The daily union., 1856-11-07
From the Pennsyiyanian.
THE CRISIS Is PASSED.


II has been truly remarked that in the existence Of ma
tions in the lives of men, there critical periods in
which their future happiness prosperity and renoWn are
either greatly promoted retarded. The peculiar event
ness Of such periods is the deerminate result OF con-
currence of causes OF which may be latent IN their
origin insidous in their progress and slow An their deve
opment but no less momentous In the aggregate
amount and duration Of their consequences.
Whenever such imminent epochs do occur they become
decisive tests of popular intelligence and power they
occur in the history of people crushed beneath the iron
heel of maiclad despotsm, they generally but htful
commissions relapsng back into their former condition OF
ignorance and bondage. But when they occur among
people eonstitutionay freewhen they announce the
energies of the mass instinct with the love of liberty and
of elevated patriosthey become lasting way-marks In
the nations history climacterics of renewed vgor In
that nations freedom monuments of the peoples advance
men stand recorded in their annals as ennoDng ad
monitions TO future ages.
crisis of this prodigious magnitude has just appeared
in the history of this mighty republc-this widespread
empire of conederaed soyeregntesa crisis which II ID
difficult to conceive will find parallel in after ages
1t is scarcely possible of greater magnitude and i'm
can hereafter arise in the future destiny OF our
beloved nation We exulngly congratulate our fellow
citizens of these yet United States upon the glorious issue
of the tremendous struggle in which have lately been
engaged.
From small handful of misguided enthusiasts knot
disappointed plans and blasted political expectations there
has arisen which has recently threatened to under
mine the whole fabric which fathers reared and to
overthrow all the barriers and guarantees OF our constu
tona rights Insoent in its audacity oVerpearing ana
tyrannca in its mperious demands srocious IN the mad
ness of its zeal blind in the fury of its anaucs the point
ca power of sectional treason and abotonism has recent
y the most formidable that has ever arisen In this
country to wage war against the liberty and the rights
ctzans The pulpit and the press became
alike yenal-alke marketable-both equally ready and
willing to prostitute is influence and exert its power to
only free government upon the face OF the
earth The meek disciple of the gentle Jesus became trans
formed by this epidemic madness into roaring bedlam
te preierng rifles TO and the word OF God bull
let's and bowieknives to human kindness and Christian
charity Ministers of Gospel of peace and love changed
their consecraed pups into political forums, and openly
spouted partisan political slang the Sabbath day. Mad
ness everywhere seemed to rule the hour species OF
moral insanity seemed almost universally to prevail The
imaginary wrongs of degraded brutal, ignorant race
were marned into sufficient Importance to leopard the
existence of the Union ITSELF
In an hour like the to which refer, when the
faces of the gathering aeness and the
of the patriotic were papitang with fear the true men
of the nation still stood firm, seadfast immoyabe They
planted their feet upon the everlasting rock of the Amer
can constitution and let the OF fanatcism spend
their fury at its base All honor TO the noble men OF all
parties who loved their country more than their political
preiudces All honor to those who oed with such un-
tagging zeal and unremittng industry in guarding and
defending an imperied constitution All honor, In this
the hour of exataon and triumph to those who toll
ed and those who struggled with such manly vgor for the
right Nobly have the democracy and their glorious al
lies ought-nobly has unparalleled victory been won
The constitution is SAFE the Union is preserved treason
hides its dshonored head and sectonasm becomes hiss
ing scorn to all future generations.