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CLEAKFIELI), I'A. WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, IBC2.
ADDRESS.
Of Ietn rntic )f oilers f Cunyrest to M
Deinoemy k the tutted States.
Fei i.ow Cm.r.ss :
Tim perilous rendition
of otw country demands t Ii .tt we should
reason U'getln l,".v organization, res
tricted within proper limits, is u positive
good, hii'1 indeed essential to thu pi-enervation
or public liberty. Without it the
UstGovornmont would soon dojjenato in
to tho worm of tyrannic. In despotisms
the chief umi of power is in crushing out
party opposition. Jn our own country
the experioucoof the U4 twelve months
proves, more thmi uny lossou in history,
tho nceeKsity or party organization. Tho
preauut Administration was chosen by u
j,rty, and in ull eivil acta and appoint
merits has recognised, nnd still does, its
fealty and obligations to that party.
Thorn must and will be an opposition.
The public safety and goad demand it.
Shall it be a new organization or an old
one? The Democratic party was found
ed tnoro than sixty years m;o. It Las nev
er beu disbanded. Today it numbers
one million live hundred thousand elect
ors in the States still loyal to tho Uuion.
Its recent numerous victories in munici
pal elections in tho Western and Middle
States prove ita vitality. Within the last
ton months it has held State Conventions
and nominated full Democratic ticket in
every Free State in the L'nion. Uf no
other party opposed to the Hepublicaus
ran the same be said.
HI AI L TUT
DEMOCRATIC TARTT III NOW
MSDANhED t
Why should it? Are its ancient mis
iiri.tswrorg? What uro they? Let its
platforms fur thir'-.v ears speak :
"A'.- aJ, Th:it tho American Democ
racy juii.-c their t'-.i-t in the intelligence,
the patriotism, nud the discriminating
justice of the Aniericau jieople.
"That we regard this as a distinctive
featuro in our political creed, which we
are ptoud to maintain beloro tho wort J.us
the grtut moral olcnvenl m a form of gov
ernment springing from and upheld by
the loviiaR ill; and we contrast it with
tho cred und practice of Federalism, un
der whatever nnmo or form, which seeks
to palsy the will of th) constituent, and
which wncoivvs no iniporitire to mon
strous for the poi.uUr credulity.
"That thu Federal Goiei nlucnl is one
cif limited power, derived rVy from Oiu
ConsTIU VlO.s ; and the grants of power
tnade. tlu&ein ought to be strictly con
Mr ued by all tho departments and agents
of tho GuvcriiiiivM ; mid that it U inexi
l-.li-ot and dangerous to exe:-e.iso doubl
tul :ontiiutioiiul powers."
And as explanatory of these the follow
ing from Mr. Jetlerson's first inaugural :
-The support ol the .State Goveiinknt
in nil thou- rights as t!e most competent
administrations of our domestic concei ns
and the surest bulwarks against ar.ti-rt.
pubFon tcmiencie.
' The preservation cf the Geneh.il Gov
ik.sMUM in its whole constitutional vigor
as the Mieel-iinohor of our peace at homo
anJ safety abroad. , , .
"A jealous care ol the right of election
by the people.
"Tilt slI-KfcMALV Ol TUB CIVIL OVER Tllli
XII.1T.1UV AITIIOHITV.
Ix-onomy in tho public expense, that
labor may be lightly burdened.
"The holiest payment of our debts and
sacred preset ration of the public faith.
"r'RtsDo ok Kemuion, ihkedom or the
Press, and rRKcroii or rtitsoN isder riio.
r tiox or Tite H uieascoki ls, and trial nv
-i'UIES lMrVHTlAl.l.T bKLECTEU."
Such, i)eniOcrat4, are the principles of
vour partv, essential to public liberty and
io the stability ana sue aaioinisintuoii 01
tt,e Uovernment, alike in peace and war.
I'hey are the principles upon which the
I'onstUuiinii and the 1'nion were foundod;
and, under the control of a party which
adlierua to them, the Constitution would
he maintained ami tho Union could not
bo dissolved.
Is tho roi.u voflhe Democratic party
wronz that it should be disbanded?
