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From tlie Boston Post. "We now see," a journal which bas stood in the fiery furnace of civil war, the Missouri Bepullican, suys, "whither we are drifting. Anarehy, lawlessness, vjolence, revolution, are before us, and not far oif. We must .get baek as speedily as possible to the support of the constitution. We must worship it - stand by it. We must agree to sustain the law, whatever it may be, until it can be changed under tbc forms of the constitution. We must put down all attempts at violence, no matter where they may be made, and execute the law with even moro than ordinary vigor." This, just this, have we stood up for with all the earnestness we could eommaud. Outside of the constitution and the laws is none other than the heil of anarehy. Who have pushed the country on to the formidable disregard cf all law, seen over the land ? seen now in its very worst shape in the radicáis of Missouri, who are pushing that State into revolution because it has not adopted the policy of immediate emancipation ? This disloyalty is not a Jonah's gourd, sprung up in a night ; it is a growth, and spirits of evil havo ministered to it. Let the Missouri Republican draw a faitbful picture of that growth as it sketches the progress of tho two enemies of our land, radioalism and seces sion. "On one hand," are its words, "the declaration of whole States, Governors, Representativea, preachers, and people, of a dotermlnation to set aside and spit upon tho Fugit-ive Slave law, thus authprizing and iuciting other large bodies of men to defy and deride any hw - as the consenpt law - because it might be unpalatable to them, gave rise to a loosenesa of political moráis whioh has crushed out the constitution and rendered the enforcement of any law impracticable. So, too, on the other hand, to the wicked and abominable doctrines of ambitious and treasonable men in the Southern States, culminating in secession and the present war, with all its horrors and calamities to them and to us - are w,e to look for the woes which are upon us. They alike denounced the constituí tion - they derided the law - they labored unceasingly to array State against State, neighbor against neigbbor, and the result ia that nearly every man has lost his vcDcration for the constitution, bis regard for law, his respect for all social and moral obligations : each man bas becomo the expounder and executioner of his own private and public duties - the adjustfr of his own imaginary wrougs - until right and justico and law aud wovernment havo ccased to be appreciable terms. These men are the roal assassins of the constitution and the law, and thev should be held responsable for it." Radicalism, says this article, must Ie put down, "now aud forever, or the government will bo subverted," and this is the truth. Our fathers had tho same element to contend with : a whig element that was so hot and furious and radical that it sought to override all law - the red-republicanism that caine up in Europe in 1848 - the Jacobin element that canie up in Franco in 1789 - that did not get up here. VVould our readers like to sce a portion of it ? Hero it is, !n tbc Pennsylvania Packet of April, 1777, in uu elabórate article wbieh describes, " Uw tiniid Whigs," i{i]e fm-mp Whiffs," and f'tJw staunch We popjr íhp Jióje of the descriptioii of tho radicáis : !lTho furipijs whigs injure the cause of. liberty as much by their violonoo as the timid whigs do by their fears. They thiak tlje dostruction of Howe's army of }esg consenuence than the detectipn and punjshment of the most insignificant tory. They think the coromon forms of justice sliould be suspended towarda a tory criminal, and that aman who only speaks against the common defense should be tomahawked, soalped and roasted alive. Lastly, tbey are all cowards, and skulk under the cover of' an office, or a aiekly family, wben they are ealled to oppose the eneiny in the field. Woe to that State or community that is governed by that class of men !" Verily, what is tlïerè new under the sun ? Here is well drawn our furious patriots. We abound with rneö,aye and Professors of Colleges atnong them, who hold that "rebels have no rights"; who are for suspending tbe common forms of justice towards those they term "copp'érlieá'ds"," and the most furious are a set of recreant dernocrats who have got the fat sóp of an office, or who want ouc. These radicáis are the set who propound the gospel of devastation and political death, Ñorth as well as south ; who think to get a name for patriotism by tomahawking, scalping and roasting alive anybody who questions the superlativo wisdom of the abolition policy of this admiuistration. Our hope lies in resistaneo to this despotism, higher-lawisrn, anarchy and secession, by a solid unión of conservative men, on the basis of fidelity to tbe constitution, led by the democratie oranization. Judge Thomas, in this State, well represents the constitutional republicans; John J. Crittenden the Glay and Webster Whigs; aud Horatio Seymour the demócrata. They are staunch defenders of our laws, our eonstitution, our union. They are statesmen. They are representative men - for they represent tbe objects of three-iourths of the people of this country who mean to stand by the Union and the constitution. In a word, they represent the class to-day, described by the Pennsylvania Pncket of 1777, as staunch Whigg, to whom the couutry was iudebted for its existence and its eonstitution, and to whom it must be indebted for a restoration of law and order by a return to the constitution. - We copy the entire description of the staunch whigs of 1777 : - "The Staunch Whigs" says this old journal, ' are frieeds to liberty from principie. Tbey are undismaved with misfortunes, aud are not unusually elated with trifling advanatages over our enemies. They are implacable in their hatred to the court of Brltaiu. They profor the annihilation of tho continent to rcconoiliation, and they had rather renounce their existence than their beloved independence. They have an unshaken faith ia the divine justice, and they esteem it a mark of equal folly and impiety to believe that Great Britain can ever subdue America. They are friends to order and good governmcnt and are both just and merciful in the exercisc of power. Lastly they estucm the loss of property, of frienda, and even of lifo itself', as nothing when compared with the loss oí liberty. Let America look to this class of min alone for her salvation in the cabinet and in the field." The stauoch patriots of this momentous hour are all who seek the constitu tion - the comprehensive patriotism that built it up - as the ark of public safety and heaven of rest. In the name of every thing that is dear, let the men who think thus sink personal prejudices and aims deeper than pluinmet can sound, and as friends of order and good government resolve to go together in raising the fallen pillara of the lavv and the constitu tion, and fixing them on bases that shall bo eternal as the hills. As, of old, so it is now. Woe to the State or comHiunity that is governed by the furious radicáis : lot America now look to the stanch defenders of tho constitution alone, for her salvation in the cabinet and in the field. IE II (II -