The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1860-08-31

would consent to dissolution of the Union.
answer, Never, Never, NEvER! If
the agitation in regard to the fugitive slave law
should continue and increase, and become
alarming, it will lead to the formation of two
new parties. one for the Union and the other
Of that Union party will be THE UNION, THE
CONSTITUTION, AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE
LAWS. And if it should be necessary to form
such party. and it should be accordingly
formed, announce myself in this place a member
OF that party, ,ohateuer may be its component
elements.
The great, marked aA distinctive tea.
lures which at present characterize politi-
cal parties in this country, and divide the
people into two great political parties, are
plainly and undisguisedly shadowed forth in
the words of the great Union Patriot, form
ing the caption of this article. All old is
sues have ceased to divide parties. Banks,
tariffs, restriction of the veto power, Whig>
gerry and Democracy, Know Nothingism,
all have lost their potency as the war cries
OF parties, and in the mighty upheaving of
the great masses, and the breaking up of the
great deep of public sentiment, and the un-
loosing of party ties. and the wreck of old
platforms, and stampede and confusion of
party leaders, one grand and paramount is
sue looms up above the general chaos, and
that is the real and only living issue now d.
viding the American people into tsoo great
parties.
ONLY TWO PARTIES AND ONLY ONE REAL LIVE
ISSUE.
That issue is, shall the laws be enforced
and the Constitution adhered to, even in its
guarantees of shareholders rights, or shall
a higher law-or individual judgment and
conscience over these, and anarchy,
mobocracy, state and federal collisions, rev.
olution and civil war, be substituted for law
and order. Upon one or the other side of
this question all the people are rallying.
There are only two parties-two grand d.
visions. All others are Subdivisions, which
have abandoned their old dogmas, and
merged themselves either with the law and
order division or the antilaw and order d.
vision. Know Nothings are no plonger
Know Nothings; Wings are no longer
Wings; Democrats are no longer Demo-
Gratis, in the old sense of the term Repub.
licans and Abolitionists are no longer Re-
publicans and Abolitionists antislavery
men are no longer anti-slavery and pro-
slavery men are no longer ro.slavery.
THESE ARE NOT THE QUESTIONS NOW BEFORE
THE PEOPLE.
1t is fight now for law and order, for
the Constitution and the Union; for National
peace, and National Union versus National
strife and disunion for perpetuating the
liberties of the white people and using the
general government and its legislation for
white people, instead of hazarding the lib
critics of the whites in useless and sectional
quarrel about the blacks. 1t is a fight to
decide whether negroes are the only persons
in this government worthy the time and
attention of Congress, and whether all 9TH
er interests are to be lost sight of and
crushed out, that this embittered quarrel
may be quarrelled on and quarrelled over
by the irrepressible conflict agitators,
and fanatics north and south, until all the
States shall become free or slave," and the
north have its foot on the neck of the south,
or vice versa, and the equality of the States,
the only bond of the Union, destroyed.
These are now the live issues--the only
questions of paramount Importance in this
canvass.
THE DUTY OF ALL GOOD CITIZENS.
In the mighty revolution which has scat
tered party platforms into floating wrecks,
every good citizen should act as a patriot,
discarding names and parties, and voting as
an independent citizen for those men and
measures most likely 10 result in the perpet-
uation of our liberties as white men, and
the successful mission of our country as the
Pioneer Christian Republic of the world,
destined, as a Union Of Brothers and friend.
lylStates, to dispense civilization and Chris
tianity throughout the world, but doomed,
as an association of jarring and discordant
States, to miserable failure, and the ultima
ted loss of their own liberties. Men are
too apt to cling to dead issues and old
names, for the sake of fancied consistency,
and from old prejudices, and thus suffer
themselves to be led by unprincipled dema-
gogues, into the support of vile error and
heresies, sugar-coated and gilded with plau-
sible, clap-trap names, and dressed and
served up with honeyed phrases.
REPUBLICAN PROFESSIONS AND PLATFORMS
AND THEIR EFFECTS.
The Declaration of Independence, ""liber-
ty," "free speech" and free SOIL" are the
outside labels of "negro equality" and
negro suffrage" underground railroads."
and John Brown invasions, " Sherman M.
Booth rescues,"' and mobbing of United
States Marshals, Qualification of the Fugi-
tive Slave law" and the beheading of
United States Judges in Wisconsin, Ohio
and Massachusetts for sustaining law and |