The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1862-09-12

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south against the north and the uorih
against the south, and to force into the
controversy the most delicate and excited
| topics, upon which it is impossible that a
large portion Of the Union can ever speak
without strong emotions. Appeals too
are constantly made to sectional interests,
and the possible dissolu>
ton of the Union has at length become an
ordinary and familiar subject Of discuss
! ion.
Has the warning voice of w ashington
been forgotten, or have designs already
| been formed to sever The nation? <
Mutual suspicious and reproacbes may in
| time create mutual hostility; and artful
and designing men will always be found,
who are ready to foment these fatal divi-
sions and to infame the natural jealous
les Of different sections Of the country
= De!ude not yourselves
into the belief that a breach once mad e
may be afterwards, repaired If the
| Union is once severed, the line Of separa
ton will grow wider and wider, and the
controversies which are now debated and
settled in the halls of legislation, will be
tried in the fields of battle and determined
by the sword The Con
stitution cannot be maintained nor the
Union preserved, in opposition to public
feeling, by the mere eXertion of the coer>
Give powers conided to the general gov
eminent. The foundations must be laid
III the affections Of the people; in the Sc
curity it gives to life, liberty, character
and properly in every quarter of the coun
try; and in the fraternal attachment
which the citizens Of the several states
to one another, as members of one political
family mutually contributing to promote
the happiness of each other. Hence the
citizens of every state should studously
avoid verything calculated to wound the
sensibility or offend the just pride of the
people of other states and they should
trown upon any proceedings within their
own borders likely to disturb the tranquil
ity of their political brethren in other por
tons Of the Union.
Each state has the unquestionable right to
regulate its own internal concerns, accord
ing to its own pleasure.
And all efforts on the part of the people of
other states to cast odium on their insti
tutions, and all measures calculated to
disturb their rights Of property or to put
IN jeopardy their peace and internal tran
guilty, are in direct opposition to the spir.
1t IN which the Union was founded and
must endanger its safety. Motives Of
philanthropy may be ASST gned fer this un-
warrantable interference, and weak men
may persuade themselves for moment
that they are laboring in the cause of hu>
manity and asserting the rights of the l:ue
man race; but every one upon sober re
Election will see that nothing but mischief
can come from these improper assaults up
on The feelings and rights of others =
Rest assured that the men found busy in
this work of discord, are not worthy of
your confidence, and deserve your strong
est reprobation.
SO spoke one of the greatest and wisest
patriots of American history. Counsels
so sacred and warnings so solemn, were
disregarded by the aboitonists; and the
abolition party continued to teach lis trca
sonable doctrines and to preach its crusade
against the south and its institutions.
The results SO wisely fore,old, necessa-
rily followed. The denunciation of the
south at the north, was met 10y dcnuncia-
ton of the north at the south Hostility
in the north to the institutions Of the south
provoked hostility in the south to the peo
pie of the north. The great mass 0: the
people of the south we're loyal 10 the Tn
ion; bat class of public men in the
south had for some been tainted with dis,
loyalty, and aimed to separate the south
ern states from the Union, whenever AN
opportunity should arise to carry the peo
pie of the south with them. These men
ze"lous y contributed 20 foment the aboli-
tion excitement at the north, and exaoeer
ated its power aud Importance at Tie
south. Thus faction begot faction: and
the abolition party at the north produced
the dsnrion party at tie south. The
spirit of northern abolition and of south>
ern disunion insen>bIy grew together for
years, until the period Of the last presi-
Dental election, when 4 bitter animosity
existed between large ana powerful fac
tons in the north and in the south.
In the meantime, in 1876, the wlIir
party most unhappiIy abandoned its or
CARNATIONS, and the present republican
party was founded on the basis of the old
abolition party. The best aud most en-
Iightened patriots of the wings refused all
alliance with tie new sectional party: bur
the vast body Of the wings surrendered
their nationa; politics TO its narrow and
sectional bigotry. The great leaders Of
the whjg party were gone. The mighty
voice Of Webster, which always spoke for
the whole country and never uttered
sectional dogma, was silent forever. The
great head and heart Of Clay, whose
craftsmanship had served to save the Tn
ion from more than one peril and was As
broad as the Union itself, lav low in death.
Had these great lights Of the whir party
survived, We fully believe they would have
saved their party from the shame Of pros
tituting in the unhoIy embraces Of Sec
tional and revolutionary organization. -
But they were gone; pigrnies sat in the
seats OF giants: the whlg party went out
of being, and the republican party was in
grated on the abolition party.
II is true that the epubliran marty