The Washington union., 1857-05-23
For the Union.
4 WORD OF APPEAL.


e. occupy a really national position and hoping
over 10 be forced by any combination OF cireum-
.nces 10 take any other we desire 70 say certain
;nos Of which the time has great need, and which
IaId he lust now in the thoughts OF every good,
sectne citizen though they seem unheeded, and,
- any event are thus far unuttered.
4 or can it be- for the good Of the country that
,La,ts the animosities the boundless exaggera-
us Of every loose opinion and every wrong passion
NJ ,.as eneendered by the last of those struggles
ns he presidency through which we must quadrcn-
- ally mass should be prolonged beyond the oeca-
nony Perhaps they have grown to be inseparable
sn, that recurring occasion; but II they be, they
ore deplorabe incident to it, and it, ceasing to be
;c;dental and occasional they are TO become contin-
nI and nsrpetual then what terrible and disastrous
sature n our government itself will they not, OF ne
nessty bel The contest for the chief maglstracy,
rcb as il has heretofore beena turmoil OF some SIX
mnnhs--lias, while it lasted, been little short OF a
mnarary fit of national insanity bad enough, one
sonJ think quite as much as any reasonable man
ud ask but il does not content certain people
TIE od dsease--a fit every four years-a mere de-
r,;nm attendant upon another maady, the presiden-
! fal feyer--does not answer their purposes. Ihey
ra,M have us lunacs all the while and instead OF
NOW and then "a bee in bonnet, give us whole
r,, 10 keep our brain always in buzz. From
@s r. time we get beside ourselves but they want
ns 10 90 crazy altogether, Seven-eighths OF our
tim, we can safely go at large, and attend to busi-
aoss. while they good doctors J are doing their
ht - drive us into permanent phrensy to get us
Des' ,oy,ble strat-iackets, and to lodge us for
Ts , i; all the loathsome horrors of political mad
house! ,,c
Everybody remembers the case OF poor old George
III No man but must have dwelt with deep COM
nssion on the image of that poor old king, discrown-
Fl &c not alone his authority, bui his very reason,
snpk in all the squalidness and gloom OF q maniac's
oI bis paace turned to worse than prison, his
guards to keepers, the homage that waited about
Rim into nanacles and the lash, his proud dominion
over others into the most abject loss OF any control
&c aven his own miserable body. A picture it is, to
ia realities Of which art could add circumstance
that would make it more affecting, unless, indeed,
vnn snbstitute for the demented monarch an entire
sounry as insane and transform great realm into
amadhouse; for when whole sovereign people
90 rrazy together the madness and the misery of
ssiorlc ruler must needs be multiplied many times
over there being nobody left in his senses to take
care of the unatics that are all at large which unior
tunate advantage over the immured and hand-cufied
prince will only the induce every one OF them
to hurt or destroy others and himself.
Such is the order Of things which certain subtle
and restless politicians resolved TO create for
MS il they can These are the benefits this the
vet unasted happiness, which they are, with the
most benevolent and patriotic zeal perseverance,,
and ingenuity toiling and striving and sweating to
confer upon their country, whether it will or no.
political contest ended, in what alone makes 1T iegiti
mate--the selecting of him to whom the nation
chooses to code the administration of its affairs for
the next four years--these ceaseless disturbers,
these arfcers of voluntary trouble these breeders
Of dissenson if it We're happiness, these cutiva-
tors of every bad feeling as if it was blessing. and
should be our sole business, North and South
these enemies of all result who are bent on employ
ing the means TO defeat us of the endrefuse to let
the country take breath from the conflict that is pass
ed A calm we shall not havei these people are
wreckers, aud live by storms. WeatherIng rough
passage we have Just got into port with rich car
20, and want to dispose of it; but, before we have
started barrel bale box Of it, this part of the
crew kick up mutny, capsize the caboose, unship
the rudder, smash the compass, unrig the pumps,
cut loose the sheetanchor, and (after breaking into
the spirit-room and swearing to scute the ship if
we don't take Charlie the cabin-boy, for captain and
flf the cook for sailing MASTERY insist that we shall
ss To sea again, and lieyer more think Of making
habMi for that after an there no such skipper as
the Flying Dutchman, who carries his compass in his
head like pig, and has, like him, rudder but his
tail; while there are no such jolly dogs his ghosty
crew who are always half-seas-over; nor any craft
like their wizard old ship; which, having no rig
ging, gives no trouble Of handing the sails, and
goes, from her excellence Of model, quite well
pOttenrlsPBards as In any other way.
Nd:if for SEASON. once in every four years, we
get out of our wits, the more need that the spell
should be short one, and that we should be doubly
reasonable in the interval vouchsafcd us. What we
have done, well or i'll, cannot be undone; and all
that's left for men not '.gcne clean daft ia to make
ne best Of il for the appointed term. AT that time
after haying tried the President we have made, we
can quietly dismiss him if he should not answer our
iaE expectations, But that trial must he honestly
made. 1t is the peoples right that it shall be and
woe TO the man men who, from the first cast about
TO prevent it (!
There can be no ruler more legitimate than he
whom the public choice has constituted, nor no dis
loyalty greater than that which at once strives to
luIn INTO mere baube the great staff Of a,,ti.y
BY tne nation committed to his hands To oppose
MN from the jump; to set up, from the start. what
IlF can thWart the best Intentions and by distract
ag the whole land render the wisest measures in
eaectual: this IL not so much striking at his just
rights as spurnng away those of the sovereign peo-
pie themselves, whose will has commanded that he
snail be tried. Certainly, right opposition may
cSne when his administrative course shall have pre-
sslted grave fauts but until then, all combinations,
W plans, all movements TO impede or defeat, instead
g aiding his efforts to discharge his high trust
DC stigmatized as wicked faction, and not digni-
lea with the name of opposition For the latter,
ur resident has not yet given, nor is he likely TO
give, any sufficient cause. We look TO him for a
WISE andn temperate sway, that shall make him for
ehelies none but those who are the enemies of the
country its concord and well-being
occurring, then, to the two images by which we
awhile since endeavored to imbody our thought to
une public eye, we exhort the people to remember
ueorge III aud eat no more of the insane root that
some folks are bent ON examining them with as also,
"sSay on shore, now that we have got there and
not go atossing about all the seas in the Flying
pu'Ghman with spectres for ship-mates and Satan
Tor their skipper
10 Dead Mans isle in the eye of the blast,
40 The Dead Mans isle she is speeding fast
bN skeleton shapes her sails are unfurlcd,
ana taa hard Chat steers Ter is not Of this world