Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-08-28
The Sectional Party and the Union.

We publish in another column extracts
from the letter Of RUFUs CHoArE to the
Wings of Maine, on the crisis now pending
over the country.
II ,sili be seen that Nr. CHoATE, the con-
fidential friend Of the great WEBSTER, as
well as Mr.. FILLMORE, and thousands Of pa
triotic old Wings. and the entire Democratic
party, is fully of opinion, that what WASH
rSeTos, MADISON, CLAY, and WEBSTER
dreaded as remote and improbable contin-
gency-danger TO the American Union--is
upon us, and that the triumph Of the FRE-
MONT or Republican party, bounded as it is
by geographical lines, ought to be expected,
naturally and probably, to disunite the
States. We call special attention to the fol.
lowing paragraph in Mr.. CHoArE's letter:
aIf the Republican party aecomplishes its
object, and gives the government to the
North, turn my eye from the consequences.
To the fifteen States of the Sonth, that gov
eminent viii appear an alien government
Il will appear mora II will appear hos
tile government. II will present to their eye
a vest region of States organized on anti
slavery, flushed by triumph, cheered on by
the voices of the pulpit, the tribune and the
press, its mission toinaugurate freedom, and
pull down ohgarchy; its constitution, the
glittering and sounding generalities Of natu-
raj right And then ans thus is the beginning
of the end"
Who shall say that these predictions are
unfounded2 Alas, as Mr.. CHoATE says,
@'some men weuld have US go on, ,sughing
and singing, like the traveller in the satire,
with his pockets empty, at a present peril,
the mere apprehension of which as distant
and bare possibility, could sadden the heart Of
the Father of his Country, and dictate the
grave and grand warning of the Farewell Ad-
dress"
Be assured, patriots, lovers of the Union.
be warned by the voices of the past-of
WASHINGTON, of MADISON, of Jackson, of
CLAY, and of WEBSTER; and of the present,
Of FILLMORE, Of CHOATE, Of CAss, of Dick
nxsoS, and also of BESros. who. with all
his eccentricities, still adheres, as would ap-
pear from his late letter, TO his love of the
Union.
Be warned, it is no lille dream, no vision
ary spectre, that arousss the fears of the pat
riotic statesmen Of the American Union. II
is an impending reality. The elevation OF
FRExosr, by the party that sustains him,
and on the platform they have adopted
would, we fully believe, be but the begin
ming of dissolution. The first gun thai
should announce the success of this sec.
tionAl, geographical. Abolition party, would
be but the death-knell to the Union OF
the States. What then would all our own
glory and prosperity as State be WORTH
Indiana, from its position, would become the
battle field between conte2ding States. All,
worse than that Her fertile fields would be
drenched with the blood of her own citi
zens contending in civil strife with each
other. For in the event of dissolution Of
this Union, Indiana would not go as q unit
either with the North or the South. There
would be two great parties, nearly equal II
numbers, contending in deadly strife for ths
superiority, nor could, embittered as the
parties would become each to the ether, any
thing but the sword and the bsyonet decide
the contest
Well might the great WEBSTER shrink
back from looking over the precipice Of Dis
union to see what hes beyond.