Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-05-18

heads, they can, IN due esteem, be thouSht nc
better Than slaves and vassals born IN the te'
Aure and occupation OF another inherltns
/ lord, whose government, though not illegal OF
intolerabe, hangs on them AZ a lordly scourSe
not as 4 Tree government"
The Republican party knows, as the
whole country will ultimately come to
understand, that the nobiest objects oi
national life must perish, if that life itsell
shall be lost, and, therefore, it will accept Inc
issue rendered 1t will take up the word C"ton
which others are SO willing 10 renounce, and
: combining il with that other glorious thouSht
Liberty, which has been its inspiration So
long, 1t will move firmly onward, with Inc
motto inscribed on It's banner, "USioN and
LIBERTY, come what may, in victory as In
defeat, IN power as oat Of power, now and
, for ever"
If the Republican party maintain the Union
/ who and what party is 10 assaii II! oniy the
Democratic parry, Tor there is no other. WIN
the Democratic party take up the assault
. The menaces of dlsunion are made, thouSh
I not IN Its name, yet In It's behalf. IL mus
avow or dIsavow them. Its silence, mus far
! is pUrtenious, but is not alarming. Inc efiec'
/ of the intimidation, If successful, would be 10
continue the rule Of the Democratic party,
though a minority, by terror. 1t certainly
ought TO need no more than this TO secure Inc
success of the Republican party. II, indeed,
! the time has come when The Democratic par
, ty must rule by terror, instead Of ruling
/ through conceded public confidence, then IL is
quite certain that II can not be dismissed
from power too soon. Ruling on that odiouS
principle, il could not long save either the
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not believe the Democratic party will consent
TO stand in this position, though II does,
through the action OF its representatives, seem
10 cover and sustain those who threaten dIsu-
nion. know the Democracy at the North.
| know them now iu their waning strength.
| do not know possible dIsunionist among
them all. | believe they will be as faithful TO
the Union now as they were in the bygone
days when their ranks we're full, and their
challenge to the combat was always the war
cry Of victory. But. ifit shall prove otherwise.
then the world will all the sooner know that
every party IN this country must stand on
Union ground; that The American people
will sustain no party that IS not capable Of
making sacrifice Of It's ambition on the altar
OF the country; that although party may
have never SO much OF prestige, and never
such Traditional merit, yet, II 1t be lacking IN
the one virtue of loyalty 10 the Union, all It's
advantages will be unavalling; and then OBJ
noxlous as, through long cherished and oosli'
nate PreJudices, the Republican party is IN
the capital States, yet even there IL VIII ad-
vance like an army with banners, winning
the favor of the whole people, and 1t vii! be
armed with the national confidence and sup
pori, when II shall be found the only party
that defends and maintains the integrity of
the Union.
IhUse who seek 10 awaken the terrorS Of
dIsunion seem TO me 10 have too hastily cen
sidered the conditions under which they are
TO make their attempt. Who believes that
Republican administration and Congress
could practice tyranny under Constitution
which lnterpoSes many checks as ours
Yet tyranny must not only be practlsSd, but
must be Intolerabie. and there must be no re-
naming hope for constitutional relief, before
iorcIble resistance can find ground TO stand
on anywhere.
The people of the United States, acting in
conformity with the Constitution, are the su
preme tribunal 10 try and determine all polit-
zeal issues. They are as competent 10 decide
the issues of today as they have been here
tofore 10 decide The issues of other days.
They can reconsider hereafter, and reverse, If
to-day. a. they have more than once recon
sIderei and reversed their judgments in for
mer times. 1t needs no revolution TO correct
any error, or prevent any danger, under any
circumstances.
Nor is any new or special cause for revo-
luton likely 10 occur under Republican ad-
mIniStratlon. We are engaged In no new
transaction, not even in new dispute. Our
fathers undertook great work for themselves,
for US, and for our successors-to erect a
free and Federal empire, whose arches shall
span the North American continent, and re-
iecl the rays of the sun throughout his whole
passage from the one 10 The other OF the great
oceans. They erected thirteen ofiis columns
all at once. These are standing now, the ad'
miralion of mankind. Their successors aG-
ded twenty more; even we who are here have
sha ped and elevated three OF that twenty, and
all these are as firm and sleadfast as The first
thirteen aud more will yet be necessary
when We shall have rested from our labors.
Some among US prefer for these columns
composite material; others the pure white
marble. Our fathers and our predecessors
differed in the same way and on the same
point What execraiionS should We not all
unite IN pronouncing on any statesman who
heretofore, from mere disappointment and
disgust at being overruled in his choice OF
materials for any new column then TO be
quarrled, should have laid violent hands on
the imperfect structure, and brought 1t down
10 the EARTH there 10 remain wreck, instead
of citadel of a worlds best hopes.
| remain now IN the opinion have uni
formly expressed here and elsewhere, that
these hasty threats Of disunion are so unnat-
ural that they will find no hand to execute
them. We are of one race, language, liberty,
and faith; engaged, indeed, in varied indus
try; but even that industry, SO diversified,
brings US into more intimate relations with
each other than any other people, however ho-
moseBeous, and though living under consoI-
dated Government, ever maintained. We
laDgursh throughout, If one JOINT Of our Fed
eral frame is smitien; while II is certain that
a part discovered must perish. You may re-
fine as you please about the structure of the
Government, and say that it is compact,
and that breach, by one Of The States or by
Congress. of any one article. absolveS all the
members from allegiance. aud that the States |
may separate when ihey have. or fancy they !
have, cause for war. But once try TO sub
vert II, and you will find that ii is Govern
ment of the whole people-as individuals. as |
well as a compact of States tina, every indi- |
vidual member of the body-poitic is con- |
sciouS of his interest and power in it, and |
knows that he will be helpless, powerless, |
hopeless, when il shall have gene down.
Mankind have natural right, natural in- |
stnct. aud natural capacity for self-sovern- |
ment; and when, as here, they are sufficient
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