Jasper Banner, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1856 — Mr. Banks on the Union. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Banks on the Union.

Mr. Speaker Bank*, ( in a epearii to his Boston constituenjis|pn hiat&: turh from Washington saijl ; “111 nh event in human hi»tory yvill the union of these States he dissol-' ved. ... “/ ran conceive a tunc vdien this constilutknt shall not be in existence; when il'c shiift have an absolute military dicta * tnrial government, transmitted from age to age, with vicu at Us head mho. arc made rollers by military commission, or who dnim a heriditary right to govern those over whom they trre placed. But the dissolution of thes* States will never come. No party that has pos session of the Union will allow the minority to bredfe the, bands. They may subject us; they will never divide us. Whether the government is that of a republic; that of a monarchy, \or that of an absolute despotism, the 4ovc of the Union will lie deep in the hearts of rulers and ruled so long as the history of man shall last.” Mr. Banks is one of the closest of of Fremont’s present friends. Js it a violent conclusion that the foregoing attrocious sentiments sprung from Mr. Ranks as the result of confabulation between himself and Gol Fremont? Is it a violent conclusion that Mr. Banks had Col. Fremopt in his mind’s eye when lie spoke of an absolute military dictatorial government? ( ■ . No statesman in this country has ever before advanced the idea of a forcible Union. No statesman has ever before supposed that any State or section of the confederacy could be bound by force. On the contrary, the belief has been from the first—held by Washington, Adams, Jeilerson, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams and Jackson—that the Union must always be, as it commenced, voluntary, and that when it ceased to be voluntary it would cease to exist. Mr. Banks has changed. A couple of years he age was willing to “let the Union slide,” in a certain contingency—a sentiment that has been greatly applauded by the Garrison abolitionists. What will that sect say ol Mr. Banks’ new altitude? As between despotism and disunion—if the day of making this choice shall ever come—the American people, if they shall not have become degenerate, will choose the latter. It is said Fremont is an enthusiastic admirer of Louis Napoleon. The American people are nbt.