Nebraska advertiser., 1860-12-06
Written for the Advertiser.
HDfsSnIufEOD or the Union"

This Is q cry now familiar 60 our ears. IL was
long used % arrest measures salutAry to the patton
latlargs;but in dissonance with southern policy or
% favor acts c~ongeniaI to the dark-the lsproussen-
timents Of the slave holder. But, it IS said the
south is nov in earnest, that she Is preparing to use
lin rebellion against the general Government, TO
maintain her reasonable ~position-arms, If neces-
sary.
Do q few SATISFIED on and animated by the cries
Of inccnsiderate politicians, of men whose only hope
is to rise amid the eonvulsive thrOss Of the RsPub-
Iic-expeet that the American Government Willfold
its arms in in6ifsrehcs, while they are forming an
other confederacy ? If it does, it has lost the spirit
that animated its ilIustrious founders; ii is I'm
worthy tOhOld together the bright constellation that
renders the Gag Of the Union glorious. mol The
South dare not secsde, OF, in more appropriate phras-
eoIogy, rebel. It ia not for a minority TO rise in
arms, with impUnity--to say dissolve the fair fabric
Of freedom, reared and conseornted by the best
blood Of the country; especially when the object IN
so doingis to extend the cause Of slavery.
The course of the world is onward-aud neither
we, nor the nations Of the earth, win cOuntenance
o course so opposed to justice Ind humanity. 1t
VIII DtCOI1o lno uuNJ VI ~ AANSANSub " NAS
obedience. And what viii the South do with o
United States army in front, and an army Of slaves
in the rear?
She even now trembles at the first intimatiOn Of a
rise of her negroes, though she is certain Of the
strong arm of the General Government to aid her,
if requisite. But, when arrayed against it in civil
war, what will be her condition? For, though
President Lincoln and a vast majority of the people
will protect her in her rights while she continues to
hold the Union sacred yet should she w~aatonIy, in
the heat Of excitment, seek to give a death blow to
the republic, we shall regard the disunionists as
enemies and, according to the sentiment Of Jefer-
son in his definition Of war, geek to do her sll the
injury we can, by arning her slaves, and opening
passages continually for their freedom; she would
not find it to be the easy task her political aspirant:
have led her to believe.
Should we even permit her to sscede from tho
Union, continual j~ealousies would arise, and wars
the most bloody would ensue, and, as we should nc
longer consider ourselves bound to protect her "pe-
culiar institution" or acknowledge her right to hold
in bondage a fellow man, because he is ignorant,
weak and unprotected, her slaves would escape by
thousands to more hospitable shores.
The question is not, could she subsist without US
but, will We permit her to make the experiment to
PROSTATE the altar of freedom ? merely because the
people in their might elected Hon. Abram Lincol1
to carry out their wishes, to exalt the nation at tome
and abroad.
1t would be we'll to try him first, to ascertain il
be is the sectional, the illiberal statesman they i'm
magine him. 1t would also be wise to estimate the
discOrd, the carnage and the desoIation that would
result from a determination 50 reckless to bring
into view railways torn up, telegraph wires severed,
towns and villages in flames, the destruction of the
fair and the beautiful, and the aristocratic legion:
of the South flying in conformation before the
armies of the Republic. UNCLE 10.
Nemaha County, ". T.