Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-01-11

the country to perception of the true con-
stitutlonal principle, of leaving the matter
involved to the discretion of the people Of
the respective existing or incipient States.
4 Il is not pretended that this principle, OF
any other, preclndes the possibility of evils
in practice, disturbed as political action is Il
able to be by human passions. No form of
government is exempt from inconvenience,
but in this case they are the result of the
abuse and not of the legitimate exercise, of
/ the powers reserved or conferred in the Or
4 ganization of Territory. They are not to
/ be charged to the great principle of popular
sovereignty on the contrary, they disappear
before the intelligence and patriotism of the
people, exerting through the ballot box
their peaceful and silent but irresistible
power.
If the friends of the constitution are to
have another struggle, its enemies could
not present more acceptable issue, than
that of a State, whose constitution clearly
embraces "a republican form of government
being excluded from the Union because its
domestic institutions may not in all respects
comport with the ideas of what is wise and
expedient, entertained in some other State
Fresh from groundless imputations of breach
of faith against others, men will commence
the agitation Of this new question with in
dubitable violation of an. express compact
between the independent sovereign powers
of the United States, and the republic of
Texas, as well as of the elder and equally
solemn compacts, which assure the equality
of all the States.
POSSIBILITY OF DISSOLUTION.
But, deplorable as would be such viola
ton of compact in itself, and in all its direct
consequences, that is the very least of the
evils involved. When sectional agitators
shall have succeeded in forcing on this is
sue, can their pretensions fail to meet with
counter pretensions? VIII not differ
ent States be compelled respectively to meet
extremes with EXTREMIST And if either ex-
treme carry its point, what is that so far
forth but dissolution of the Union? If a new
State, formed from the territory of the Uni
ted States, be absolutely excluded from ad-
mission therein, that fact of itself consti-
tutes the disruption of union between it and
the other States. But the process of disso-
luton could not stop there. Would not
sectional decision, producing such result by
majority of votes either Northern or
Southern, of necessity drive out the oppress-
ed and the agricved minority, and place in
presence of each other two rreconcilably
hostile considerations
1t is necessary 10 speak thus plainly of
projects, the offspring of that sectional agi-
tation now prevailing in some of the States,
which are as impracticable as they are un-
constitutional, and which if persevered in,
must and will end calamitously. 1t is ell
ther disunion and civil war, or it is mere an
CRY, idle, aimless disturbance of public peace
and tranquility. Disunion for what? If
the passionate rage of fanaticism and parti-
zan spirit did not force the fact upon our at
tention, it would be difficult to believe that
any considerable portion of the people of
this enlightened country could have so sur
rendered themselves to fanatical devotion
to the supposed interest of the relatively
few Africans in the United States, as total
ly to abandon and disregard the interests of
the twenty-five millions of .Americans-to
trample under foot the injunctions of NOR
al and constitutional obligation-and to en-
gage in plans of indicative hostility against
those who are associated with them in the
enjoyment of the common heritage of our na-
tional Institutions.
sTREHTH OF TIE UNION.
Nor is it hostility against their fellow cit
liens of one section of the Union alone
The interests, the honor, the duty, the peace
and the prosperity of the people of all sec
tions are equally involved and imperrilled
in this question. And are patriotic men in
any part of the Union prepared, on such an
issue, thus madly to invite all tho conse-
quences of the forfeiture of their constitu-
tional engagements? It is impossible
The storm of phrensy and faction must in
evitably dash itself in vain against the un-
shaken rock of the constitution. l shall
never doubt it. l know that the Union is
stronger a thousand times than all the wild
and chimerical schemes of social change
which arc generated, one after another in
the unstable minds of visionary sophists,
and interested agitators. 1 rely con
idently on the patriotism of the people,
on the dignity and self-respect Of the States
on the wisdom of Congress, and above all,
on the continued gracious favor of Al
mighty God, to maintain, against all enc
mics, whether at homo or abroad, the sane
tity of the constitution and integrity of the
Union. FRANKLIN PIERCE.
WASHINGTON, December 81, 1855.
New Advertisements.
Potion for Divorce. Chancery Notices
scotFs Little Giant Corn and Cob Mill. Every farmer
ought to have Of them.
Prof Anderson exhibits at Buckeye Hall this evening
Those having spare quarter and wishing to get the val
thereof in fun, viii lind this chance to invest
The CARSON LEAGUE has gone, it seems, !
to that bourne from whence no traveller e'cr
returns. Hundreds of dollars have been
expended in our city to stay the ravages of
runl-selling but without avail. With judi |
cial bias, legal trickery, perjury, and a bung-
ling law, King Alcohol triumphs, and drives
his bloody wheels over the bodies of his vic
tins, and over the hearts of wife, widow and