American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1856-10-11

an luce Southern gentlemen To abandon
Mr.. Fillmore for M. Buchanan. There
needs bat these words to accomplish it:
"flllmore is deserted by tho South he
ga we'd" That Que line would ouie.
'us undoubtedly Of this contest. DEM
"crats must accept that result of their
own reasoning. They claim every
Southerner in tho name of sectional in
terests: The Republicans will claim
every Northern man in the name uf
N "thern interests. If we must obey
they mus, obey. lSthe North. will De-
mDcrats admit, less fanatical, less excit.
able, less hostile than themselves! If
not, tho sectional feeling must press
them at least equally. Will they DO
likely To listen to reasons for Mr.. Ere
montl o., will not both DO moro &C
cessible to arguments for Mr.. Fillmore
than either. Do they suppose the Nor
rhern laborer TO he less interested than
the Southern planter in the question of
free aud slave labor, or is he more cool
and unprejudiced when bis livelihood
and personal dignity are involved, than
tho Southern planter whose property
only is eftectedl
The argument, therefore, must be a.
handoned, or it must be admitted as un-
questonably true that the logical resul,
is. to dive the whole North not into
the arms of Mr.. Buchanan, but into the
arm, Of Mr.. Fremont.
The Democratic patty at the North
has melted away into the Fremont par
~. They form lis strength. They
have done So. because they were spe-
cially grieved by the use mado of their
Represents in the Kansas. bill conllic:.
They had always been what in other
people the Southern Democrats called
Frce-soil. That shone out in tho re-
marks Of the honorable gentleman from
Ohio Mr.. LEiTER) whose series of res
o'uIons for fifteen years spoke one Ian.
guage-bcginning in the Democratic
conventions and ending in tho RepubIi.
can Conventions-with a unity of sen.
tirnent and language defying the detec-
ton Of The point where the Democrat
shaded off into the Republican. 1t is
TOR this reason that this blow has been
so fatal to the Democratic patty of the
Notth--that the hatred of the North is
90 deadly against it aud yet is confined
10 It. and yet 50 sagaciously under con-
troll, so much of method in their mad
moss that they will not allow a chance
To Mr.. Buchanan Of election by plural
tiles, bot will defeat that by any comb.
nation.
Ths'view should determine the South
10 entangle its cause from the fragments
of the broken. powe,les and obnoxious
Democrats. The Democratic party arc
no longer e. mcdiltors between North and
South. How can they exact performance of
the Texas compromise How protest a.
gains repeal of thu fugitive slave law?-
How demand that the Wilmot Pro,iso be
not extended to all the Territories! How
claim the admission of more slave S 'ates I?
Their mouth is sealed on these topics before
The revenge of the Republicans. BY the
law Of retaliation these things would be nat
ural and just punishments 10 that party
which has swept away the compromise and
denied the principles on which all these
rights rested. The Republican closes his
mouth with the reply, you, the Democratic
party, have no right 10 appeal TO us.
II is only III the name of the Southern pao-
pie, OF the men who do moi join in the out
rage, that these dire consequences can be
surely tvoided. The Reputation Of the
Democratic party is the first condition and
best security OF peace and safety. 1t silen-
ces The plea of revenge and retaliation. The
people OF the South owe it to themselves 81
10 their future as completely 10 discard the
Democrats as the people of the North have
Withdrawn from them their confidence.
But there are Democratic gentlemen who
anticipate the success Of the argument in
driving every body to support Mr.. Fremont
and who speculate Oh the consequences.
There are men who 90 about the country
declaming about the inevitable CONSEQUENT
ces Of the election of Fremont and the
question is asked whe Their that simple fac, is
not sufficient, not merely to Justify, but to
require dissolution Of the Union. The
question has b zen asked me day. This
is q question which | do not regard as even
subject of discussion. 1t never will be
done while men have their reason. 1t new
er will be done until some party, bent upon
acquiring party pJwer, shall again and again
AMI again exaspcrate beyond the reach of
reason the Nor .hern and Southern minds, las
my Southern friends have now ex1sperated
the Northern mind. Ii would be an act of
snicd :, aud sane men do no; commit suicide
The act itself is insanity. 1t will be done,
il over, i'll a tempest OF fury and madness
which cannot stop to reason. Dissolution
means death, the suicide Of Liberty, without
hope of eSurrection-death without the
glo,ics OF immortality; w;ih no sister 10
mourn her fall, none 10 wrap her decently
III her winding sheet and bear her tendely
10 sepnlchrc---aead Liberty, left to all the
horror of corruption, a loathsome thing with
a stake through the body, which men shun.
cast out naked OH the highway of nations,
where the t. rants of the earth. who feared
her. living, will mock her, dead, passing by
on the other side, waggng their heads and
thrusIing their tongue i'll their cheek at her,
siying behold her, how she that was fair a.
mOn1 The nations is fallen! is fallen and