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MAR rorerurnenf on earth.
Two 81 the political parties ii the country have
nitched Presidential battle upon sectional issues,
ana Of % fearful character q to stir the deepest
passions Of The American PEOPLE. Though in
seeming conflict, II cannot be disguised that those
parties have in such sort co-operated a. to press
npon The country one exciting issue after another,
until b. dint Of continued exssperation, they have
nearly succeeded ID arraying, IN hostile columns,
one.half Of The States of the Union against the
other. They appear mutually to hare employed
all the energies of party power to engender eec-
tional distrnst, prejudice, and elimination, and
now, for the f5rsf time ii the history Of the gov
ernment we fnd truly formidable party, fully or
ganized, and using every effort ID their power to
combine the non-sIaveholding States Of ihe Union,
In struggle for the Executive power Of the Con-
federacy. In that organization are included men
who are supposed to be conservative and nation
al, but who are believed to be led BY excitement
or misc0nception, into movements which, In their
cooler moments, they cannot but recoil from, as
they would from pcstilence and famine.
Its management has been essentially controlled
nv LEADERS vho u1or ai raenc have stead
lily kept up an active, unceasing, and implacable
warfare upon the institutions Of the slaveholding
States. Should such party unfortunately sue
ceed in the present distracted state of the public
mind, in selecting sectional President supported
alone by the voters Of the non-savehoding States,
we have too much reason to apprehend that there
might instantly spring into existence o movement
Of resistance, the consequences of which no human
wisdom can forsee, and no lover of his country or
friend of popular government anywhere could fail,
4 in all coming time, sadly to deplore.
i We do not believe they can succeed, but we
may be really threading upon the brink Of vol
cano that is liable, at any moment, to burst forth
and overwhelm the nation"
i But the Republican party is not alone respon-
sible for those appalling issues, nor is its success
the only danger TO the stability of the Government
in its present form. The Democratic party has
eagerly seized upon these momentous issues, and
welded them as the thunderboits of party war.
fare. They have striyen to madden the South
and to concentrate Southern votes upon their can
didates, as the Abolitionists have striEen to mad
den the North and to concentrate Northern votes
upon their candidates.
) When their extreme measures are resisted they
taunt national men, in the South, as "submission
ists'' or worse than submissionists as the Adolf
tonists taunt national men in the North as slough
faces" or worse than dough faces.
They have apparently struggled to bring abou
the formation of geographical parties, such as TIL
Father OF his country so emphatically warned u
against, based upon questions Immediately tending
to split the Union asunder; and they have seeming
ly done this for the petty purpose Of securing
temporary party triumph. The Union, in forr
at least, we think, would survive the success {
0 such party for the present; hut its trump
D would probably keep the furnaces Of scctions
Q passion rcd hot, and ultimately. and it may be
a no distant day, its rash errors would engender
tstorm OF sectional conflict beneath which the 90,
!. ernment Wcal1 sink into ruins. We think the,
: too, viii fail.
But we believe the time has come when Il
common safety requires that the raging section
heats of those parties should be cooled. The tin
d has come when national, conservative men, respec
j. ing the Constitution true 10 their whole coufr
land indignantly frowning upon the first dawnir
lof disunion," should stand shoulder to shoulde
and unite in placing at the head Of the cover
lment Chief Magistrate ia whose CAPACITY. no
lesty and patriotism all could confide. qbe N
tional American PARTY have now presented su
q man-one who has been tried and founa f;aifhf
to every tr,st--who. being snddenlv called nm.
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