The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-09-27

nTHE UNION Is STREAMING HER FAsTENIEesr,


"THE UNION is STREAMING HER FAsTESINGs~
Such Is the language Of the old-ne wings Of Baltimore
in address to tho people, "The Union is sraning her
astsnings and calls upon all patriotic citizens TO come 70
her rescue"
Truer words is our honest belief spoken
The Union strainng her fastenings The Of fa-
naticisn wildly raging in sixteen States threatens
to part her fastenngs and carry her down.
Our readers will bear out in saying that not
an aarmst. We have threatened fire and sword,
needed threats Of civil disunon from others
We have had faith in the Unionn its sability-and al
most in its eternity We believe now that it is destined
| to stand
But do not believe that il could long survive the r-
umph Of bitter seotionalism in the election OF John O.
Fremont We do not believe that any family be prof
itaby kept together after the members OF ii have Illus
rated their hatred of each other by open acts Of hostility
The question Of the continuance Of the Union
duced to this simple question Whether the blackrepubl-
party in its avowed hostility to the South actually
represents the North majority of the people of the
NORTH This question win be decided in November.
If decided in the affirmative then we shall say
hesitatingy that tho great blow of disuhon has been
struck The South will not wait to be "su1jugatsd" II
will trust itself to the tender merces of party whose
very existence rests upon hatred of its people and hostility
| to its institutions.
Men OF Rhode Island, you may well look this fact
squarey in the face No fifteen States ofhs Uionnorth-
ern, southern, eastern westernloM submit 10 be
2oUerned by sixteen other States hose triumph has been
cured by appeals 10 rsudces against their nsstons and
| approximations Of hostility 10 their etizensi
Should John O. Fremont take the presidential chair to-
day the representative of the party which placed him
in nomination. and which supports him by appeals
honal feelings and preudices he would have sit there
without single cabinet officer from any southern State
No man in the South, Nth particle Of reputation ,oouid
dare to accept or you'd 0a to accept appointment
| o. his advisers
Could President thus circumstanced administer the
government thirty days2 Could he command the respect
Of the army navy thirty hours Would Congress ever
assemble to legslae for the county2 With thirty
tors and ninety representatives voluntarily absent what
would its legislation be WORTH With cabinet and all
important officers of the government appointed from
North how long, think you could that be
| sustained
1t folly to talk at such time this of the import
of the Union to the South. So far maintaining
slavery is concerned the South gains nothing by the
Union if except the occasional return of fugitive
Slavery would stand rmer basis with the Union dis
solved than it does to-day. 1t would only have expa-
rate its thousands of free negroes and send them North
in single avalanche to place itself beyond the reach OF
internal disaster This done the West following its river,
would become its ally and in less than three years. Ne
England aeould stand alone-bankrupt and dsfenceless
We told sometimes that it is not the purpose of Mr.
Fremont his friends attack the institutions of the
South through the machinery of the government This
surance, sincere not, is worth nothing The South
knows WHAT THE PARTY Is, and WHO ARE and
WHAT And it will never wait
mark cords lit to test the truth
| this declaration 1t has too much at stake.
We shall not stop here to remark upon the impor-
and value Of the Union Rhode Island seems to
US that balfblind fanatic must perceive it. As
featuring and commercial State what could do alone
What could do, in confederacy of all the free
Ststes2 What could do without the South To say
nothing Of political and national weakness what should
be as commercial and manufacturing people thus
off from our best MARKET
We caution people again not to be deceived by
syren song Of such would have believe that the
Union cannot be dissolved The necessity Of separation is
being forced upon the action Of the blackrepubcan
abolition party All the South asks to know is whether
that party correctly represents the North II does then
il and believe that the breach has become
fact To cry peace such time is crime Of which we
will not be guilty. "Tm UNION FAsTKs.
NGs, crrIzEss TO CONE TO
HKR REsouEP