The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-11-17
The Union Smashed.

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Constitution. most earnestly and patheti-
cally called upon New York and New
Jersey to preserve from destruction that
delicate and friable piece Of American
pottery, known as the Union. "If,"
eaid the Consultation, these states should
prove to be the great breakwaters. arrest
the food of anti slavery fanaticism, and
rebuke the irrepressible conflict with
which the Union is threatened by Mr..
SEWARD, all will be well. But If, on the
other hand, the surges of sectional pas
sion and prejudice should roll over them
also. they may have engulfed the liber.
ties of u country. If these two states
should decide in favor of the SEWARD ag-
~i,ators. by elevating them to place and
power, a deep gloom will spread like a
pail over the country. The heart of the
patriot will tremble with apprehension.
Confidence in the durability of our in
stituiions will be deeply shaken. The
pillars Of the Union will rock upon their
base, and many will prepare for the APP
pretended catastrophe. But il, o the
other hand, victory should perch upon
the Democratic banner, thousands will
feel as if we had escaped a great disaster.
Business will revive confidence will be
restored all our industrial energies will
be reinvigorated the pulse of commerce
will beat with renewed vigor !; tie hand
Of labor will receive new employments
and augmented wages and all will feel
as il New York and New Jersey had re-
signed and rc-sealed the guarantees Of
the Constitution" And the New York
Herald said. on the morning Of the cleo
ton elf the Black Republican revolu-
~tionary ticket should be elected in New
York and New Jersey, the news will fall
on the ear of the South like the knell ola
departed Union, and the excitement will
speedily reach a crisis, and assume a prac-
tical shape which will appal and astound
the people of the North"
So it seems that upon New York and
New Jersey rested the responsibility of
preserving that tender concern, the Amer
lean Union, from fracture-from division
and subdivision. They could, if they
would, have revived business, restored
confidence. reinvigorated industrial en-
~rgies, given the hand Of labor new en-
ployments and augmented wages, and
resigned and re-sealed the guarantees OF
the Constitution. But they wouldn't
most un~generously, most unfeelingly, re
fused to do any such thing, and blindly,
not to say traitorously. went over to the
support of the Black Republican Revo-
~Iutionary Ticket-declined to stand as
breakwaters, and turn back the tide Of
~anti-slavery triumph. Oh, ignoble New
York !! oh, unfaithful New Jersey thus
to desert pro-slayery Democracy in this
her hour Of trial-thus to refuse her one
particle of encouragement as to the re-
suit of the great contest Of the coming
year. II you had but given her the
least intimation that you would be will
ing to help her again to the national
loaves and fishes, all would have been
well-her laborers would have been sure
Of employment and augmented wages.
But now, alas! there is no hope. You
have discarded Ter patriots, and when
thew release their hold OF the treasury,
the Union will fall to the earth. and the
brittle thing be dashed to atoms. You
have abolished Fourth of July, extin-
guished fire. crackers, double-headers,
and other pyrotechnic devices. and Civ
On a uuietus to scores Of patriotic ora
. dVcss seenlsao Iusstlat DemocratIc
writers and demagogues must soon find
eIOt all Ills oIuotCl dDOut ~ OiSSOiulIOU
Of the Union does them more harm than
good. The anti slavery sentiment of this
country is an intelligent sentiment. and
is not to be drawn from the support Of
Constitutional and just measures by any
such insane cry. Their doctrines are
the old doctrines Of the Fathers Of the
Republic-their policy is the policy Of
the trainers Of the Constitution-and the
cry Of treason, fanaticism and dissolu-
ton avails nothing to men approaching
these facts. If the Union cannot be sus-
tanned under the policy Of WASHINGTON,
J JEFFERSON. and the others who formed it,
then il is not worth sustaining. and the
quicker it is destroyed the better. III
must come unless the South
oligarchy can rule it. and use it for
extension Of the Infamous system of
human slavery. then every honest free
man will rejoice at its destruction. When
fs mi.cinn iS declared IN he tba. cproad I,