Who said the union must be preserved

It is the custom of late to quote old Jackson's declaration that "by the Eternal, the Union must and shall be preserved! Heart and soul will we unite in preserving this glorious home of freedom erected by our fathers. But how is this work of love to be achieved? By reviling the South still more? Shall we win her into the Union by depriving her, by means of a sectional party, of all participation in the destiny and interests of the Union, and excluding her from all control over her own most vital interests?

Shall we woo her into the Union by making her powerless in the common government, through our sectional numbers, and waging a war upon her dearest rights and greatest interests when she is in? Are these the means which the great Jackson would have employed? No, people of the Northwestl The sword of the old Hero of New Orleans might have leaped from its scabbard in this conflict, but it would never have glittered in the ranks of the Abolitionists. The union of these States must be preserved—but by what means?

There is but one way under heaven in which it can be saved. Either the negro or the South must be given up. The Union cannot and will not stand under this intermeddling with slavery by the North.

The issue is made up: we must either let go the everlasting negro, or let go all hope of the Union. The great question now to be solved, before the American people, is whether the party pride of a dominant majority will stand proof against the calls of patriotism, the claims of self-interest, the warnings of their dead fathers, and the pleadings of their unborn children whose inheritance they are despoiling; whether the miserable desire to dictate laws, morals and religion to those who are their equals, shall override every consideration of law, interest, humanity and national prosperity.

The problem of this age, we again repeat, is not the capacity of the negro for liberty, but the capacity of the white man for self-government. Blinded by an utterly impracticable theory of universal equality, certain fanatical minds years ago commenced this war upon the Southern States. Their agitation has bred a horde of isms and driven thousands into infidelity and atheism.

It has desecrated the pulpits of our churches and made many of them dens of malice, falsehood, fanatical politics, and unchristian hate. It has severed the churches of God asunder, and left them warring, infuriated and malignant. It has retarded the progress of our legislation for the public welfare, and made the halls of Congress a disgrace to the civilized world, and a burning reproach to freedom and popular government.

It has fostered and nourished vile incendiaries to instigate slaughter and crime in one whole half of our country. It has overthrown the only humane and practical movement ever made to liberate and colonize the poor negro. It has forced additional restrictions and harsher laws for the poor slave, and re-tightened and double-riveted his chains. It has driven the country upon the only rock upon which it could ever be wrecked, and formed the nation into sectional and geographical lines.

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