Washington telegraph., 1856-10-22
The Baltimore Endorsement of Mr.. Fill
more's Nomination.

While every little 8 x 10 Sag-Nicht
and semi-Sag- -Nicht sheet in the country
is denouncing the recent assemblage OF
Wings at Baltimore as bogus, or indulging
in some other equally ridiculous species of
objurgation, it is highly gratifying to Mr..
FILLMORE friends to find such journals
as the National Mtelligencer, the New
Orleans Picoyune, and the Philadelphia
Inquirer, and many others of the ablest
and most influential papers in the Union,
paying that just tribute to that body of
men, so richly due to their exalted patri-
otism and intelligence. Below Will be
found the concluding portion of a very
eloquent appeal in behalf of the Union,
which we find in the Picayune of the
Sth instant. We transfer it to our col
umns with real pleasure, inasmuch as it
is powerful and lucid setting forth of
views which we have honestly entertained
for long time. The Ptcayune thus in
troduces the topic Of '.THE UNION -
The fippancy with which some dema-
gogues speak and write of the probability,
nay more, the desirableness of dissolu-
ton Of the Union, is one of the worst 81 gns
of the times. 1t is evidence of sad de-
cay of true American feeling. At the
North the commercial value of the Union
is, with the Black Republicans, a subject
of calculation. At the South we have a
party of disunionists, who deny that the
Union is productive Of any benefits to this
section of the country, who assert their be-
lief and make ridiculous attempts to prove
that the South would be more prosperous
out of than in the Union
| The editor then refers to a writer in
DeBou's Reyier, who "asserts that be-
tween the North and South there is not
one point of agreement" After scath-
ing rebuke of the presumptuous arrogance
which thus ibels whole nation, and an
eloquent vindication of the people of the
Union from such an unfounded imputa-
ton, the I'icayune quotes from WEB
STEERS reply to HAYNE, in the United
States Senate in 1880, and from Messrs
BELL and CAss, who, widely as they may
differ in points of policy, are united ii
their devotion to the Union; and alst
strengthens this powerful argument fol
the perpetuity of the Federal compact
by citing ''that able and steadfast expo
nent of the true principles of our govern,
ment, the National Intelligence" ant
concludes with the following language
which again we earnestly commend to the
careful attention of our readers. 1t vii
richly repay perusal, and suggest to tn,
rejecting mind the duty which, in thi.
crisis, every man owes to his country
1t is lamentable that ere this Republic
has attained the maturity of which it ha.
given such lusty promise, that danger aris
ing from q sectional controversy should
threaten its existence. 1t is grievous t.
think that while external enemies hay,
failed to check this Republic in its onward
career to greatness, internal enemies arr
zealously ly working to accomplish its des
tructiOn. Neglecting or repudiating tht
advice of Washington, to frown ''upon the
first dawnlng of every attempt to alienat,
any portion of our country from the rest
or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now
link together the various parts" power
full party has been organized at the North
which is desperately bent on pursuing
measures that tend to the alienation o.
North and South and ultimately to disun
ion. 1t is determined to rule or ruin
At the South there is a party which sup
ports the Democratic nominee for the Pres
idency, which accepts the issue rendered
by the Northern party, and avows its rea
diness to stake the Union upon the result
of the Presidential contest The Hon
John Perkins, Jr., formerly Represents
tive in Congress from this State, in let
ter which has been widely published, and
endorsed By the Washington Union as an
admirable letter." said The issue ha.
been made by the North, and the South
unless false to herself, cannot evade it. "
Senator Slidell, in letter to the CORES
ponding Secretary of the Democratic State
Central Committee in this city, did '.not
hesitate to declare that if Fremont be elec
ted, the Union cannot and ought not to be
preserved" George Washington, who was
a greater man and more tried patriot
than the other consistent Senator from
Louisiana, taught US to discountenancC
whatever may suggest even a suspicion
that the Union can in any event be aban
doned. The people of Louisiana have
more reverence for, and rely more trustful
ly upon, and are more likely to be guided
by the advice of the Father of his Country
than by the insane ebulition of heated par
tisanship which emanated from Senate,
Slidell
In behalf of the people of Louisiana,
who are as true to the Union as the needle
to the pole, we protest against the right OF
any party to stake the existence of this Un-
ion in sectional contest. The Union is
the heritage of the people, and whenever,
by any cause, it is endangered, the conser-
vative masses, repudiating the suggestions
! mr. the action of mere noiiticians will ba