The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-09-01

Disunion.
A great clamor has been raised during this
campaign against the Republican party bv
imputlng to its members sentiments of dis.
loyalty to the Union, and a,tribu,ing to
them expressions which tended to support
that idea; but more than in any other way bv
quoting tho expressions of the ultra CARR
sonan school of Abolitionists, who have no
sympathy with the Republican party, and
representing them as coming from members
of that party. Disunion has been the raw
head land bloody bones of the campaign, BY
which the people were to be frightened into
an assent to all the stupendous plans OF
Slavery Extension which the propagaudists
OF that institution have concocted.
we have quoted at some length, open and
explicit and threatening avowals of disun-
ION made during the present session of Con-
gress by Southern Buchancer members. i,
needs no misrepresentation, no forced con-
s'rucuon, no pretence of party connections
that do not exist, to show that the Black
Democracy comprises within its limits any
number OF leading men who threaten, pro-
claim, and some on contingencies and some
without contingencies advocate and defend.
dusunion. IL clamor is to be raised unon
threats or intimations of disloyaty to the
onhon, towards no party could it be raised
more justly than against the Black Democra-
cy, as the records from which we have QUO
ted so Literally abundantly show. II is
enough TO silence, or in the minds Of all
Intelligent and honest men to render nugato-
ry, this scnseess and groundless clamor. A
party, more than half of whose representa-
tives pretend to look complacently upon dis
union, and are in the habitual practice Of
threatening it, ns their political ancestors
have done for an indefinite period, for politi-
cal effect; In whose ranks are gathered oil
the nullihers, secessionists. and disunion;sts
in the South, and who even have a confessed
and boasting nulifer as one of the most &C.
tive and influential Of that body that assem-
bles around the council board Of the nation
whose magnates, leaders, dictators, talk
loud and volubly of disunion in the public
halls, and employ that threat AS their most
frequent argument and political weapon
such party has not an honest and intelli
gent man IN its ranks who can reproach any
one with disunion, without blushing to the
tips of his ears.
But as to disunon itself. We have no
fear Of it. Though we would not make tina,
fact foundation OF unjust and unconstitu
tional requirements, ye, q fact it is, that the
South can by no earthly means maintain
political existence out Of the Union, and sus.
tain Slavery ut the same time. To the South.
Dissolution, Emancipation and Anarchy are
equivalent terms. 1t is through the opera
ton OF the Constitution under which this
Union exists, that Slavery finds its sole pro.
tection. Let that Constitution cease TO be
OF binding force in respect Of the South, and
which one OF them would, could, consent 70
De aborder Slave Statei Ii would be depleted
OF its property and Frustrated in it's indus
try with rapidity Of change such AZ the
decay Of no State in the annals of the ages
ever equaled. If, metaphorically, riches
are reputed 10 take to themselves wings and
Hy away, il would be u metaphor no more
strained to say that the property OF such
States would take to itself legs and travel ~
seldom legs Travelled before, with refuge so
certain and 50 near us thelborder Free States
vpnf1 n nrH ApI rs,i,. -.
she border States, the whole Institution
would 60, rapidly and irresistably, for there
must be border States as long as there shall
be u line. No fugitive law would serve to
return their slaves, or operate to prevent
their escaping no compact with the North
could be Effected by which the Slave hunter
could enter our territory himself and retake
his property once escaped, and it would be
gone forever, and predatory binds Of fugl-
tises would be organized 10 make incursions
Tor the rescue Of their friends aud relatives.
Even now 10 talk Of a foreign war with .
respectable power, makes them tremble
a., the.i territory. Il they ws1s
Ieit 70 their own resources, without any for
elgn war or other outside difficulties, they /
would be impotcnt long to maintain quiet or /
restrain insurrection at home. And this their /
coolest and most sagacious men know very |
Well. Henry Clay repeatedly and emrhati- !
'aiiy cautioned them upon the folly and mad
ness of such IA remedy for the grievance OF /
winch they compiained told them, aAd told |
hem truly, that il was the Union, and the |
under which it existed, that
'ouid alone preserve them their human pro-
'ert., and the instit utions which created such
.roperty, as long AZ they chose to maintain
UGH institutions; told them that the knel of
he Union Was the jubilee Of the slave
Ind well do they know il. There is no pos
IDLE danger Of iisnnon. The common
ense, and the instinct of self preservation Y