The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-11-15

hlblted at the fafr, can be successfully
cultivated in higher latitudes.
We need not inform our readers that
the dissolution of the Union has been
gravely threatened for the " fire bell
in the night which Jefferson first
heard, has been pealing continuously
on the ears for several months. The
organs of the Southern Democracy, the
men who express its sentiments and
plan its movements, have proclaimed
through hundred presses, and from a
hundred platforms. that if Fremont
should be elected President, the Union
will be dissolved We could fill our
columns with speeches made by South
ern orators, and leading articles from
Southern journals, the beginning, mid
die and end of which, are the contin-
gent dissolution of the Union; and
that contingency the election of FIRE.
mont. 1t will take but slight evidence
to show that these threats were not the
expressions of individual folly or fa-
naticism, the indiscretions of youthful
ambition, or the extravagances of bonn
bastic rhetoric, but the deliberate pro-
nuncianlento of veteran leaders, clothed
with official authority, and acting in
concert
OF the leading Southern politicians
of whom Buchanan was the first choice
for the Presidency. and who labored
most zealously for his nomination at
Cincinnati, and previously in directing
the current of popular opinion in his
favor, Governor Wise and Senator
SlidelI were the two most conspicuous.
Under their lead, Virginia and Louis
lana voted for Buchanan on every bal
lot and if it were not for their solid
support, he would not have been NOM
mated. These two pillars of Buchan-
ans Southern strength, have been the
first to raise their voices for disunion,
the leaders of that internal chorus which
revels in prophecies of anarchy and
ruin. Wise has repeatedly asserted
the Southern alternative has placed
the militia of Virginia ON war footing,
to be ready for immediate action has
taken the initiative for the formation of
a Southern Congress by convoking the
Southern Governors at Raleigh; and
has informed his friends and the coun-
try, that day and night, the ways and
means for carrying on the war are the
subject of his thoughts. We find his
reasonings and conclusion in his first
proclamation, when he snufed the bat
tie from afar, condensed into one para
agraph, by the New Orleans Delta, in
its review of it -
If the avowed enemy of the South is chosen
President, is there any longer fraternal feel
ing between that South and the North which
selects and supports himf Of course, the
word ''Union" loses all significance and
meaning under such circumstances, and we
must do justice TO the logic of Mr. Wise in
admitting that he perceiVes the fact. The
success of Fremont he regards as SYNONYMOUS
with the dissolution of the Union, and SO far
we believe he is correct in his opinion. But
the success of Dir. Buchanan can only post
pone the very same catastrophe for a few
| years more, and it is question with many
intelligent persons whether such postpone
ment is desirable or not.
The twin pillar of Wise, the Louis
lana Senator says -
do not hesitate to declare that, If Fremont
be elected, the Union cannot and ought not to
be preserved. What particular course should
be pursued, am not now prepared to say
He declares the thing should be done,
but is not yet prepared to say how, the
mental powers of Wise being engaged
night and day in working out that pro-
blem. Lawrence III. Keitt, Member of
Congress from South Carolina, thus
spoke at a mass meeting In Virgin
la -
l tell you that if Fremont is elected adhe-
renee to Union is treason to liberty. loud
cheers.l / tell you now that the Southern
man who will submit to his election is a trait
or and coward. Enthusiastic cheers
Boyce, also a member of Congress,
from the same State, thus expresses
himself, less rhetorically, but just as
reasonably -
If Fremont is elected, what shall we do ?
Shall we submit I | cannot speak for you,
but for myself say we must not. When We
do rebel against his election, the North viii
change front also
The impetuous Brooks is in advance
of Wise and Shdell, for he has an
nouneed his intention to march on the
Capitol and seize the archives and the
treasures of the Federal Government.
We have mislaid the late letter writ
ten by Senator Mason, of Virginia, In
which he follows the lead of Wise, and
declares for disunion even more emphat-
ically. The official organ of the Gin
Ecinnati Convention, the individual
deputed to offer the crown to Buchanan,
Mr.. Forsyth from Alabama, on the
eve of his departure for foreign mis-
sion to which he has been recently ap-
pointed, published letter of the same
tenor. The newspapers TEEN with sim
liar declarations from less RESPONSE BILE
men but unfortunately the names we
have cited, show that the conspiracy is
not restricted to the obscure and the pow
erless, but counts among its chiefs. for
eign Ministers, Members and Senators
of Congress, aud Governors of States
the leaders of Southern Democracy, and
the principal counsellors of Buchanan.
The spirit of the Southern Demo
cratic press. which is more significant
than the speeches and letters of peliti-
clans high in place is more earnest and
decisive in calling fer a separation of
the South from the North. The fol-
lowing from an Alabama paper. is 8
specimen of their daily language -
For ourselves and our friends We can speak.
We shall regard the election Of Fremont by
the non-siaseholding States as disruption
of the bonds Of the Union, 20 be followed by
immediate Southern action fer the formation
Of q new Government.
The Richmond Enquirer, the leading
Journal of the Southern Democracy,
gives rs the tone and the double dis