New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-06
A CLOSING APPEAL.

ISAIAH 7. WILLIAMS, esq, Of this City closed
Dc canvass at Roekland Lake last evening IN
speech eI which We print the peroration-aS
kls0ws:
The crisis j. at hand TIE nation 70 Keeling IN par
sa,ent PAINS Before smother sun shall sink below the
western bills our mother country will have gwen birth
10 her fourteenth President in the election OF ABB aham
Lincoln, or-but fear to look st the alternative
TIE 10 no slterpative-there be no alternative
Abrsbam Lincoln is al eady in the pa.ions heart born
70 the seat of the Industrious Washington.
Ye-yet there are those who are 20 blind the mar
xAssed sentiment OF nstcn deaf 70 the pulsations
Of patons heart, that they cry aloud in voices Of
mingled hope and warning that united front Of
Fusion v,teIs are formed into line behind the buwark
Of tie Constitution for the protection and preservation
OF the Union over whose banners victory even now s
lowering sad viii perch tomorrow; and they warn Us
70 beware how with parricidal hand, we strike down
tSs raised, not for any one party they tel u),
hot for all Osries save our own-t1ey bid Us beware
kew strike down the rsised 10 ,avs our coun-
try TSat sms loviug, patriotic hearts among us may
no: pause before this eoDGraon and this threat, is
mere than we can say or even hope. 10 tins alone
consists our danger, ii danger there be- am not
without sympathy with men who deem all political
COEtldeI3lODB az urOe6 OelOro kOs QUO
nent of love of the gritty and union Of THE
great Dstion. i say in the language Of the
s-ea. Webster-and il il ht that now when threats
Of dganion have come up, like mighty, rushing wind,
Srom Il nth and vita tongues OF fire assi the rag
of tn. Uniep il is fs THAI we should evoke the
majestic shades of the great Webster from bis msuso-
hum for couas.l-"I have not, be SAID, have not
allowed nysf Sir, to look beyond the Union, to zee
VIVA. might ie hidden ia the dark recess behind.
have not CJolly weighed the chances of preserving
liberty whsa tie bonds that unite together shall De
broken ASH oder. / have not accustomed myself 70
hang over the precipce Of di.uD5n, to See whether,
with my short sight, can fathom the depth Of the
sby o. bele "; nor could regard hin as safe coun
telor IN Il asirs Of This Government whose thoughts
should b. mainly bent considering not how the
Union M ~ 10 best preserved but how tolrabe might
be the c. ndon OF the people when it should be broken
Ep ard destroyed. While thu Union Lasts, we have
high ey citing gratifying prospects spread out before
u.s. for is and our cbldren Beyond that GEEK not to
pnsrs b TIE val God grant thstlu my day, stleas'
shst rtsn may not rise God grant that on my WIS.,
ion ne, yef may opened what lies behind! When my
eyer shall be TUNED TO behold for the last time the
,un n Heaven, may / not zee him shining on
the b. oxen aud 6i,bonored fragments Of once go ious
UL;o D; on States discovered dscordsnt beigerenti
IN aterDsl blood Let their last feeble and lingering
g4o ce "a her behold the gorgeous ensign of the Rpub-
known and bonored throughout the earth, still
full high advanced its arms and trophies streaming in
tit, original ustre not stripe erased or pod.ed, not
single star obseured, bearing for its motto, no such
mi cradle nteuogstory as What Is all this worth
nor those other words Of delusisn and folly Liberty
Gie and Union after Tard but everywhere, spread
all over in characters Of living light blazing Oh all its
ample folds as they float over the ssa and over the
land and in every wind under the whole heavens that
oti er sentiment dear to every true American heart
Liberty and Union, and forever one ana insopa-
rasle.
Such is now, tonight at the closing scene of this
momentous canvass, width for excitement for the
rasgniude and practical Importance of the principles
stake has no parallel in the history of mankindyes,
such now the united aud unanimous sentiment of the
Republican party. Is this conservatism Can the
Bell and Everett men, or the Douglas men, or the
Breckenridge men, cay as much Of their paryl Judge
Won felo citizens where Is the conservatism Of the
country today Who threatens TO dissolve the
Upionl The Republicansl The man is not in life
who ever heard such threat from the lips Of we'll
informed or leading Republican and yet from the lips
of the conioned factions who oppose u.s. sucn threat
is a staple commodity a standing arguments almos
TIE only argument they present. pretend to present
Through all political changes, have always endeay-
ored 70 stand in the ranks Of the party though the
most conservative and thank God there l stand
tonight where the great Webster would have stood
had he been on earth at this hour. From the day
when the bred Scott decision promulg gated, from
which decision it was plain that but one more step
was d be taken by the Slave Power-one short, one
easy step and quite logical step, too-and our
whole Union, States as well as Territories, would be
slaveholding Union, Aye, with Slavery fastened
upon every in of it's SOIL on New-York, on Massa-
chusetts, on every State now free, on States that
have enjoyed the prosperity and blessings Of freedom
for more than half century with Slavery fastened
upon it by all Il indissolube bands Of Constitutional
interpretation bands that could not be dissolved save
by disruption of that Constitution, followed by all
the horrors of anarchy, such change Of Govern
ent as should reconstruct of the three great de-
psitments Of Government-the Supreme Court of the
United States and thereby obt ain new and differ
ent Interpretation Of the Constitution.
Yes, from the day that decision was promulgated
az the Constitution of this country; from that day
forward the conservative heart Of the nation have
been steadily mastering around the standard Of the
Republican party.
The bred Scott decision was in its nature Revou-
tionary 1t struck into the very vtals Of the country,
with barbed arrow, whose point had been dipped In
the Gall of she Lernian Hydra.
What would Washington have said to that
Wasbipeton, whose fourth act President of the
United States was to give his official sanction to bill
ttat emsncipated every slave, and forever prohibited
Slavery in the whole Of the North-West Territories