Daily national Democrat., 1861-06-27
1ailu QatlOnal nrmotrat.
Iockson's Appeal to the DisuniOnists in
1892.

1857.
The sympathizers with treason should read
A.. ALLOWING language from Jackson's proc
,.n,o,ion against nulliication. lie said. as
1Tn;oD men now do, that disunion by force
forms is treason The man who only re-
..s the words of jackson, need not be
afraid of repudiating Democracy, unless CAL
bounism be Democracy;
rAnJ for what, mistaken men for what
An YOU throw away these inestimable bless
;na,-for what would you exchange your
hare in the advantages and honor of the
t1nionP For the dream of separate indepen-
Jence-a dream interrupted by bloody con-
.iicts with your neighhors, and vile depen-
Jsnce on foreign power. If your leaders
oorll succeed in establishing separation,
wbot would be your situation Are you uni
.s5 at home-are you free from the appre
Ien.ion of civil dscord, with all its fearful
nonseouences Do our neighboring rtpub =
lies every day suffering some new revolution
ny contending with some new nsurrection-
do they excite your envy2 But the dictates
Of high duty oblige me soiemnly to an
nonnce that you cannot succeed THE taws of
1It United States must be erecuted | have
no discretionary power on the subject -ny
duty is emiphatcally prenoGnced in the Com
saution. Those who told you that you might
peaceably prevent their execution, deceived
you-they could not have been deceived
themselves. They know that forci6le OPP
position must be repetled Their Object is dis
union but he not deceived by n1mes DIS
UNION by ARMED FORCE, Is TREASON. Are you
really ready to incur its guilt? If you are,
on the heads of the instigators of the act lie
tbe dreadful consequences-on their heads he
the dishonor, but on yours may fall the pun
ishment -on your unhappy State will inevi-
taby fall all the evils If the conflict you
force upon the government Of your country.
1t canuCt acctde to the mad project of tis
union, of which you would be the iist vic-
tim.-its first mngistrats cannot, If he would
avoid the performance of his duly-the con
sequences must lie fearful for YOU d, ,tre>sing
to your fellow citizens here. and 10 the friends
of good government throughout the world
Its enemies have beheld our prosperity with
aveXaton they could not conceal it was IA
standing refutation Of their slavSh doctrines
and they will point to our discord with the
triumph of malignant joy 1t is yet in your
power TO disappont them. There is Yet tie
to show that the descendants of the Pinck-
neys, the Sumters, the Rutledges, and of the
thousand other names which adorn the pages
of your revolutionary history, will not abnn.
don that Union, to support which many
of them fought and bled and died | ndiure
you, MS you honor their memory--us you
love the cause of freedom, to which they
dedicated their lives as you prize the peace
of your country, the lives of its best citizens
and your own kir fame to rrtrace your steps
Snatch from the archives of your State the
lsorganizing edict of its convenli"n--lid it.
members to reassemhe and promu|gate the
decided expressions of your will to remain in
the path which alone can conduct you to
safety. prosperity, and honur; tell them that;
compared to disLnion, all other evils are
light, because that lrings with it an nccuuIu
Mti of all-declare that You wid never
take the field unless the star-spangled banner
OF YOUR country shall flort over vou-th,t
you will not lie stigmatized when dead, and
dishonored and scorned while YOU live, ~
the authors of the first attack on the Consti
tuition of your country rs desfroyers you
cannot be You may disturb its pelce-you
may interrupt the course Of its prosperty--
ytu may cluud its reputation for Stability
but its tranquility will lie restored, lis pros
perity will return, and the stain upon il
tonnl character will be transferred and re-
main an eternal blot on the memory If those
who caused the disorder.
fellow citizens of she United States! The
threat of unhaTlowed disuuion, the names of
those (once respected) toy whom it wa, ut.
tered, the drray Of military force to support
il, denote the apIroHch Ot II crisis in our Ht-
fairs on which The coutuuance of our uuex-
amPled prosperity, our political existence,
and perhaps that of all free Governments
may depend The corjuncture demanded u
fee, a full and an explicit drnuncialon not
e0lr Of my intentions, but of my principles
ef action and as the cluim WAS asserted of II
right 10y State to nnnul the laws of the
Union. and even to secede from it at pleasure
frank exposition of my opinions in relation
to the origin and form of our Government,
and the construction give to the instrument
10y which it was created seemed to hr proper
Having the fullest confidence in the ustness
of the legal and constitutional opinion Of my
duties which has been expressed, | rely with
equal confidence on your undivided SUPPORT
in my determination to execute the la aws-to
preserve the Union 10y all constitutional
means to arrest if possible. by moderate
hut firm measures, the necessity Of Il recourse
to force, and if it be the will of Heaven,
that the recurrence Of its principal curse on
nan for the shedding of hrorhrr's blood
should fall upon our land that it he not
eal.ed down by any offensive act on the part
.G the Unit ed States