Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1856-11-07
The Buchanan Party is the AdYO-
cate Of DsSuMiOn.


Eli, cate Of D'suniOn.
John C, Breckenridge, the candidate Of
that party for Vice President, said in a
speech in Ohio, during his late election
eering tour in the West: 81
''lf the Eastern States were to unite in
solid phalanx against the West, or the
Southern against the Northern, they hap
.pening to have majority vouid you sub
nit to a2 l AN SURE THAT YOU WOULD
NOT, for / know you to be men. And,
should they further accompany every act
of their triumph with every expression OF
contumcly and contempt, '05:@i1@ yc ;'c:; rat be-
lieve revolution solemn daty2 You need
not respond-I know your manly senti-
ments." Ida ........ .' .r ...
Mr. Breckenridge is certainly authorized
to speak for his party, and he declares that
disunion in the case Of Fremonts election,
would be right, a solemn duty" Then
the candidate of that party for the second
Office in the government is anayowed ad-
vocate Of "Disunion," as remedy for the
"evil' of constitutional election of q
President bya majority of the people.
There is very much food for reflection in
thatsdeclaration of Mr.. Breckenridge.
r Gov. Wise, of Virginia, is the ablest
and most honored leader of the party in
that State, and ranks second to none, not
even to Mr.. Buchanan in the Union. He
says, in letter dated Sept. 6, Of Fremont:
"His election would bring about the dis
solution of the American Confederacy of
States inevitably.
John Slidell, Senator from Louisiana,
and the man who tits asserted by Col. Ben
ton to have had more influence over Mr..
Buchanan than any one else, says in aleL-
ter to committee of louisiana Buchanan
| ties, who had invited him to meeting j,
that State: i.... ..t...
81 do not hesitate to declare that if Ere
mont be elected, the Union cannot ant
ought not to be preserved. What partic,
ular course should be pursued, | am no
prepared to say"
Preston S. Brooks, indorsed by tn
unanimous vote Of the Buchanan party il
Congress, in his speech on the occasion o
public reception by his constituents, said
,"That the election Of Fremont shoul,
t be the signal for the South to march a
, once to Washington, seize the Treasur,
| and the archives, and force the North t
= attack them" .. ... ..
Mr.. Brooks is a leading and acknowl
| edged exponent of the Buchanan party.
r Lawrence NJ. Keitt, Of S. G., mdorsed a
r Mr., Brooks was, and at the same time, b
f the vote of every Buchanan man in Cor
a gress said in a speech at Lynchburg, Vii
e ginia, few days ago: '
, "What else? With the current ofeven
!; the repeal and restoration of the Nilsson
: line have been the great issues before tt
: country. Black Republican fanatacism,
e its wild defiance, sweeping the North HI
n made the restoration OF this line the issu
II The South has taken up the gauntlet"
h The Cincinnati Enquirer, not the able
+ nor the most respectable by any means,
II the Buchanan papers in the North, b.
= chiefly by want Of these qualities, one
I the most influential says:
N "There is a right above and beyond Il
IS Constitution-a right from the exercise
le which this Government sprung-and tn
1t is the right of revolution.
D "That such Alright would be appealed
le by the South, in case this party shou
l. succeed, there can be no reasonable dou
Is in the mind Of any man who knows ii,
le people, and who conides in the wisdom
d Washington and Jefferson. The people
OF The South are not cowards--not degrad
Of serfs prepared to submit to the dominion
ne those whom they ever regarded as th'
N equals. They would sooner give tn
1t, bodies to the "beaglcs and their roofs
ii the flames" than to live under Cover
rnent Of which Fremont was the head a
n Greedy the tail i Government in viii
he Sumner would be Secretary of War, Sc
a ard, Chief Justice, Wilson, Secretary
p the Treasury, Chase, Attorney Gcner
y, and Giddings, Postmaster General, and
he Cincinnati Gazette, organist. War, p
IS thence and famine all combined, would
m preferable to the deep disgrace of such
Of government, and disunion, with all its h
n rors, be quite mild alternative to sue
so blasting infamy."
le- The Richmond Enquirer, the able
be most honest, and most influential of all
he supporters of Mr.. Buchanan says:
"Disunion, in the event of lis eleeti
.be is inevitable. Such an event is very
shc mote contingency; but let the North I
on South prepare to meet it, Let us, if P
cry sible, part peacefully. Let the North
IKE termine whether it will have several C
ioh federacies or one Let Pennsylvania, n
es- Jersey, Indiana and Illinois sec whet
at their interests would not be best promo
the by uniting with the Southern contedera
of Let California, too; study well the quesJ
ate whether she will have a Pacific Repuh
tof become tributary to New England, or Ii
es- with the South. Let us all look these Z
ade tingepcies fully in the face. 1t is not