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Show "THE question- <.:nn n mnn count the cost of the Union?- is being regarded as of much easier accomplishment than formerly. J\len nrc opening their eyes to the real worth of the Uuion, and bt·inging their nrH.hmetlc to boor in calculating its value, ns it now presents itself, that greatest of modern bugbenrs, its dissolution, luwing exploded. '£he question now is not so much the cost of the Union, as what it is worth without freedom ? Men who, heretofore, have lool.::cd upon its diRsolutlon as tho most di!mstrouH event that could bcfitll us, nrc coming to regard its existence, under prcRcut circumstances, as a 11implo question of time. If slavery is to have sole and unrestricted sway in the nation, resolving itself into a violent and recklcRs despotism, violating all coustitutionalns well ns national rights, and tyrsmnizing over every man who trends its domain, on suspicion of !tis being a fri end to human freedom; if' law nnd order, relig-ion allll ju,.<;tice, arc to be absolutely disrcgnrded by this power, all redprocnl obligations ignored, 01' what is worse, trnmpl<'d under foot, and the rig-hts of freemen visiting the outh imperilled, then let the Union 'slide;" the sooner the better. Slavery is fitst becoming a great, overrcnehiug despotism, controlling prcRidents, and ordering- the interpretation of laws nnd their execution after its own arbitrary behests. It puts on' airs' of a despot the most dc8potic ; nnd boldly bids defiance, and threatens blue ruin unless it Is peaceably permitted to hnvc its way, rig-ht or wrong, in the administration of government. !'resenting such a front., bearing- such a flag, nod claiming- such dc~;potie exclusiveness, it provokeR O))IlOflitiou and invites antagonism. Shall such a deflpotism as is slavery, and freedom, long crib and cabin togl'ther? l 'he thing ill quite impossible in the naturr of things; and the signs of the times clcnrly Indicate that the 'ineprcssiblc conflict' propheeiecl by .John RnndolJlh, thnt in fifty years there would ben. conteAt tn this country between Slavery and Anti-Slavery, in which the latter would be triumphant, is rnpidly approaching its fulfilment." Fall Rive1· (.Mass.) Monitor. TilE NORTII AND TilE SOUTII. TIIE last hi 'toric act, ~nd the late public murder, of Captain tTohn Brown, have mduc ·d thousands to inve tigate their duties to the Union and the Slave, who never gave a erious thought to the subject before. Wlten we arc called upon to immolate, on the heathen altm· of Slavery, such heroic Chri 'tian souls as his; when Nort hem travellers, on the mere suspicion of '3ympathizing with the Opprcs ·eel, arc banished, Iynchcu, or murdered by Southern mobs; when the Hall of Con()'rcss 0 re~ound with tlte in. olcnt tltrent tltnt, unle. s the North elects a sycophant of the Slave P ns the South will secede from the Union- it is time, surely, to stop and inquire whether such fearful . acrifices arc not extravagant and criminal, as well as uneon. titutional and disgraceful in their character. Let us look at this question of Di. union calmly in it. every aspcet. By the ' ce~sion of the Southern States, and the formation uf a Northern Republic, we of the North would gain in <.:hnractcr, in influe nce, in strength, and in pocket. No lo11 gc•r required to play the part of bloodhound , by cltnsing tlw poor fugiti,·e from the f()Ul oppre ion of the South; no long(' L' deeming it nccc sary to vindicate the unseemly atrociry of llt~ma.n Slavery in a D ·mocratic Republic, Europe- mHl all Christendom- would yield to us that deference and respect due to the citizens of a truly free country, but which, now, is very jn. tly r e fused to a flng that floats over four millions of C!tl'i:-;tians, whom the law. of the Southern Section convert into article:3 of D•en:bandi::;e. 39 (45i) |