The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1862-07-02
From the Boston Courier.

We quote below, from the last New
York Obscrper, part of letter written by
Rev. DR.. Prime, one Of its editors, from
the capital of Ohio, in which the Old
School Presbyterian. General Assembly
has Just held a session. DIR. Prime has
had an excellent opportunity of learning
he state Of feeling throughout the West,
md account is we'll calculated to afford
he highest encouragement toevery gener-
5us hope for the Union We beg to call
,artic,ilar attention to the calm resolution
shieh he declares is the ruling state of
aind in that vast, powerful and vigorous
.ort.on Of our country, and especially to
he principle upon which it rests. TIE
'eople of the West expect, and are de-
ermined to reunite these distracted States,
because they are themselves actuated by
an honest purpose adapted to promote and
secure the grand result. This is the ba-.
sis of their confidence, and they know
that through this the several cords of old
sympathies and alliances can be taken up
again and be once more intertwined into "a
cable of perdurable 'toughness. p
Nor could anything be more cheering
q, than the statement, that the radical revo-
lutionism, which is the pest of the East,
exercises such slight influence in the West
The surprise expressed by Mr.. Prime, on
this point, shows how little accurate in
formation may be possessed by an ,intelli-
gent gentleman in habits of partial inter
course, I'VE may presume, with his fellow
citizens at various distant points, in re-
] gard to their real sentiments. And this
fact may properly tend to lead many among
ourselves, who are liable to be affected
and leo away by influences Immediately
surrounding them, to reflect, whether they
| have not been under serious misapprehen-
sions in regard to the extent and power of
extreme New England opinions, For sure
! ly it would be far better for our own in
terests to cultivate a sympathy of feeling
with those who mean and who have the
power to give us the Union as it was and
/ the Constitution as. it is s'''-than to act an
lexclusiye part, in which we may find our
selves, in the end, standing by ourselves
shut out from true national sympathy
having effected none of our ultra objects
and having lost all the old reputation and
influence in national affairs, for which
New England once was so justly esteemed
and upon which she so justly prided her
Iself. 4e sIe.;e, a., ~ ~ - -.
| The passage extracted from the Ohit
Statesman very clearly defines the differ
ence between true. and pretended UnioI
man: The, distinction was. drawn witt
}, clearness enough for those who reasoned
upon the. subject, during the last Presi
4 dental campaign, While the real Uniol
men went for 'SThe Union, the Constitu
\ tion, and the Enforcement of the Laws,
| there we're those who. inscribed on thei
banners 'sThe Constitution as it ought t
be, y aThe enactment of just laws, an
such new tangled political sophistications
as showed them, secessionists and disun
t lionists and seeessionists at heart, ,Henc
the troubles in which the country ha
] become involved, and it is by the eorrec
: ton of such errors only that we can hop
to escape from them. This is the extrac
al '.The feeling of the Western country