The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-08-21
THE BLACK-REPUBLIcAN BLOW AT THE coNsrlTU-
TION.

THE LAcK-REPUBLIcAN BLOW AT THE coNsrlTU
TI0S.
The late act which was perpsrated by the blackrepub
can party in the House Of Representatives, will be under
stood and felt by the people, and viii not be forgotten
forgiven by them II is the truth to say that the American
people have proved themselves in all times past the very
best interpreters Of the actions of in regard TO the in
terests of their country They may be deceived for little
while. The deception lasts long. Whenever they
are deuded by cunning and proagate falsehood they
soon discover it, and come up promptly 10 the cor
recten Of the with a strength that is resist
less and magnanimity which proves the high es-
innate in which they hold their peculiar institutions
In the character OF the latter they separated from
all the world There example government SO valued
and precious rs their own and they jealous and yig
liant for its preservation The backrepublican had ny
pocrisy and ski enough to beguile them into belief
of their Misrepresentation promises and professions That
day has passed. and with the gradual development Of the
plans of that party to obtain the supreme power of the
country the public mind has kept pace with its progress
and at this moment il is fully awakened to the extent OF
their designs The people now see and know that the de-
strucon of this Union is intended by that party Their
sectional candidate was true type of their heart and hen
they struck that revolutionary boW upon tie constitution, BY
their propisO to the army appropriation b tOGs but giving
another practical illustration Of their reasonable purposes
We published two days ago that proVso and have said
what is well should be repeated and sounded again and
again through the length and breadth of the land, that
their object compel the President TO disband the army
so that anarchy might come and the road be unobstructed
to that revolution and conquest which alone could crafty
their wicked ambition. Like their demonstration upon
Kansas this another step too much That people Of
whom speak will be reused up to indignant of
their danger-the danger of the Union They will
come up to its the 4th of November like re-
freshed giant from his repose Those Catiline bands
who under their metropolitan flag of only sixteen
stars know no country but that OF sixteen States,
will be rebuked and dismissed by their defeat from the
public confidence and hare nothing left of their ambi-
tous Vaccinations but the keenest pangs of political dis
appointment Everything they have done has been
tona The revolution they attempted in Kansas
tonal Their nomination of J. G Fremont sectional
The revolutionary blow they struck upon the constitution
in the House Of Representatives sectional and for
other purpose than that they might paralyze this
ent and reign undisputed masters OF the country in the
midst of carnage and disunon This group of acts hay
ing the origin supposed by their leaders to be
tho most potent Of arrayng great northern
sectional excitement which would forever rend them
der But those who have thus long, diligently and
unscrupuousy plotted have moderated the character of
their oounrymen They did not allow them the place
the qualities which we assigned them in the beginning
Of this article They must have judged them by the less
enlightened people of other times and countries and be
Ieyed thew might be made the deuded followers of
thing like French revolution They forgot schools
Al fka1 ntad
attachment Of our northern brethren to the constitution
and the Union They did not remember how faithfully
that vast population Of the North from Maine 10 Ili-
nos had always rallied around those names whenever
there seemed shadow OF danger passing over the
land If they have forgotten all these things, We now
mind them that they already the truths and seals Ct
history and that it is because Of this that appeal with
confidence to northern brethren We tell them that
their demonstrations Of attachment to the Union Of sup
port Of the democratic candidate for President in this
great struggle hailed by the whole South with
hope and faith and the feeling Of affection and admiration
There are no men, not Of their own region who
sand higher with the South than northern brethren
who are shoulder to shoulder breastng the storm Of anat
cm and resisting the Vaccinations Of corrupt political
organization The come to this great crisis
upon which turns the fate Of this Union the stronger Is
this feeling in the South and the higher its admiration
OF the moral and political herosm Of their patriot breth
rem Of the North They know how to estimate their trials
and how to esteem and respect their stern and unyedng
principles They know that difficulties but animate them
that no oriune in the past has shocked their courage
and that our ,rumphs in the future will be TO them the
glory Of having saved the Union. This feeling between
the patriots Of the South and the North viii be the true
and future bond Of the Union They will put away from
their hearts the personal stres Of individuals and the
demoralzinE evils Of religious aud political combinations
by which the divine projections profaned and the
rights Of the people debased nobler duty better
and higher destiny calls the patriotic men Of the North
and the South the duty and he de,'iny Of preserving
this Union for that hundred millions who In few short
years. win occupy its SOIL and for the hopes and haPpi
ness Of that world OF Chrsendom who look with anxiety
TO The great movements Of this people lie, northern
brethren this for in their hands rests the concu
sion Of this great issue.
NEW JERSEY.