Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1856-09-30

ment, to seduce their adyasaries, to make
unequal bets;--that we may, too, have
Democratic representatives who are mel.
Their familiar with the grammar nor the
statute book W. @ Es s
But there is>one position, taken by
Fillmore men, that does move, excite,
distress and mortify us, more than any
abuse or disrespect that, can be shown
flames Buchanan or the Democratic par.
ty;-it is their position on the subject Of
the Union Of these States. They 'won,
calculate the value of the Union: Palsied
be arm and paralyzed the tongue Of him,
who, in my circumstances. would use the
one or the other against the Union. We
will bear all things, suffer all things for
the Union. Liberty and Union now and
forever, one and inseparable. We know
no East. no West. no North, no South,
but the Union. the whole Union, and
nothing$but5 the Union:'' Such are the
Sentiments and almost the very words OF
the orators Of the Know Nothing party
during the present canvass in this county.
Sue h sentiments we deem false in theory
and pernicious in their consequences.
To the Constitutional compact, made by
our fathers, We are sincerely attached.
If>is. the bond of our Union, woven to-
gether\ BY the hands Of the men who
achieved our political independence
Yet how absurd--how wicked-to say
we will not calculate its value, or even
the value Of the Union it secures. Gen
tlemen s peak Of the Constitution and the
Union with that deep reverence that is
only Que to God The men of>E6 cal
eHlatcd the value of the Union and of
every article, clause, chapter and sentence
of the Constitution that secures it, for
many weary months in the Convention
that framed, and the thirteen Conventions
of the States that adopted il. Aye, and
some Of the best. men that the country
has ever produced, used body and soul
to prevent its adoption. We, like.pur
fathers, have calculated the value of the
'Uniiotf;~ and, although in some respects
its operation is harsh aud injurious TO
that section in which we reside, yet we
are attached to the Union, and would
gladly see it preseryedto/us and our
posterity.'. Under the Constitution, We
bave,prospered at home and abroad, in
an unparalleled degree. We are attach ed
to the Union, but it is to the Union only
as secured by the Constitution. So long
as lit secures to us equal rights in States
and Territories, at home and abroad, life
and liberty, State sovereignty and State
we are for the Union. When
it fails in any one of these particulars,
we say array acith lit is no longer the
Union of our fathers. The man who
would favor the Union under circumstan-
ces different from these, is but an acct :
dental .tfeeman. But for the accident Of
his birth, he would have favored the
"union of Ireland and England, Hungary
and Austria, Poland and Russia with
equal zeal, and his party cry of "palsifd
the hand and paralyzed tongue" &c. &C.,
would be equally as applicable. - j.:
: No man, how strong soever may be
his attachment to the Union; how strong
his belief that the election of Fillmore
or Buchanan will be sovereign panacea
for all the ills of the State, can refuse to
believe that we of the South stand on
dangerous ground. We care not whether
he believes the danger has been brought
on the country by the one party or the
other, whether by a criminal fusion Of
Northern Know-Nothings and Abolition
lists or by the Joint action Of the Demo
Gratis and Southern Know -Nothings IN
passing the Nebraska Bill. Surely he
must. concede that there is a dangerous
combination in the North, bound together
for the common purpose of warning on
Southern Institutions and Southern
Rights. In the face Of this iminent
danger, is it right, is is patrio to de-
clare, in advance, to our enemies: do as
you will, do what YOU can, violate the
Constitution, trample on our liberties, we
will submit, we won't dissolve the Union;
we won't secede from the confedracy,
we won't,revolutionize the government?
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one
and inseparable. I ~
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