Its policy is consistent with its princi
ples, and mny be summed up, from the
beginning as follows: The support of lib
. ..iinL nower: of the teoile as
ngainst their agents and servants ; and of
State rights as against consolidation and
centralized despotism ; a simple govern
ment ; no public debt ; low taxes ; no high
protective tarilf; no general system of in
ternal improvements by Federal authori
ty ; no National Bank ; Lard money for
the Federal public dues ; no assumption
of State debis ; expansion of territory ; self
government for the Territories, subject
only to the Constitution ; the absolute
compatibility of a union of the .States,
"part slave and part tree ;" the admission
of now States, with or without slavery, as
they may elect ; non-interference by the
Federal Government with slavery in State
or Territory, or in the District of Colum
bia , and, linally, as set forth in th Cin.
ciuiiati I'latform, in HJ5G, and ieaffimed
in 1"0, absolute and eternal "repudiation
of nil to'tional firtkt and jdatformt conccrn
n domestic slavery which seek to era.
Dm States and incite to treason and
arm.t resibUncH to law in the Territories,
.mi iri'(( pirfW, f consummated,
rmi. WAR 1D CISV.MON."
Much was tho ancient and recent policy
of the Democratic party, running through
a period ofsiityyenrs-a policy consist,
enl with Uio principles of tho Constitu
tion, and alisolutoly essential to the pres.
orvstam of the Union.
Does tho histort of the Democratic
party prove that kt ought to be abandon,
ed! "liy their trmts shall ye know them."
. , . - ... : .1 l
triumihs
vv-tis.1." I - .
acnieve Lnion
For sixty yers
irom mo iu -
of Jftleison on
ii.- Jl. nf
WI h Cft party, wit
iK.
thapoh.y or the Federal GiVrnnient-,
For forty-right out of these sixty, DtuioJ
jcratic men ruled the country ; for fifty
.four years and eight months the Deuio
'cratic policy prevailed. During this po
Iriod Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mex
ico, and California were successively an
Inexed to our territory, with an area more
than twice as large as nil ths original
Thirteen States together, F.ight new
States wero admitted under strictly Dom
ocratic Administrations ono under tho
Administration of Fillmore. From fivo
millions, tho population increased to
thirty-ono millions. The Revolutionary
debt was extinguished. Two foreign wars
wero successfully prosecuted, with a mod,
erato outlay and a small army and navy,
and without the suspension of tho habeas
corpus ; without. ono infraction of tho Con
stitution ; without one usurpation of pow
er ; without suppressing a single newepa'
per ; without imprisoning a single editor ;
without limit to tho freedom of tho press,
or of speech ir. or out of Congress, but in
tho midst of the grossest abuse of both ;
and without the arrest of a single "trai
tor," though tho HaktiorI) Convention
sat during one of the wars, and in the
other Senators invited the enemy to
"CRLET OUR VOt.lNTKEUS WITH lll.OODT HANDS
AND WELCOME Tllf.M TO IIOHI'IT Alll.b UKAVES."
During all this time wealth increased,
business of all kinds multiplied, prosperity
smiled on every side, tuxes were low, wa
ges were high, the North and the South
furnished a market for each others pro
ducts at good prices ; public liberty was
secure, vrivute rights undisturbed; every
mau's house was his castle; the courts
were open to all ; no passports for travel,
no secret police, no spies, no informers, no
bastiles ; the right to assemble peaceably,
the right to petition ; freedom of religion,
freedom of speec h, a free ballot and a free
pi es ; and all this time the Constitution
maintained and the Union of the States
preserved.
Sii'-h were the choice fruits of Demo
cratic principles and policy, curried out
through the wholo period during which
tho Democratic party held the. power and
administered the Feiicral (invernuient.
Such has been the history of that party.
It is a Union party, for it preserved the
Union, by wisdom. peace and compromise
for more than had a century
1 hen neither tho ancient pi Miciples.lhe
policy, nor the past history of the Demo-
cratic party require nor would justify its
lisb.liidmetit.
