Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-08-07
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Should dissolution Of the Union take place.
we should have at least two Republics, with
extended coterminous boundaries, requiring
custom.houses innumerable, and cons,an,
liability 10 collision.
To foreign foe, presenting but half an
array; with half Of our historical record cut off
from each other-internal commerce, worth
forty times foreign commerce, cut off; with
doubtful facilities for mutually collecting debts
The South could purchase from Europe and
the West Indies, from China, and elsewhere.
all her supplies by the shipment of cotton,
tabacco, rice, tar, turpentine, and lumber
What could the North send abroad TO get
her supplies?
Cut off, as she would be, from the Southern
market for her manufactures, including iron,
she would be unable to purchase from the
South except for cash. Her manufacturers
would lose most valuable customer, as would
her artizans and mechanics.
England and other countries, stimulated by
the hope of profit from the South as a Gus
toner, would be allies, and the shipping of the
North would lose its most valuable business.
The bonds of the United States Government
would materially decline in value, as would
necessarily every State stock The credit of
the States would be crippled.
The bloody horrors of an inevitable collision
we will not undertake to depict, in which kin
dred blood will be. mutually arrayed on either
side.
The evils are so many, so appalling, so en-
during, as to sicken the imagination, and yet
to this result are the whole efforts of the Black
Republican party converged to force upon the
South-they add taunts and insults in the ag-
gression, saying that the cry of wolf, wolf
has been SO often falsely raised in their midst,
that they will no longer heed it.
Had they read this fable to the end, they
would have found, that when the wolf really did
come they did not hear it, and destruction fol-
lowed. Let them draw the moral.
And why are all these evils to be forced upon
the countryp Why has the South bat two
alternatives presented?
One to submit TO an unconstitutional and afro
cious robbery Of all her interest in the public
domain, with threats of repeal of the fugitive
slave law, (already, in fact, by the treason Of
the North, dead letter. abolition Of slavery in
the District, and an iron wall around each
State forbidding the migration Of slaves from
State to State, measures tending inevitably to
the reenactnent Of st. Domingo atrocities.
The other alternative disunion.
The South claims in the common territory
that common right which II yields TO Northern
men, to 90 there, taking any laborers they
please, and that those who do go, at The time of
forming their constitution, have powers limited
only by the Federal Constitution, requiring a
Republican form Of government
Is the position of the Republican party,
which exacts exclusive enjoyment Of all the
public domain, reasonable, just, or con-
sttutional one?
The South cannot by possibility, pass any
law aggressive or otherwise against the wishes
Of the North.
The South cannot possibly resist effeciunIly
any law which the North wishes TO have
passed
The North then is sure that it can never lie
affected against its will.
Is it not important, therefore, that that party
should be put in power which will not attempt
any law bearing an aspect of aggression on
either section?
| The alternative, in case Of the success of
the Fremont party, presented to the South, is
disunion, or submission to an usurpation and
tyranny, which must reduce the South TO the
condition OF Jamaica. On the other hand, the
success Of the Democratic nominations fore.
shadow a lull in the political storm, an abso.
lutte exclusion from Governmental action Of
any new measure in regard to slavery. This
result would dispel the clouds which now shade
the credit Of our country in every financial
interest; people will go on freely in their pur.
suits, not hating and waiting to see the result
Of the storm.
The subject Of contention being removed,
the fierce discussions will cease, and with the
cessation Of these wild blasts, the now surging
pillows Of passion aud prejudice will subside,
and leave to reason a full control
Every man and woman who wish their chill.