The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1860-10-04
T HE PRESS.
The Union-What it is Worth .


which the fertile brains of the dis
uniouists of the South can conjure
Iuplin a life time. We are no
'alafiEists. But the times are fraud
with peril, and the demand for
firm, disinterested patriotism is as
great now as it was in 1776. We
are in danger, aye threatened by
some of the Southern disunionists
with revolution. The leaders of
the secession party have already
written out their programme, and
that is, if Lincoln is elected Presi-
dent in November next, the South
must be precipitated into a revolu-
ton. We should not care for such
threats and rawlings, but that they
come from those who, in so many
interests, are allied to us. They
come from men of the South, who
have borne with us the results and
wrongs of a reckless abolition
horde-who have common inter-
ests, hopes and sympaties with our
selves. They know this; and they
are hoping that these common ties
are to drive us to their support and
countenance in their revolutionary
movements. Hnf O..
They may be mistaken. 1t is
true Virginia has been the foremost
in maintaining the rights of the
States under the Constitution, and
in defending any and every en-
croachment upon those rights
She has stood as the vanguard in
the great battles with abolition fa-
naticism. And she is still as true
to the South as the needle to the
pole. Her interests, sympathies
and hopes are still inseperably con-
nected with the Interests of the
South. All this is true. But
while it is true, we do not hesitate
to affirm that she is not willing to
give up all the blessings and prin-
ciplcs vouchsafed to her in the
American Union for the wild alb
stractions of the restless spirits
who live in the South. Virginia
loves the South-but she cannot
be made to give to the winds all
her hopes and prosperity and peace
for myth. Her heart, in every
throbbing beats in unison with the
South, in their devotion to South
ern Institutions; but she will not
be SO lost to reason as to purchase
revolution, discord, civil war, de-
vastation, rapine and bloodshed,
and ruin for ~ mere tradition
Nay men may talk of the Union be-
ing valueless, as though freedom
such as we enjoy, foated on every
stream. @ ...I
| We remember that it required
the toll and blood of the freemen Of
l1776, and the labor and efforts Of
eighty years to build up the most
noble and happy government or
which the sun has ever shone.-
And shall we, like Sampson, in hit
blindness and rage, pull down it,
gorgeous pillars, that we may
crush ourselves beneath its ruins
! But these insane fire-eaters tell III
that they are battling for principle
So belt. What principle is it tina
risesso high but that it is lost mit
the shadows of the glorious temple
of the American Union? W,
would die for principle, say they
even though it be but an abstrac
ton and impracticable. All, in
deed, and bequeath to their child
rem the wreck of a happy nation
and leave them to worry out thei
years in toiling in the midst of dis
| order, cruelty and death! u ...:
Let freesoilism rave-let Blacl
+, Republicanism raise its hatefu
head, and spitefully hiss as it
wont; SO long as it draws its slim,
, length through the North, an
does not venture to interfere wit
our quiet here, we will not be dis
turbed. They may hold what doc
Urine they please the practice Of