I- tlinva nnvlliiti,' in the nrcqnnt rris'd t
tq ..; t ' i
which demands The mors immediate
isSUe is, TO MAINTAIN TUB CONSTITUTION AS
IT IS. AN1 TO RESTORE THE U.NIOV AS IT WAS.
To maintain the Constitution is to res.
pevt the rights of the States and the lib
ci tico of the ci'.izen. It is to adhere faith'
fully to tli very principles and policy
which the Democratic party has professed
tor wore than half a century. Let its
history, and the results, from tho begin
ning. prove whether it has practised them.
Wo appeal proudly to the record.
'Tie first slep towaids the restoration
of the Union as it was is to maintain the
Constitution as it is, So long us it wns
maintained ii: fact, and not threatened
with infraction i.j spirit and in letter, ac
tual or immiiicnt, the Union was unbro
ken. To restore the Union, It is essential, first,
to give assurance to every Stateand to the
people of'every Section that their rights
and liberties ana property will be secure
within the Union under the Constitution,
What assurance so doubly sure as 1 10 res
toration to power of that ancient orga:ii.
zed consolidated Democratic parly which
for sixty years did secure the property,
rights, 'and liberties (f the States and
of the people ; and thus d'ul main
tain the Constitution and preserve the
Union, and with thein the multiplied
blessings which distinguished us above all
oilier nations ?
Tuiestoro the Union is to crush out
sectionalism Noi ih and South. To begin
the great work ot restoration Uuough the
ballot box is to kill abolition. The bitter
waters of secession flowed first and are
ted still from the unclean fountain of abo
litionism. That fountain must bo dried
up. Armies may break down the power
of the Conteiierate uovernment, in Hie
South: but the work of restoration can
only be carried on through political or
ganization and the ballot in the North
and West. lr. this great work we cordi
ally invite the co operation of all men
of everv party who ure opposed to
the fell spirit of abolition, aud who, in
sincerity, desire the constitution as it U
and the Union as it was. Let the dead
past bury its dead. Kully, lovers of the
Union, ttie Constitution, and of Liberty to
the standard of tho Democratic party, al
rojtdv in tho field aud confident of victory.
That party is the natural und persistent
enemy of abolition. Upon this question
its records as a national organuaiion.how-
ever it may have been at times with par
ticular men or in pal ticular States, is clear
.-.I nQilnnnril. From the beL'inninc
ot the anti -slavery agitanon 10 mo penuu
of the last Democratic National Conven
tion it has held butone language in regard
to it- Let the record speak :
"Jietnlved, That Congress lias no rower
under the Constitution to interlero with
or control the domestic institutions of the
several States.and that such States are the
sole and proper judges of everything ap-
pertaining to their own aflairs not prol;
nb-
lied by the Constitution ; that all efforts of
tho Abolitionists or others made to induce
Congress to interfere with questions of
slavery, or to take incipient steps in rcla-
lion thcieto, are calculated to lead lo the
most alarming aud dangerous conseoticn
ces, and that all such etlbrls have an inev -
itable tendency to diminish the happiness
of the people and endanger the stabiU
.. ....MMnnA.iu sift I h. TlntAf. m . I
, i - -- - -- . -
nui-hl 110! IO UB tuuniranuuiju uv any
friend of our political institutions." ernmcnt. and for a complete and most
Upontl.r principes a one. so to'liMlUMh.jwW
relates to s aveif, can the Union it u consistent with lib observar.ee of every
be restored ; and no other Union, except provision of that initrument, aud of the
th Usitt or Despotism, can bo maintain
ed in this country ; and this last wo will
resist, as our fathers diil, with our lives,
our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
Hut it is said that you must disband the
Democratic party "to support the Govern
ment." We answer that tho Democratic
party has always supported tub Govern
ment ; and while it was in power preserved
the Government in all its vigor and integ
rity, not by force and arms, but by wisdom,
sound policy, and peace. Hut it never
did admit, and nover will, that this Admin
istration, or any Administration, is "the
Government." It holds, and ever has
held, that the Federal Government is the
agent of the i-eople of the several States
composing the Union ; that it consists of
three distinct departments tho Legisla
tive, the Executive and the Judicial each
equally ii part or tho Government, and
equally entitled to the confidence and
support of the States and the people ; and
that it is the duty of every patriot to 6uss
tain every department of the Government
in the cjxrc'we of all the cnn,ititittional powers of
each which mh;i be proper jndncceatnry for the
preservation of tie (t'overnmcnt in its principles
and in its viyor and intftril;, and to stand by
and defend to the utmost thefta; which represents
the Government, the Union and the country.
