Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1860-02-15
DISUNEOX.

lucre il L q hOIu tHdl uioiS hoioo'y !
on the ear of American patriots. than that
which heads this article. The Union has al
ready conferred so many blessings on them,
and they expect so many blessings from it
in the future, that they almost instinctively
cling to it with more than flial affection and
reject With horror the idea that its dissolution |
is possible 1t would be we'll for the country |
if every American citizen felt thus; it would |
be veil if all felt that all their hopes Of hap
piness in This world. were inseparably connec-
ted with tue Union. But unhappily all do
moi thus feel There is a class of men in our
country who are constantly acting as if they
regarded the Union as curse. They are not
willing that the States Of the Union snail be-
regarded as equals, but are constantly en-
deavoring TO elevate one section of the confed-
.rAcy and degrade the other. The practical
workings of their doctrines, is illustrated in
resistance to the execution of the Fugitive
Slave Law in the Northern States, the under
ground Rail Road for assisting the escape of
fugitive slaves. and the Harper's Ferry In
surrection They are the only enemies of the
Union in the country, and are accountable
for the recent struggle in Congress, which
shook the Republic to its very centre. Should
the Union ever be dissolved they, and they
only, will be to blame.
The author Of the Declaration of Inde-
pendencc warned US years ago that the price
of Liberty is eternal Vigilance" 1t will not
DO for the patriotic portion of the American
people to rest easy in the belief that the Union
will endure forever, while its enemies are
busiy engaged in erdeavoring to destroy it.
I. is in the power Of It's enemies to dissolve
it, if its friends are not active, energetic and
vigilaut, when they perceive the enemy ac-
lively engaged at work. And certainly at no
period in the history of cur country did our
political horizon look more dark and lowering
than at the present time. The men who re-
sist the execution of the fugitive slave law
are pointed out as model pbilanthropists, the
assisting of slaves to escape from their mas
ters, is declared an act worthy of the highest
commendarion, and the murderer Brown is
eulogized as Martyr In the cause of human
i;Y. Let the men who hold these doctrines
triumph next fall. and would not the Union
be in danger of dissolution? Elevate to the
Presidential Chair next fall Black Republi-
can holding and maintaining the doctrines of
the Black Republican party, and would not
the people of the Southern States have good
reason to apprehend that the rights guaran-
tied 10 them By the Constitution were about
TO be torn from them! The Union j. a league
Of love and it can only be preserved by faith
full observing and carrying out all its COM
promises
The opposition are in the habit of sneering
at the Democracy as Union Savers" 1t is
title of which they have reason to feel
proud. Washington. Jefferson. Jackson, Clay
Webster and Marcy were Union Savers. and
certainly it is now no disgrace to the Demo
cratic party. tha. it does not forget the ad-
mentions of the illustrious patriots who have
gone to their reward To proVe that Wash
inRton was Union Saver" we need only
make the following extract from his farewell
address Il is one which cannot be pei used
800 often, and we therefore now lay it before
our readers, although we have already pub
lished it more than once. The italics are our
own:
The unity of government, which consti-
tu,es you one people, is also now dear to you.
1t is Justly SO; for it is a main pillar in the
edifce of your real lindepeudence-the support
Of your traaquiiify at home. your peace
abroad, Of yosr safety, of your prosperity, o,
that rery liberty ,chich gov 50 highly prize.
But as Il is easy to .foresee that, from differ
snt caus.s and from. different quarters, nauch
pains .eiN be taken, many drtiJices employed,
70 reaken tn your minds the canUictton Of
this truth: as this is the point in your politi-
ca, fortre" against phich tie batteries Of an
sernal and erterna! enemies ,cilt be most cos-
stan.Iy and actireiy Qhough often coyertly
and insidsousfy) directed.-it is of infinite
moment that you should properly estimate
the immense value of your national union to
Your collective and individual happiness; that
sou should cherish cordial. habitual, and
imnovable attachment to it: accustoming
yourselves to think and speak Of il as of the
raisdium of your political safety and pros
perity: ,ratehins for its preseruotion ,oith
i.e..o.s Gnr,tty; dfseoHn.sadneing rAatevsr