Daily national Democrat., 1861-03-21
Great Union Men.

almost, under pretenee oI Democracy, TO
produce the very condition OF things now |
,xisting, by lending their aid to the election
.he regular nominee of the National Democ-
racy, are now setting up the cry that they
are the true Union party, because they are
opposed to coercion, coercion as they contend
being war, and war being virtual dissolu'
tiou of the Union. They are Union men be-
cause they do not desire war We would
ask these wonderfully patriotic individuals,
if they are not advocating Disunion, when
they contend for peaceable secessi What
is the difference, whether the Union is dis
solved by the pusillanimity of the chief
magistrate and the pusillanimity of conser-
vative citizens, or by "war" in which the
Federal Government shall fail to maintain
itself against revolution? OF course, men
who desire to see secession succeed and dis
union flourish, have no very ardent wish
that force ehouid be used to put secession
and disunion down. They want rebellion to
go unquestioned. They are great Union
party in favor of the dissolution of the Tn
ion. Force TO dissolre the Union is all right,
with them, but force to prcserve it they are
opposed to. God save the country from such
"Union party" as this
A Union party forsooth! They broke up
the National Democracy by refusing to sup
port the very man whom they now affect to
eulogize. They refused to support him,
knowing that the refusal would prevent all
earthly chance for the election of other than
a Republican. And as soon as a Republican
President was elected-the very thing they
wanted-they proclaimed that the Union
must be dissolved, for Just cause had been
given. They take advantage of their own
wrong. They complain OF the results Of their
own acting They put man in power and
then complain of his being there. They put
him there for the purpose of having him
make war upon the domestic institutions Of
the South, but they, or those with whom they
act, are so fearful that he may not give them
the excuse they desire, that they secede un-
der the pitful subterfuge that he is going to
do something.
We confess, that there are thousands of
who will be dragged along in this movement
by the force of geographical and other condi
tions surrounding them. But they will
know full well that it was no Union-loving
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led the way to secession.
But, the people of this State, standing
aloof as they do from any direct local inter-
| est in this question of slavery, (siuce Callor-
MIA is a free State, and nobody wishes slave
ry to be established within its limits ,)-the
people, we say, will despise the assumption
of the title of "Uaion Party" 10y the advo-
Gates of secession and the apologists for trea-
son. The people of this State are coDtented
with their condition. Its institutions are
suitable to their wants and requirements-
over them to shield aud protect, ard they
desire no better security. They VIII grind
the secession party, if they dare to organize
in this state against the Federal Government
between the upper and the neither milstone
The men of wealth and of property, upon
whom the burdens of war against the Fed
eral Government would fall, leaving the
loud-mouthed politicians who have nothing
to lose scot free, will never make such asses
of themselves as to voluntarily assume the
support of revolutionary and experimental
Government. They will oppose any change
which thus jeopardizes every great business
interest of the country. AS for the masses OF
the people, they are loyal and true, If they
join any "Union party" it will be one whose
object is the preservation Of the Union and
not its destruction