In this sense the Democratic party has
always sustained, and will now sustain,
the Government against all foes, at home
or abroad, in the North or the South, open
or concealed, in otlice or out of olliee, in
peace or in win.
II this is what the Kepubliean party
mean by supporting the Government, it is
an idle thing to abaiidon the eld and tried
Democratic party, which for bo many
yeats and through so many trials support
ed, preserved, and maintained tha. Gov
ernment of tho Union. Kut if their real
purpose be to aid the ancient enemies of
the Democracy in subverting our present
Constitution and form ofgoverninent.and,
under pretence of saving the Union, to
erect a strong centralized despotism on its
ruins, the Democratic party will resist
them as the worst enemy to the Constitu
tion and the Union, and to free gov
ernment everywhere.
We do not proiose nmv to consider the
causes which led to the nrcsent unhuniiV
civil war. A fitter time will come for
jguch discussion. Hut we remind you now
(iat COMNK I ISK made your Union.and
M'OM Pli IMISK fifteen months il'o wnnl'l
have saved it. Kepealed etlorts were
made at the last se-sionoftho Thirty
sixth Congress to this end. At every
stage, the gicat mass of tho Soutb, with
the Ahole Detnociatic party, and tho whole
Constitutional Union party, of tho North
and West, united in lavor of certain a
rucndinciils to the Constitution and chief
among them, tho weil-known "Crittrn
ien 1'ropositions" which would have
averted civil war and tnaintainad the Un
ion. At every Mage, all proposed amend
ments inconsistent with the sectional doc
trine or tho Cuicaoo Platform were
strenuously and unanimously resisted by
tho KopuMican party. The "Crittenden
Propositions" never received a single lie
publican vote in either House, ror the
proof we appeal to the Journals of Con
gress and to tho Congressional Globe.
We scorn to reply to tho charge tint
the Democratic, party is opposed to grant
ing aid and support to the Federal Gov
ernnu nt in maintaining its safety, integri
ty, end constitutional supremacy, and in
fnvor of disbanding our armies and suc
cumbing to the South. The charge isli
belous ami false. No man has advocatod
any such proposition. Democrats recog
niie it as their duty as patriots o support
the Government in all constitutional, nec
essary, And proper efforts to maintain its
safe.lv, integrity, and constitutional au
thoritv ; but at the same time they are in
flexibly opposed to waging war against
any or tho States or people or this Union
inn spirit of oppression, or for any pur
pose of conquest or subjugation, or orover-
terrenniz with the rights or
o.i,.l.luirml institutions of any State.
Above all. the Democratic party will not
support tho Administration which looks
or tends to tlio loss 01 our punm-m or ri
sonal rights or liberties, or a change of
our present democratical form of govern,
ment.
But no. Democrats, it is not the support
of tho Government in restoring the Union
which tho party in power require cf you.
You are asked to give up your principles,
your policy, and your party, and to stand
by the Administration of the party in pow
er, in all its aots. Above all it is demam
dod o! you that you yield at least a silent
support to their wnoie policy, an.i 10 wnn
hold all scrutiny into their public conduct
of every kind, lest you should "embarrass
the Administration." You are thus asked
to renounce one of the first principles and j
the chief security of a Democi atic Govern
ment the riaht to hold public servants respond
siblc to their master the people; to render the
I reiresenUtivc accountable to the constituent ; the
ancient and undoubted prerogative right ofAm-
crieantto canvass public measures ami pMic uer me 'iu
men. It is this "hiSh constitutional priv trial by juries impartially se eded, these
ilece" which Daniel Webster declared he ore principles from the bright constt-IIa-would
"defend and exercise within Urn lion which has gone before us, and I guided
the House, and in all our steps through an age of revolution ana
jplaa,S,mor,m,Wo peaes, and at reformation Tho Kisdon tot our sages
' ... t . : - i... th.'inil Hi Mood of our heroes na7e been
Kuiimn. . "ft"- -------- -
' Constitution a right inestimable to tne
pooplo, and formidable to tyrants only.
lf ever there was a time when the exis-
tencn of tho Democratic party upon its
principles and policy was a vital necessity
to public and private liberty, it is now.
