Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1859-12-22
DISUNION.
Nothinr is more ridicnIous than the at

the bugaboo of disunion. They seem to have
rsked their all upon it, and are as desperate
as gambler with his last card in game
If they cannot scare the people with it. now,
thoir last chance is gone. Hence the numer-
GUS shapes in which the deaths head and
bloody bones is served up The fre-eaters in
Congress display the ghastly spectacle in diff
erent phases every day locofoco orators at
Union-saving meetings exhaust the vocabulary
in depicting the terrible horrors of the dread
tul catastrophe land lecofoco editors surcharge
their columns with all the expletives at their
command in describing an event existing only
in their disturbed imaginations
But so far they have scared no one They
have not even fooled any one into taking part
with them in their union-saying meetings. In
Philadelphia the Iocofoco hand was so plain in
all the arrangements for the Union meeting
that the most prominent opposition men were
either excluded from it or held themselves aloof
from it, 1t aud similar Boston meeting,
were mere locofoco gatherings. for the purpose
Of hiding locofocosm under a simulated love
for the Union
From whence do the threats or dangers OF
dissolution come? From the North? No
From the Republicans? No. The RepuJli-
can party is Union party. The first article
in its creed is that the Union must and shall
be preserved. It's members ana its rcpresen
tatves utter no threats and have no purpose
or desire to dissolve the Union From whence
hen, does the danger come From the South
alone. The only threatcners are Southern
men, and they are lot to be found outside of
the democratic ranks If there is any danger,
therefore, of dissolution of the Union, it is
to be found in the Democratic party.
1t is sound principle of law that no man
should be permitted to take advantage of his
own wrong. The principle is as sound in poll
ties as in law. Neither men nor parties can
be permitted TO do wrong and take advan-
tage of it. The Democratic party, therefore,
under this principle, cannot be permitted to
do this wrong Of threatening to dissolve the
Union if the South cannot have its own way,
and then plead for continuance in power up
on the ground that it, alone, can save the
country from danger which it alone has
created. All that is necessary to save the
Union from any possible danger is to cease
threatening The only enemies the Union has
are to be found in the Democratic party. Let
the party choke off the offenders in its own
ranks, and the country can have peace
The Union is in no danger from the principles
Of the Republican party. If it succeeds in
getting possession OF the government, it can
and will administer its affairs in perfect con-
protection to the rights of every portion of the
confederacy. If any attempt is made to dis.
solve the Union, (Which is not at all probable, }
it will be made by democrats, in democratic
States, and under democratic auspices We
have 10 apprehension of danger from that
source but should any exist, it will be poor
way to remedy it by continuing in power the.
party from which the danger comes Our
safety and that of the Union consists in turn
ing that party ont.
We repeat, no one has yet heen scared by
the silly vaporings of these amateur terrorists
The trick they would play is too transparent.
Let them play it out, however 1t is their
last and only chance, and it would be pity
20 deprive them of their one remaining hope
of retaining the government in their hands