Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1860-01-21
From the Louisville (Ky.) Democrat,
DISUNION,

| the Southern States VINO desire ulsunlon, anu
some in the North who would rule or ruin.
Most of them hope to rule, but not succeeding
they will try to ruin. Some approximations are
felt that the Union is in danger, and if we lis
ten to politicians at Washington we might
think so. But look at the ties that bind this
Union together, and then ask it they can be
severed The millions owe their comforts and
prosperity to the free intercourse between these
States. The personal interests of men are
wrapt up in this Union. The almighty dollar
flies between North and South, and will not
stop.
These things are beyond the control of poll
ticans. They may resolve, and formally sepa-
rate, but it will bel separation on paper One
end of the Union may separate from the other,
or think they can do it, but how will neigh
boring States separate? Believe it or not, We
politicians, the whole thing is absurd Force
can't keep the Union together, but there is a
power in business interests and social relations,
and patriotic sentiment, that can and will
We advise all who talk Of dissolving the Union
that they are engaged in Quixotic enterprise
They don't appreciate the task. History re
cords no such fact as dissolution of this
Union would be at this day; nor will il record
such u fact. 1t is often threatened that if one
thing or another happens, this Union will be
dissolved. But rational cause for dissolii-
ton will never happen. If sufficient cause
to justify it were to happen, it could not even
then be accomplished. Habit and interest
would be too strong for even the most solid
logic.
Men speak of seeding. Now we are not CO.
ing out Of our own house, because some of its
inmates misbehave. The Union is our inheri-
tance and we shall have our rights in IT. not
out of it. We intend TO get them, too, in the
Union, as well as we can out Of IT In the
meantime, we don't expect every man North
and South to adopt our theories, and he is a
goose who expects so much in any government;
but we shall not have half the trouble, nor
make half the sacrifices to maintain our rights
in the Union that our fathers made to establish
it. They had to compromise and concede
more than we will have to do; and still they
thought they did well; so thought the rest of
the world. They valued rights and principles
as highly as we do but whilst they differed,
they managed to live together and reap the
glorious fruits of their union.
We are going into prodigions quarrel over
our Territories Well, if we cant manage
such question, give the Territories away to
those that can. We got along without them
once, and better do it again than to play the
fool over them, and destroy what we have.
Just let our people go to the Territories, and
take care of themselves, They have happy
FACULTY. OF uOlUH II, uHu Will uO III MHcNhVi wv
like ii or not. Our fathers here in Kentucky
made the State themselves, with little help
from any one, and the experiment can be re-
peated in every Territory in the country with
equal success. All the quarrellng and wrang-
ling of politicians will not change the destiny
of single Territory.
Why waste breath on such an unprolifc sub
ject, which produces only words without re-
results?
We notify all enthusiastic politicians that
they had better confne themselves to words
when they mediate disunion. Deeds are dan
gerous, not to the Union, but to the authors of
the project. Let the people once be convinced
that you are in earnest, and the conviction will
not be good for the health of political aspi'
rants.
There are things worse than disunion. Grant
it; that is not disputed; but we are not going
to have these worse things nor disunion either
These worse things are not in sight, and they
shall not come in sight There are negro
thieves, to be sure, and their sympathisers with
them; and we have had an old Brown Il Co.
Some are serving in the penitentary, and old
Brown & Go. we hanged, and can hang all of
the same sort. We have again and again seen
trouble lowering in the horzon-insoluble
problems-that threatened the destruction OF
the Union; but the occasion found the men
of the country was manifest in the hearty con-
CALCULATIONS over what was done. It will he
so hereafter. The Union will be saved again.
1t is far easier to save il than to destroy ii.
The people of this Union are not thinking
about dsunon nor do they intend to suffer
anything to be done to justify disunion. The
danger is all a grand mistake of politicians,
not much more rational than old Browns raid
into Virginia. We shall be told that the in
stitutions of the South are in danger now.
Who believes them in danger? Do the slave
holders think so? Let the enormous prices of
that species of property answer; and it is daily
ON the increase. Can't we take care of our
own institutions in the Union? Who can as
sail them with success? What evils are we
suffering? Ask the farmerwho gets enormous
prices for his produce, and enjoys his widest
liberty under the most certain protection. Ask
the mechanic the laborer, the professional man,
who is making aggressions on his personal
property. Where are the expressions and
wrongs we suffer? oh! we are an i'll used
people are we not? What burning wrongs
we suffer- Listen TO the political harangues
when votes are wanted, and just think what
great constitutional rights we are deprived of?
II we had half the evils to suffer that the peo-
pie of nearly every other Government have,
we might complain but having none, we are
looking for imaginary ones. We firmly believe
that there never was community more pros
porous, more happy, or better contented, or
better able to take care of themselves in their
own government, than the people ofthe South.
Some of them are fretting themselves to death
for more slave territory, when they haven't
half negroes enough to people what they have
got; when they will give enough for n few
negroes to buy an ordinary Territory
All but the great constitutional right; we
must insist on that at any cost. Really we
should postpone the contest for such right
until it is needed-the right to take property
where it is not wanted, and where no owner
would take it if he had the right Besides, it
is n right we gave up in the whole Northwes
tern Territory, and a right we were deprived
of in 1920, and lived under the deprivation
thirty-four years, without knowing how we
were wronged. Into what vast proportions
this right we did not know we had, and now
have no use for, has grown in year or two
We are going into an irrepressible com
hict for iii going to break up all politi-
cal associations on account of it; make 1t
test of soundness in the faith With all defer
ence to the wise ones this strikes us as slight
" ridiculous, and unworthy of statesmen who
have practical and substantial interests to at
tend to. Insisting on such point seems like
seeking quarrel when there is no just occa-
sion especially as it involves quarrel with
friends who have always stood by us. 1t is
worse than that on the part of Democrats. II
was waived once for consideration which
was given 1t is too late to insist on it now
in good faith. Just such conduct as this may
place us under sectional rule with all its evils,
and who will be to blame for it?
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