The semi-weekly mountain Democrat., 1860-10-13
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| an immense DOMAIN, spanning Nast SOh-
tinent and commanding the commerce OF
the ocean. With every variety Of tenn
perature and climate, our soil yields abun'
dantly the products Of all ATTITUDES. Our
mineral stores are inexhaustible, sufficient
to supply the necessities and the demands
of the world. Our government is the best
known to any age since the days Of the
Jewish Theocracy. Under its benign
workings our people are prosperous and
happy, possessed of all the comforts and
luxuries Of life. Beneath its protecting
power and genial influence, man as amoral,
religious, intellectual and progressive be-
ing finds every inducement and facility
for the full development Of the higher and
nobler faculties Of his nature. We are
possessed, in short, of everything by ma.
ture calculated to make us, as people,
the happiest, and as a nation, the greatest
of the earth. A kind Providence has
showered His bounties upon US with un-
sparing hand. He has blessed and pros
pered US as He has blessed and prospered
no other people. He seems to have Sc
lected us as His chosen people from among
the rest Of the earth through whom to
extend the blessings Of civil and religious
liberty, and Bible Christianity through all
future ages and to all generations Of men.
lie has made Us literally nation whose
people are all sovereigns, and given US IS
a heritage land flowing with milk and
honey. If the hand of special Provi-
dence is ever manifested in the affairs Of
men, it surely has been in the wonderful
career of this young Republic. Mark its
lowly origin-its struggles for existence
in its infancy-the many dangers that
have threatened its being from without
and Within-.its wonderful dc,ivcrance
from them all-its rapid growth and I'M
paralleled progrcss-the present prosper
ity and glory Of this mighty empire Of
sovereigns and conledcrated Sovereisnties.
If any people ought to be grateful, Amer
leans should be; il any ought to he at
tached to their country and its insttu
tions, Americans should be. One would
think with such a government and such
a country our people should all be Patr-
OTIS. Yet what do we sec? A monster
organization of selfish and unruly spirits,
thirsting for power and eager for the
spoils, bent upon the overthrow Of the
government, even at the expense OF
drenchDg this fair land with the blood Of
its sons and daughters Is it not so :
Who does not sec that the determined
object of the bands Of -diSruptionists and
fanatics, which stand arrayed against the
National Democracy, is to rule this coun.
try or to ruin it? There is no use to dis.
guse the fact longer-the attempt is folly
in the extreme. The issleis one of Union
or disunion-of constitutional law, social
order, and domestic security, or of mob.
ocracy, anarchy and general confusion
citizens, shall this glorious Union,
purchased by the blood and treasure and
consecrated by the prayers Of our fathers,
be broken up? Is there not ralor and patri--
otism enough among their sons to main
tain the priceless heritage that has been
left them? Shall poverty, distress, an
archy and fraternal war overrun this land,
where now all is plenty, content, civil or.
der and fraternal confidence? No! No.
a thousand times, mol We have fallen
upon degenerate times. it is true-we are
doubtless upon the eve Of great crisis
but we cannot believe that the impending
iniquity will or can be consumInated.-
The evil is indeed upon US, even at our
doors, but it must be and shall be arrested.
This glorious Union, precious legacy of
our fathers, must and shall be preserved
II must, too, be preserved with honor to
all the members Of this Confcdcracy, for
at the expense Of honor, it is not worth
preserving.
To suppose that any member Of this
Confederacy would be base enough to
to submit to Union at the expense Of hon.
or, is more than can be rightly expected
The honor of sovereign State is like the
priceless honor Of a virgin. 1t is sacred,
above all considerations Of policy or ex.
pedency. How is this Union, then, to be
preserved with honor to itself and honor
to all its members? There is but one way
one plain, straight, open way and no other.
The compact Of that Union must be kept
inviolate. The great constitutional bond
must be fulfilled to the letter, and in the
spirit Of the letter. Our institutions, if
maintained at all, must DO maintained
in all their primitive purity. How are
these institutions so to be maintained p
Only by the successful operation Of Dem
ocratic principles. Upon the success of
the principles of the great Democratic
party, laid down, fully aud explicitly, in
that platform upon which John c. Brcck.
inridge stands, depends the inviolability
of the compact of union, and upon the in
volatility of that compact, we repeat,
depends the existence Of the Union itself.