Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-12-18

A WORD SUITED TO THE TMEs.-Webster',
celebrated speech on the It'll OF March, 1850. on
the Compromise resolutions, closed with the fol-
lowing glorious peroraton:
/ And now, Mr. President, instead of speaking OF
the possibility utility of secession, instead OF
dwelling in those caverns of darkness, instead OF
cropping with those ideas SO full of all that is
horrid and horrible, let Us come out into the
light of day let Us enjoy the fresh air of Liber-
ty and Union let us cherish those hopes which
belong to u.s. let Us devote ourselves to those
great objects that are fit for our consideration
and our action let Us raise our conceptions to
the magnitude and the Importance of the duties
that devove upon Us let our comprehension be
as broad as the country for which we act, our
aspirations as high as its certain destiny;
ay, let US not be pgmes in a cause that calls
for men, Never did there devOlve on any gen.
GRAFTON of men higher trusts than now devolve
upon US for the preservation of this Constitution
and the harmony and peace of all who are des-
tined to live under it. Let US make our genera
ton one of the strongest and brightest links in
that golden chain which is destined, fondly be-
lieve, to grapple the people Of all the States to
this Constitution for ages to come.
We have great, popular, constitutional govern
ment, guarded by law and by judicature, and
defended by the affections of the whole people.
No monarchical throne presses these States to-
gether, no iron chain of military power encir-
cles them; they live and stand under govern
ment popular in It's form, representative in it's
character, founded upon principles of equality
aud 80 constructed, We hope, to last forever.
Ia all lis history it has been beneficeGt; it has
trodden down no mans liberty it has crushed
no State. Its daily respiration to liberty and
PATRIOTISM its yet youthful veins are full of en-
terprise, courage and honorable love of glory
and renown. Large before, the country has
now, by recent events, become vastly larger
This republic now extends, with vast breadth,
across the whole continent. The two great seas
OF the world wash the one and the other shore.
We realize, on mighty scale, the beautiful des-
cription of the ornamental border of the buckler
of Achilles:
CHOW, the broad shield complete, the artist crowned
With his last hand. and poured the ocean round;
In living silver seemed the waves to roll,
And beat the bucklers verge and bound the whole"
! 1t is the Interest of Englan to have the
| Union Dissolved.
| Many Southern people fatter themselves with
the beliefthat England would be favorable to the
South in the event of dissolution, and would
be valuable ally of the Southern Confederacy.
Fatal delusion! As is we'll said by the Balti-
more american, the interest of England is to put
down the great rival of her commerce, the great
foe of aristocracy, and an anticipated competitor
in manufactures. That is highlands interest,
and that would be our interest or the interest of
any nation in her position. And how is the OBJ
ject to be accomplished Our division, and that
by our own hands, is the only means Let Us
once divide, and farewell to our commerce. to
our manufactures, to the moral influence of our
Republican example in the world. We shall be-
come mere province of agricnlturiIts, tilling
with the sweat of our brow for the benefit of
mother Britain.
| Abolition is the wedge which Great Britain is
laboring with steady and ponderous blows to
drive into our system. Let our countrymen ev-
erywhere resolve to resist with overwhelming
disappointment and defeat these unholy machi
nations. Let every patriot, North, South East
and West, vow that, come what may, the Union
can and shall be preserved. Let one and all
stand by the requirements of the Constitution,
and one and all cherish for each other mutual
love, esteem and respect. The press can do
much in cultivating good faith and kindly feeling
| between the various sections. Let the press ev-
erywhere use it's potent influence to soothe irri.
tations, to dispel prejudces, to enlighten igno
rance, to strengthen and consolidate the cords
of National Union. Better, far better, that the
sun of Liberty had been forever eclipsed by the
dark disaster of defeat at Yorktown than that it
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ever beneath the red and angry horizon OF civil
war. Our countrymen, unless given over to the
widest madness, will never permit so horrible
catastrophe to themselves and to the world as
the disunion of these States. Let US bear and
forbear with each other; let US sacrifice unfriend-
ly prejudces and resentments; let US be true to
the memory of our fathers, true to our happy
past and our more glorious future; let US do,
suffer, endure anything and everything that a
virtuous and honorable people may do, suffer,
and endure, so that we may preserve our Union
intact, and prevent our old, unforgiving, common
enemy from triumphing over Us.
! Mr.. MADISON ON SEoEssIoN.--NichOlas
P. Trist, Esq, well known to the country from
his former connection with the Department of
State, has furnished the New York World sever
al letters from Mr.. Madison, addressed TO him il
the years 1928, and never before published