The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-07-31

frightened from the performance of its duties and
the enjoyment of its rghts 1t il the ammunition of
place hunters men whose only hope in the prosti-
tuition Of their education their sefrespect and indi
yidualify, to the uses and purpose of a party. By
the subserviency of a party, and the mean ambition
OF its leaders, who with specious platforms have OBJ
scured fact the North, ia the defence of its rights
and the performance of its duties has been driven
form what they call a sectional party. And this
state of affairs is the result Of what the North has
sought to avoid trusting to the patriotism of the
South, only to be deluded. Now, that compacts
have been broken to nationalire Slavery, and the
North forced to accept the issue presented by q
strictly sectional party, having but hypocritical
claim to nationality, We, who stand by the national
ity OF Freedom, upon the platform of 81, platform
made by pure hands and honest hearts, are to be de-
nounced sectOnais 1t is the cry of the thief try
ing to escape his pursuers; it is the desperate shift
OF political charlatans, the cunning device of un
scrupulous politicians, to Tighten and alarm. the
Republican party is sectional then the Declaration
of Independence the child Of Jefferson, is juggle,
and the Constitution a lie. 1t is q party founded
upon tho necessity Of preserving those two ins;ru
meuts from the vandsl hands Of ambitious partisans
and if it is shown that it is sectional the shame be-
longs to those recreant of revolutionary sircs
who bctray the trust reposed in them, to crafty
their thirst for power desire for gain If the
North is sectional what is the South? If the North
Is sectional, it is in behalf of Freedom whilo the
South wraps itself in the sectionalism of Slavery
Fellow-citizens: Keep steadily in view the deca-
rations and acts of those who founded this Repub-
lie. Remember to them owe the Ordinance Of
'87, which would now be called a sectional act The
mad ambition Of political leaders has broken a
pact made in good faith which seCtionaiszed Slave
ny, and il is sought to consummate the outrage.
Are you to be frightened from your duty, by the
Cossack hourya of place hunters, and the paid sti
pendiaries of a corrupt Administration If the
North is forced to be sectional, because the South
has forgotten the past remember that it is for the
extension of Freedom that you stand true, while
your enemies war for the extension of the area of
human servitude. You are right, and if you are
sectional the honor of preserving intact the fruits of
Il revolution which gave a nationality Of Free
dom, belongs 10 you alone.
Another ghost which is to be extensively used by
the so-called Democratic party in the present cam
pagn, to frghten nervous gentlemen from their pro-
pricty, is. The Union as an danger" Certainly 1t
is there cannot be a doubt of it. 1t is an Union
formed to give Liberty birth local habtation
and a name " and it is in danger frem the en-
croachments Of power which has ruled the world
from the frs creation 1t is in danger; it will re-
quire all the rmness of its true friends to save
from the impending evil. Slavery is about TO dis
solve this fair fabric of Freedom and will, If the
friends of Liberty fatcr in the crisis upon us. We
have noble work before us; the Republican party
has a mission not often vouchsafod to men-the pres
ervaion of Liberty, and the defeat of its foes This
is the solemn, solid reality; the ghost is with our
opponents Lei us examine their spectre.
1t is not the first time, in the history of our Re-
public that it hiss been in dapger-it in danger
from the birth of twins in 1920; in danger in 1850,
from The single birth of free State; and it is
is always in danger, unless the people Of tho North
quietly succumb to the demands made upon their
patience and forbearance by the South. We have
had ambitious politicians of tho North, who have
betray cd our interests and made forget our du-
ties until "forbearance has ceased to be a virtue"
1t Is time that the people the whole people, resume
their rights and perform their duty, which is to
save the Union" in a proper manner and take
that trouble from the political quacks who have
nurssd the disease, to keep paying patient their
l;st 1t ia time that a cure ives effected and the
patient pronounced ont AT danger. Ii has been
tsmpered with long enough the salve has been
taken from the wound, by the quacks who pronounce
the patient in danger by the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, and it is for us to see that radical
and borough cure is now effected.
