The national Republican., 1861-04-13
GEN. JACKSON AND THE UNION.

interview was q short one.
GEN. JACKSON AND THE UNION.
A correspondent, after exposing some gar.
bling, by the Baltimore Sun, Of Gen. Jackson's
Fare ell Address, says:
Everywhere throughout this noble passage
of his Farewell Address, jackson earnestly and
eloquently urges upon his countrymen the
transcendent Importance and necessity that at
epery hazard, and by every sacrifice, this Union
must be prese,red!' In the paragraph next
preceding the one garbled by the San, he
sternly declares that, in order to maintain the
Union unimpaired, it is absolutely necessary
that the laws passed by the constituted authori-
ties should be faithfully executed in erery part
of the country, and Mot all good citizens should
at all times stand ready TO put dopn ,cfh the
combined force Of the nation, every attempt at
urld,cfnt resistance, under whdteper prefert IL
may be made, or ,ohdterer shape ii may assume
1T is impossible that any Govern.
ment can continue TO exist upon any other
principles. 1t would cease to be Government,
and be unworthy of the name, if it had not the
power to enforce the execution Of its own laws
within its own sphere of action u Through.
out, it is the reasonable doctrines and course of
the Sun, and of the confederates, and not those
of the friends of the Union, that Jackson ar.
raigns, condemns, and mathematics. Every pa
triotic heart, therefore, whether Of the North or
the South, or Republican or Democrat, will
forever recur to the teachings and example Of
Jacksonville iron man of '33 for support
in its maintenance of 'the Union, and Of the
Constitution, and in the enforcement of the
Laws
"True to the allegiance Of his birth, and
loyal to his oath, having by his promptitude
and energy suppressed notification in 1893,
jackson cautioned the country that treason,
though silenced was not dead that the rev.
enue laws, then the alleged cause, was only the
pretext; and thatthe negro question would be
the next through which the traitors would seek
to accomplish the ruin they had so much at
heart. Again, in his 'FareiceN address, he
Indignantly rebukes these Efforts I'VE be.
hold systematic efforts, publicly made, to SOW
the seeds of discord between different parts of
the United States, and to place party divisions
directly upon geographical distinctions to ex.
cite the South against the North, and the
North against the South, and to force into this
controversy the most delicate and exciting
topics, upon which it is impossible that large
portion Of fthe Union can ever speak without
strong emotions. Appeals, too, are constantly
made to sectional interests, in order to infu
ence the election of the Chief Magistrate, as if
it ,cere desired that he should favor a pdrticu.
lar quarter Of the country, instead of fulfilling
the duties Of his station with impartial justice
to all!' But he conjures US not to delude ,
ourselves with the belief that breach once
ceive' ourselves with the hope that the first
line of separation would be the permanent
ohe.' The first line of separation would not
last for single generation new fragments
would be torn off, new leaders would spring up
and this great and glorious Republic would soon
be broken into multitude of petty States, with.
out commerce, without credit; jealous of one
another; armed for mutual aggressions loaded
with taxes to pay armies and leaders seeking
aid against each other from foreign Powers
insulted and trampled upon by the nations of
Europe, until, harassed with conflicts, and hum
bled and debased in spirit, they would be ready
to submit to the absolute dominion of any mil.
itary adventurer, and surrender their liberty for
the sake Of repose!'
"This is the voice of patriot, and, to bor.
row the language of the Sun, these words
ought 10 be inscribed in letters of gold, and
everywhere dstributed!' They are the solemn
testament of venerable and veteran patriot
and Southern man-a South Carolinan--aged
and gray, and SCARED and battleworn in the
service Of his country = that disunion, the
cause of the Sun and of the confederates, will
only bring death, and ruin, and degradation
ignominious death alike to freedom here and
throughout the world, and ruin, irreirievablo
ruin and degradation, to that country which he
eloquently exhorts every true American breast
to love and honor-to that Union by which he
earnestly conjures every patriotic heart to stand
and die W. L. N.
"Washington, april 10, 1861"