Unquestionably tho Constitution gives
' ample power to the several Department
1 or the Government to carry on war, strict -
J ly subject to its provisions, and, in case of
civil war, with perfect security to cituens
. 1 C , . L ..a... nn t.....iiU.uru
- ..." , '
lor lilO taioiv Blia euicieiuy vii uiu uut
,'lnws in pursuance of it, If the solo motives
of tlioso in power were the suppression of
the "rebellion," and no more. And yet
the history of tlio Administiation for the
twelve months past has been and continues
io lie ii maiory 01 repented usurpations o:
power and of violation! of llie Constitution,
and of the public and private right of the
cituen. For the proof we appoul to facts
torocentto need recitil here, and too
flagrant and heinous for the calm narra
tive which we propose. Similar acts were
done and a like policy imrsuod in the
threatened war with Franco in the time of
John Adams, and with the same ultimate
purpose. Hut in two or throe years the
peoplo forced them into an honorable
peace with Fit nco, rebuked the excesses
and abuses of power, vindicated the Con
stitution, and turned over the Federal
Government to the principles and policy
of the Democratic party. To tho "sober
second thought of the people," theicfoe
and to thi) ballot-box, we now appeal
when again in like peril with our fathers.
uut if every Democrat concurred in tho
policy of prosecuting the war to the utter
subjugation of the South, and for the sub
version ofher StateUovernmenu with tier
institutions, wilhouta Convention of the
Stutes, and without an overture for peace,
wo shouldjust as resolutely resist the dis.
banding ol the I emocrutio party, it is
the only party capable of carrying on a
wur; it is the only party which has ever
conducted a, war to a fcUccesM'ul issue, and
the only party nhich has dono it without
the abuse of power, without molestation
to the rights of any class of citizens, and
with due regard to economy. All this it
ha- done; ull this, if need l, it is able to
do igain. If success, then, in a military
point of view be required, the Democratic
party alone can command it.
lo conclude: luvitiiiii all men, without
distinction of State, section, or patty, who
are for the Constitution as it is nnd the
Union as it A-as, to unite with us in this
great work upon terms of perfect equality,
we insist that
The restoration of the Union, whether
through piece or by war, demands the
continued organization and success of the
Democratic parly ;
The preservation of tho Constitution de
mands it ;
The main tainanco of liberty and rree
democratical government demands it ;
'ilia Miwuiion of a sound system of in
ternal policy demands it ;
Kconqmy und honesty in the pub'.ic ex
ponditure, now at the rate ot four millions
of dollars a day demands it ;
The rapid accumulation of an enormous
and pei manent public debt demand it
a public debt already ono thousand mil
lions of dollars, nnd equal at the pioent
rate, in three years, to England's debt of a
century ai.d a half in growth ;
The heavy taxation, direct and indirect,
Stateand Federal, already more than two
hundred millions of dollars a year, eating
out the substance of the people, augment
ing every year demands it ;
lteduced wages, low prices, depression
of trade, decay of business, scarcity of
work, and impending ruin an every side,
demand it ;
And, finally, the restoration of the con
cord, good feeling and prosperity of for
mer yenrs, demands Unit the Jiemocrauc
party shall be maintained and made victo
rious. W. A. Itichard-nn, of Illinois.
A. L. Knapp, of Illinois.
J. C. Kobinson, of Illinois.
John haw, or Indiana.
D. W. Yot bees, of Indiana.
W. Allen, cf Ohio.
C. A. White, of Ohio.
Wsrrcu P. Noble, of Ohio.
Oeo. II. IVndlelon, ol Ohio.
James li. Morris, of Ohio.
C. L. Yallandigham, of Ohio.
Philip Johnson, ol Pennsylvania.
