New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-28
CALEB CUSHING ON THE STATE OF THE

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were sim pie srce 10 seek TO Disguise the fact yn
Ourselves Others. Mes at the south have taken tne
initlatory step to dissolve the Uniohi ana however
injurious 10 us tina. step may be-hOwever extreme
we know they cannot go back, unless induced Dye
spnit and by acts Of just accommodation on the part OF
tie North. AT such moment 1t Is idle TO suppoSe tnt
we gain anything by shrinking to look the truth sqaro
in the fare The ship Of State il among the breakers
Size Is drifting let Us hope not desperately, however
thIeatenDgIy, on the lee shore Of destruction IL
behooves All Of u.s. instead Of shutting eyes to the
peril instead Of wrnging our hands in imbeciie con-
ateTnaon, instead OF contempbly complaining OF the
loOkouts who signal the danger-instead Of this, say,
bebOOves all of to do each what he may to avert
the impending evil, and 70 stand ready with heart and
hand TO eoopsfaie in efforts for the salvation OF the
Union Therefore do assemble here en- this occa-
| sion.
| The Union in danger Alas, it is 20; the Union il
in danger not by OF invasion from abroad but
of revolution home, produced by conflict OF opinion
and action between the Northern and Southern States,
as to that slave labor which exists m The Southern
States alone it il true, but which exists there 70 tho
benefit and profit OF the Northern not les than OF
| the Southern States.
Is it not 30 L. there any doubt that such is the
cause of the danger We in Massachusetts, do not
doubt-we know-that the danger Is produced ~ the
WISH purpose. attempt, of great party at the North
to act against Slavery in the SOnth, in condensation
of the rights of the Southern Stes that IN tho minds
of many at the North the thought it strue, is merely
to ccunscribe slave labor within its present limits
| albeit that also may contravene the constitutional
rights of the Southern States but that the thought OF
URnY others IefnalS oI MORE II 10 dOOilru ~ WnOr "
now exists" eUrycLerc, as the Governor eject OF
Massachusetts, think, has once said that The WISH
purpose, attempt at the North, go to abolish saye Ia
Dor at the South, has from small BEGINNINGS OF scat
tered Abolition Societies swollen TO the proportions Of
| cyHS0de TO that end that the manifestation OF ths
wish purpose and attempt at the North Is resisted by
the Southern States an unconstitutional interference
with their sole power and right OF domestic legsalon
that such attack from the North has produced defense
at the South that attack and defense both, commence
ing both sides with acts OF Individuals sometimes
lawful sometimes unlawful have extended themselves
to act Of States some lawful and some unlawful and
| thus imperil the Union.
Can do anything for the security OF the Unionf
Can do anything to avert the dangers which threat
| en- il TO determine that, we must penetrate to the
verv center ard heart of the controversy; we shall
then bow it affects the Union; and then, and not
until then, shall be competent 10 jndge whether IL
be possible and if possible whether desirable, for rs
to DO anything toward the preservation Of the Union,
| ard if So what that shall be.
Alas! repeat-alas that such should be the ques-
ton of the hour-the question whether II be worth
| while TO try to do anythng-and what that anything
| may be- to preserve the Union.
The Union! the Union How proudly have not oar
hearts been accustomed to beat we conemplaedtb the
niOn-the gOres Of the OF these States before
lie Revolution, during 1t, after itthat birth OF orr
Union Oh the field Of battle-its baptism of blood 10
tie Of victOry-its great achievement OF indie
| rendence-its upward rise into power and fame-is
Overspreading of this continenits lofty position OF
youthful nationality by the side Of the highest and
| greatest OF the old powers OF Europe.
/
that noble work of Fathers, by which we are not
hostile foreign States, but family of confederated
Republics, without yexaous eustOm-houses OF impeded
commercial intercourse along respective frontiers
| without conflict Of commercial eystems; with free
interchange of ourresIective productionsag
mineral marine, manufacturing; with right Of free
passage from the other and Of freely following
the pursuits Of industry and happiness in either; with
complete exemption at home flOm all those horrors OF
| local war; III word, specially privileged by our
federal organization from all the terrible drawbacks on
/ ruH0
wasted the resources and destroyed the power Of all
| tie rest Of ChTstendoml
The Union! How delightedly have we not contem- :.
plated that grand spectacle Of the American Constu-
! ton oyer-canopying our country as o luminous frm3-
ment OF subimly and beauty hlled wlt all benehcent
| Notwithstanding the wilderness to blossom As O
garden and new State after State to spring mp under
the light and heat of its radianceso that BY the arts
Of peace aud the expansive GehoOd OF our institutions
the New World seemed to belong 20 ms Of right, ana
tire OF Americans bad come TO DC ours alone, and
rang on the az round and full ever that OF Roman
did IN the PALMER days Of the civilization OF the Old
Wordl
Such was the Union which our fathers established
Union founded the cornerstone idea OF the ogl.
raj independence and constitutional ooequali,y OF al
the States-a Union for the purpose Of assuring each
and all against foreign aggression but not lees to a..
sure each and all in the complete possession and full
enjoyment of it, domestic rights, so rs to retain
laws of RELIGIOUS conformity and compulson like MAJ
sachuses, TO repeal them, like Virginia, so as TO e-
e;lZe entails Of hand like Massachusetts, or TO unlegi
lie it like Virginia 10 maintain serfabor Ike
Virginia. or to exclude it like Massachusetts. That
was the fundamental idea Of the fathers Without
having that idea originally. they never could have
created UBon-withou adhering 10 that idea 20 long
rs they lived they never could have transmitted the
| Union to the sons.
II was left to degenerate sons Of theirs to begin TO
undo that great work, which they had not wisdom to
comprehend or virtue to maintain in its pristine In
| teerity and strength.
1t not until twenty years after The estabh ament
Of the Constitution when the Last Of the Revelation
ary Presidents was the seat OF Federal powe, that
men OF the Northern States began 20 stnke blows ~
the equality If the State, ny insisting on thppnung
of The institutions Of Southern States under the ban OF
! he Union. in excluding them from the common Fed
Treadng IN the sflne path the next step o. abandon
ment or perversion Of the Constitution by the sons,
vras for the Northern States cophsoate the
rror ery and other domestic rights Of cit Of the
South soiourring ,or in transit at the North the pos
On Of which, during such soOum or translt, is
guaranteed to them by the same explicit provision Of
the Constitution which guarantees TO the citizens Of
the North the privilege TO 20 with their properly and
ether domestic rights in transit or soourn iUto any
| southern State
Then the sons proceeded TO pass acts 10 tho North
States to nalliy inpede the rgnt OF reclamation
OF ugltiyes from service which the Cor Stitutcp had
explicitly stipulated for ard which constitutional light
the fathers had confirmed by al appropriate &C, of
| Congress.
Next, degenerate sons. in contempt Of TIE dea and
work Of their fathers, proceeded 10 organize in the
Northern Statss a system OF agitation and propagand
i>m by Of Societies, Incorporated and ethors,
for the Uurpose OF preaching az the North crusade
against tho institutions and the people of the South
| en States This agitation went until the MINDS OF
too many at lie North had got 10 DO utterly host to
| all sense Of truth talsehOod right wrong ana
everything OF good gave way TO the frantic clamor
| Of ere unIeasOning aud seDseless sympathy with
black men-to such degree that to break coyepnt 10,
steal pr0perty or TO facilitate the stealing % it, 10