The true Democrat., 1856-11-11
V"t "'o ~. T !. OUU7TtUE v CONlDlt The North and the South.

Friends and felowcitizens! Providence has cast our lot together as one people. This Union has made us powerful, safe and respected the world over We have prospered under it be- yond all example or precedent. We shall con- tlnue prosperous If we do not despse our own merces. There is no reason why we of the north should wage perpetual warfare against the south. They have not wronged us but have faithfully fulfilled their part of the stipu ations of the national compact. Have we done the same towards them? Should the black republicans get into power, they would instantly repeal the fugitive slave law. or so amend It as to render it imperative In either case they would deliberately violate a stipula- ton of the constitution, deemed so important by the south, that without 1t the Union could not have been formed. This is matter of his- tory and cannot be gainsaid. The deliberate and continued violation of one stipulation of a covenant Is virtually breach of the whole,- How much better to live up to our engagements until honorably discharged from them! As friends, the south are invaluable to us As enemies; they could do us vast mischief in va. rlous ways. Wars between us and them would be as frequent and as bloody as between JuIea and the Ten Tribes. In short, both sections would be, in an important sense, undone.-
 
 proposed by the black republicans. It must be vountary-the result of mutual kindness. re- spect and good will. Every offensive word every wanton accusation, every breach of bro- therly kindness manifested by one section of the country towards another, is blow aimed at the Union of the States. And what tor rent of villifcation of the south has been belch- ed forth by northern presses and pulpits within the past five years! What misrepresentations. What uncharitableness! Why, there is not a foreign nation on the face of the earth that we have treated half so badly within the same De- rlod. All foreign nations put together have not been subjected to tithe of the abuse which has been heaped upon our brethren of the south-our compatrlotS, who have stood by us shoulder to shoulder in every war, and who are ready to stand by us to death. The south has not changed its relation to slavery since the Unlon was formed. They stand where they were. It IS the north that has changed; or ra- ther portion Of the north, now combined un- der the abused name of republicans" It is these black republicans who are making war upon thelr partners, whom they have avowed to love and cherish. It is they who are sow Ing dlssenslons and heart burnngs all over the land which 1t will take years, if not centuries to heal. Fellow citizens, merchants of New York! will any of you help such party into power? In the days of the revolution and of it's glorious result, (the Union under which we live and prosper,) the merchants were foremost Ill making pecunary sacrifices to secure its ac- comphshment Will the merchants of this day, and of this commercial emporium, aid in destroying the temple which their fathers rear ed at such an enormous cost of blood and trea- sure? Will they rather not frown down the treason of the traitors by rolling up such ma jority for the only man who has any chance of defeating the black republican candidate, as shall carry dsmay into the hearts of all sec tionalists, and show to the world that New York city, at least, is determined to stand by ''he Union, one and indivsible, now and for ever?' We seem to hear the shout from 40,- OOO or 5O,OOO citizens of this metropolis, like the voice of many waters, "Aye! aye! the Un- ion, now and forever one and indivisbe. Down with the sectionalists, under whatever flag they sail. Down with them" Amen, so let it be.