New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-10-18
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There ID 4 disunion spirit manifested throughout
the land, its baeful influences are not confined 90
any particular section. The State of South Caro-
lna-a gallant, noble and generous commonwealth
in all other respects-is not the only locality where
dsnonism raves, and frets and storms against the
barriers erected by our orefathe to guard the price
less heritage they bequeathed their children from the
mn,edicable ruin that would inevitably follow dlssou
ton. By no means. There are dsunlonlsts IN Lool'
sana there are disunionsts in Vermont there are
disunionists in Georgia; there are dsunlonlsts IN
Ohio, and there are disunionists in Arkansas. But
thanks 70 the rood Providence that has so long pro-
tected and prospered this confederacy until 1t stands
first among The nations burning and shining light
to all mankind holding out hope to the desparing,
oy to the oyless and enfranchsement to those upon
whom tile rivets Of tyranny seem most firmly fixed,
the number Of Disunonists when compared with the
Unioniss bears about the same relative proportion
that hundreds do to millions ~
The great masses of the people are as true to the
Union Of their forefahers the needle is TO the pole
Their hearts throb steadily and strongly and uVary
ingly in favor Of the continuance Of the American
Union; and pestilent agitators, pennlless pla1en-
faced demagogues and reckless adyenturers' "oulu uo
well, for their own sakes, to bear IN lnl,io INA. an
iron heel will be put upon their necks should they
succeed sufficiently ID their unholy work to menace
the country with either contingent or remote peril
IT. is we'll under circumstances like these however,
tn refer to the instructions and nculcatlons OF the
great men Of the Republic who have gone to their long
homes crowned with honors and blessed with years
to refresh ourselves from the ancient and unaduter
ated fountains Of patriotism we would preserve in
force and vgor that devotion to the country and that
loyalty to the Constitution and laws, which has alone
rendered us the pride of the earth and the enved of
the nations.
The time was when the words of ANDREW JACKSON
were listened to with reverence and affection through
out tile length and breadth of the North American
confederation. He was take him all in all, a great,
patriotic and noble man, fully worthy the exalted
honors his countrymen delighted to bestow upon him.
Listen, fellowctizens to the language of the hero
sage as he retired from his eight years administration
of the government:
what gain By dsunon and dissection ionic ps"ds
no esiy s aHd f
separation will wider and Ter and the o
w viii 6 ap% lie rn sssd
oeal Interests Would still be found there uncaencd
hs peop A1 ID e ss
nrosnr aad app G Hey hsGe eed
the present Constitution ali these recollecons and proofs
peop1s what viii hold divisions
when those have been broken and this Union dissolved
be leaders prn no m Sffn. a
States armed for mutual sa Win nhs SS o
foreign powernsued and tramped upon BY the nations
spirit they would DC willing to submit the dominion OF M
military adventuer and 10 surrender their liberty Tor 'e S
of repose"
The literal truth of the above is felt by every maj
of ordinary intelligence. Its unseen unspoken, IN
WHISPERED influence, governs and controls millions
who, while they are fully alive to the dangers s.
graphically portrayed, will not speak or argue tn
question but hold themselves prepared, i'll terrible 81
ence, to beat down and crush out to the uttermost
to the last and final extremity the efforts of those mis-
guided men who would earn for themselves reputa
ton 50 dread that the bad fame of the incendiary
the Ephesian dome would pale into insignificance b.
the comparison.
Fellow outherners, without distinction OF party
we ask you to read and ponder the last official word
of Andrew Jackson. Wecall on you to mediate upo
his warnings-to heed his counses--to listen to hi
admonitions. We don't ask you to regard us,
though we advocate the election Of Willard Filmor
as necessity to the Union-a necessity to the sout
! "a necessity to the stability and permanence of on
free institutions-but we do ask you to regard nm
As true as we have souls to be saved we beleve Ter
jackson, were he alive, would sanction and approx
4 our course Throughout his long and magnificent cf
reer his devotion to the Union Of these States gre
with the lapse of years and was stronger if posslbl
on the day of his death than it was in the full mel
dian of his glorious manhood.