Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1856-07-03
PLYMOUTH. IND. JULY 3, 1856.

In no indirect terms, declares that It's fra
mers only felt themselves secure of the CO.
operation Of nine out of the thirteen old
States.
The war with England followed, and,
without attaching too much Importance to
the odium which fastened itself on the con-
vention held at Hartford, it is very certain
that large portion of the most thinking
and intelligent men of the Eastern States
were thoroughly alienated from the FEEDER
al Government, and ready to take almost
any action hostile to it that their sound
sense and natural shrewdness would have
deemed safe.
Twenty-Five years ago body of bold
and able men at the South were c-,enly ar
rayed against the Union, resistance to its
laws was openly threatened by Sovereign
States, and the whole authority of the ster-
nest will by which the Government has ev-
er been administered. was found necessary
to sustain the Constitution and Laws ofthe
Confederacy.
ow how great the contrast! At no
time have clamors been more violent. At
no time have the subjects of controversy
been more difficult or delicate. Ii is not
now question Of revenue or finance, of
bank or tariff; it is one directly affecting
the very essence of labor, the very exist
ence of capital, entering into social rela-
tions. connected with the social organiza-
ton itself, geographical in its nature, and
of all others the most calculated to excite
an angry sectional contest. Nor is it waged
in any calm, philosophical temper. Abuse
answers abuse. and vituperalion echoes
back vituperation.
''From Alp to Alp leaps the wild thunder
And yet. amidst all this elemental strife
who does not see calmly. immovable pear
ched upon his rock the Eagle of the In
ion? Who does not feel when he soberlv
con.emplates the state Of the country, that
disunion is in fact impossible? Who does
not perceive that the great mass of the A
merican people North, South, East and
West, are fixed as fate in their resolve that
the Union shall be proserved?-not some
union, not some possible confederacy. ALI
ance, or league that sordid interest or base
fear might possibly hereafter patch up. but
tie Union: the Union us it is, the Union
such as we have made it. stretching from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, the terror of op-
prcssors. the hope of the world This is
the Union that the American people mean
shall be maintained, preserved, and perpet-
uaied.
Do not let the cynical reader fancy that
we are going off into the staple texts which
from the ime of Pericles funeral dis
course TO the last Fourth of July. have
formed the theme of popular orations-
The devotions Of the American to the I'm
ion is by no means the exclusive result of
degree the conviction of cold blooded, cal
culaling, deliberate interest; the sentiment
and fancy Of the multiplication table; of
that shrcwd guess of what is best for us,
for which orr worst enemies give us cred
it. The American, be he a banker of \
Iork or a planter in Mobile, turning up
the fertile soil Of Iowa, or ploughing the
great waters Of the Mississippi, sees and
feels that there is nothing hat is dear to
him Il at would not decay or perish
with the disruption of the Union. The
hum of the factory, the clang of the ma
chine e-shop, would die away; the locomo-
tive would cease its noisy progress toward
the setting sun; the paddles of the Califor-
MIA steamers would no longer revolve. and
the Panama railroad would be lost i'm iun-
gle of underbrush. Property would sink
to nothing. Custom houses woul1 spring
up on every frontier, and every bush wo'd
be an officer Copyrights and patents
would be waste paper; intercourse would
be arrested; t.ade droop or die. All this
is as true as that The radiant Stripes and
Stars would be useless piece Of bunting,
and that the very name of America and A
would be LOST. We should be
known only by our States. and New York
and Pennsylvania would sink their heads
by tie side Of Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
In such a contrast it displays, indeed,
no very marvellous intellect, nor any won
elful patriotism, to feel the full value of
the Union. The American would be
blockhead. n Ounce. hopeless idiot, far
NOR. than criminal, if he did not at all
times, and on all occasions, feel and act up
on the feeling that the Union is the very es-
sence Of his temporal being, his glory. and
and his protection--the source OF his wei
fare, and main cause of his proud position.
DecuS CT c0iumen
If we drag about under the good old