In fact, at the very time Mr.Fillmore uttered this idle charge, the state of things in the United States disproved it.

Mr.Pierce, of New Hampshire, and Mr.Bright, of Indiana, both from free-States, are President and Vice-President, and the Union stands and will stand.

You do not pretend that it ought to dissolve the Union, and the facts show that it won't; therefore the charge may be dismissed without further consideration.
[Sidenote] Galena "Advertiser," copied into the Illinois "State Journal," August 8, 1856.
No other specification is made, and the only one that could be made is, that the restoration of the restriction of 1820 making the United States territory free territory would dissolve the Union.
Gentlemen, it will require a decided majority to pass such an act.
We, the majority, being able constitutionally to do all that we purpose, would have no desire to dissolve the Union.

Do you say that such restriction of slavery would be unconstitutional, and that some of the States would not submit to its enforcement?
I grant you that an unconstitutional act is not a law; but I do not ask and will not take your construction of the Constitution.

The Supreme Court of the United States is the tribunal to decide such a question, and we will submit to its decisions; and if you do also, there will be an end of the matter.