Year: 1860




agency, in far distant ires-the deaths Of the
offenders themselves, pitiable, although necessary
and just because they acted under delirinm, which
blinded their judgments TO the real nature Of their
criminal enterprise; the alarm and CONSERVATION
naturally awakened throughout the country, ex-
citing for the moment the fear that our whole sys-
tem with all its securities for life and liberty,
coming to an end--a fear none the more endlirablc
because continually aggravated by new chimeras,
to which the great leading event lent an air of
probability, surely MI these constituted 4 sum Of
public misery which ought to have satisfied the
most morbid appetite for social horrors. But, in
: the case of the gunpowder plot, and the Salem
wtchcr.fft, and the New ork negro colonial plot,
so now. The original actors were swiftly followed
by another and kinder class, who sought not to pro-
long and widen the public distress by attempting
to direct the indignation which it had excited a
gsinst parties guiltess equally Of completely and Of
sympathies with the offenders.


POstcrity will decide in all the recent cases where
political responsibility for public disasters must fll
and posterty will give little heed to our instruc
] tons. 1t was not until the gloomy reign of Domi-
tan had ended, and liberty and virtue had found as
sured refuge under the sway of the milder Nerva,
tha the historian whose narrative of that pc
riod Of tyranny and terror has been accepted by
mankind.


The Republican party being thus vindcated 4.
gainst the charge of hostility to the South, which
has been offered in excuse for the mcnaces of un-
constitutional resistance in the event of its success
| feel well assured that it will sustain me in meet
ing them in the spirit of the defender of the Eng
lish commonwealth.


.'Surciy they that shall nation,
and having the power shall also have the
remove constitrtionay Governor whether he be tha
subordinate may please their fancy with RE
diculous and painted foedon fit babies. but
indeed under tyranny and ssvitue as wanting that pow
er which is the root and Of all liberty dispose Of
and economics in the land which God hath given them,
tance Without which natural and essential power Of
free nation though bearing high their heads they In
born in the and occupation another inhcrting


lord whose government though not illegal intolerabe,
hangs on them ordy scourge, not as free govern
mcnt'


The Republican party knows, as the whole conn.,
try will ultimately come to understand, that the
noblest objects of national life perish, if that


life itself shall be lost and therefore it will accept
, the issue rendered 1t will take up the word Uni.
on, which others are so willing to renounce, and,
combining it with that other glorious thought, Lib


erty which has been its inspiration so long, it will
move firmly onward, With the motto inscribed
, its banner, "UyIoy and LIBERTY, come what may,


in victory as in defeat, in power as cut of power.
: now and forcver.''


If the Republican party maintain the Union,
who and what party is to assal it! Only the Dem
ocratic party, for there is no other Will the Dem
J ocratic party take up the assault? The menaces
: of dsunon are made, though not in its name, Jet
in its behalf 1t must avow or disavow them. Its


silence, thus far, is portentous, but not alarming.
The effect of the intimidation, if successful, would
be to continue the rule of the Democratic party.
though minority. by terror. 1t certainly ought to
need than this to secure the success Of the
Republican party. If, indeed, the time has come
when the Democratic party must rne by terror, in


stead of ruling through conceded public confidence,
then il is quite certain that it cannot be dismissed
mil slato
ciple, il could not long either the Constitution
or public liberty. But shall not believe the DEM
ocratic party will consent to stand in this position,
though it does, through The action of its reprcsen
tatves, seem to cover and sustain those who
r threaten disunion | know the Democracy of the


North. know them now in their waning strength.
, do not know possible disunionist among them
ALL believe they will be as faithful to the Union
now rs they were IN the by y-gone days when their
Tanks "S.v rum, "u sneir ciialenge to the combat
was always the war cry ofvic.ory But, if il shall
prove otherwise, then the world viii all the
know that every party in this country must stand
: on Union ground; that the American people will
sustain no party that is not capable of making a
sacrifice of its ambition ON the altar of the country
| that although party may have never so much Of
prestige and never snch traditional merit, yet il it
be lacking In the virtue of loyalty to the Union,
all its advantages will be unavailing; and then OBJ
noxious az, through long cherished and obstinate
prejndiccs the Republican party is in the capital
States, yet even there it will advance like army


with banners, winning the favor of the whele peo-
pie, and it will be armel with the national conf
dencc ana support, when it shall be found the only
party that defends and maintains the integrity Of
the Union


Those who seek 10 awaken the terrors Of disuni-
on, seem TO me to have too hastily considered the
conditions under which they are to make their at
tempt. Who believes that a Republican Admins
tration and Congress could practice tyranny under
Constitution which interposes so many checks as
oursI Y ct that tyranny must not only be practi-
ced, but must be intolerabc, and there must be no
remaining hope for constitutional relief before for
cible resistance find ground to stand any
t where.


The people of the United States, acting in con-
formty With the Constitution, the supreme TIL
bunal to try and determine all political issues
4 They are as competent to decide the issues of to-
day they have been heretofore to decide the Is
sues of other days. They can reconsider hercaf-


ter and reverse, if need be- the judgment they shall
pronounce tc.iay, as they have more than once re-
considered and reversed their judgments in former
times. 1t needs revolution to correct any error,
, or prevent any danger, under any circumstances.


Nor is any special cause for revolution
likely to occur under Republican administ- alton.


We are engaged in no new transaction. not even in
a new dispute. Our fathers undertook a great
work for themselves for u.s. and for SUCCESSORS
Ito erect free and federal empire, whose arches
shall span the North American continent, and re-
uect tnc rays oil TIE sun tDrOuGn0ut MS WnOle pas
sage from one TO the other of the great oceans
They erected thirteen of its columns all at once.
These are standing now, the admiration Of man
kind. Their successors added twenty more; even
we who are here have shaped and elevated three Of
that twenty, and all these firm and stead
fast the first thirteen; and more will yet be
cessary when we shall have rested from our laboy.
Some among prefer for those columns ccmpo-
site material; others the pure white marble. Our
fathers and our predecessors differed in the same
way, and on the same point. What execrations
should we not all unite in pronouncng any states
man who heretofore, from mcrc disappointment and
disgust at being ovcrrued in his choice Of materi
ais for any new column then to be quarred, should
have laid violent hands on the imperfect structure
and brought it down to the earth, there 20 remain
wreck, instead of a citadel Of worlds best hope.
/ Iremain now in the opinion have uniformly cx-
pressed here and elsewhere that these hasty threats
Of dsunion unnatural that they win find
hand to execute them. We are of one race. Ian
guagc, liberty and faith; engaged, indeed, in va
riel industry; but even that industry - diver
|, SIZED, brings us into moro intimate relations
with each other than any otter people. how
terer homogeneous, asd though living under \
+, consolidated Government, ever maintained We
langush throughout If one joint Of our Fede-
raj frame is smitten; while it is certain that part
! dissevered must perish. You may refine as you
please about the structure Of Government, and say
th,t "a c,o,ro,cf and that b-oo,h hr <f