The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-12-21
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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 81, 1859.

perils hang over us, suspended Oy the
slanderest kind of thread and to make
the danger infinitely greater there are
some eighty odd Bedlamites slashing their
blades around the line of suspension with
seemingly no kind Of regard for conse-
ouences. TIE world is told every day
that the South won't bear anything more,
one more straw will break the Southern
Came's back, and then down goes camel
Union and all Why is it that Northern
Congressman can sit there week after
week. without any apparent concern about
approaching calamities7 They are EN-
ployed to look after all great national
concerns, and when danger threatens it is
their business to avert it, but so far as We
can perceive not hand is uplifted. If
the cleavage which we are assured runs
through the whole breadth of the land is
about to open, suddenly, and the Union to
be bisected each part hereafter to revolve
on its own axis and travel in its own or.
bit. then we are to witness an event which,
in Importance, bears no comparison with
anything which has TRANSFERRED for several
generations. Scarcely supposable event
could so disastrously affect the moral
world as this, with its probable attendant
results; and its effects upon the financial
world would be quite bevond computa-
ton. We ought by this time to see cap
ital disappearing like school Of macker-
ell at the approach of a shark. If there
were really any considerable danger of
rupture of the Federal relation it would
be sheer folly to invest in U. s. securi-
ties. But why is it that such general
heedlessness prevails regarding this mo-
mentous matter2 Unquestionably the
highest order of talent is engaged in mer-
camille pursuits, and signs which portend
financial disturbances are noted with bar
ometrcal certainty. But why, if the
danger is so iminent, is it not indicated in
Wall St.? 1t is simply because those who
are best qualified and who have the most
interest in knowing, know that no danger
exists
The violent language of Southern men,
bers in discussing the question is of itself
sufficient evidence that it is all buncombe,
and the mute replies of Northern Repre-.
sentatives are probably the most effective
that could be made. But if anything IS
to be said, we prefer the style Of Senator
Wade, Of which the following is sam
pie;
IF arguments against slavery cannot
safely be made, that constitutes the great
est objection to the spread of that insti
tuition he ever heard of. If we really
have aiming US Hn institution that we are
cherishing and seek to spread broadcast
over the land, so delicate in its structure
that free people cannot have that in
formation concerning it which they crave,
he said, it was an inference more fatal to
that institution than any he ever heard of
before. He proceeded to alude to the
muttered thunder of disunon meeting his
ears from the Southern hemisphere, in
case Republican President is elected
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Union will not easily be dissolved. Gen.
tlemen talk about it in a very business
like way, as though it was magazine to
be blown up whenever they choose to APP
ply the match. This fabric has been
more than eighty years in building, and
it will not be destroyed in a day He
then spoke of the navigable rivers, lines
Of railroads, and other interests nterlac.
ing the South and North There never
was so great and glorious a country, We
are married forever-for better or worse
We can make our condition very uncom.
Portable, but nevertheless there will be no
enforcement between US, There is no way
in which it can be effected, but least Of
all in the contingency mentioned IF you
wait till Republican President is elect
ed, you will have waited day too late.
Why don't you do it now, when you have
the government in your own hands.
say to you he would be but sorry Re-
publican who if elected by majority of
the votes of the American people, and
consequently backed by them, should fail
to vindicate his right to the Presidential
chair He will do it. No man at the
North is to be intimidated by the threats
Of dissolution which are thrown into his
teeth daily. Why DO you not do it2
There is no law requiring you to give US
notice of it. You had better do it at
once, without making threats. If the
Republican candidate shall be constitu-
tionally elected to preside for the next
four years over this people, my word for
it, preside he will, Who will prevent
2"
The bands which hold US together have
never been severely tried, and we believe
they will stand a much greater pressure
than they have ever had. A thorough
trial, we apprehend, might do something
TO quiet those who are all their lives suf.
iering under an apprehension of a rup.
ture.