Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1860 — A Genuine Union Speech. [ARTICLE]

A Genuine Union Speech.

The following passage from a genuine Union speech delivered recently at New Haven, Conn., by Phomas Yeatman, is very much to the purpose: “Look at the facts as they exist. The messages of Southern Governors are filled with recommendations to prepare for disunion. Legislative resolves are gravely presented, declaring the right of secession, and the South to establish her military upon a more perfect basis. And meetings are held in city, town and village; leagues of nonintercourse are formed against the North and Northern merchants driven from the soil. All this is madness and folly; but I ask does it not manifest a feeling utterly subversive of all true union, which at last can only exist upon the affections of a united people. I address no appeal to the North to preserve the Uuion—it would be an indignity and an insult to do so—for here no hand is raised against it. For every lunatic who would perform the deed, a thousand watchmen are standing at the gates—all of whose treasures are enshrined in that temple. A thousand anxious eyes are looking down from every embrasure, and above and around are moving the spirits of departed patriots, touching with patriotic sympathy millions of loyal hearts. Here we stand by the Union to the last, stand by it as we would by our own mother, and die a thousand deaths rather than permit h;er seamless garment of unity to be rent in twain, or her loved form exposed to the derision of the world. No, rather go to my brother in the South, united to him in birth, in interest, in affection, and plead with him to pause and come and let us reason together. My brother, you complain that the Union is fatal to the institution of slavery. I deny it, and could prove it as the only security. But, I ask you, will it be strengthened by dissolution 1 You complain that your slaves are decoyed and attempts made to excite servile insurrection. I condemn the one and abhor the other. But I ask you, if with all the securities of the Constitution, and a powerful government ever ready to enforce them, these offences are committed, what are you to expect, when every barrier is broken down, when we are alienated in enmi y and dis trust, when our border States ai e convulsed, in all the horrors of fratricidal war!