Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-08-19

sadden the heart of the Father of his Country
aud dictate the grave and grand warning Of the
Farewell Address.
They hear men say that such party ought
not to endanger the Union; that, although it
happened TO be formed within one geographical
section, and confined exclusively to it-al-
though It's end aud aim is toyally that section
against the other on question of morals,
policy and feeling, on which the two differ
eternally and unappeasibly from
the nature Of its origin and objects, no man in
the section outside can possibly join it, or ac-
cept office under it without infamy at home
although, therefore, it is a stupendous organi-
cation, practically to take power and honor, and
a full share OF the Government, from our whole
family Of States, and bestow them, substan-
tally all upon the antagonists family--al-
though the doctrines of human rights, which
it gathered out of the Declaration OF Indepen-
dence, that passionate and eloquent manifesto
of revolutionary war; and adopts as its fun
damental ideas, announce to any Southern ap-
prehenson crusade of Government against
slavery, far without and beyond Kansas-al
though the spirit and tendency of its election
eering appeals, as whole, in prose and verse,
the leading articles of its papers, and the
speeches OF its orators, are to excite contempt
and hate, or fear Of our entire geographical
section, and hate or dread or contempt is the
natural impression it all leaves on the Northern
mind and heart-yet, that nobody anywhere
ought TO be angry OF ought to be frightened;
that the majority must govern, and that the
North is majority; that it is ten to one moth
ing will happen; that, if worst comes to worst,
the South knows it is wholly to blame, and
needs the Union more than we do, and will be
quiet accordingly
But do they who hold this language forget
that the question is not what ought TO endan-
ger the Union, but what will do it? Is il man
as he ought to be, or man as he is, that we
must live with or live alone? In approaching
the influences which may disturb political
system, and especially one like ours do you
make no allowance for passions, for pride, for
infirmity, for the burning sense Of even i'm
aginary wrong2 Do you assume that all men,
or all masses Of men in all sections, uniformly
obey reason, and uniformly wisely see and
calmly seek their true interests? Where on
earth is such a FOOLS Paradise as that to be
found? Conceding to the people of the fifteen
States the ordinary and average human nature,
its good and its evil, its weakness and its
strength, !, for one, dare otsay that the triumph
OF such party ought not to be expected ma
turally and probably to disunite the States.
With my undoubting convictions, know
that it would be folly and immortality in men
to wish it. Certainly there are in ali sections
and in all States those who love the Union,
under the actual Constitution, as Washington
did, as Jay, Hamilton, and Madison dd-as
jackson, as Clay, as Webster loved it. Such
even is the hereditary and the habitual senti.
ment of the general American heart. But he
has read life and books to little purpose who
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be /" to resentment soured" and that no hatred
is SO keen, deep, and precious as that
g. And 10 be wrolh with one we love
viii work like madness in the brainn
He has read the book of our history to still
less purpose, who has not learned that the
friendships OF those Staes-sslers, but rivals
--sovereigns each, with public life, and
body OF interests, and sources Of honor and
shame OF It's own and within itself, distributed
into Two great opposing groups, are of all hui
man ties most exposed to such rupture and
such transformation.
have not time in these hasty lines, and
there is no need to speculate on the details of
the modes in which the triumphs of this party
would do lis work of evil It's mere struggle to
obtain the government, as that struggle is con-
Quoted, Is mischevous to an extent incalcula.
Bile. That thousands of the good men who
have Joined it deplore this is certain, but that
does not mend the matter i appeal to the
conscience and honor Of my country, that If it
we're the aim OF a great party, by every species
OF access to the popular mind-by eloquence, by
argument, by taunt by sarcasm, by recrimina-
ton, by appeals TO pride, shame and natural
right-to prepare the nation for a struggle
with Spain or England, or Austria, it could not
DO Its business more thoroughly. Many per-
sons, many speakers-many, very many, set a
higher and wiser example, but the work is
doing.
III 1T accomplishes its object, and gives the
Government to the North, turn my eyes from
the consequences. To the fifteen States of the
South, that Government will appear an alien
Government. 1t will appear worse. 1t will
appear hostile Government. Ii will repre
sent to their eyes vast region of States, or
gained upon anti-slavery, flushed by triumph,
cheered onward by the voices of the pulpit tri
bune and press; its mission to inaugurate Free.
dom and put down the oligarchy; its constitu.
ton the gittering and sounding generaities of
natural right which make up the Declaration
OF independence. And then and thus is the
beginning of the end.
If a necessity could be made out for such
party we might submit to it AS to other una
voloable evils, and other certain danger. But
where do they find ,hat2 Where do they pre-
tend to find it? Is it to keep slavery out Of the
Territories? There is not one but Kansas in
which slavery is possible. No man fears, no
man hopes for slavery in Utah, New Mexico,
Washington or Minnesota. A national party
TO give them to freedom is abou, as needful and
about as feasible as national party to keep
Maine for freedom. And Kansas Let that
abused and proianed soil have calm within its
borders; deliver it over to the natural law of
peaceful and spontaneous immigration take
Oft the ruffian hands; strike down the rife and
the bowie knife guard its strenuous infancy
and youth I'LL It comes of age to choose for IL
self-aud it will choose freedom for itself and
1T will have forever what it chooses.
when tins policy, so easy, simple and just,
is tried and fails, it will be time enough to re.
sort to revolution. 1t is in part because the
duty OF protection to the local settler was not
performed that the Democratic party has al
ready by the action of the great representative
resolved TO put out Of Office its own
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