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DisaoIniIon of tha Union.

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Black Republicans will dissolve the Union -
the election Of Fremont will be the knel OF The
Union aud so on through Ihe whole chapter,
one everlasting cry Of disuniOn, disuniOu -
But these traitors to the Union do not stop here.
They 90 to the extent Ofthreatening to dissolve
the Union II Fremont Is elected, This threat
Is made openly at the South. but more covert
ly at the North, but every where ii is dwelt
upon in a say TO bring about the very object
these hypOcrits pretend to deprecate. Suppose,
for instance. that Fremont is elected as We trust
be win be- how win these men appear before
their fellow citizens. Are they the traitors
their speeches aud writing Indicate them to be.
Do they intend 10 make good their predictions,
by lighting against their country. II they do
not intend TO submit to Fremont's government,
then they are as vile traitors TO tho Union and
/ the country az ever saw The sun. II they do
intend to submit, then they are arraht hypo-
critics who are willing to weaken the ties which
hold US together, for the pHrpoSe Of carrying
political object In any view Of the case. they
are enemies to their country. they deserve the
detestaliOn Of all true patriots. Ifibey really
mean what their lressOnabIe language implies.
that they will not submit to the will OF the ma.
jOrity, and will destroy the Union, unless they
can rule il, the sooner We know it the better.
IfFrmont is elected President BY the people,
be will take his seat and administer The govern
ment. and we will see the men, or party, that
dare resist the constituted authority, If they
have curiosity to Try the strength Of hemp,
they can be accommodated to heir hearts con
tent. .,st ,4.
We advise the contemplate dOughfaCes a.
mong US, who are constantly prstng about
iisunion, to read the following manly remarks
made by Southern Representative in Con
gress, The Hon. Henry Winter Davis. Of Mary
hnd, on the 7th of August, Let them read
this. and hide their heads 10 shame
''There are meu who go about the country
declaiming about the inevitable consequences
of The election OF Fremont and the question is
asked whether that simple fact is not sufficient,
not merely to justify. but to require dissOlu-
ion Of the Uuon. The question has been
asked me to-dsy-that is question which,I 10
not regard as even a subject of discussion. 1t
never will be done while men have theirreason.
1t never will be done until some party, bent
upon acquiring party power, shall again and
again exasperate, beyond the reach Of reason.
the Northern and Southern minds, as my
Southern friends have now exasperated the
Northern mind. 1t would be an act Of suicide,
and sane men do not commit suicide. The act
itself is insanity. II will be DONE il ever, in
tempest Of fury and madness which cannot sop
to reason.
"Dssolaion means death, the suicide Of
Liberty, without hope Of resurrection death
without the glories of Immortality with no
sitter to mourn her fall none to wrap her de-
Gently in her winding sheet and bear her tend.
erly to sepulcbre dead Liberty, left to all
the horrors Of corruption, a loathsome thing,
with stake through the body, which men
shun, cast out naked on the highway of nations,
where the tyrants Of earth who feared her liv.
ing, will mock her dead, passing by on the 9th.
er side, wagging their heads, and thrusting
their tongue in their cheek at her, saying. be.
hold her how she that was fair among the ma
tons is fallen and only the few wise men who
loved het out of every nation will she'd tears
over her desOlaton as they pass, and cast
handfuls ofearth on her body to quiet her
names, while We, her children, stumble abou!
her ruined habtations to find dishonorabe
graves wherein to hide our shame. Dissolu.
tion ! How shall it be Y--and who shall make
ii? Do men dream Of Lot and Abraham part.
ing, one to the East and the other TO the West,
peacefully, because their servants strive that
States will divide from States, and boundary
nes will be marked by compass aud chain
Sir, that will be porlentous commission that
shall settle that partition, for cannon will be
planted at the corners, and grinning skeletons
be finger posts to point the way. It will be TO
line gently marked on the bosom of the Repub-
lic-soma meandering vein whence generations
other children have drawn their nourishment
but sharp and jagged chssm. rendering the
hearts Of great CommOnwealths, lscerated and I
smeared with frsternal blood. On the night
when the stars of her constellation shall fall l
from heaven, the blackness OF darkness forever
will settle on the liberties Of mankind in this
Western World. This is dissolution.
Rsuch, sir. is dissolution, as seen in glass
darkly, how terrible will it be face to face p
They who reason about it are half crax7 now.
They who talk of it do not meun it, and dare
not mean Il. They who speak in earnest Of a
dissolution of this Union. seem to me like chill,
dren OF madmen. He who would do such q
deed as that would be the maniac without the
tonQue In teil his deed or reason to arrest hie