The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1861-02-02

mortal joke of advising the people of the
United States that lit is ofinfinite moment
that We should properly estimate the i'm
mcnse value of our national Union that we.
should cherish cordial. habitual. and I'M
movable attachment to it; that we should
watch for its preservation with Jealous
anxiety: discounttnancing whatever may
suggest a suspicion that it can in any event
be abandoned and Indignantly frown upon
the first dawning of every attempt to ALLEVIATE
any portion of our country from the rest,
or to enfecb.e the sacred ties which now link
together the various parts"
Sir, that great man penetrated. as with the
acnmcn of a seer. into the browning hanc of
this disastrous period, when he warned his
countrymen against the consequences of geo.
graphical parties. Extremes in the North
and extremes in the South have at last met
Parties have been organized and carried on by
systematic perversions Of each others aims
and objects In TIE North il has been rep
resented that the South desired and intended
to monopoize with slave labor all the public
territory: to drive out free labor to convert
every free State into common ground for the
recapture Of culored persons as slaves who
were free; and to pns the Federal Govern
ment, in all its departments, under the con-
troll of slave oIigarchy. These and all
other stratagens that could he resorted to to
arouse antagonistic feelings were welded with
turbulent and tumutuoas passion. As we
planted so we reap. Now that victory has
been obtained by the Republican party and
the Government must be administered upon
national policy and principles, the assures in
the ground hitherto occupied become appar-
ent: and hence there must necessarily he a
large detection in its ranks among the more
ultra of its adherehts, who are, as general
thing, ideal, speculative ard not practical
men.
Out of power, party is apt to be radical ::
vest it with power and it becomes conscrva-
tive. This is the ordeal through which the
Republican. like all other parties is now
passing; and it is to be hoped for the peace Of
The country, it will result in the triumph of
practical and national, rather than ideal uoli-
cy and sectional measures. Herein consists
the almost insupcrahle difficulty of coming to
any feasible adjustment upon the existing
discontcnts. The bulk rfpolticians, North
and South are bound by past record and
past professions. They are thinking all the
while Of what Mrs. Grundy will say. The
people understand! the cause Of the difficulty,
and are moving. If they could in,erpose, the
country might yet be saved.
Sir, what is that difficulty now: what has
it always hcen9 appeal to every unprcju-
diced mans experience to say, whether it has
not been that. in The hands of nltraistS North
and ulraistS South. the STAKEHOLDER has been
used as a shutllt6orr, and fer purposes
utterly dlssmilar, has been banded from
Massachusetts to South Carolina. until now
the last point Of endurance has beer reached
Every virulent word uttered North has been
sent South. and tie South mas responded IN
the Same virulent spirit. Nay, the Abolition.
list himself has been granted ar audience IN
every southern city at every Southern polti.
cal meeting, and the most violent, insulting,
ngIarlnn speeches repeated in the hearing
even of slaves themselves. Is it not humiIin.
tion to confess, that the very people who
would burn in cffigy, if not at the stake. a
postmaster who would dare to distribute q
copy of ultra abolition speeches. honor as
among their chief defenders, the candidates
who can qdotc the most obnoxious passages
from all Z Who has made of Southern poll
tics. a vast hoibcd, for the propagation of
abolition Sentiments, but ul,ln Southern men,
themselves? Who has inloctrinated the
northern people with dissimlar sentiments,
expressed by the most ultra Southern men,
but northern yea lots themselves =?
The population of the two great sections OF
this nation stand therefore, towards each
other, at this moment. hike cncamped armies.
waiting for the command to battle. The
patriot plans, deplorcs, appeals deplores and
plans and appeals again, finding but little
succor IN the only quarter whence succor can
come. The abolitionist revels in the madness
d the hour. He secs the crack IN the ice.
hcrg at last. For him the desert and the
battle field are both alike welcome. He
knccls down in the desert with the camclS
for spcck IN the far distant horizon shows
the simeon is coming. He looks into the
future as into dark cloud in the morning.
when nothing sings but the carly lark
Soon history, like the light of that eastern
horizon, will curtain back that cloud, and
paint in blood ruddiest tints. field and for
est, hamlet and city, the very mountains. to
their pine crowned tops, and the great ocean
itself, as an ensanguined flood, where
brother contending with brolhor, shall find a
nameless scpulcher
No anaconda, with his filthy folds around
the banyan tree, ever threw out the venomouS
tongue, and ytarncd with ticrccr passion for
the crushed bone and the pulpy flesh. than
he now cxpectant of his prey, yearns for the
long postponed repast. Well may he cry
that the day Of jubilee has come. Well may
he marshal his hosts to the last great war OF
sections and of races. Defeated, stigmatized
lnsulted, scoffed at, ostrscized, gibbeted by
his countrymel. he now gloats over the most
fearful of all re1ributons. His deadlest foes
hitherto IN the South, have now struck hands
in a solemn league Of kindred designs, and
with exultnnt tramp, s,olidly march, adorned
like Roman OK, with the garands of sacri-
fee to their eternal doom.
Sir, is it necessary to proclaim what that
is I b. this moment when sudden frenzy
has struck blind the Southern people. it can
not even be realized: and | may be scolftd
and hootcd at with that perversty in i'll which
masses of men sometimes display who are
intent on their own inevitable destruction. -
Sir when look at my country, its present
desolate condition, and its possible fate, an,
almost ready to close the quick accents OF
speech. aud allow the heart to sink down
voicclrss in its despair! Listen to the words
Of William Lloyd Garrison, and tell me W hat
answer you will give to them:
| "At last the covenant with death is annul.
led and the agreement with hell broken, by
| the action of South Carolina herself, and ere
long by all :he slaveholdiug States, for Their
doom is one. Hail the approaching jubilee
| ye millions who are wearing. the CALLING
I your redemption draws nigh, bringing liberty
| to you and salvation to the whole land"
Hear him again:
demand the dissolution of this slaveholdine
! T1nio md tba IN Of