Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-02-17
How it Concerns" Us.

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UNION MEETING IN KENTUCKY
There wa very large meeting Of citizen
Of Mason and adjoining counties in Ken
lucky, as we'll as of Brown and adjacen
counties in Ohio, irrespective of party
politics, at the Court House in Maysyille
Ky, on Monday Jan. ., 1860. The fol
lowing resolutions were adopted, among
others
"Tbat none of the alleged evils which
have ever disturbed, or which now disturb
the harmony of the Confederacy, are just,
! ly chargeable as the effect of the legiti-
mate operations of our Federal institutions
but are chargeable alone upon the crimi-
ual d!sloyalty of those who, in Obstructing
the laws and authorities, ARE themselves de
signedly or undesi gnedIy, enemies of the
Uuion; and, SO far from considering these
troubles a pretext for unfriendlv demon
strations against it, We regard them fit
occasion for summoulng every patriot TO
its defence against all assaults. from " that
ever quarter or on whatever prcience.
"That the dissolution of the Union
would cure no evil, repel no aggression,
right nc wrong, diminish no alarm, indem-
nifty no damage, but, on the contrary, that
it would be crime against mankind, in
bligbting the last hope of mans capacity
to secure the blessings of self-government."
At Knoxville, Tenn, q similar meeting
was held, which expressed Indignation
against the threats to overthrow the Union
in the event of the election of Republi-
can President. They
"Resolved, That whilst there are those
in the North who have rendered them
selves obnoxious TO rebuke and the seve.
rest censure on the question Of slavery,
with which they have DO right to coucern,
it would be uncandid for Us TO pass over
fact which stares US in the face, that the
South is not without its disorganzers,
manifesting, no less than the Abolitionists
of the North, a want Of reverence for the
Constitution and the Union: that those
possessing this feeling are not true expos
Itors Of Southern sen,iment-that, in our
opinion, those who favor disuuion cons'i-
tute but measre minority in the South"
We record the fact with pleasure, that
there have been two Union meetings at the
South, which had the candor and courage
TO rebuke their own Congressmen, Cover
nors, Senators, Editors, e., as well as the
handful of Northern Abolitionisis, who
threaten to dissolve the Union.
That "the North have no concern in the
question Of slavery" is legally true only
10 the sense that they have no authority
over it, or responsibility for it, in the sew
eral States. Bat it does ''concern" US
with its miserable vagabOnds and its no.
bic and worthy "fugirives"-its three
fftbs represen;ation-its weakness in for
eign wars-its expensiveness to the Ma
tional Treasury-its clannish monopoly of
official privileges-its standing requisilion
upon US for aid in crushing the risings of
men for Iiberty-its reproach, as a carica-
ture upon our free form of government
its constant, increasing, leech-like manGu-
vres for more land and more power-its
denial, to the vast majority of citizens, of
the right Of free dom Of speech, of the press,
and of the forms of common laws-and
above all in its per6dious and bloody ef-
forts to curse our Free Territories with its
own blighting, sectional peculiarities. As
a moral and religious question, it does and
will "concern" every friend of truth, of
right, and of Christianity. As men, we
can all say, with the old Roman, 81 AM A
MAN, and l feel an interest in whatever
relates to the interests of mankind" No
chains upon OUR lips, or upon OUR presses!
ADvERTIsING-Ii continuing to adver.
tise, says the Philadelphia Bulletin, is like
taking down ones own sign. 1t is sort Of
of retirement from business,
and the public treat it as such. Or they
may regard it as evidence that something
has gone wrong, which requires privacy
for investigation. Whatever construction
may be put upon it, tae result is disas-
trous. Now We advise all our readers who
may have fallen into The common error of
the season, to come out of their holes, to
put up their signs once more, and to ad-
vertise in as many papers as they did in
the best times. While business creates
advertising, it is equally true that adver-
tising creates business. 1t takes a talk
and stir in business circles, and reminds
people tha: they have no right to be lead
ing droues' lives even though the times
be dull. Aud even in the worst Of times
advertising always pays well, and the
more of it there is, the greater will be the
circulation Of money, and the sooner will
be restored condition Of prosperity. !