The Empire County argus., 1856-10-18

- LII is OF lnnnlte moment tnat you should properly
estimate the immense value of your national Union
to your collective and individual happiness that you
should cherish cordial habitual and immovable at
tachment to it, accusoming yourselves to think and
to speak of it the palladium of your political safe
y and osperity-watchng for its preservation with
Jealous anxiety discountenancing whatever may sug-
gest even suspicion that it can in any event be
abandoned and indignantly frowning upon the first
attempt to ALLEVIATE any portion Of the country from
the rest, to eneeble the sacred ties which now link
together the various parts'
This is the language of Washington. 1t is well,
in these times of political turmoil when brother rises
up against brother in the strife, when resentment is
burning in the brain and hearburnngs are cherished
by citizens Of glorious land to occasionally turn
to the history of the past and take counsel OF those
who at the hazard of their lives, their fortunes, and
their sacred honor, erected the fabric in conempa-
tion of which every American heart swells with
pride The same spirit in which Union was SOL
enized between the thirteen soveregntes comprising
citizens of varied but harmonious interests is alone
competent to perpetuate that Union, now clasping
into one common brotherhood thirty-one happy,
proud, and prosperous States.
We find one political party moving the people of
the Northern States to opposition to the extension
of Southern institutions and interests into any terri
tory now owned or that may hereafter be acquired,
by the States in common-at the expense Of North
ern and Southern blood and treasure.
On the other hand is party championing slavery
and slavery extension, resorting to every means Of
extending slavery, regardless of the wishes of the
people most interested, and in territory where by
admission it could never be profitable. Both these
ultra parties, in pursuit of their several Objects are
numbering the citizens of Kansas, pilagng its cities
and laying waste its farms and gardens. Both these
murderous factions in continual receipt of materia
aid and comfort from the party leaders in the East
and the one cause is advocated by the party preach
ers, and the other promuged by of percha
canes. And they call themselves national
Do not common sense and all experience, teach us
that medium ground is the only one on which to
attempt to restore peace on the borders and harmon
ize the antagonistc feelings now cherished in the
interior? 1t is manifest that neither section of the
Union can rule over the other One might triumph
in this contest but the other could never be SUBJ
dued, and should not if it were possible. We have
reason to apprehend that neither section would quiet
y submit even to four years dominance of the 9th
er. DO we not already hear the representatives o
each faction declaring that President of the other
can not rule them? In this extremity it is the
obvious duty of every patriot to come up to the sup
port of man for President, who is not identified
with either faction, and whose past history gives as
surance that he will bring out of the confusion and
conflict speedy peace. Rally, then, around the
standard of a statesman pledged to no North, nc
South, but the maintenance of the Constitution ant
the execution of the laws him who said-we com
menced with Washington and will close with Fillmore
-"If there be those, either North Or South who
desire an administration for the North against tht
South or for the South as against the North they
are not the men who should give their suffrages t.
me-"