gislative
line of division and sectional strife. It stands where it stood in 1856,
when the sectional platform and the feeble candidate of the Philadelphia
Convention fell before it. It stands where it will stand, with its
banner of Union and national peace waving over it, until patriotic Whigs
and patriotic Democrats, North and South, who in 1852 made up the
2,987,000 votes that endorsed the compromise of 1850, awaking from the
delusion and misunderstanding which have gathered over that great
measure of national peace, shall affirm it again as a permanent and
enduring law that shall bind together the now divided house of the
American Union. Then, indeed, will "the crisis" of Abraham Lincoln and
"the irrepressible conflict" of William H. Seward be passed in safety,
and the Union again arise and shine in the full sunlight of permanent
peace.

APPENDIX:

The following article from the Fort Wayne Daily Sentinel of
September, 1861, is now reprinted on account of its relation to
the subject discussed in the preceding pages, and as a further
exposition of the views of the writer upon the position of
parties in the last presidential election. The defeat of the
Breckinridge party, on the one hand, has led to its attempt in
the South, by armed rebellion to disintegrate the Republic,
because its Federal power could not be used to nationalize
slavery; the success of the Republican party, on the other
hand, has led to what the preceding and following arguments
foreshadowed as its result, the consolidation of a power in the
Federal government that is rapidly undermining the glorious
constitutional fabric erected by our fathers, and paving the
way for a central government, sustained not so much by the
free, unbought love of the people, as by the strength of its
military power to crush out resistance to its authority. The
times demand of every true lover of his country TO READ AND
THINK. "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." Let not the
people be deceived! When the Federal government assumes the
power by military or other force to blot out the sovereignty of
Federal States, (a proposition already before the Federal
Congress), it strikes a blow at the life of American democracy,
which exists in the constitutional sovereignty of the States.
When that is slain, which God forbid! over its dead body,