Litchfield enquirer., 1858-12-16

threats of disunion dinned into their ears. These southerners it is said, ere dreadfuly in earnest they mean to dissolve the Union immediately and unless we listen to them unless we take their advice, provide them with all the convenient offices, aud pass all their schemes of foreign and domestic outrage-they will assuredly be as good as their words" Not a few--they will pardon us if, in the light of the late events, We call them weak and shall low minded--fell into this foolish kind of cla- nor and prate, and have at times, doubtless, disturbed the equanimity of some others who had brains enough to have known better.
 For our part, we have never been for mo. ment misled by the warke manifestoes of the South ; we have always supposed that the Union was of as much advantage to them as it was to us and we have given its leaders too much credit for discernment, to imagine that they would throw away the certain advantages of 1t for the lrecarious benefits of the state of uproar that might follow its overthrow. More than that we have considered that, as the phys.cal coniguration of this wloe North American continent seems to adapt it peculiar ly to the residence of a single and homogeneous people-that, as the structure of its political government is modelled upon the same purpose --that, as the possession of common language, of a common history, of common hsttulici,s tended to bind n> togeth,r--and that, as the daily enIarging intercourse of trade, of travel, of family alliances, and of political meetings, was wearing away more and more t;e preju- dicts ot locality We have considered, we Say that these obvious designs of Providence, these wise schemes of our fathers, these softening and binding social influences, were not likely to be defeated by the madcap declamations of d few not over-gtted politicians aud Scllcmers.
 Events have thus far justified our confidence, and rebuked the unmanly fears Of our antago- nsts The hoarse roar about disunion has sub sided to a remarkable degree the moans of those northern weddings who, like President Buchanan, have professcd to dread and deplore it, have dwnded into the most pcnsive and si- lent sghs even the doughty Davis of M;>sis- sippi goes piping, and the legislature of South Carolina, which has hitherto been the procreant bed and cradle of all stormy discontents, and of all truculent proclivi,its manIfests an unmis- takable disposition to turn the cold shoulder upon its fery-hearted Rhetts Keitts and Ad aEses. It sends to the Senate of the United States, as We have already said--to the very seat of the implacable CaIhoun--a quiet coun- try gentleman, who is colonel of course, but who has never been distinguished for his belig- erent qualities, and who, if we do not err in our recolectons, has, in all the domestic con- troversies of his State, taken the side of mode ration, of reason, of peace and of union.
 Of the causes of this abatement iD the tone of the Sonth we had intended to say word, but shall reserve our remarks to another occa- sion. Meanwhile let us remark, that the dan ger to be apprehended from the southern pol- ticians is not in the event of their going out of the Union, but in the event, which is now so certain, of their staying within it. As external enemi, s, they would never be very formidable the numerical and hySical superiority of the North would ever render it a Gibraltar against all the porguns of their wrath but as mem- bers of the confederation, taking part in its legislative councils, sharing itsexecutive offices, and inaueucil g the public sentiment, we think, they may need the most vigiant watching. Let us commend, then, to our timorous friends, who may be now relieved of their fears of dis union to direct the energies of their minds to this source of public danger let them see to it that the propagandists of slavery do not fnd better field for their operations within the Union than they could og!.ss::de of it, and that the present temporary Hull in the pro-slavery agitation is not a part of that mastery inac tivity of which their great leader used to speak.
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