Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-12-14
Latest Strcak--No speaker Yet.
DTSSOLVING TW UNION,

lot, and still no Speaker elected.
DTSSOLVING THE UNION.
1t is funny to hear, says the Richmond
(Va.) Dispatch, the complacent and dog
matte manner in which sundry politicians of
the North and South talk of dissolving the
Union. They speak of the matter as if it
were one of the easiest things in the world,
and as if they could do it That is the
grand mistake of these mslcontent political
agitators. They imagine that they hold
the destinies of this vast Republic in the
hollow of their hand. They have but to
open their mouth in a multiplying Congress
ional harrangue, or an elaborate revolutiona-
ry newspaper article, and, presto, the Union
is blown into Thousand fragments! They
take no account of any other moral forces
and elements in this great country than
those of an omnibus load of Catalines, who,
even if each had a power for ruin as strong
as his will, would not be able to displace the
smallest stone in the vast temple of the
American CoGfederacy. Outside of this
knot of discontented and aspiring men, lies
an immense body of the American people,
as unmoved and Indifferent to the mimic
whirlwinds which rage in the contracted
minds of few nulifers, as the ocean is to
a tempest in teapot. Before one solitary
link can be broken in the golden chain
which unites our glorious band of Repubi-
can States, the American people must be
consulted mighty millions of farmers,
mechanics and tradesmen, the laboring and
producing classes, the men who have inter
ests to be affected by change of govern
ment and who have not the most remote
intention of permitting these interests to be
tampered with without their knowledge or
consent Whenever the Union is dissolved,
it will not be dissolved by Congress. The
people will unmake as they made the Gov
ernment. 1t was their work; they built it
up; it is consecrated by their blood; all
their earthly treasures are deposited in it
Depend upon it they have authorized no
man nor set of men, either in Congress or
out of it, directly or indirectly, to pull down
that structure That is a work they reserve
to themselves.
The above article, which it will be OBJ
served is from Southern paper, expresses
our sentiments. There is as little prospect of
the dissolution of the Union, as of the over
turning of the Green Mountains or the ALE
ghanies; and the politicians who are threat
ening and clustering, can do as much to eff
feet one result as the other. Ifthe ques
ton was submitted to the South whether to
adopt policy which should abolish slavery
in thirty years or dissolve the Union, the
former course would be chosen The great
mass of the white population of the South
arc not Shareholders. They would see in
the dissolution of the Union their own sub
lection to despotism more intolerable than
that of Russia. The Shareholders them
selves will pause long before they take the
first practical step towards dissolution
They will ponder such questions as these.
What will be the security of slave property
with line of free States from which no
slave could be recovered, extending from the
Atlantic to the Mississippi? In case of war
with the North, calamity certain to come,
what shall we do with three and a half mill
ions of enemies in our own houses and fields
With these calamities in full view what will
be the effect of a dissolution of the Union
on the prosperity and business the South f!
Will not thousands of her business men,
and millions of property flee before such a
prospect to the free States!
1t is not matter of astonishment that
the Slave oligarchy should struggle with the
energy of dispair to retain the control of the
Federal Government, They have long en-
loved that control and its emoluments.-
Like their brother aristocrats, the nobility of
England, they deem the power, the offices
and the pay, theirs by birthright. When
the North demands its just share in the cen
tral Government, when it asks tllat slavery,
that disgrace to a civilized and christianized
people, shall not seize on new territory,
these slavery aristocrats think they are in
suited, oppressed and robbed. This is as
natural as life. SO if the slave, weary of
unpaid and hopeless toll, steals himself and
fees to a land of freedom, the master deems
him guilty of crime, and calls on all the
nation to bring him back.
But the threats of the slavery aristocrats
will not prevent the North from putting a
bar to the further extension of slavery; and
all the politicians both North and South,
will not be able to dissolve the Union.
Wings Voting for Richardson.
The Ohio State Journal in showing that
members of Congress from the Slave States,
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