Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-07-28
The Duty OF Patriots In the Present Crisis.

selves always % ne pressing ergecies Qf me hor. IL
is the course pursued by every wise men in bis private
concerns. Every has duties and various
objects He has public and private cares and ma
ny of each kind His country is in danger the
enemy is on her soil He leaves his family, his farm his
6reside, and rushes her aid A another time his wife
gasps for life What thinks he cares he for bis farm
while her life demands bis care Again, his harvest,
which is the livelihood Of his family, demands bis time
Does he not postpone his pasmes and iorego all lesser
duties AioIys he does that cbich he hour most de-
asads should Be dofs Is not this the fact OF every good
wise and honest in al bis individual concerns The
rulers Of every nation who wise and honest should
pursue Ike And who are the rulers Of this na-
hon but the people; and every owest TO himself and
to bis neghbors TO seek discover the great want the
pressing need Of the country whenever he is called 20
act and where he honestly Believes it TO be- then to fo
low IL As he would and does were exclusively his
private concern What is the great aud pressing want
Of the country az present. It wants it is true, ma
~ things, but chat u most Il wants, many
think Bank-but no thinks Bank the paramount.
want OF the land Many thiak il wants a Tariff-but
none that the Union-none that more than It's greater or
less prospery-depends upon its Tariff: many Pacific
Railroad, Homestead Bill, improvement system for
roads aud rivers Cuba, Mexico; laws 70 protect S-
very, some and some new laws to protect freedom but
nobody Of any sense thinks any or all Of these morc
than items Of The public prosperity or that with or with.
out them or either Of them the nation would not sn
march iorEard It's grea; career to grand and une1-
amp!ed destiny None Of them involves the life Of the
nation or safety Of the Union. What is our pressing
want What is the black and lowering danger we have
20 provide against The danger is Of CONFUSION. dsuu
ion, disorder and var The want Of wants is Of ,,u
aiHiHistraiioa lt and -,H aver, tLsse-that Will
harmonic, for practical purposes at least the whole
eogary-;hat WILL looking equally to the rights and the
inerests-whether the peculiar where there are peculiar
or common rights aud interests alike Of North, South
E's' and West command equally the confidence Of ALL
Is not this the paramount want orhe hour and is itnot
the paramount duty Of the citizen 10 hon, toupplya
and seeing how DO co. Can Republican administration
harmonizs the country Is not IFS aim the overthrow
Of the social system Of fifteen Of the Sates-through and
BY the Constitution say sone-desp,e the Constitution
say 9thers-bui the overthrow sill Of the system Of slave
~, say ALI lincoln iasoleaty saws uuqualfeily. the
holders Of Gavcs should themselves De slaves Ia DOW
sr the Instant consequence must be ignomuouv eating
his words and backing dowo from ts platform and abar.
S"0AaS o. ar '0aiatliuing il gains: the G9g ~,
tAaateal hostility 10 the free Sr..., Il; 81, l.r r,ir
tanning % against the mortal aud undivided hostility O.
hiien compact States Disssnto1s. then In any event
under Black R'pu5lclnism are inevitable: disruptiou far
from improbable.
Is " materially better If the Democracy succeed under
either leader or either flgs Can Breckenridge count or
single Northern or Southern Sa.cs Can Douglas or
single southern Is no. ibc former confronted bv al
most as solid a Free State opposition a. Lincoln bv
Save State opposition Not. we admit on the SLAYER,
question alone, aud therefore not dangerously 10 the
Union II he should be elected, bus on antSlayery and
ani-Adninstraton combined ayoritc as he is Of hi.
odous administration and JUST heir, therefore TO the
popular hate Of I'D which, together hardly less compact
y unite The North and West than prolvery the South
and hence Breckiuridgs Democracy is hardly less pur,
sectional and not less absolutely incompetent and dsa
bled from restoring harmony or securing safety to ti
Union, than Black RspubEcluism itself
How, If Bel and Everett were called to administer n
government Is there man South Of Mason's and
Dfons lne ruer than Bell TO the peculiar rights aud ne
estes Of the South, and the same time so aeeepta
bic TO the NOrth and West. Is there man North OF
that line uuer to true freedom and to the North and
West pan Everett or so acceptable as he to the Souts
Is there man except abOiio1sis, North or South OF
that line but admits that every section free or slave
every interest Southern or Northeru-everyman uatv,
or foregu-born, vosld be protected alike equally ant
firmly in all their rights by such an administration L
not the admission Of their capacity and Of their catholic
patriotism absolutely UNIVERSAL Would not every mar
feel in the event Of their election t6a, tIs couat- Is
SAFE al lea and would not their practical exemp6ca
ton Of harmony between the North and the South or
the broad national platform Of the Constitution con
s'rued IN that spir, Of patriotism and honor which pre-
sided over It's BIRTH win imitation throughout the land
and with all people and excepting always the arch
promoters Of al our troubles the aboous,s rebuke6
back, q their advent their confines Ike guilty things
At the approach Of day.
In hoe sgHO-and in o.her Of which the choice Is
eff US rests now sole hope Of restored harmony and
a retrieved Union
remains 20 be seen whether party allegiance or lea.
" 70 the country and the love Of be paramount in q
public breast Often before have questions Of party ad
vantage and Of public good been confronted and too Of
tea have the former prevailed Nsuer before has the
question Of party success and national safety been pre-
sented TO the ruling poEcr Of this countryside people
for their decision The path Of safety Ike the path Of
salvation may be steep and douls because /. Is upward
and over our tastes ard passions-but h must be trod
or Perdhon, else, swallow up and our country Are
the people competent 70 seEgovernmentg The answer
hangs on meeting successfully the exgency that is upon
theman eHigency that for the first time seriously H.
wolves the preservation Of the Institutions Of Govern
ment The Union might survive the dynasty Of Lincoln
of Breckenridge, 'Or Of Dougas /. would. perhaps
survive the success Of either But the success of either
the success Of any Of any party through the
defeat and with the hostility Of any large compact section
Of our country e. perhaps the kne Of our Unionthe
beginning Of the eudthe starting point Of new CON-
einAiiOns-hat dePOrable point in politics, which like
the cry Of sa5s qi Pea in battle pOspones patriotism
to selfPFeservaton. Such victory, won BY any party
is but Pyrrhie triumph. They win it-and all victo,s
aud vanquished alike, go down together
But the Union would but be eemented anew. if COM
mitted to the hands Of Bel and Everett They represent
the sentiment Of Consiitutional- Ugo-of the Union,
made and understood BY our Fathers Their elevation
is impossible except through the prevalence Of that sen
tment They must be elected, If at all, not by Wing.
CRY nor by Americanisn, nor BY Democrlcy-uor by
the SOuth-nor by the Nosth-aor by Shveryism nor
BY Anti-slaveryisgn-but BY CoHstiiioHrC CONSERVATISM
alone whether found in Wing American or Democrat
South or North-PrO-Savery or AntiS,avery. And be-
ing elected the country again rallies harmonious
more and united through an It's borders to the love and
support Of again glorious Union protected by the
Egs Of me Constitution broad and potent enough de-
tend the rights and interests Of ell and 10 plrazs and
disable treason or assault; foreign or domestic.
Democratic ExtraVaganee.
Exclusive OF balance Of twenty millions Of dollars
( nsierred 20 Nc. Buchlnans administration by n