Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-12-14

Every day shows that the furious Gisunion
clamor Of Iyerson, keitt, Toombs, Rhett and
others of that tribe, is not favored 10y the
cooler portion of the community in the
South. II rebellion cannot be prccipitated,
it is no: likely t. take place at all. 90 Wait
little while - " Look before YOU leap; is
the word from many qcarters.
The Lynchbursh Iirginian, iu a recent
issue, says;
So long as The bones OF Washington, JET
ferson, Henry, Madison, and other illustri-
| Gus com patriots who cemented this Union,
mingle with her soil, Virginia VIII be true 10
| her ancient tradition and 10 her memories.
! She Will never desert the Union, with its
| halloWed associations. until she shall have
exhausted every effort Of compromise She
! knows foil well that nations are not born iu
day that Republics, when once broken
up, are not easily reconstructed {; and that,
least Of all, Is 1t possible, when the work Of
disintecTation proceeds from internal disssn-
sions to cement gain the iarrInC fragments.
TIE sword, despot, and a throne. are the
appropriate symbols OF what follows.
The North Will c5ncele
our rights, and the South-if we except one
restless little State-will be pac.hed There
will be but two great parties in the country,
Union and Disuuion party, however it
may be named, and with the former. Virgin /
ia viii ally herself.
The Raleigh q. g. Stanford publishes /
the following stirring appeal.
I'VE hold that North Carolina 5elonqs 10
M people and not so The politicians tlertoC-
e hold that the people are sovereign, and
can raise up and put down who they please.
W e hold that the government Is theirs. as
the suffering will be theirs in the event Of
treir being "preci plated into Gls1nign and
civil war. Our appeal Is to them Their
decision shall be law 10 US. But lrs 1~0tcst
against manufactured opinion. The d.su7,on
leaGeTs are engaged at this time III this ,cry
business. In the language OF the celebrates
proclamation Of General jackson, we saw ~
the people that eloquent appeals to vo5r
opinions, to your State pride, to your native
courage, and to your sense Of real injury =
are being made to prepare you for the be
Rod when the mask which conceals the hide ,
Gus features Of disunion shall be taken Off
As y1u value your safety, your constitutional
rights, your high privileges as members Of a
common Union, and as you would avoid
'ommotion and civil war, give no heed to
hese appeals. Assemble calmly, deliberate q
DOLLY, and vote Understandings. Support @
&c resolves. no matter by whom offered OF r
rged, which will commit you at fA9s tine ?
0 dlsuniOn. The Federal Constitution, so .
lr from having been exhausted, has not vet !,
cen fairly tried. 1t is your Constitution as
luch as 1t the Constitution of the Northern q
eol lie. Stand by it, uphold 1t, demand
our rights under it, and hold It Up as an -
npenetrable shield against the shafts Of
our asSaIlants. 1t is a glorious Constitu- el
on, and the Union which it established is of
III a glorious Union. If q Convention must
CALLS .a, it be Convention of au the
ate, LIZ us have no conference or con-
lta'tv1- TO commit US to disunion, and no l.
i.a %. he people afterwards to be SO oblig- ~
. as - step forward and register the deci- DO
IA oi tie disuniOn leaders. Let there be ne
c,rcraiments. Let every public man be III.
lulrcd to show his hand. If for dissolying
: Union. let him say SO; if against dis i'-
ving It, let him say so. The man who tor
9aks with double tongue, or who would Ia:
'cil itate the people against their Will into An,
essloh and dIsunion, is hypocrite and
naaSoSue. The man who would destroy ia
, ederai Government for insufficient cause FRO
mus e1tinguish the light of well-regula- nor
constitutional liberty, which was first
oIea In tins hemisphere by Washington, IN
henry ana Sumpter, and Franklin, and (wf
'nett, ana Caswell, is the worst enemy ma,
people OF this country or the human race N.
hao; Hold your meetings, fellow-eiti- IAN
. una SPEAK out against disu'lion blus