majority
decide in favor of slavery should be compelled to bow
to their choice and feel it equally incumbent upon to
welcome them place in the confederacy terms OF
equality with the elder States
In taking position in such division Of parties, with
that great patriotic organization which will uphold the
Union of the States with heart and hope for its pro-
lection and salvation throughout the vast Of country
over which its broad egis is extended should dc
with perfect confidence in the justice of cause and
in the full faith that If the spirits of departed sages
permitted to look down from their abodes the living pa
trios who will be with such conflict will receive the
smiles OF those gust men made perfect whose wisdom
framed the sacred compact Of the conederacy and whose
est legacy which has been transmitted generation
Such party will be denounced by its antagonists
southern and "pro-slayeryn Blu, such have
lost their terror to conservative and Unouloying citizens
of northern Sates If the constitution is southern and
Hprosayery,n they just otherwise they harm
less and sensccss the bitter Of Jacobin
and of locofoco when applied to the democracy
But the and revolutionary party at the North
make concessions calculated to meet any contingencies
of the future They act in the supposion that things will
be unalngly and make allowances for changes in
pnbc sentiment With them, as with the Turks, oil
things written and So instead Of spreading the salve
they apply the blister The masses for seventy years.
have country, though afflicted with nst-
tuition hostile TO the Declaration of independence
rising rapidly holding its own and extending the respect
for its among the nations Of the world They have
een too that the whole Of strength and prosperity
ay that compact Of union which made each State strong
by its intimate connexion with the rest Like cable of
wire, made up Of small weak threads, the made
strong only by being knit together 1t will be difficult
matter therefore, for any political philosophers propa-
gandss of secession vince the people that strength
suhsst without union They know texperimentally
well theoretically and not willing to risk their
political salvation on any and uutried scheme of gov
ernment We have hcsation then, in believing that
democratic party which has always A,laslike shoul-
dered the Union and carried it through so many trials
fire and faith w in the approaching contest commend
itself to the people the only safeguard of the Union upon
which they rely and that giving heart and hand to
its support and through il to the constitution they will
feel that they providing glorious destiny for their
children as they themselves have inherited from their
fathers.