Washington telegraph., 1856-10-15
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QUI VIVEa
FRAN. think hear them Stand ho. Who
is there7
HoR- Friends to this ground.
MAR And liegemen to the Dane.
HAMLET, Acr 1sr. SCENE 1sr.
We gather from the story of the "mel-
ancholy prince" as given to us by the
"great poet who foreruns the ages" that
the Danes having, by virtue of the opera
tion of
"A seard compact,
Well ratified by law and heraldrv."
become possessed of certain lands, the
son of him from whom these lands were
being,
"Of unImproved mettle hot and full
Had in the skirts OF Norway here and there,
Shark'd up set of landess resolutes.
For food and diet. 70 some enterprise.
That had stomach in it. which was no other,
AS it did well appear unto the Ststel
But to recover of them by strong hand.
And terms compulsatory those foresaaid lands
So by his father los"
And HORArIo being on guard, in reply
to the query of MARcELLUs, gives the
above as the reason, and
- the main motive OF their preparation.
And source of that, their watch"
wherein they were hailed, and answered
in the words which we place at the head
of this column - g,
There was danger to the State. And
although we find no exact parallel be-
tween the condition of affairs in this our
day and time and the time of which the
poet sings, not the less does it behOove US
to be on our guard, and ''anxiously with
eye and ear" to h: il the passer-by-for to
our shame be it spoken, there are prowl-
ers in the land, who, when asked,
Who goes tbere2"
will not reply
Friends to the Union"
sLiegemen to the States"
but skulking away.to hide their infamy,
or traitorously bidding defiance to the
guard which Cop hath set over this Con-
federacy, will prove themselves fit indeed
to be marked and numbered and sealed
with the seal of that
''-set OF landIess resoIutes,"
which were ready, at the bidding of a
reckless adventurer, to follow him to the
doom of the traitor to truth and the sub
verter of law and order.
1t is humiliating to see the position
which certain Southern Democratic press
es and orators have assumed with regard
to the existing danger which threatens
the peace and menaces the perpetuity of
this Union. 1t is enough to make man
blush for the name of Humanity, to see
how glibly these "new lights talk of
dissolving the Union. 1t is painful to
contemplate the reckless pertinacity with
which they insist upon the consummation
of the scheme which they have set on
foot to effect their dark and evil design.
1t is an outrage on decency, desecration
of the gifts of the Almighty, to hear men
endowed with intellect, possessed of infiu-
ence and with capacity to reason, unfold
their plans to effect that which no honest
man ought to suffer himself even to
dream of.
Down with the Disunionistsl We do
not believe that one-third or One-fourth of
our readers are informed as to the extent,
the dangerous extent, to which this feel
ing seems to exist. We say seems, for we
have such an unshaken faith In the intel
ligence and patriotism of the people, that
We are satisfied that they have only to be
shown the danger and they will apply the
remedy. Now we viii devote a column,
perhaps more, of this issue, to shelving
the danger. In another column we will
present the remedy. And without any
comment of our own just here, leave our
readers to choose between them.
What we have Always Believed.
The Baltimore correspondent of the
New Orleans Picoyane, speaking of the
recent meeting which followed the ad-
journment of the Wing National Conven-
ton, says:
''The mass meeting in Monument
Square, which succeeded the convention,
held to ratify its proceedings, was, without
exaggeration, the grandest affair of its