The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-10-17
The Union.

Oh what a vail was that which went up from
the Lansing Journal last week, over the Octo-
Der elections, The last shrinkings of despair,
rs the unresigned culpriI is dragged upon the
gallows, could hardly exceed it. And the dismal
howl is all for this dear Union, about TO go &c
dunder and bl;xen BY Lincoln's certain election
What else should il be aboutg OF course, the
loss of Post Offices, of Government Printing, of
Marshalships, Collectorships short, the loss
of the long enjoyed privilege of using and squan-
dering from sixty to eighty millions year-it
instt to be supposed that all this has produced
such shock to Our neighbor's nerves. Oh, no
it is only because this Union of ,ht Government
and Slavery is about to be dissolved, And over
this, the sage Of the Journal walls like dog
that has lost his bone.
| But this is the last argument OF the party re-
pudiated by the people. If they cannot get
votes on principle, they Will seek them on fear;
and from this time till the boxes are closed on
the 9Th of November, every doughface editor
through the land will make il his chief argument,
that, if Lincoln is elected, the Union will be dis
solved. This is their las, public card-their last
private one, is frau! at the ballot box.
Let US see. Who is going TO dissolve the Tn
ion? Not the Republicans surely; for they not
only DO not propose 10 break up the Union, but
they have no fears that aay body else can do it
VIII the Douglas party Surely not, if they love
it thousandth part as well as their professed
terror at the thought of dissolution indicates. i
is true, their leader has shown his readiness to
destroy the most sacred national compacts; bu
he and his followers claim to be friends to tn,
Union, even though Lincoln takes the helm
And in this, they are doubtless sincere. AnG
certain not the Bell and Everett party; for thai
is par erceiisnce, the Union party.
We have then, only the Breckenridge party
left VIII they dissolve the Union? Suppos.
they attempt it. They have opposed to them
all the Union men. Woudn'l they have a prom
i-ing time Of it, in their undertaking.
This shows that the men who ask US to yiell
to their demands from such motive, are either
the most AFFECT bathrooms, that ever disgraceC
humanity, or they are proclaiming fear they d.
not feel, and are therefore knayes
But see where their argument leads, andeave
them. II VIC will help elect Douglas, the UnioI
is safe-the Slave interest viii not then dissov.
the Union. Thus their own argument proves
what We have all along asserted-that the Doug
las party is slavery party, and that they so con
slider it as he would save the Union by yielding
all that slavery demands, as the condition of he
allowing it to stand.
r. ally, it would seem that our Locofoco edi
tors had made asses of themselves about Ion;
enough to abandon the Old bugbear The fare
is worn out. If they love the Union as they say
they will help us preserve it. If they join il
with Gov. Wise and the Virginia militia (Of Har
pers' Ferry renown) to destroy the Union, it vii
take but little while 10 see whether treason o
law is the stronger. Put them all together, an
they could no more destroy this Union, thar
could the Locofocos of the Upper Peninsula dis
: solve the union of counties in Michigan.