The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-09-10
For the Journal.
Coming Events Casts their shadows Before.

A glance at the circling events, of which
every citizen is a segment, as far as action and
opinion go to make up the aggregate result in
the coming crisis, presents to view a fearful
antagonism of parties. North and South,
meeting not as on former elections, in generous
and chivalrous re-encounter, where the con-
quered could leave the political arena, bearing
no shame in defeat; leaving no sacrifice smo
king as vain oblation on the affairs of liberty.
Alas! the meeting threatens to be with dead
ly feud and hate implacabe. Now is to be
dreaded the decisive blow, when the sword
stroke which falls last may sever the bonds of
the Union, mark out the grave of republican
liberty, and the last of the hope Of nations be
seen to expire in the land of Washington
Such are the relations Of sectional parties.
For the first time. organizing without refer
ence to expansive nat onaiit for the first time,
disturbing that oneness of relations which can
alone keep in aRlon the clashing interests of
a great country. What now becomes of all
all the glories and incentives of the past; all
the aspirations for perpetuity in the future
all this noble heritage of freedom We dare
not close our eyes upon the actual dangers
threatening; the form ofevilis of too vast mag
nitude to pass by with derisive nod.
These are no mere shadows of political
brains that we find before us, bathed in the
dim twilight of apprehension. Whatever in
tangible shapes speculative breads of disunion
took when first promulged to the world by
demagogues, they are likely now to be real,
and clothed in all the tangible horror of civil
war! Are we prepared for the fearful climax?
Are we ready to face this terror? Are our
fraternal bosoms prepared for the steel
The political waves are loo>ed to inundate-
they are dashing madly All barriers thrown
up by prudential counsel Of statesmen Of early
times, seem of no avail to stay the wild rush
or still the lashing waves. All the constltu-
tional breakwaters erected by the fathers of
the republic are threatened with submerge-
ment. -sEf - F- ss ~ -..sf
That warning voice from the tomb of eyer
nom is lost in the tumult Of faction. His
calm counsel from the shades of "Monticello,"
and the stirring appeal from him of"Ashland,"
is no longer needed mid the rising cry of the
herd of spoilsnen, and the belloWings Of abo-
1tion
We are rapidly tending to dissolution of
this Union. Cover up these facts as we may,
they rise before us in all their sharp asperity
and startling earnestness. The North and
South, by an internal throe, produced by dis
cordant elements, age dividing; fendlsh polit-
ical tricksters of the Greedy school of batten-
ing monsters, are brooding over chaos and
matching out treason to their hearts content.
Looking to Africa, through the medium of
their owh dark depravity, a negro fills the field
of their vision. They would destroy the
rights, the life and liberties of freemen, under
the Constitution, in attempting to establish a
unity Of races at all hazards; question of ra-1
ces which as ye. rests with speculative.philos-
ophy.
While the wheels of government are cutting
close to the margin Of ruin, these men are
grasping at the reins of power, and seeking to
rule over US. When this Union is divided
there will be an awful chasm-what liberties,
hopes and aspirations would not be swallowed
up therein?
Civil war is terrible alternative of redress
for any wrong; dismembered and jealous we
would not remain at peace Ensanguined ban
ners would wave over beligerent armies. The
sword, athirst for blood would be baptized in
fraternal streams. Carnage would glut over
the unnatural feast, and havoc reel over the
smouldering ruins
Such are the breads which speak out from
the times. Ii the times were not so prolific
of being in danger, there would not be such a
grasping at every hope on which the Union
hangs; such anxiety at the approaching cleo
ton. Let us not be deceived; out of the next
election for President grows momentive re-
suits, more than chan re Of men, more than tri-
umph of party, for these may bring a change
OF policy, at war with the Constitution, at, war
with the rights of one section or other of the
Union, and if so civil war may ensue.
In such a crisis we want firm Union men to
vote for q Union man, for the sake of the
u aion. We want firm hand on the helm;
we want man of the times, fearlesss, tried
and true, one on whom the nation could rely
in any emergency, one whose American name
is legible in American history. And who
lives in American hearts as lives WILLARD
FILLMORE? r. LII.