Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-01-05
wll1 the union Last .
from the Missouri Democrat.

From the Missouri Democrat.
| No unconditional answer, either in the
affirmative or negative, can be given to
/ this momentous question. Strong as the
Union is, we are driven to the conclusion
| that it cannot last many years unless the
National Democracy arc deprived of pow
| err. They have conducted the affairs Of
/ the country for seven years consecutively,
and the consequence is, that disunion
sentiment is prevalent in most of the slave
! States; that Senators and Representatives
| in Congress declaim passionately in favor
! of secession, and that practical disunlon
measures are subjects of elaboration in
| some Southern Legislatures. "All owing
to the Black Republican party" we hear
some Union saver exclRim. But we reply,
that the Republican party would never
have existed, if the politics of the nation
had not been first sectionalized aud re-
duccd to mere slavery propagandism by
the National Democratic party. All the
Northern States, except two, voted for
Franklin Pierce; the Republican party had
no existence until the South, aided by
Northern demagogues, abrogated the Mis-
souri, Compromise. Then it was that the
/ free States, realizing the nature of the ag-
gressiYe policy of slavery, united IN SELF
/ defence; and that union has been con-
solidated and extended by the desperate
| slavery-extension policy of the propaganda
ism-by the intense scctionailsm OF tae
sca-boRrd slave States. The latter had
resolved themselves into unit-a thor
ough sectional OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the
Republican party was OrganiZed-bc!ore
it was possible for it to be organized even.
Southern scctionalism has never fultcred
in the prosecution of it's schemes since
that organization was perfected by the ac-
ton of the Southern Wings in joining the
Southern Democrats, for tho purpose OF
achieving a triumph over the Free States.
All the recent events which have caused
such sore trouble to the Union-savcrs,
have sprung directly from the sectionnlIsm
of the South--from its reckless unscrupu-
lous, slavery-extension policy. The IN
cursion into Virginia is associated as close
ly with tho Kansas broils as effect and
cause are associated. The whirlwind that
burst over the frontiers of the Oldest State
in the Union, had been sOwn in the wild
Western Territory. lii like manner all the
anti-slavcry teachings of the Republican
party have been called forth by the NUM-
bcrlcss and untiring efforts to extend the
institution of slavery. How could such
efforts be encountered except by rousing
public sentiment against the policy IN
which they originated? When all the
Free Territory of the United States was
threatened with slavery, it became neces-
sary to exhibit the true character and ten
dcncy of that institution. When the whole
Southern Democratic press contendcd
with one voice that the relation Of master
and slave is the true relation which capital
and labor ought to sustain towards each
other; that it is normal relation in all
well organized communities; that free So
| ciety is q failure; that negro slavery ID II
! blessing to the white race and the cOiorcd
| race. and consequently, that every consid-
Grafton of sound policy, justice and hui
manity requires the extension of this sy5-
TEN of negro slavery into the new Terrific
RIGS, and wherever else it is possible to eX-
tend it-when these startling doctrines
were propounded by the Southern press
it became necessary to combat and over
come them by reviving the doctrines
! OF jefferson and his illustrious contcmpo-
raries. The most tangible results of these
conflicting causes are the organization of
| two parties-one national in name and
sectional in policy, the other mostly sec
tional in organization but national in pol
| lev. We are clearly of the conviction that
| the continued ascendency of the former
the party which has created whatever
scctionalsm there is, and which fosters
| disunion in the South and labors to en-
gender it in the North for its own pur-
! poses, "Oulu not OnIE peril puI HCSCS-
| sarily destroy the Union. If that party
has brought the country to its present
pass, in the short period of five years,
| there can be little doubt it would prccipi-
/ tate IL catastrophe before the expiration of
the next Presidential term. The obstacles
| which it has met, have but made it tho
more obstinate and reckless. Senator
| Pugh, the other day, pointed out to his
brother Senators, that II Northern man
was at the head of any Senate committee
which acted on public business. The
| sectional line was completed in the body
! of which he is member, with the depo-
/ stion Of Douglas from the head of the
| Committee on Territories. We also find
| that Federal Slave code for the Terrific
ries is demanded, even by such men as
the newly elected breckenridge; and in
| this demand we have the pledge Of anoth-
CIR agitation. The Union is strong, but
not So strong that it can resist all the
Vaccinations OF the pro-slavery DcmocrA-
cy. The good ship is still able TO weather
manga storm, but if she shall continue to
| be ..rigged with curses darh' by the Ma
tional Democracy, her doom is sealed
The Union is a strong castle. but that
| party is mining its foundations from day
| to day. and year to year.. and there can be
| little doubt that unless speedily expelled
from power, these architects of ruin the
| National Democratic leaders, will succeed
in destroying it.
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