Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1856-10-16
Would Fremont's Election Dissolve
the Uni6uy se.

Happily there is no probability that this
question will be practically tested. Virgin
ia is the only Statethst is running completely
mad in discussing it. But Virginia is al
ways debating distractions. And now that
Virginia has mad Governor by laugh
able misnomer called Wise--she is more
rnadly bent than ever upon fighting for an
abstraction. -t ''-'t'- --'
There is no reason whatever for Free
mont's election dissolving the Union. The
Union is greater than John Charles Free
mont, or John Charles any body else. He
can't be elected and if he could, the Union
would stand. II is able 10 ouilive any and
all Of the politicians, candidates, Office seek
ers, fllibusiers and fanatics, that now howl
their dismal funerals on its promised down
fall.
The National Inteiligeneer, while publish
ing some able Southern letters, showing
Fillmore's strength and certainty Of success,
criiieises one writer as follows;
But TO one or two of his observations we
may venture 10 oppose some dissentient re-
Election Of our own. We regret that he
should have lent the influence of his facile
pen to the dogma now sought 10 be inculca-
ted in certain quarters, that The dissolution
Of our National Union is 10 be the immedi.
ate consequence Of the approaching Presi-
DENTAL election, in case the choice Of the
People, as constitutionally declared, should
be found TO fall upon q candidate naturally
Objectionable 10 a portion Of the People and
States Of the Coniederacy. For reasons
lately presented at length in this journal
we are unable TO acquiesce either in the
wisdom or expedency Of any such sugges.
lions, and which, though they may have OF
the part Of many their origin i'll patriotic so.
licitude for the welfare or even for the sta
bility Of the country, can yet by their pro
mitigation do little or nothing to avert thu
political result which is deprecated. They
serve. therefore, only 10 commit the author:
OF such inconsiderate avowals TO line o
action which neither duty nor patriotism, j
left free to exert their influence according
TO every emergency as il arises, would com
mend either as the dictate Of honor or as
remedy for the grievance complained off,
At various times in the history of our Gov
ernmen: there have been those who predic
ted and desired its overthrow for cause
which, by the verdict of the people and G
impartial history, have been pronounced no
only inadequate, but unworthy even Of Sc
rious consideration at the present day. A
one time it was the Congressional enact
nent of the odious alien and sedition law
under the elder Adams at another, the lon
continuance OF war, held by many in tn
New England States TO be rash and need
less in the beginning; at another, it was tn
high rates of our tariff while at the presen
day constant surplus in the Treasury
though derived from the source SO roundl
= denounced in 1888, is held to be not onl
quite tolerable, but found very convenier
even by Democratic Administration. Fo
each and all Of these crisis, however, di:
union was named by some as the sole sufic
lent solution; yet still the Union stands, an
the evils thus deplored no longer remain
haunt the troubled visions Of patriots c
even of politicians.