Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-01-23
The Panic n Type OF Di.uniom.

/ In late number of the Nashville (Tenn) Ban
ner, we fud the following article, which we trans
/ fer with pleasure to our columns. The remarks
are woll.t timed, and we commend them to The at
tentlon Of both Northern and Southern men, who
value the Union above all party or sectional con
sidcrations
1t is the part Of wisdom to bring good out OF
evil, to SO use our anlictions aS to deduce from
them positive benefits. Few calamaties come
upon us whose terrors are not mitig0ted by some
accompanying good few storms tive
in their ravoges as to Mar upon their wings no
blessings. The financial hurricane that has jGst
swept over the county, tearing up from their
foundations the mightiest monetary structures in
the aud is still iraught with lessons Of tho deep
est wisdom, which, ii we will heed, may well nigh
compensate the evil that is to bo the inevitable
result The principal lessons taught 10y our pre-
sent financial troubles are prudence and economy.
We have been, In commercial point Of view, EN-
ncntly IA fast people, reckless and uncalcul0ting.
and extravagant. How forcibly do our calami-
ties now impress upon us the necessity OF n radi-
cal change aud reform in these errors
But the chief aud highest lesson taught by the
panic is of u political character. 1t has shown us
how intimately all the parts OF this Union are
connected together 1t was by one simultaneous
impulse that the panic broke out in all the great
monetary marts of the country. This is II forci
bio illustration of the fact that we are essentially
one people and that no great calamity can betail
one portion that is not felt by all. We have u
common origin and common destiny. Our
hopes and fears our joys and caamities, are all
the same Let the great North be bowed down
with anliction and the throes of pain will he felt
in every nerve and artery Of the South. Let
trouble come upon US, and our brethren ON the
other side of the imagined dividing line will he
moved by the same convulsivc shocks We form
togethera common and nseparabe brotherhood
Of States and the sympathetc impulscs of mutual
interest aud affection peryade aud permeate the
whole family.
But is foreshadowing of the evils which would
follow the dissolution Of this Union that the pan
ic is most instructive. The deep gloom that now
pcrvades the whole country is type, faint, yet
impressive of that deeper gloom that would set
tie like dark pail upon IA when the first knel
of disunion shall be sounded The staguaton Of
trade and the prOstration of all business affairs
that would follow such an event, are but dimly
prolgured by the present financial pressure, Sud
as are mems faces now, tho sorrow that will he
speak itself in every countcnanco when this Union
Is dissolved, will he far more deep and fearful
| is probable that in our talk about the dissolu-
ton Of this Union we do not full comprehend the
OF such an event 1t would be the
most stupcndols catastrophe that could possibly
happen u mighty convulsion Of moral nature,
the shock of which the whole earth would teol -
All the relations of nations would he broken up,
the wheels OF commerce aud manufactures in
stantly Coggcd, and millions Of people thrown
out OF employment. Onr property would not be
worth half its present value. Our trade would
be crushed with restraints and exactions. We
would be borne down aud impoverished for the
support ofregular armies and navies and all our
present liberty, peace and p.1nty would be lost
forever.