Weekly flag of the Union. (Jackson, Miss.) 185?-18??, 1856-01-16

# the contrary, disappear before the intelligence
/ and patriotism d the people, exerting through
Q the ballot-box their peaceful and silent but
/ irresistible power.
Fl 1.-THE friends of the constitution are to have
another struggle, its enemies could not present
more acceptable.issue, than that of State
! whose constitution clearly embraces "a repub-
| lican form of government, being excluded from
the Union because its domestic institutions
may not in all respects comport with the ideas
of what is wise and expedient entertained in
some other State Fresh from groundless
imputations of breach of faith against others,
men will commence the agitation of this cues.
ton with indubtable violation of an express
compact between the sovereign powers of the
United States. and of the Republic of Texas,
as well as of the older and equally solemn
compacts which assure the equality of all the
| States.
But. deplorable as would be such viola
ton of compact in ITSELF and in all its direct
consequences, that is the very least of the evils
involved. When sectional agitators shall have
succeeded in forcing on this issue, can their
pretensions fail to be met by counter preten-
sions Will not different States be COMPEL.
ed respectively to meet extremes with ex-
tremes? And, if either extreme carry IFS
point, what's that SO far forth bit distribution
of the Upion If q iiea IA i "a l,o,6 Z
sslIie terrfofy II the OlliiSsd S.stes bz abso-
lutely excluded from admission therein. that
fact of itself constitutes the disruption be-
tween it and the other States But the pro-
cess of dissolution could not stop there. Would
not a sectional decision, producing such results
by majority of votes, either northern or
southern, of necessity drive out the oppressed
and agrleved minority, and place in presence
of each other two irreconciiable hostile con-
declarations
1t is necessary to speak thus plainly of pro-
jects, the offspring Of that sectional agitation
now prevailing IN some of the States. which
are as iInpracticable as they are uncons.itu-
tional, and which, if persevercd in, must and
will end calamtously. 1t is either disunon
or civil war, or it is mere angry, idle aimIess
disturbance of public peace and tranquility.
Disunion for what If the passionate rage
Of fanaticism and partisan spirit did not force
he fact upon our attention, it would be diff
,ult to believe that any considerable portion
If the people of this enlightened country
,ou!d have surrendered themselves to h
anatical devotion to the supposed interestsIbf
he relatively few Africans in the Uniad
states as totally to abandon and desregstd
he interest of the twenty-five milGonsfoc
Americans-to trample under foot the inb .nc-
ions of moral and constitutional obligatiAA-
nd to engage in plans of vindictive hos ility
gainst those who are :. - lem in
he enjoyment of the common heritage of Dr,n
ational institutions
Nor is it hostility against their fellow a
ems of one section of the Union alone. ThS
interests, the honor, the duty, the peace and
of the people of all sections are
qually involved and imperiled in this ques-
ion. And are patriotic men in any part of
he Union prepared, on such issue, thus mad
y to invite all the consequences of the forfeit
re of their constitutional engagements 1t
impossible. The storm of phrenzy and fac
ion must inevitably dash itself in vain against
he mistaken rock of the Constitution.
nall never doubt it. The Union is stronger
nan the wild and chmerical schemes of social
hange, which are generated one after anoth-
r in the Unstable minds of visionary sophiSts
nd interested agtators.
Irely confidently on the patriotism of the
eople, on the dignity and selfrespeet of the
tates, on the wisdom Of Congress and above
7 on the eoRtina.es $685. ls.--
lightly God, tosmaintain ag5nS. j Enemies
neither at home or abroad, the salhctity Of
le Constitution, and the integrity Of the
Mon. FRANKLIN PIERCE.
WASHINGTON Dec. 81, 1855.