The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-11-22
OF The two extreme sectional parties are


tons of Fremont and Northern fanaticism
was buta pretence to cover their hostile de-
signs upon the integrity of the Union. Dis
union is their real aim and they will never
cease from the pursuit of their fendish pur-
pose till they themselves are crushed by the
Overwhelming weight of public opinion, or
the magnificent model structure-planned I'M
der the Almighty's guidance framed by the
purest patriotic wisdom-on whose principle S
the world could be united and governed as a
vast Confederacy-shall be rent asunder by fac
tions and fall ruin, to mark the wisdom and
genius of its builders, and the madness and
folly Of those who overthrow it.
Northern prejudices and bigotry are lead
ing TO the expression Of sentiments not less
alarming And they are not now confined to
the fanatciSm Of abolitionism, but they are
spreading among the sober, the rejecting and
learned; and the value and the obligations to
maintain the Union are discussed as moral
and social questions in calm and philosoph;c
-disceurses. Men who few years ago would
have felt that to doubt the sacredness Of the
Union was an impiety, now treat it as ques-
ton Of expediency, to be determined by the
prejudices and interests of the day. Dr. Bel
lows. who breaches to one of the wealthiest
and most intelligent congregations in the city
of New York; who belongs to the Unitarian
sect, that claim to be ADMINISTRATORS faith
is the dictate of philosophy, and whose sys-
tenn of religion--as his followers believe
combines the perfection of both human rea-
son and divine wisdom, has treated his con-
gregation to a discourse on the value Of the
Union our duties and interests in it. He is
ranked among the ablest men of his day, by
- his own sect; he is eloquent and learned, and
is regarded as a calm, profound thinker
His sentiments will have wide and lasting in
auence He entities his discourse, the Fright
of Disunion," and he boldly enunciates the
4, position that, the dissolution of the Union is
mot primarily and obviously a question of
Conscience, but of policy" that sit is not
primarily question of right and wrong, but
'of expediency;" that 1--WE made the Union,
"and we have a right to unmake it, if we
choose that 1--WE should violate no moral
principle by abrogating the contract with the
consent Of the parties to it," Are these not
alarming sentiments coming from an eloquent,
learned and philosophic preacher of moral and
social obligations? Would national suicide in
this conederacy, formed by wisdom and nur-
tared in divine protection, be less sinful than
Al
existence of this republic but those who are
now abusing its blessings? Has the world no
interests in its perpetuity and success,
and q right to demand of US our duty?-
Have not. coming generations a claim on us
for the transmission of the rich inheritance
entailed to them through US, by those who
suffered and labored to secure these blessings
for their latest posterity? Can we disregard
without impety the injunctions Of their dying
willie watch and guard our Union as a sacred
trust? There is, no duty resting on an indi-
vIdual citizen of this Republic, so holy and
imperative, as that to defend this Union un-
impaired, not for our own interests, but for the
sake of those to come. The chief duties Of
life are to transmit the blessings we have in
herited, and to prepare others for our offspring;
and are not the times ominous when the
chief preachers of ethics absolve US from
the duties of patriotism, and encourage us to
sunder the bonds of the Union and burst il
in scattered and dishonored fragments--en.
failing political misery and oppression on mil.
hons through ages?
But he says we would violate no mora
principle "by the abrogation ola contract Will
the consent of the parties" But it is rule
of the law that the unanimous, consent Of the
parties is necessary to dissolve or change con
tract. And who are the parties to the com
pact of the Union :? Fit be the States every
State must assent to the dissolution before il
can be rightfully dissolved, But it reads, eve
the people, and it is a compact made by the
people-and with each other--and no MAORI
ty--ifit be nine hundred and ninety-nine ont
thousandths-can abrogate this sacred con
tract legally and consttutionally, against tn
wishes of the other one thousandth. If tn
constitution be a compact Of the people, i
cannot be dissolved except by the assent Q
every one having an interest in it; and to dis
solve it against the will of the humblest citize
is to deprive him of a moral right. If it be
compact of the States. it cannot be broke
without the free consent of every member {
the Union Each State of the confederacy has
right Of veto, in any such proceeding whic
she cannot be deprived without anatroeiou
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