But, say these quacks, If the rs permitted
t. sg-eed, the Union is in danger" Their process
Of treatment ia much after the manner of the quack,
w-ow called TO SEQ a case he could not compre-
bond. and who proceeded to throw the patient into
fits" that q disease with which he was per-
fcctly familiar. So with the political quacks-they
want the 90 Union in danger" it is disease pecu-
liar to their practice they find their interests in its
continuation they could not live were it not for the
danger of the Union The disease has its crises; the
alarm is spread the political quacks, with lugubri-
GUS eountenances, gather together, and with their
fingers to their lips intimate that tho most profound
silence must be kept or the disease will be enraged
to the imminent risk of the patients life. This farce
Is now about to be enacted. and the audience is
pected to be amused into good humor, frightened
into silence. Every travelling political mountesank
is blowing his trumpet OF warning pr0clafming that
the Z. L MON is in danger" and expecting gaping
crowd to be awed int the employment of his SER
vices TO save it. A party pross nearly all of them
stipcndiaries CT the Central Power making their
columns black with dire forcboding OF evil to come,
If their party is not continued in power TO tho
Union" and-their pay A determination of incon-
gruous elements is going on; an union of dscordant
divisions is to be made, TO "save tho Union" The
amount Of patriotism yet in our Republic is truly
wonderful and did it not degenerate into miserable
buffooncry. would be laudable: yet the " Union is
in danger" and more help is needed. The Republi-
can party, trust will fill up the gap and the
Republic truly and nobly, not forgetting that real
manhood is the support and stay of Liberty every
where.
A distinguished citizen of the Republic, a man
who occupies the high position OF leader, and
the candidate of party for the Presidency who has
Just returned from visit to bigoted and degraded
Italy, enslaved Austria, and crushed France, in a
recent speech, far forgot his position the courte
sizes commonly recognised among candidates. as to
assert that if the Republican party succussul in
the coming canvass, the South would hayo good
cause to " dissolve the Union Has be soon for
gotten what no saw in Europe the effects of tyranny
Of mind and body, that he judges If the party which
seeks to restrain the march of Slavery is mphant
that the representatives OF the only form Of tyranny
known in our Republic will have good cause to of-
tempt the destruction of the beautiful fabrie2 And
he the pretended leader Of party which claims to
be exclu svcly American, He the chosen stand ard
bearer of party which proclaims its opposition to
religious tyranny. aiding the cause Of human bond.
age, by word and deed To him the Union is every
thing, human progress and elevation nothing. Wrap
ped the mantle of selishness he sees no good in
anything which ministers not to him. He could
breathe the prayer of " me and my wife, my son
John and his wife, US four and no more" with great
JUNCTION. He saved the Union in 1850, and do
not remember that it was such profitable job as to
present any great inducements to do it again but
then there is fascination about the White House,
indescribable and inappreciabe. He affects to fesr
the loss of liberties from foreign emigration and
PODe. knowing he n
the latter agree with him in his national ideas but
sees danger in the ercroachments of real Slavery
in our midst He treats it spoiled child, urging
that whatever of bread and butter may be asked for
shall be given. for fear the Union may DO dissolved
1t is to such men, and their followers that the Union
owes whatever OF danger IL may be in They have not
the courage it is not their interest to be free
and they precpices in their path which only
| the creations of their distempertd fancy.
Who're is the danger to the Union Does the
North propose 10 destroy it Is that the purpose of
the Republican party? No one with reasonable
show of Truth can assert either to be a fact All
threats Of dissolution bavc, as yet como from the
South and the Union will nsver be in DANGER if the
North is true to its duty The silly tareat that if
the North insists upon return to the peaceful days
OF the past, when patriotism real and not sham
the South will dissolve the UniCn, may serve to
Tighten the weak, and furnish eremiads to ambi-
tious politicians but it will end there successful
unsuccessful. 1t is good enough Morgan" for
every election, and it is about that this ghost
was laid forever, to sleep quietly in its grave The
Union will be in the hands of its friends if the
North stands firm this fall; and those who threaten
dire cslamites notification. and disunon will find
in Fremont a man who, like jackson, will have not
only the power, bat ths disposition. to act. The
rights of the South will receive ample protection
but the threats of the South will intimidats
Tho Union will be preserved not by craven fears
but by the firm maintenance of the Constitution and
3 return to the traditions of our Fathers.
Another of the staple commodities of the so-called
Democratic party, in this canvass, il popular SOW
ereignty," and the rights of the South" Like the
two have examined they are used to deludo and
to obscure tho real issue. As for popular SOW