American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1860-03-22

The people of the United StatesSctlng
in conformity with the Constitution, are
the supreme tribunal totry and determine
all political issues. They are as compe-
tent to decide the issues Of to-day as
they have been heretofore to decide, the
issues of other days. They can reconsider
hereafter and reverse If needle. the judg-
ment they shall pronounce TO day. as they
have more than once recohsidered and
reversed their judgments in former times
It needs no revolution TO correct any
error Or prevent any danger, under any
circumstances.
Nor is any new or special cause tor
revolution likely to occur under Repu6-
lican administration. We are engaged |
in 10 new transaction, not even in new
dispute. Our fathers undertook great
work for themselves, for ns, and ior our
successors-to erect free and federal
empire. whose arches shall Span the North
A american continent, and reflect the rays |
OF the sun throughout his whole passage
from one to the other of the great oceans.
They erected thirteen of its columns all
at once. These ale standing now, the
admiration of mankind. Their success-
ors added twenty morei even we who are
here have shaped and elvased three OF
that twenty, and all these are as nrm
and as steadfast as the first thilteeni and
more will yet be necessary when we
shal, hSve rested from our labors. Some
among us prefer for these columns
composite material, others tho pure
white marble. Our fathers and our pre-
decessors differed i'll the same way, and
on the same point. What execrahons
should we not all unite in pronounclng
on any statesman who heretofore, from
mere disappointment abd disgust at be-
inp overruled in his choice Of materials
for any new column then to be quarrIed,
should have laid violent hands on the
imperfect structure and brought it down
to the earlh, there to remain wreck,
instead of citadel ola worlds besthope
remain now in the opinion have
uniformly expressed here and elsewhere
} that these hasty threats Of disnnlon are
so unnatural that they will find 10 hand
to execute them. Ee are Of ono race
language, liberty and faith; engaged, IN
deed, in varied industry; but even thai
industry, 30 diversified. brings us int
more intimate relations with each othei
than any other people, however homoge
neous, and though living under con
} solidatcd Government, ever maintained
We languish throughout if one joint o
. our Federal frame is smlttcn; while 1t !
: certain that part discovered must per
n ish. You may, refine as you please a
y bout the structure Of the Government
), and say that it is compact. and that
=. breach by one Of the States or by Con
o gress, VI any one article, absolves oil tn
$ members from allegiance and that tn
8 States may separate when they have. o
fancy they have, cause for war, Ba
J.. once try 20 subvert it. and You viii! hn'
y that it is a government Of the whole peo
o pie-as individuals as well ~ compac
e Of States: that every individual membc
E. of the body polite is conscious OF his in
It terest and power in it. and knows that h
a will 10 helpless, power!ess, hopeless
= when il shall have gone down. Mankin
have q natural right, natural instinct
10 and natural capacity for self goverI
. mont, and when, as here, they are sun
IS ciently rpened by culture, they will an
q must have self government. and no otl
H or. The trainers of our Constitution
a with q wisdom that surpassed all prev
O GUS understanding among men, adaptt
il il 10 theso inherent elements OF bum'
r. nature. He strangely, blindIy mism
10 derstands the anatomy Of the great sy
h tenn, who thinks that its only bounds,
!. even its strohgest ligamentS, are Il
). written compact, or even the multiple
'. and thoroughly ramifed roads and tho
ouehfares OF trade. commerce and 8
10 ciaI intercourse. These are strong /
il deed, but its chie(csT instrument OF C
hesion-those which render 1t INSOFAR
RI BILE and indivslble--are the millions
~ contentsd, happy human hearts, bindi'
Of by their affections, their ambition al
Is their best hopes equally tho high a.
W the low, the rich and the poor, the WI
r and un wise, the learned and tho unit
he tored, even the good and the bad,
A. Government, the first, the last and
he only such one that has ever existt
by which takes equal heed always Of tn
no wants, their wishes and their opinlol
of and appeals to them all individual
he once in year. or in two years, or
tic least in four years, for their express
Of consent and renewal, without which
a. must cease No. 60 where you will
il to what class you may. with comm
oo eions for your fatal service in one ha'
Ia and your bounty counted by the hunG
on. or ten thousand pieces of silver in
nu other, q thousand resisters will rise
win for every recruit you can engage
Ish the banks equally Of the st. Lawre
,rs. and of the Rio Grande, on the Atlal
a;n and the Pacific coasts, on the shores
ow the Gul. Of Mexico and in the dells
low the Rocky Mountains, among the Il
evmen on the banks Of Newfoundla
a. the weayers and spinsters of Massac
be sets, tho stevedores Of New York,
hey miners of Pennsylvania, Pixies 7
neir and California. the wheat growers OF
To DIANA, the cotton and the sugar p
Of ters on the Mississippi, among tho
ise untary citizens from every other land
now less than the native born, tho Chris
,ust and the Jew, among the Indians on
, A. prairies, the contumacious Mormon
,rty the Desert, the Africans free, the L
i6cO cans in bondage, the inmates of he
nm. tails and almshouses, aud ever the or