The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-08-28

nossbs TO repe this conviction II requires no efforts Of
ours % help to prove it to the people, and it Is more than
urObabe YOU will net be able persuade them to the con-
tr.ry A criminal of Rome who washed his fratricdAl
hands in the usra water and he was innocent Of
,ha blood Of his brother whom he had slan not al
WAYS believed We do not you of firing the rife
from your own hands actually using the knife to mu-
tIsts the victim but we do arragn you OF giving cause
by your legislative policy of murder and civil war
If you do mot choose to understand this be assured that
tho public will have vivid conception Of 1t. You will
not be able to escape by dexous sophsy or the anec
taton Of ignorance Of what you are doing You have
tried to disarm the Executive who alone can keep the
peace and punish its yiolate. Your acts have spoken
louder than words that you want every restraint removed
and in the fash phrase of the roter yOu IN favor Of
Is 1t we'll that you should now pause in your
career and consider the consequences Is 1t not best to
count the cost and see ALSO whether with all your de-
vices and the fury of your parsans would be posi-
BILE for you to succeed finally in the conquest OF those
of your countrymen against whom you have become
80 bitter Do you not know, preliminary in such
question that there 10 not single instance in history in
which eight millions of civilized people, who united
ever were subugated Have you forgotten that Prussia
with Eve millions resisted trumphany for seven years
all the powers Of the contnenR Are you blind to the
ample Of our own revolution and how small numbers
were and how great was our antagonist Do you moi
know that there are millions Of who your neigh
bors who would if you were to wage civil war
smite you to the earth2 They patriotic men o.
the same sections with yourselves and less really
brave than your political allies are gallant in theil
boastings Have you calmly surveyed the whole field
Do you not perceive that it is utterly impossible to inn
pose President upon the United States by treason
and carnage7 Or does the madness of your ambition
amount to political insanity, with which you have been
cursed by our Divine Master the prelude to your ruin
You underrae the people and the Chief Magistrate with
whom YOU have TO contend He has already given you
srna proofs Of his rmness and the hearts of the people
are with him. He will triumph every difficulty,
you do strip him. in his official capacity Of every dollar
public money and thus begin the work Of revolution hi
remains still possessed of great and comprehensive cons
tuona powers and would have to act under high respon
sibles which, on the hand, would prevent hin
from dsregarding your warlike schemes, and, on tn
other would enable him to triumph, and to save tn
Union.
Whether the army be disbanded not there stands a
last the great power Of the President of calling upon tn
militia of the States and brigade from South Caroline
or from Pennsylvania any other State summoned to tn
vindcaton of law, will be found thoroughly loyal to tn
constitution and the Union. If the shall come
can doubt that the President will exercise all the powe
vested in him by the constitution to execute the laws
preserve the integrity of the republic Hence whateve
temporary triumph or advantage may be gained by an!
faction party in Kansas elsewhere against the const
tuition could only result in signal dsaster-the thirty
one stars alone float in triumph when the smok
Of the conflict has passed away.