S. E. Anemia, of Pennsylvania.
( ieo. K. Shiel. of Oregon.
Note. Tho names or absent members
concurring in the alove will no affixed lo
the pamphlet edition of this Address.
There aiie no Tkih.es, There are no
such thing as trifles in the biography of
man. Drops make up the the sea. A
corns covet the earth with oaks, and the
ocean with n .-lives. Sands make up the
bar in the harbors mouth, on which vos
sels are wrecked ; and little things in
youth accumulate into character in age,
and destiny in eternity. All the links in
that glorious chain which is in all men a
round all, we can seo and admire, or at
least admit ; but the stsplo to which all
in fastened. And which is tho conductor of
all, is the Throne of Diety.
Text for tiir Times. The New Yoik
1IV7 (Renublienn) quotes tho following
from Trepidant Jetlerson's first Inaugural,
as a suitable text for the times :
"The I'ill'usion of information and the
L'nmont of all abuses at the bar or
public opinion ; freedom of religion ; free-
dora of the press ; treexlom 01 person un-
. . , . ,, .
devoted to their attainment. They should
be the creed of ourpolitical faith ; the text
of civil instruction; the touchstoue by
which to try the services of we trust; and
should we wander from them in moments
of error or alarm, let us hasten to retrace
our steps and regain the road which
alone leada to peace, liberty safety.
1 -wh is tn0 Star-Spangled Banner
, h( A tBntic 0ccan ! Hecause it will
"K" ,0 vnvei
never ccane to wave.
fuJ-Lifo is a Ix-Hutiful night, in nhich
as some stars go down, others rise,.
KggL.The'iipple of discord lias a peeling
ol artillorj.
THE WORST ENEMIES of the UNIO N
Tho worst enemies of tlio Union, uro
those tliul pruto the most iniwiuntly a
bout its preservation. Murk them ! Look
at Phillips, Greelev and men of that stump. 1
They are as loud in lauding the Union as
were the Pharisees in the time of our Sa
viour, in lauding tho Mosaic law ; yet
Christ frowned upon theru as the worst
enemies of that law ; cursed them ns the
vilest oppressors, and denounced them as
a "generation of vipers-" And dn not our
.liodern Pharisees nl the J noune order de
ceive tho fate of their foul-long tied, long
faced, hypociitical predecessors ? Arq
they not ti e most determined enemies of
the Union? Let facts speak for them
selves. To view the course of these men
for tho list twenty-live years. Have they
not, during that period of time, been
most sedulously engaged in spteading''
tire brands, arrows and death," through'
out the length and breadth of the land '
The great idea they have endeavored to
propagate is, that one of the prirnury ob
jects provided for by the Constitution,
namely : the rendition of fugitive slave
involves an act which is morally, rulig
ously and politically wrong. Lvery mode
which ingenuity could invent to propa
gate this position, has been put in operation-
Societies have been formed in or
der to raise ample funds ; papers have
been established in the most prominent
points of tho country ; books have leeti
published ; lectures have been sent forth,
who, from their amide compensation for
their services, were able lo devote all their
time to their mission ; in a word, no
stone has been left unturned, the motion
or which was in the slightest degree cal
diluted to disseminate the son ii ment com
mon to those propugundists.
How can any man be the triend or the
Constitution who denounces its objects?
As well might it be said that he is tlio bo
som friend of u man, who 'ever and anon'
denounces its character- 'an he love an
individual, who continually subverts hie
interest? Words of a fleet ion are a dan
gerous reliance when acts of opposition
are met at every step. Yet, in defiance
of principles thus sell-evident, these men
are loud in proclaiming themselves the
especial friends of tne Union. They hsve
for the last year bowed the knee seven
times a day lo the Constitution and the
Union, and for the last quarter of a cen
tury they have tiever existed a day w th
ou I denouncing the former as a "league
with holl," and doing ull in their power
to destroy the latter, by constantly casting
the seeds of discord broadtpread over the
land. God save us from such frienbs.
