Hon Geo. M. Dallas On The War

At the celübration of the adoption of the Federal Constitutiun in Philadelphia, on Tuesday lust, the Hou. Guorge M. Dallas, the orator of the day, said ; 1. In the firat pkee, then, fellow-citizcns, frankly bo it said, there canuot bo found iu the sacrud instrument on wbiofe my ooniinents have been made one word giviug warrant by any procesa for its own extinction. It was not bom to die, No functioDury, no 8 tote, no Congrega bo combination of communitics or individuals, is authorized to mutílate the Uuioi), or kill t'ae ConstiUitiou. That h a crime wbicb, like parrieide in Solon's day, m treated as iiieoncoivable. Wa hear of conventions, consuliations, conferences, and oompromises : thuy are the vague and fluttering devicea of anxioas philanthrophy; but, urcless the lifth article had been strictly pursued, which we all know now to be imponible, these expedienta are utterly iuapplicable and frultless. - Fór, remember, tliis provisión - not, in fact, designed to de3troy, but to Btrengthen- enunciates the neuussity, beforö the slightest alteration can he atfempted, that, first, two thirds of both houses of Congress shall unito in prnposing it; or, socond, that the Legislaturas of twotliirds of the several Otates shall apply for a general convention ; and, third, that whatever changa may bo coutemplated, whether by two thirds of botli Congressional chambers, or by two-thirda of the State Legislaïures, must wbolly fail, uuless it be subsequently ratiiied by the Legisla tures oroonvcntions of three-fourthsof the States. The more recital shows tho futility, if not impracticability, into which the tempegtuoufl öourse of eventa have paralyzed thw urüole. Nol fellow-oiti zens, you have not t!is power to abandon oonstitution. 2. Bat, if you had that power, what then? Need I say that, witlmut bcing recreant to all your antecedents, its exercwo is preuludoil by the boasted attitude and urmor of those who demand it ?- ïhe towering front of arnied and contumelious rebcliion is uot the piesence in which conccs.iion is possible. Give up the constitution, rupture the Union, burn tho archives of your glorious historv, and open wide the flood gates of disaster upon the country, if inch can be your choiee, but never do it in subservient mcekness to eiu'enomed opprobiuin. or whilo listeninc; to the rosw of our ene my's cannou. The stigma of an act go gioveüng, dastardly and degeucrate as that- so utterly un-Anierican - would cover us for ages as with a poisoned pall ! Fellow-citizeus : Títere are formidable battenes frowning at Mauassas; beliind them gleam undisoriminating hatred and scorn, sharpening uvery sword md cpeeding every bullet ; we would caaae to be men if we crouelied to either. 3. Ia this war, theu, there is really ncalternative for loyal eonstitutioualists. In the explieit languago of the unanimously adopted rtsolution of' Mr. Crit tonden, it was forced upim the government of the United Staten, Retroípcctive narrativo, tlierefore, would be alike tedioua and useless. It is 00 our h:nda. VVe see it, hoar it, feel it. Our fathers, brotiiers, and sous are f.illing in hecatombs, saeriiieed to its fury. Every broeze comes laden with its chann-im' incidents, its alarias, its hopes, its gloom, it9 taunts, its cheers, its covert slayiug, and ita open strugglos. The gates of Janus aro expauded wide. No room now left for diploniacy of auy sort; noue for soothiug words of remonstranee. - Fiht we must; tight a ïoutrance thoso whom we Lave heretoforu fostered and tauglit how to fight, di-iva them frora their infatuated and parricida] purpose of dostroying their ovo country ; and pauso oniy when that country, its Uuiou and Constitutiou, aro inaccossible to outrage.