The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-07-03


sh provinces Our ships excluded from the ports Of
the South by different duties and shipowners have
transferred themselves and their capitals TO the South or
neutral State Our manufacturers have longer
the markets of the severed States secured TO them by pro-
tecve duties, and they encounter runous competition
either local foreign, in every port of the South and
West And then with productive industry parayzed with
passions named by political disasters comes that crisis
of domestic conflict which in like circumstances has come
other republics which eaced all the gores OF learning
and art in Greece which Frustrated the colossus OF ko-
greatness which ruined the ourishng cities OF
medieval lalythat conflict between the Have-as and the
Lack-as-in the progress Of which, when the demons Of
party and Of anarchy shall have done their work. then
desolate fields aud ravaged dwellings and depopu-
lated cities there CLEANS omnipoen the bloody sword Of
the conqueror and the yran wreak upon you the
geance of justly indignant God That will be what we
are have instead of the Union, All experience teaches
it. No casuiscal sophstry Of tampering with public
duty under preence of conscience above the Bible and
the constitution can it. That miserable wreck of
our greatness will be your New England republic There
FORE to the question: whether the Union is worth having
reply that it only be cherished for all of good
which gives but also for all of unuerabe ill which its
dissolution for such and under such circumstances
inevitably involves.
g. What then is the Union reply that it is, in the
first place. the letter of the written constitution, defining
the rights be held and STIMULATING the duties to be per-
formed by the federal government by the States and by
the people of the United States and to which every
owes lawful allegiance, and against which public law no
has any other right to set up his individual
conscience than he has against the municipal laws enacted
by any of the States for the protection of property
life within its borders And reply in the second place.
that the Union is above all the pr of the constitution
that is the sentiment of nationality the love Of country
engendered by BIRTH by the ties Of domestic life by COM
unty of historical associations and by the of BEN
es conferred interests protected and promoted by the
immortality of the Union.
The letter Of the constitution is the material body
changeabe pershable corrupble the spirit of it is the
mmateral soul, which breathes into the nanmae ele-
ments the breath of life and makes of it sublime and
beautiful creation of immutability and Of heaven
Thshe spirit Of the constitution, the sentiment of
tionaty the feeling and emotion Of Entertainments the
true Union the only Union worth having the only Union
possible to keep
When the American wanders into other regions Of the
EARTH then is that he feels and appreciates the true vital
spirit Of the constitution Whether borne along by wind
and wave he walks the deck Of his gallant ship her keel
cleaves the painless of the mitable ocean,
fingers amid the palaces of religion and art and power in
refined and popuous Europe or explores those oriental
solitudes whose haowed associations eloquent it
were with voices from on high or inspecs the antique
civilization Of the throngng millions of ASIA or parakes
of the daily march and the nightly bivouac the lofty pa
eau Of the New World then it is that he feels he has
countrya country love- be proud Of to defend and
to uphold against all enemies and that country is the
Union have tried it, and know it. Neither the pine
of Massachusetts, the palmetto of Carolina symbozes
to him all there is of dear In the memories of home and of
glorious in the of country Mo- the inspiration Of
hope which reverses extinguishthe impulse of
courage which no dangers daunt-these identified
in our breasts only with the stars and stripes of the Union
L. How, them is the Union dear to every patriotic
heart and of such nesmable value to ell of u.s. be pre-
served2 reply to this question by stating how think
may be destroyed at least how you, the people of
if you labor diligently and zealousy in that
view may do much to promote and finally consummate
the dissolution of the Union
Desiring and intending to dissolve the Union, you will
in the first place. you have already DONE knowingly and
Of malice aforethought infringe, as State express provs
ions of the constitution for the avowed purpose of injury
to the citizens of other States.
You will in the second place. you have already done,
maintain such unconstitutional legislation, the ground
of your conscience permitting you to execute the in
functions of the constitutionhus demonstrating to the
other States of the Union that compact of association
with you is of any avail since you in effect claim the
privilege of disegarding the law of the land at pleasure
and Of being dispensed not by any Papa authority but
by your own capricous conscience preence of
science from keeping your implied engagements
your solemn, express oath Of fealty to the Union.
BY these and doctrines steadily persevered in YOU
the State Of Massachusetts, may hope to succeed in dsso
tional compact
OF the individual citizens of Massachusetts, and all
may do much the end, by exertng yourselves
kill the spirit of the constitution.
In this aim you will let pass unimproved no occasion.
for violent habitua systematic Misrepresentation and de-
nuncation of the character and principles of your fellow
citizens of other States In order to do this thorough
h you will establish newspapers form societies. and hold
anniversary and other meetings. for the sole chief object
Of exaggeating their faults and magnng their motives
and actions If accustomed to writing public speaking
you win publish books pamphlets perambuate the
country delivering lectures in the And if you
hold any station comforting you authority of the
religious moral political guides of society," you will
fail make your Office the special MEANS much pos
sibe of disseminating such obloquy and deracton Thus
yon will eventually succeed in completely alternating from
you regard of the citizens of other States and prepa
ring them accept the dsunion you tender them and
change readily from the condition of your countrymen
to that of your foreign enemies
But the people of the several States cooperate in
the performance of political acts without which
government exist among Them and the Union
pes Of ITSELF You to elect Congress to enact and
President to execute the laws of tho Union If you sin
cerey desire dsunon would appear from the and
language Of many you WILL accordingly make the election
Of President merely sectional question and you will be
careful to vote for person member of Congress unless
he will previously pledge himself to hold such opinions
and propose support such shall render it
impossible for him to cooperate with the members Of Con-
gress from other States in the enactment of any laws for
the public good If one of your representatives in Con-
dadicates himself to emberinp sectional