The Republic

Political.

From The N. Y. News.

The Union,

government and devotion to the Union, which seems so

political ark have called forth an expression of attach.

The recent threats which have assailed our politi.

ment.

The idea of destroying this Confede-

racy partakes so much either of crime or imbecility,

that we are at a loss to comprehend how it can be

entertained by a mind pretending to intelligence or

patriotism. Never were human institutions better

adapted to the enjoyment of civil liberty, and social

happiness, and the development of the noblest attri-

butes of our nature in the perfection of civilization!

Never was a system so admirably devised to com-

prehend under one system of government such a

variety of interests, such extensive territories, and

polity a great family of republics, each strengthen.

so numerous a population—uniting in one perfect

ing, sustaining, and giving prosperity to the others.

Well may it be called the chef d'oeuvre of human

wisdom! It is more—it is the working out of Di.

vine purposes for the happiness of mankind, we

solemnly believe. Nature seems to have marked

this continent for the existence of a mighty empire,

as the abode of a great, free, and happy people!

Immense as

its proportions are, there is some-

thing in its geographical construction eminent-

ly favorable to this idea. A variety of clime,

and soil adapted to the production of every com-

modity necessary to the wants of man—an ocean

boundary on either side, with numerous fine har-

bors affording every facility for commerce, as well

as seats for the manufactures, the production of

which, together with those of agriculture, are borne

by our ships to every part of the world; from north

to south, on either side of the continent, extend

mountain ranges, regulating the temperature and

close a mighty valley, the fertility of which makes

varying the climate, while between them they en-

it the garden spot of the world—the granary of

the nations! And lest it should be cursed with

sterility, as its soils grow arid with cultivation,

and the mountain barriers check the ocean exhala-

tions which should water it, there are dug out im-

mense lakes in the north, whose vapors furnish it

with fertilizing rains, while to facilitate the inter-

course and trade of its inhabitants, from north to

south there stretches a mighty river, the thousand

tributaries of which bear upon their waters the

freighted wealth of a people whose industry and

enterprise are vast as the realm they occupy, and

who need but a wise and just government to make

them the greatest nation over whose domains God's

glorious sun ever flung his golden rays! Such a

government the wisdom, the almost inspired wis-

dom, of our patriotic ancestors has provided for us

in the form of our present Confederacy.

A consolidated government would have been a

failure; for it could not have harmonized by its sin.

gle action the interests, or provided adequately for

the necessities of the different communities spread

out over such widely extended regions; but the sub-

division of legislative authority adapts municipal

law to the various wants and exigencies of different

sections with minute care—thus securing more per-

fect freedom to the whole, while it strengthens ra-

ther than impairs the power of the national gov-

ernment, the form and policy of which is eminent-

ly calculated to secure the interests and prosperity

of the sovereign States which form it; perpetuating

republican principles among them! Without such

a system, we could not hope for other than difficul-

ties and dissensions on this continent, such as have

retarded so long the advancement of civil liberty in

Europe. Sectional disputes and local jealousies

would keep us forever in turmoil and warfare.

Without it, that progress which has peopled this

vast domain, which has extended civilization and

the arts so widely, and given the blessings of civil

and religious freedom to so many millions of hu-

man beings, would have faltered through centuries

ere it accomplished a tithe of what it has now done.

But if the establishment of independent States on

this continent, without the bond of union which

blends them so harmoniously in one perfect system,

is to be contemplated only with doubt and distrust

as to the result upon the destinies of the people in-

habiting it; what should we look for now in dis.

union? With all those mad jealousies and fierce

sectional prejudices inflamed which had led to the

melancholy catastrophe, what could we expect but

civil discord, contention, and bloodshed? A war

that would drench our land in fraternal gore, and

bury beneath the ruins of American Republicanism,

for long centuries, the hopes of human freedom!

From the contemplation of the dread possibilities

which such a disastrous event would involve, the

mind turns with horror, and refuses to entertain so

melancholy an idea. No!

the

Union must not,

SHALL NOT be dissolved!

The PEO-

PLr of this country will never permit the consum-

mation of such treachery to the hopes of mankind.

The great West, whose interests are one and indi-

visible, will oppose it with potential voice; the peo-

ple of the South will repudiate the acts of their rep-

resentatives, when they dare to attempt it; and the

sober citizens of the North will disavow the incen-

diary acts of political fanaticism which would urge

them to the madness. We should look upon the

withdrawal of any portion of the southern repre-

sentatives from Congress, as has been threatened,

with regret and sorrow, for their own sakes, as well

as that of harmony, which should be cherished in

the republic; but it would not impair our faith in

the integrity of the Union. Their places might or

might not be filled by their constituents for a space;

but the firm and considerate action of the General

Government would soon repair the breach, and

cause the laws to be respected; while it would give

occasion for the voice of reason and moderation-

ever most powerful in a country like ours—to be

heard in favor of that Union, under which, as far as

human imperfections will permit, the millions who

are to inhabit this continent are destined to enjoy a

POLITICAL MILLENNIUM.