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Opinion Of A Whig

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
August
Year
1846
Copyright
Public Domain
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Adums, a son of John Quincy, and Tariir ;en ofasposscssing superior ability. We ni Bjecl of ihe paper is said to bc to were i the Wliig party, to take antislavery Shoul !. Talkiag of Whig principies, it will n ideed nt the present moment, we Br it resalí a tínglé general principie Cordi Üch the wlwlc whir party can be said ys Fn . Adams gives his opinión of the jC. d condition of the country as nii ; Cigai ifter givingtothc present statpofour tured nal concerns the most delibérate anv, r of which we ai e capable, we see ivo possible issues to the course of ts. Either thc prcrent tide, which A.1 rrving a'l our institulions, pxcepting Gaps bims, into a vortex of which Clot' the moving power, must be stayed nu ie people ot thc freo State, or ifleft 3 cource, it will bring on in no very ar1 time, a sudden nnd total dissolution ees, e bond of oir Union. There is no Fnn native. However great may be the Vni jnce of acommunity, under the sap,. j . i woo j process appued to every principie jovernment heretofore held sacred, so 'ew r as it mav remain nccuniarilv Metu?, t is impossible not to forscc Oils out anxiety, the consequences which pjn, ite of adversity might occasion. The -, ' ences now at work in the federal nent are sleadily changing itschavacl"- ' nto a system vhich can have no othcr Mai íinatiorí thr.n a ñi.'litary organization. Ljn do not believe that a iage división of Qr Union will be ablc to go on in lis ent course, with any regard to its i safety, without some such ultímate airee; neither when it comes to that, fve imagine thatanother división will gul r consent longer to endure it. The must therefore be disruption, and we Sen tly fear, a considerable period of anCor iv. It is this which we would labor to and id. We feel tolerably confident that gm iay be avoided. But it can only be .r Dne way. That way is the total ■ of slavery - the complete eradication ia he fatal infiuence it is exercising do. r the policy of the general govern 7--W