The Trinity journal., 1856-03-15

"LEr THE UNION SLIDE PAN ELOQUENT
REBUKE.--The Baltimore Patriot says this
expression is attributed to the successful can
didate for Speaker of the House of Repre-
sent8tives; and w0 refer to it, that we may
mark our condemnation Of those dangerous
WORDS so fippantly uttered. 1t matters not
on what occasion they were elected; it mat
terS not upon what contingencies they were
based They are reasonable in their es-
Sence, and deserve to meet with the severest
reprobation from all who desire to maintain
the power and glory of the nobest and freest
Republic the world ever yet saw.
He who first seriously contemplated
severance of the confcderated States was
traitor in his heart, and became morally
amenable to traitors DOOM He who first
put that thought into language would have
been mercifully dealt by, if the penalty of
ostr0cism had been enforced against him.
Let the Union slide! Loosen the grand
fabric built up by the sacrifice of many he
roic lfe-by the tolls and sulierings of many
a heroic heartily many apundered home
steadily the ashes of many hearth made
desolate-by widows tears and by orphans
cries! AZ Concord at Lexington, and Bun
ker's Hill; in the sad march through the
Jerseys; in the winter camp at Valley Forge;
and in the bood-stained footprints of the pa
triots recorded on the winters snow; in the
iails and prison-ships at New York. in the
swamps of Georgia and the Carolinas; in
the wids Of Kentucky: amid fierce savages,
Tory malgnants, and but too barbarous for
een foes, the foundations Of the Union were
laid.
That wild Christmas night upon the Della
ware, when Washington dared the opposing
ice, and hardly plucked at Trenton vcto-
rous laurcls from the brows of his pursuers,
the fabric of the Union rose remotely visible
to mems eyes; and growing gradually more
distinct at Bennington, and Saratoga, and
Kings Mountain, and Camden and York
town penetrated the thick haze of doubts
and fears, and exhibited its fair proportions,
sharply defined upon the background of the
future And yet there are those among us
who cry out, Let the Union slide, reckless
of the reverent nature of the inheritance Won
by toll and agony, and bequeathed by pray
ers and solemn admOntions. There are, we
say, those here among us who proclaim
themselves ready to prove false to their
trust. to ignore the memory Of their fathers,
to mine with an insane hand the glUrions
building Mey reared, and TO shout cxulting-
ly, Let the Union slidep Slide whcre?-
, Into chaos and black night! Into that ter
, riblc limbo Of things magnificent ofpromise,
yet untimely shatteredI Or where2
We say the people Of the Union will never
consent at the bidding Of any man or set of
men, upon mere secuional issues, to Let the
Union slide" Three-quarters of century
have made this Union, not mere confed-.
GRAFTON of States, but confederation of
hearts, bound by ties stronger than the Con-
stltution whose provisions they revere, and
by interests it would be madness to dissolve.
Let the Union slide-no Let it last for
ever. Let it be handed down to succeeding
= generations, intact and impregnablc. Let
it stand like the old Rhodian Wonder, with
a foot on opposite shores, and lifting up to
the oppressed Of all nations beacon to guide
them into haven Of rest, where all may en-
joy freedom OF political action, restricted
only by laws Of their own adoption, and
/ where liberty Of conscience is protected be-
meath the -l1gs Of the Constitution. MIR.
Banks said, Let the Union slidep We
say, Let Mr. Banks sIide"-N J. Eagle.