The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-06-09
DTSSOLyING THE UNION.


DISSOLVING THE UNION.
The old talk of dissolving the Union be-
Gins again to be urged in certain sections
As the weather becomes warm. and people
begin to feel like dissolving themselves, they
imagine that the Union is about to dissolve
and proceed to dissolve it accordingly we
have seen the Union dissolved go often, anu
still retain its integrity, that we are OF the
on;n;on that IL has mo.e lives than cat, and
will in all probability survive its extermina-
Tors The remedy of dissolving the Union is
a universal panaces for all the ills the state
ia heir TO. Whenever a commonwealth or
a particular locality has any real or imagined
cause Of complaint, il proceeds forthwith to
dissolve the Union. We know not how
m.r; Zines in our day the federal Union has
been knocked in the head had its jagular
severed, its limbs qusrtered and nailed TO the
wall Yet it is still alive and kicking ana
in the most accommodating spirit presenting
itself for another knock down and drag OUT,
as soon as disafiected States and disappoint'
ed politicians feel disposed to try their hand.
The elasticity, vitality and endurance Of that
remarkable compound, Uncle Sam, are be-
yond all parallel. The men who formed this
Union knew how to tie hard knot; every
effort to unite it has hirtherto proved unavail
ing Nothing but the sword will sunder it.
The very weakness of our government Is
its chief strength. 1t has no physical power,
no cleaning; bayonets and frowning cannon,
to terrify States and citizens. into submission.
1t treats its people like gro@a up men, VINO
do not need the whip, and have arrived az
years of discretion. It.leaves the question OF
loyalty to their common sense and good feel
ing. If they are disposed to throw OH the
government, it is as easily thrown away so
far as any physical iculty is concerned as
the wife can throw away her bridal ring or
the child pitch the family Bible out OF the
window But there are stronger bonds than
those of iron and STEEL the chains which graf
itude, love and hope weave around the heart
These arc the ligaments by which the
Union of the States is held together, and IN
these we find the reason why, after every
storm of attempted notification and treason
LEO btdTS VI OAF SOAAio Wv '~-
a brighter blaze, and why, the fabric of the
government, yielding like thegr acstul vii
low to the pressue Of the gale, as soon as the
storm has ceased, assumes position as erect
and firm as ever. While people talk OF dis
solving the Union, the Union adds new mem
bers, and increases in power every day
Even the disaffected forget their private
griefs in watching the magnificent progress
of this great Republic; in seeing how its
mighty arms extend from the seed OF empire
ct jamestown to the golden sands OF the Pa
cifc; how its fleets traverse every sea and
carry its beautiful flag, emblem OF freedom
and hope, to the most distant regions of
the world how even the hauguty powers OF
Europe recognise its greatness amongt the ma
tions and court its influence. In the secret
heart even of Massachusetts, nullifer, there
is undoubtedly an amazing degree of sup
pressed pride that he belongs to such a great
country, and latent but sensible conviction
that there is more dignity in. the tail of
lion than the head of dog. Massachusetts
could not be more sorely punished for her nui
LITIGATION than by carrying out the suggestion
which we recently made, that she should be
presented by Uncle Sam as free giftto Cana
da Still, it is not to be denied, that the
Union can be dissolved possibly will be dis
solved before many years. We have some
faith however, in the sober second thought
of the people of this country. We cannot
give up lingering hope that, when real
danger of disunion becomes evident to the
patriotic masses of the U. States, they will
rise as one man, and put down the elements
of discord with common hand. The calcu
lating faculty of Americans is one of their
prominent characteristics. 1t costs them
nothing to threaten the dissolution of the
Union-in fact, it is rather relief to their
irritated feelings; but when the thing comes
to be done, when all the labors of the revo-
lutiouary fathers are to be undone, when the
very sun offreedom is to be quenched in the
sky,-wont they calculate the cost of it, and
refuse to make the monstrous sacrifice which
fanatcism demands ?