Year: 1861

opponents are heard torepeat- Inc Union
is tottering to its fall. The Republicans
can save it if they will" How?" every
patriotic Republican eanestly inquiries, for
the Union is dear to the heart of every pat
riot. You have plunged the country into
its present difficulties, and you ought to ex-
tricate it. You have only to meet the NAL
contents On fair ground, make some concss-
sicn and an honorable compromise can be
! effected Otherwiss tha Union is no more.
Such is the language of the sympathizers
with secession, heard on every corner
Without stopping TO resent the mendacity
Of attributing the present national crisis to
the Repu ublicans--than which no fouler lie
was ever uttered-the Republican eagerly
| inquiries the plan-the modus operandi-by
which the Union may be saved. "Why, the
course is perfectly simple and plain" the
secessionist replies. Concession and COM
promise will do it." Concession and COM
promise What proposition has ever been
heard from the secessionists Of single con-
cession on their part7 Nothing but de-
mands and threats come from that quarter.
They do not propose, nor have they ex-
pressed willingness in the most unimpor-
tant particular, to concede one iota to save
the Union from wreck. They demand all
party, and not even then viii they consent
to remain in the Union. They talk Of rights
and 4 spirit of Cancellation. A reasonable
and modest set of fellows They went into
the late contest with certain principles
They were but handful in point Of mum
bers, and were oyerborne by the vast ma
and what sort of a compromise? Why, if
the majority will recognize the repudiated
platform of the minority as the eanstit2 ,iOn
of the whole country, confess thai slavery
is divine institution, tllo y : negro owner
to take his property Everywhere and hold it
there, never say . word on any subject un-
less by consent Of the minority, give the
minority all the offices and the control of
the government, buy Cuba for them and pay
for it, and consent to be called id Aboli-
tionists and take the blame Of all the evils
that may come upon the country under
their mismanagement, they don't know
whether they would stay in the Union or
notl Such is the spirit of concilistion they
would inculcate such the promise they
required


The turbulent and reasonable spirits of
the Cotton States suc for no mutual e1pla-
nation. They haughtily demand uucondi-
tional submission to their Withholding
less. They propose surrender of every
principle but their own. II is the game of
"heads win, and tails You lose"


Some leading Republicans express q viii
lingness to meet the malcontents on some
middle ground They receive for their
pains reproaches of cowsrdice. They are
informed no conservative middle course
will do. The line is drawn and all must
come to it, and then hear the doom the oil
garchy shall pronounce.


Does any one in his sober senses seriously
advise submission to such terms ?-he is
fool. For the sake of the more moderate
slave states we would be glad to see the
breach in the nation healed by some honor
able adjustment of differences A PROPOSE
ton has been made to change the Consti-
tuition so as to leave the Territories to set
tie and govern themselves until prepared
for admission into the Union as States
This, it seems to us, is the farthest conces-
sion the Republicans can honorably make.
Even this would be an un safe precedent
Change the Constitution to appease the pet
tishness of the disorganizcrs and how long
will it be before another change will be de-
manded to cure another fit and so on The
spoiled child is not modified for all time by
one lozenge alone.


A disposition to have the epersonal liberty
| acts tested by the Supreme Court is every
where expressed, and in most of the few
states where such acts exist, there is a will





anything appease the ire-eatcrs No-not
in the least. Nor do they admit that any
thing short of disruption of the Union
will satisfy them at all. What are their
complaints They are curiositcs. Bu-
chanan tells us the North has alienated the
affections of the negroes and the Southern
matron and her babes when they 60 to rest
are fearful of some horrid butchcry before
morning. The southerncrs themselves give
the lie to this, and prate OF the patriarchal
institution, of the unqnenchable love for
the master, and even talk of arming their
negroes to repel John Brown gangs from
| the North. Another complaint is that ne
groes are run off and lost to their masters
Who makes the complaint? Not those who
suffer the losses but those farthest from the
| line, and who never lost negro. But the
great complaint is about being dcbarred
| their rights in the Territories. What more
should be asked of the majority than the
same privileges the majority take for them
| selves7 The right of every man to enjoy
his own favorite species of property in spite
| of his neighbors is monstrosity, and the
men who claim the right have denied it in
| practice. The right of a man to enjoy the
newspaper he has bought and paid for, and
| ia his nronerty ia deniad avnrv rbars in III .