Washington telegraph., 1856-08-27
Read and Reflect.

ENQUIRER handles so well in the following
communication, when the occasion shall
offer 1t is to us absurdly ridiculous to
see men listening to the syren song which
these "new Union savers" are singing in
their ears. Give the Quitmans, the Col
quits, the Van Burens, the Bentons, the
Aaron V. Browns, the Langdon Cheeves
the Stephen Arnold Douglas and tho
VIM. a. Richardson's the triumph, and all
this Emusic Of the Union" will incOntl-
nently become memory of the past, and
we will see the Union dissolved in less
than four years:
The New Union-Savers.
MEssRs. EDITORS 1t is the part of
good general to closely watch every
maneuvre of the enemy, whether it be
the mastery evolution of the tactician or
the willy feint of the strategist. In the
present political campaign, we find the
Sag Nicht party proclaiming everywhere
that its mission is to saue the Union.-
Upon what basis is this special and exclu
sive custodianship of the Union predica-
ted e? From whence has this motley army
of Union savers drawn its recruits By
whom is it ofiicered In the dark days
of 1851, when the passions of men grew
wild with rage at the passage of the COM
promise Measures, did these loyal Union
lists stand beside Fillmore and Donefson,
and battle for the constitution and the
Union ?-Let the archives of the party
answer. We find the capitol of your own
noble Tennessee deseerated by the assem-
| blage of secession convention. The
walls of your capitol reverbrated with
thunders of applause when Langdon
Cheeves declared that the Constitution
was "a fptid mass of corruption" which
"sfunk an has nOstrils." Then the very
Sag-Nicht sheets which unite paans to the
Union with hosannahs to Buchanan were
! filed with commendatory editorials on the
disunion projects of Barnwell Rhett and
'sCoffin Colquit," while the remainder of
their columns were filled with secession
speeches from the lips of John A. Quitman
and Jefferson Davis-both no,o Union -sa-
vers, but then political pilgrims preaching
the overthrow of the Union with more zeal
than Peter the Hermit ever exhibited
against the Saracens before the Crusaders.
John Anthony Quitman, then, was more
dangerous foe to the Union than Mark
Anthony was to the Roman Republic; and
never did the great Roman cherish
Egypt's Queen as did the fiery Mississip-
plan his secession scheme. Jefferson Da-
Wis, then as now, was eoaded on by the
spur of mad ambition which stops at
nothing that may impede its progress in
the attainment of its object 1t is said
that Caesar paused on the banks of the Ru-
bicon; had jeff Davis been the leader OF
that rebellious host, no such unseemly
delay would have characterized his march.
Where now arc those apostles of Secession
ism, Joe Matthews, Wm. j.. Yancey, A.
V. Brown &c., &C.? all marching to the
tune of Hail Columbia, under the Bu-
chanan flag. Who compose the North
ern wing of this horde of Union-sayers-
the Van Burens, Dix, IIallet, Cochran,
Fowler and the Free-Negro Democracy
These are the men who now stand as the
special champions OF the Constitution, and
ask us to entrust to them the guardianship
of the Union.
81 tear the Greeks ever when bearing gifts"
IF the pillar that is to prop the fabric of
the American Union be composed of such
materials as these, it will speedily fall into
ruins, and soon the historian shall writes:
'Ilium ,rGs and the great glory of the Trojans'
j. W. V.
Memphis EogIe DC Enquirer.