The, love of such men is liko the fang or a
viper ! There is poison in their very
touch ; the sting of the asp is bene ilh their
tongue; thcii habitations are the abodes
of cruelly ; pet ce is u str inger to their
councils. His tho vilest hypocracy for
fucli men to talk of maintaining the Un
ion, while they promulgate idous that are
adverse to its objects, or alien lo its spir
it. During the eutire period of thoir his
toiy they have never placed themselves in
such a redicu'.ously foolish position as that
which they now so purtitiHi-iously main
tain, in claiming to be the exclusive
friends of the Union.
Ai one time, these S3 called philanthro
pists cume out plainly and said "the Con
btitutiou provides for wicked objects ; it
sanctions slavery ; it allows their masters
to retake fugitives from Southern thral
dom. Induing these things there is a
violutiuof every principle of morality
aud religion- As tho advocates of Chris
tianity, we. therefore are compelled to de
nounce that instrument ; it is a vile com.
pact, formed to minister to the lusts of
men, and calculated lo sustain an ubhori
rent system of injury and outrage. We
consider all slave-holders to be tacn-stc.il-ers
worse by far than thieves more a
bandoued Uiau robbers deserving a fate
as homblo as piraies. From such men we
turn with unutterable disgust, nud weeon
sider them as not having received their
dues until they dangle from a ecall'old ?
Since we cannot properly cany out our
views, while the Constitution is in force,
we deny its obligation in Morals, und con
tend, us pollutions, for its utter abrogation-
Wc are openly for a dissolution ol
the Union." Such were tho sentiments
which were promulgated somo fifteen
years ngo by Abby Kelly and a vast group
of kindred spiriw that spread like locust
over tho land. Yet, strange to say, these
people aic now the most violent and un
compromising friends of tho Union !
Gracious heavens', what a summerset they
have turned 1 Hut can any one. in his sen
ses, believe that the Constitution is
strengthened by the support of friendship
oT such people t They re jus what they
always weM. They bless or curse for a
dollar ! Out of plactj or out or power, they
huil their anathemas at govrnmcnt as if
they possessed a Divine commis-ion to
denounce veugeaiic and designate the
objects upon which it should fall. Put
them in otlice, tho lion is at once trans
formed into a lamb ; the lips that cursed,
curse no more ; Government is an ordi
nance or God; passive obedience and non
rcsistence are duties and every pood citi
izen owes to men in aulhorit 1 Well
muy every American exclaim, Hcuven
save us from uliraisiu ! If ever a nation
in an age of the world went through a
moro hrey ordeal irom the prevalence or
this evil than has the United Slates of A
merica, we should like any ono to point
us to it. W'e have felt the scourge in ev
ery form. It has scattered its ills in every
city and State, village and vale. It has
been ceaseless in its action ; there lias
been no reposo under its pressure. Years
have increasod its intensity, uulil its ac
cumulated evil have burst in a mighty
torrent upou the land, bearing awy in
its dreadtul surge all that waa delightful
in social ties and national recollections.
And yet, like the hideous monitor of the
romao pool, who roared for prey, though
his den was full, it cries aloud throughout
the land to the battling hosts of brethren,
to hurl sharp and twift tho instruments
of death, and never stay the fatal work cf
destruction while dying groans can rend
the air, or gushing life blood sotten tho
earth '. Aro we mer. or are we domoui f
If men, let us sland up in honest truth to
our Constitution, never doubling that it is
what our forefuthors designed it should
v an aiiiiuoie ana cure for all the politic
cal ills arising from our peculiar condi
tion as a people and a nation. If demons,
let us afjure it at once and forever, and
go wholesale into buchery, until we shall
navjgei. u surieii oi carnage r
Fcrheiivon's sake let us cense patroni
sing political quackery. It bus brought
us to the brink of ruin. We tremble up
on tho very edgo of tho acclivity. Noth
ing cun save us from the hidiou., precipice
below, but the abandonment of pastde
lusions ; the abjurations of fnls- teachen j
snd the resumption of common ense prin
ciples. One grain of common sense is
worth more, under any circutiutancci of
human lie,thaii an ocean or tnunoendent
alism. This is no day fo.- abstractions.
The American people, of all people, in the
world are the least calculated lor them.
