Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-08-05

cious defiance of all moral and political rights.
No sooner is this initiative treason and treach-
cry accomplished, than, emboldened by their
own achievement, they fling out their piratical
banners with fifteen of the States stricken
from the consolidated galaxy of the American
Unionl Elected by section of the Union,
without the aid of the other section on the one
hand, or the power successfully to resist this
evil on the other, they come flushed with their
reasonable victory to take the reins Of Gov
eminent. Discarding, in advance, the Consti-
tuition as the chart by which their administra-
ton should be guided-spurning as interiors
fifteen of the sovereign members Of the Union
tramphng under the despotic heel Of hellish
power all Of their rights and privileges shear
ing them of their proud dignity as equals
levelling them to the condition of hewers Of
wood and drawers of water-consttuting them
serfdom to do the behests of their high will
and pleasure; and, as if these were not enough,
TO sting them with the further humiliation of
having the Federal offices within their own
limits filed by the fendish emssaries from
their own foul and corrupt dominions, that the
seed of domestic instruction may be sown, or
the torch Of the midnight incendiary success.
fully applied to their once happy and peaceful
homes. This is the character of the men, and
these the principles of the party, who have
come forth, like the great Phistine Of Goth,
to defy the living armies Of God and Liberty,
OF Right and Reason, of Justice and the Con-
stitution! Is it an exaggerated picture? A
Missouri line Of office is to be run! This is
their scheme; for, not content with bowing
you down, men of the South, in humiliation
and disgrace, their cormorant maws as insatia-
BILE as that Of their great chief, demand even
the Offices within your household But, sup
pose there acere bounds to their lust of power
and pelf, how could the Government be car
ried on under the rule of this black crew, who
set at naught every principle of common hon-
esty and truth? Suppose, with mockery of
favor to you, they were willing to fill the Fed
eral Offices with men from your midst, where
are the cravens to be found to hold them under
such an administration Where are the col
lectors and surveyors of your ports the post
masters of your cities, and the judges and the
marshals of your Federal districts? Even the
pure ermine of justice must draggle in the
mire of corruption and putrescence, and be
subservient to the destructive fat of central
power without scruple or principle.
From the election of Fremont, two PROPOSE
tons must ensue-disunion, or tame sub
mission to the most disgraceful bondage. We
will not depict the train Of tragedies and the
frghtful destruction that would follow the FIRST
But what Southern heart does not beat quickly
with offended and indignant pride at the con-
temptation ofthe only alternative d pIsUSIoN-
the most revolving form of political slavery.
FIFTEEN SOUTHERN STATES stripped of their
power dignity and equalityl FIFTEEN Souri,
ERN STATES made the vassals of a horde of
corrupt vandals, to whose natures virtue is a
stranger, and in whose conceptions honesty
has no place. We will not doubt, under such
circumstances, the patriot spirit of all true
lovers of the Constitution will be aroused, and
that when the i6es of November come they will
be mingling their CALCULATIONS over a victory
in which peace, order and equality are pre-
served in every State of our glorious Union.
The issue is before you-Sectionalism and its
corollary, Disunion--or the Constitution and
the Union under the Constitution Choose We
which you will have.