New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-01-12
Lot the Union slide.

| it that we may mark our condemnation OF those
dangerous words 20 aippsntly uttered. It mat
ters not on what occasion they were eliclted
/ it matters not upon what contingencies they
were based !; they are reasonable in their es-
gsnce, and deserve to meet with the aeyeress
reprobation from all who desire TO maintain the
power and glory Of the nobIest and freess Repub-
lie the world ever yet saw.
He who first seriously contemplated seva~
rance Of the confederated States was q traitor
in his heart, and became morally amenable
a traitors doom. He who first put thst thought
into language would have been mercifully deals
by ii the penalty Of ostraeism had been enforced
against him Letthe Union slide Loosen the
grand fabric built up BY the sacrifice Of many
o heroic life; by the tolls and suferingg Of
many a heroic heart; by many . plundered
homestead by the ashes Of many hearth
cries! At Concord, and Lexington, and Bun-
ker's Hill; in the sad march through the Jar-
seys; in the winter camp ct Valley Forge; and
in the blood-stsined foot prints of the patri-
OTIS recorded on the winters snow in the jails
and prieon-ships at New York; In the sWamps
Kentucky; amid fierce savages, Tory malig
nants, and but too barbarous foreign foes, the
foundations Of the Union were laid
That wild Christmas night upon the Della
ware, when Washingt ton dared the opposing ice,
and hardly plucked at Trenton victorious Tau
rels from the broWs Of his pursuers, the fabric
of the Union rose remotely visible to mems
bennington, and Saratoga and Kings Mountain,
and Camden and Yorktown, penetrated the
thick haze Of doubts and fears, and exhibited
its fair proportions, sharply defined, upon the
back ground Of the future. And yet there are
those among US Who cry out. ssLet the Union
her1tance won by toll and agony, and bsqueath-
ed With prayers and solemn admonitionas There
are, We say, those among us who proclaim
themselves ready to prove false to their trust,
20 Ignore the memory of their fathers, 10 mine
With an insane hand the glorious building they
reared, and to shout exultingly, ssLet the Unisn
slide.' Slide wheFe' into chaos and black nighss
Into that terrible limbo Of things magnificent
Of promise, yet untimely shattered 0E.whers.
We say the people Of the Union wilIneTer
| consent, as the bidding of any man or9aet Of
men, upon mere sectional Issues, to ss Let the
Union slide. Three e-quarters Of aseenturyhave
made this Union, not q mere confederation Of
states, but 9 confederation Of hearts, bound by
ties stronger than the Constitution whose pro-
visions they revere, and by interests it would be
| madness to dissolve. i.8s III 3ss 4 ss5
Let the Union slide-no! Let itsIast forever.
Let 1t be handed down to succeeding genera
tlons, intact and impregnabIe. Let it, stand like
the oid RhodianW Wonder, with foot upon opposite
shores, and lifting up to the oppressed OF all
| nations beacon to guide them into haven Of
rest, where all may enjoy freedom Of political
action restricted only BY laws Of their own adop-
| ton, and where liberty Of conscience Is pro-
tected beneath the Hgis Of the Constitution.
Mr.. Banks said ss Let the Union slidel T" We
say, e Let Mr.. Banks slide = EBalt Patriot.
| TEE CLAYTON BUIWER TREaTF.-As it is
o matter Of much interest at this time to
know precisely what were the terms Of the
Clayton Bulwer treaty, we publish below those
articles which refer particularly to the Central
American question.
Article l. The government Of the United
States and Great Britain hereby declare that
neither the one nor the other will ever obtain
the said ship canal; agreeing that neither will
ever erect or maintain any Notifications COM
manding the same in the vicinity thereof: or
occupy, or fortlfy, or colonizs, or assume, OF
exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costs
Ries, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Cen
!, tral America; nor will either make use Of any
lprotection which either affords q mgy affori.
! or any alliance which either has or may have,
+ to or with any state or people, for the purpose
q OF erecting OF maintaining any such fortiEca-
tons, or Of occupying, fortifying or colonizing
: Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or
r any part of Centra America, or of assuming, or
. exercising dominion over the same nor will the
E United States or Great Britain take advantage
) Of any intimacy, or use any alliance, connec-
. ton or influence that either may possess with
any State or government through whose teerri-
tory the said canal may pass, for the purpose Of
acquiring or holding, directly or Indirectly, for
citizens or subjects Of the one, any rights or
advantages in regard to commerce OF nayiga-
tion through the said canal, which shsll not be
, offered on the same terms to the citizens or SUBJ
, jects OF the other,
Art2 Vessels of the United States or Great
Britain, traveraing the said canal, shall, in
case of war between the contracting parties, be
exempted from blockade, detention, or capture,
by either of the belligerents; and this provision
shall extend to such distance from the two
ends of said canal as it may hereafter be found
expedient to establish.
Art g. The governments of the United States
and Great Britain having not only desired, in
entering into this convention, to accomplish o
particular object, but also to establish general
principle, they hereby agree to extend their
protection by treaty stipuAtions to any other
practical communications, whether By canal or
railway, across the isthmus which connects
North and South America, and especially to
the interoceanic communications, should the
same prove to be practical, whether by canal or
railway, which are now proposed to be estsb.
1 lished by the way Of Tehuantepee or Panama
In granting, however, their joint protection to
any such canals or railways as are by this arti-
Gle specified, it is always understood by the
United States and Great Britain that the par
ties constructing or owning the same hall i'm
pose no other charges or conditions Of trafnc
thereupon than the aforesaid governments shall
approve Of as just and equitable and that the
same canals or railways, being open to the olti-
zens and subjects Of the United States and Great
Britain on equal terms, shall also be open on
like terms to the citizens and subjects of every
other State which is willing to grant thereto
such protection as the United States and Great
Britain engage to afford.
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| The CAUSE OF TIT is said to-day among
| those usually well informed on such points, that
the President determined in Cabinet council
only as recently as Saturday night last, to send
in the Message Immediately. The English Par
Lament is soon to assemble, and it was judged
Of the utmost Importance to the future Of our
relations with Great Britain, that the position
of this Government upon the questions in issue
with her should be thoroughly and correctly
comprehended in London on the meeting of the
English gislature.-[Wsshingto Star, 3D..
COLD WEATHER.-Such a cold spell as the
present, we never did see before, certainly not
in length if in intensity. On Christmas Eve we