Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-02-08
WHOLE NO. 391.

some of the Federal officers of the government
IL is an expression of insanity. They are insepa-
rable. Destroy either, and the other must perish.
They cannot stand alone. Americans created tie
Union, and Americans certainly know best how 10
preserve 1t. Where such cant is used IL can but
prepare the public mind by such suggestions 10
entertain dstrust in the Union and in the benefits
arising from 1t ; and finally to undermine It, Ii Is
TO prepare the popular mind for the belief that
Union Is dangerous to the rights and liberties Of
the South, and thereby destroying the only liberty
which can ever exist in America
The object Of the disunionists has ever been 10
array the North against the South in state of ar
tagonism, to agtate every subject calculated TO
separate the bonds of union and destroy fraterpal
feeling between the sections. What would be the
condition OF the two sections II disunion were 10
take place Standing armies would be the iney.-
table result taxation would be the consequences of
standing armies; anarchy would ensue. Distress
and despondency would cause the people 10 iy to
the armies OF popular leader, in the hope of pro-
tection or at least aleyiation OF their suerings:
and where we now enjoy union and liberty thele
would be despotism and misery. What would our
situation be, in the event of dissolution of the
Union? You may approach the gulf of ruin, but
you dare not look in it. hope it is far distant
from us IL is not pleasant to contemplate this
subject but it is less terrific at distance than IL
must be II il should ever come upon u.s. Tie
towards cry Is, there is no danger; but when
danger approaches he is mprepared TO grapple
with the adversary, and attempts to fee, but is
stricken down by the destroyer.
The number of shareholders in the Southern
States is 900, and the number of slaves 800.
000-fourteen to one. If disunion ever takes
place, two sections in such juxtapositon as the
North is to the South, it would be impossible to
maintain peace between them. Would il prevent
the escape of slaves from the South to the North,
or would 1t not greatly increase that evil? And
must we not suppose the able-boded slave, when
he fed to that country would become the merce-
nary OF that government and with them would be-
come the mercenary soldier to war against his form
er masterP What portion ofour Southern population
not would remain in territory where sIa-
very exists, and where they would be menaced by
'servile insurrectionsg Would not every man who
not stakeholder, with his family, quit his home
ana seek a succedaneum where he would be ex-
empt from the horrors which would menace Il q
very foundation Of the Southern Confederacy /
let imagination draw picture which is too big
with horrors for Language to describe. The Unit n
must be preserved. Let us be up and doing while
It is yet day, for the night cometh when no man
can work Let US meet the insidious foe of our
countrys glory, our ,eountry's safety and its only
salvation-the Union or these Statos.
My devotion to the Union, my regard for tho
Compromises Of the Constitution, induced me 10
oppose every violation of the coinpacts made undtr
it, and hence was opposed to the repeal OF the
Missouri Compromise have been charged with
being favorable to Aboltionism. | pity the crea-
ture who has ever had the audacity to think he
could taunt me by such an imputation. For him
will entertain other feeling than that OF cool
and dispassionate contempt They have charged
me with catering to the Presidency. That man j
could pity if it were not more agreeable to laugh
at him. Have not been twice President of the
"Lone Star State?" Have not guided her ship
through the dark and stormy pillows of revolution2
49, La.., I~l.<~ f,I
after period of nine years war? And is she not
now pre-emnent in all that is desirable and pro,
as State of this Union9 l would not court the
Presidency of the United States Age will socn
be advancing upon me, and / am not anxious 10
court new cares. If it we're not for the conscious
fight of time, | should not realize the advance Ct
ages infrmites, but know the day is not distant
when must be called to my last account.
thank my God that much of my life has been
spent in the emancipation of my countrymen from
the thraldom of tyranny and in breaking the man
acles Of despotsm, and in striking, from their con-
sciences the chains Of priestcraft But my fellow
citizens, fthe American people should ever indulge
| an inclination to elevate me to the Presidency
Of the United States and that thing should be COL
summated, l hope l will know my duties to my
constituents, and will not hesitate in commenc-
ing reform of the government, and my exertions
shall be unremittng, until have experienced its
accomplishment. But for all thisI would not cate
to any ism EARTH and least of all to abolitonism
with its train of evils terrible disunon itself
| Born in the South, bred in the South, havir &
lived in the South, and having bled in the South,
and watered none but Southern soil with my blood,
how could prove recreant to these ties I? Nor are
these all the ties that bind me to the South. My
kindred, my wife, my children, and friends of early
| life, comrades OF my ripper years-they too are
pledges Of my fidelity to the South-but all these
cannot render me unfaithful to the Union. What
c0htemptible folly to charge me with Abandoning &
the rights Of my countrymen or forgetting my
duty to my constituents. l have seen passing in
| the newspapers letter from Henry A. Wise. I
didn't intend to enlarge his notoriety, but will
dignity him with passing notice.
| Henry A. Wise WHO is he The newspa
pers say he is the governor elect of Virginia the
records Of the country say he is the shameless
slanderer and reviler of Andrew jackson, who
charged him with corruption, and for years OPP
posed his administration and traduced his charae
ter-charged him with corruption in his admins, :
| tration-rash and unparalleled corruption, yet
Virginia has honored him with her confidence
| To be sure he has got that distinction, while Min
| lister TO Brazil he became notorious in foreign
i countries by quarrel about women and children
/ with a scrub-emperor, who had been run off from
| Europe, and who found throne on the banks ,f
! the Amazon. He was not recalled by Mr.. Polk,
| whom he had sandered and traduced, as well .
| General jackson, from the fact Mr.. Polk could not
| descend TO retaliate for the abuse which he had
lavished upon him. In his reply to Boston com
mittee he has called my name, and intended, no
doubt, to identify with abolition by insinuatir
that had co-operated with abotionists. This
low fling of his would not elevate the character tf
a third rate demagogue But he is a man who has
| been accustomed to minister in other peoples
quarrels, whilst he has had wonderful tact in pre-
serving his own person. lie says my example is
the last he would wish to follow. That he has no
inclination to follow me, readily admit. lie must
be aware Of an aversion have to Juveniles of u