Weekly National Intelligencer

THE ELECTION—THE UNION.

The American people are like none other under the sun. They enter zealously, even fiercely, into political contests, and after they are over fraternize at once as a band of brothers. The bitterness of party strife, and the heart-burnings which it engenders are forgotten, and the unpleasant feelings which for a time estranged neighbors and sometimes households, pass off as the election returns come in, and all acquiesce in the decision of the sovereign millions.

Some of the Fathers of the Republic entertained very serious fears of the effect of heated political contests on the duration of the Union. Experience has shown that the love of union survives the most desperate conflicts of opinion unshorn of its strength. It is not likely that the country will be agitated by election contests more savage and relentless in their fury than those which it has heretofore witnessed, and it is safe therefore to conclude that our glorious Union will not be wrecked and engulfed by the ocean currents of political strife. On the question of Union, its blessings and its benefits, the people of all parties agree, and, if the day ever come in which the ark of freedom shall be in danger, men of all parties, forgetful of their differences and asperities, will rush like a band of brothers to its rescue.

Let peril to our Union come from whatever quarter it may, the people will rise in their majesty and disarm it of its terrors. Treason to the Union is the only sentiment which can never be tolerated, and there is no country on the face of the earth in which an effort to revolutionize the Government would be so utterly harmless as here.—Clev. Her.