Thoir hibits and their history render them
eminently practical. Let them take up
national iifli.ir, just us they build a ste.m
clad vessel, and they will not fnil to coma
to proper auJ tuccessful conclusions.
There is not the slightest difficulty on the
subject. Tho tiouble is in the way it is
managed. If we would us a nation deter
mine lo do the best we can, under the cir
cumstances of the case, and dropping all
speculations about possible evils, simply
take the Constitution and laws, as our
rule, and a good concience us our guide,
peace would be restored to our land and'
prosperity ahed its blessing in our bor
ders, There never was a lime in our history
which called for th development of theso
principles, to as gioat an extent, as the
present. The old enemy is now moreao
live snd dangerous than ever. Instead of
the contracted sphere, in which he form
erly moved, ho now exhorts his influence
in camps ; reigns supreme on high offioial
positions ; and threatens to control the
action of both Houses or Congress. Of
course, he is everywhere clamorous for the
Union, but, at the same time, as of old,
he is constantly advocating or originating
measures inimical to the Constitution
Instead of simply seeking to crush the
reocinon ny me means provided io that
instrument, and restore the Union
be
rendering tho Constitution triumphant
lie jiiua nrsi unu iorn:ost his acts of con
fiscation, Congressional emancipation, and
territorial tyranny ! Can the Union ever
bu restoied by dividing tho hearts of the
citizens, who compose it Is it not fool
ish to attempt to accomplish an object, by
the authority of law.when the moral sense
or the nation does not sustain the spirit
or the enactment ? On tho 4th of March,
I8i)2, Senator Cowan administered a scath'
ing rebuke to the advocates of these dis
union meisures. Pennsylvania has rea
son to be ru-oud nf curh n Tn,,iu.ni.i:.A
1 he course which that gentleman counsels
It A S.l ...
"oiiiu noi oniy eni tne rebellion but for
ever establish the Constitution our hearty
wish and firm belier are, that it will final
ly be adopted, dospito the opposition with
which it is assailed. The Constitution,
for a period or near a century, has proved
itself sufficient to bind all parts of the
land together, and protect each. What
more can we reasonably want Phia.M.
phut Sunday Mercury.
BEAUTIFUL AND TRUE.
A frmnd has handed us the fpllowing
extract from a letter written to him by an
English lady, now in her 70th year :
"It gives me real pleusure and thought
rulncss to hear u good reportorthe health
and pafety or yourself and your interes
ting family when I read the charming
descriptions ol your sweet home.
'In a moment I deem to bo there,
So fleet is a glance of the mind'
and it is well we can cheer oneself with
such fairy visions since the reality is so
utterly denied us. 1 do consider, that
separations between friends whether by
death, or only earthly distnacc are our
greatest trials here below, best thanks bo
for our spiritual hopes und expectations
from the sure testimony of the Divine
Word, each earthly trial has its own pe
culiar consolation and contrast in the
world to come. "No separations there
known," but one holy and everlasting
blending- spirit with kindred spirits in
glory cverla.riny. llow strange, that a,
midst earthly trial, and with such sor$ and
blissful prospects before us, we should
ever want "ryiny to seek the Kingdom of
Jloaven and its righteousness, and to Joy
hold on the hope set before us in the Gosi
pel, even Jesus the only hope that can
iincr fail to bo realized in the etomal and
glorious Itedcmption of His people. De
lightful an your letters are, will you fori
give me if I say I sometimes wish to find
uu allusion to these all important subjects:
for as immortal beings, they ought surely
engage our first and most serious atten
tion. In this respect I trust I have long
been feeling the power of the inestimable
blessins bound up in the visitations of
God's lereavjng hand sharp and little,
indeed, in their inflictions to tho suffer,
cr but infinitely wise and tenderly lov.
ing. calculated to draw our hearts nearer
to God, and to produce the peaceable
fruits of righteousness. I trust, humbly,
that my sore trials havo thus in some
measure been sanctified, and that I mn
say with the Psalmist, 'It is good for tue.
to have been afflicted.' Perhaps you, mr
view these observations iq tho light of a
little hfcrmou but rememUr, they reter
uiore to myief than loyou."
man winds up his clock lo malic
it run, and his business to make it stop.
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