Year: 1859

5. Union was provision against foreign war,
but we have no foreign war, nor have we the re-
motest prospect Of my.


6. 1t may be supposed that union is preven.
tive Of civil war. OF this we are far from certain.
If Virginia were an Independent State, ard not
one of Tho states Of this confederacy, she co I'D
hardly be mo,e diverse or antagonistic in any res
pect We better terms with her than
with any other savage state nation on the globe.
Onr people not half free in any Of the slave
States as they in Canada The people of the
free States can 20 south and so thcy can go to the
Barbnry States, or to any savage nation under the
sun, and with quite good chance for free
speech and safe return. Tue fact is, the Union
is merely nominal. is already dissolved, because
freedom cannot be united to slavery.


Such are The reflections with which we may
console ourselves. If the guilty South should dis
solve the Union and set up for itself We have
no doub, but The company Of the North is felt to
be disagrecable. Rogues do not like the society
of honest The crushing Of people is not
a pretty work, and shareholders do not like to en-
endure the gaze of other than their confederates
in tho crime hence, if the other members Of the
Union will not 80 in heartily for the abomination
as q conceded right Of the South-thus bringing
themselves down to tho level of the slaveholder--
the South will step out of the confederacy. We
a., o not for dssolving the Union. but we are for
extirpatng slavery and letting the South 90 if it
will. Tha: it will 60, we fully believe. The de-
mands and threats made by the Congressional
ro y dies who now represent the South at Washing
ton, arc Of such a character as to set ct defiance
every attempt towards an honorable reconcilia
ton.


They insist that the Republican party shall
abandon the field and leave the pro-slavery democ-
racy to Unlimited control. Rebellion is distinctly
announced,f aRopubcan Z Presiden,shall be elected,
such an election is declared to be equivalent to n
dissolution Of the Union. This is beautiful, and
shows a strong desire to maintain the existing or
der Of things it is doubtless very reasonabo and
fitting that quarter of a million Of Shareholders
in tho South, should command not only five mil
lion and three-quarters of free men at the South
but eighteen millions of freemcn at the North.
Such behest is exceedingly modest md fair, and
will be almost sure to be promptly obeyed. 1t is
little wonderful hat these sages, while thus re-
monstrating against northern politics, DO not in
sist the frice of their political fellowship and
Of the continuance Of our glorious Union that all
northern men shall become cha.tes id the hands
of the South,


Finally, though much inclined to endure, for the
sake Of the South, the disgrace, the cost and the
iucon venience Of the Union, we begin TO fear their
madness will soon dash political system to
pieces. In that event we, OF course, shall pity
rather than persecute them, and if The negroes do
nos rise and take n just revenge by extirpating
their oppressors, the poor r:ckety guilty States
may continue for few years to hobblo on, with
ou. any other burden than they accustomed to
bear-tbe universal contempt Of mankind.