New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-01
STRENGTH OF THE UNION.

A Union meeting was held at Louisville Ken
tucby, on Tuesday JAM "a, and was fully attended,
and vast deal of enthusiasm was displayed. Ad-
dresses wrIo delivered by Gov. MagOffn of Ken
lucky, Gov. Willard of Indiana the uncle and par
ticular friend of Cook, who was hung with John
Brown, Mr.. Guthrie Of Kentucky, and other gen.
tlemen.
The sentiment of nationality was strongly ex-
pressed and whenever expressed received with
prolonged and enthusiastic cheers. We do not be-
ieye such meeting could be held in any part of
The country where 1t would be otherwise. There
is sentiment of loyalty and patriotism, of pro-
digious power, in all homogeneous nations. 1t is
often blind and unreasonlng but it is none the less
strong for that-perhaps even it may be stronger.
Throughout this county this sentiment is as pow
erful as in any other. We have common ances-
try, common history, and common flag.
The fact that the Free States and Slave States
do not agree on the Slavery question, and the fact
that they are now at issue upon the question
tons OF be indefinitely spread cannot by any means
affect the basis of the great sentiment of nationality
Of which We have spoken. That contest creates
agitation on the surface but it does not move or
threaten the foundations of the national life and
spirit. The wearisome and shallow prophets who
think the earth quakes and the fountains of the
great deep are being broken up because their little
individual skf leaks, or its blanket sail is blown
away would do we'll to consider the great fact that
our national existence is large and robust and de.
fes the tempests of the hour. The great body of
the people are composed aud tranquil, and every
where-North and South, East and West-con-
tenn and deride the noisy, clustering vagabonds
who talk of breaking up the Union as 1ippantly rs
though it were no more than crate of damaged
crockery.
Here in the heart of Old Kentucky a border
Slave State We base d rousing Union meeting, in
answer to the empty gasconsde of Southern DULLES
in Congress, and their wretched halfway echoes,
like Vallandgbam of Ohio, and Fitch of Indiana,
who threaten to dissolve the Union unless some
particular election goes to suit them; as if these
bosterous factionsts possessed particle of power
in the premises, against the overwhelming sentiment
of nationality and loyalty. These threats, of which
we have heard so many since Congress assembled,
and OF which shall hear much until the Presi.
dental canvass is over, seem only puerle and con-
temptlble, in view of the profound character and
universal extent of this sentiment. They are based
on no public demonstrations; they rest on meye-
ment of the people; they seem to DO the fruit of
nothing and to be nothing but the yapOrs of excited
imagnatiOns and restless brains. The broad pa
triotism and solid common sense of the nation re-
pudiate them all. The effort Of an industrious
partisan metropolitan press, that finds its profits in
running its bellows by steam, in order the more to
excite and spread these mental feryors, is equally
disgusting. They are all alike evil birds of night,
croakDg in dismal concord, and insulting the intel
hgence of the country with their senseless rawlings