The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-06-06
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
! r,sa.y ,rIers,nxl Jade B, 1855.
DisseIving the Unisa.


Disselving the Untsq'
, N ros within the power Of the South 20 cnoose
h.ther The Union shall or shall not Pc dissoiveo'
-, = !. co.,d se,~ct the cause and manner 81 as
.,n,,cu Il would prefer any other than those which
earn M civ 10 be chiefly instrumental IL = oad
..,,sh M a .uch Republic shis should perish
II q. infancy; thar such men a. Washington. Hen
- Hamilton. jefferson, and the other statesmen
Ara heroes OF that august period, should have
been raised up In vain; that the constellation OF
Amar;cau stars shouid set forever jastas they had
e.,,,v risen ana Alled the whoie world with admi-
alton and hope. All this Il bad enough; but inf
,,;,e,v worse because 90 senseless foolish and RI
dlcuious, the mode, and manner Of their taking
of. Were we to 90 down in a Anal and open
struggle with the absolutism Of Europe, we
should perish fighting sioriossly and leave name
which .houid shine on the pages OF al history win
q majestic and serene ,lustreL But TO DO orousn'
10 an untimely end BY such born idiots ana doom
ssruck fanatics ~ the prime movers IN 'ne Adolf
ton movement, lie so absurd and disSracetuI tnAs
the lovers Of freedom throughout the world VIII not
know whether to cry over our calamity or iangn
q our folly. Il would be some consolation, IL we
mu.t perish by domestic treason, that the Catalina
should be man Of genius and abilities equal to
his wick ed and gigantic ambition; that the Satan,
who 10 TO bring desolation upon our Paradise,
shouid possess "a archangels intellect But to die
bv the hands Of wendell Phillips, Lucy Stone,
rred Douglass and Horace Greeley "Mein Gott,"
said poor Dutchman. in his last agonies, who
had been knocked over precipice by belligerant
ram, 81 toni mint tying SO much but, to be Pntted
to death py aolt sheep"
s We feel like honest Hans, when we think of the
Union being Dissolved, through such ridiculous in
strumentalities as those above enumerated HOW
Ia Il that such men rs the leaders of abolitonism
proper, ever attain influence in country distin
eaished by its shrewdness practical wisdom, and
common sensef There are in all communities
vain and monomaniacal people, like the Philiipss,
Kelly's and others but in no other country In the
world can they attain respect OR consideration
eyen In the social circle In which they move They
are regarded with Q sentiment of compassion, rs
silly or perhaps deranged persons, concerning
whom the Commissioner viii, IN all probability, De
one day called to issue writ de landtico inqaiendo
Yet these daft people are, in the United States
permitted to attain great consequence, and the
newspapers report at large their silly, treasonaoie
and blasphemous speeches at abolitioniss meetings
thereby gratifying their morbid passions for noto-
ricty and giving them an importance which ought
only to be accorded to men OF superior education,
intellissnce, and sound judgment. It seems to us
that the conservative press Of the North would do
well not TO pamper the vanity Of these prodieious
fosls, by publishing the proceedings OF abolition
conventions Leave that to the more congenial
media, their own organs, which have only sec
Sonal circulation. If the Union must be dissolved,
ret 1t be by some dignifsd and sublime instrumen-
tality Better far better, that with harness on and
flags flying, we should perish by the thunderbolt
OF ford0n war, Than to be butted over precipice
by rams, or kicked to death by asses.