The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-10-09
From Cincinnati Enquirer.
THE CONFLICT OF SECTIONS THE DEATH OF THE
UNION.


THE CONFLICT OF SECTIONS THE DEATH OF THE
UNION.
Those who affect to regard as idle and clustering the
warnings Of prudent and sagacious to the dis
union tendencies and consequences OF the present move
men OF the Fremont party display singular want OF re-
Election OF recklessness and partisan violence
which have never before been exhibited by any consider
able party any OF prominence in the land They
start with gross misrepresentation Of the true state OF
parties Their premises false, and their conclusions
therefore, worthless The question, put by Banks ia
New York, and by Bolts in Virginia, is this
"Shal the South 60 out of the Union merely because il
can't elect It's President because man is chosen who
distasteful 10 themT
This is most dishonest statement Of the ISSUE The
South and the national of the Union little for the
individual, Fremont beyond the disgrace in which
the whole country would be involved by the election
deficient in all the intellectual and moral qualities
which demanded for that high position. Their protest
against this movement rests upon serious grounds
II relates the precedent and principle this contest will
establish which they maintain is subversve OF the original
design of the government This precedent involves the
sumption of the whole government by section OF the
Union TO the exclusion Of the other weaker section u
it would not stop with the election OF Fremont
Power voluntarily surrendered by party if il
has been by individuals
The triumph of Fremont on this ground will be virtual
sary hold any elections in that section The sixteen
States have only intimate who ia their choice and he il
elected, though he receive vote from the South
Though every vote that section be given against the
named is empty form, and the people of those
States made entire strangersmere lookes-on of
public affairs Their popular vote may far exceed that
given for the candidate chosen by the North but would
avail them nothing Thus, in the election of November
giving Mr. Fremont all that he caimsto wit average
mai nf tpn Sfatp
give Mr. Buchanan half the vote of the southern States
which least five hundred thousand-and Fremont
could be elected, though in popular minority of three
hundred and forty thousand votes Can such state Of
affairs this continue Is it not overthrow of the
very characteristic of government which recognises
tie right of all citizens 10 participate in the choice Of their
officers and in the conduct Of the government?
Bat" it taunngy said they have the right to vote
for Fremont" Yes on the copdon OF disloyaty to the
superior claims of their State and community They
must choose between treason their social and State du
ties and quiet submission to be lookerson in the
government which their fathers aboed 10 establish And
this they pretend is constitutional That compact never
provided against such dangerous pretensions because
does provide against its overthrow There are
great many other things that might be done without con-
ficng with the express provisions of the constitution
while they would destroy its vitality and justify dissou
ton uch a case would be presented when the electors
for President and Vice President should undertake to cast
their votes in opposition to the popular will This would
accord with the letter Of the law but would IL not be
practical oppression and wrong great any that
be imagined2 The illustration of Mr. Fillmore too is
orcbe and truthful Suppose the South should be in
majority and should determine that but slave
holder should be elected the presidency, and disregard
ing the whole vote should persist in forcing person pos
sessing these qualifications into the chair would the North
submit TO il
But it is dishonesty and absurdy pretended that the
South has heretofore chosen its men that jackson
and Calhoun both southern and Shareholders were
elected President and Vice President in 1925 True but
they we're elected as well by northern as BY southern
votes they elected too on issues In which the North
as well as the South interested and without any ref
erence to any sectional questions and without demanding
sacrifice Of the local and State loyalty Of the North
There no sort Of analogy between this and the
present audacous movement which, really and avowedly
excludes one-ha Of the original thirteen States from al
share in the and rights which they aided tc
secure and in which they imboded It's chief element
the principle Of State sovereignty and equality.
Let this idea succeed and what viii be the future Of
political contests There will no longer be division
among the people in the North and South. The South
will tolerate no other party but that which devoes itsel
to the mante Of its State rights and original
regny and the North will demand OF its surage5 like
sectional alty 1t will then be-indeed, it is-f
conflict OF secons-of independent sovereignes To sup
so that the Union can exist amid such clash and con
aic IL 10 y in the face Of all history logic, and expert
ence The widest dreams Of closet philosophers Of Uto
plan theorists never conceived Of progress and pufihca
ton OF humanity which would render union, under such
circumstanc practicable possible or desirable