Demoine courier., 1856-09-04
DisuniOnists Cowering.

IL IL easy 10 Yak iarSe. II IL uo VIA
OF ones spirit to sit in an easy chair a
an editors table and ihreaten disunion
Tits still easier, for it Is stimulated BY
the surrounding atmosphere. 10 talk srea
son in secession conventions, and flour
ish bloody phrases in heated debates up
on HE flaor of Congress. But 10 com
to the point. to Initiate positive proceed
ings, 10 look the thing itself squareiy IN
the face, is quite another matter. We
have never feared the threats Of disu.
nionis,s. The real meaning of such
threats was understood long ago, as their
general purpose has been.
Among all the disuoion journals Of the
Black Democracy, (for j, is a disunion
Journal, boldly and professedly seeking
tina. end, and ~espousing the cause of Ba.
chanan as The means likely to contribute
mos, TO i:,( The Charleston Mercury 10
ono Of the mos. prominent. Bat is is
beginning to roar comparatively gentle as
il pears the crisis and foresees The re-
sult. Is Washington correspondent is
alarmed. The shadow OF coming ents
has fallen within his vision. He calls
upon the South TO prepare for the eiec-
ton Of Fremont. The knees Of lreemen
no longer knock together at the hobgob-
lin OF disunion, and Southern members
can display their reasonable propensi-
ties with effect no more. 'The question
(he says) ''hns changed in the last two
weeks. Ii is no longer asked: Will
Fremont be elected? but, Will the South
resist his election I" And what does
even he do, when he Is brought 10 a final
and explicit concIusion?-when il 10 nee
essary TO face the music, or stink away
like q coward? What is even his opin.
ION as to the probability of actual dis
union, p~osi,ive resistance 10 the conssi-
tuition and the laws, naked and unquali
fed treason' Why, he says:
1.-THE election Of Fremont would GER
.ainiy If anything ever willy unite the
South. And yet il, is a very grave ques-
ton whether the mans success, accom-
panied nv all the degradation Of the prin.
ciples aud platform avowed by his par.
ty, would drive the South where she
should have goEe 70 1850, and where
she must go eventually to preserve her
equality and yighls-lias Is into a sep
srats, compact, united Southern Confed.
eracy."
Here is the confession,-,he end OF
all ,his humbuggery. When il becomes
a "question" with them, j. cannot be a
question with anybody else. as it gould
hardly have been a question ever with
any ssnsf6lSsman, decen,ly informed up.
on political subjects. The "disunion'
game has been pretty much played Oh.
Gate City.
Quo GwEN UP.-The Buchanan
Stale Central Committee met in Coium
bus on Thursday, The Journal says
"rhe meeting was a gloomy one. Th'
Dougiasites charged tho 3uchananiie,
with uigenerous and unfair ens a
The Cincinnati Conventions, and all III
blame Of the presen. deplora5le condi
lion OF the party was laid at their door
II was conceded by oil that Frenon
would carry the State by a large Giajus
Ivy, and an unwrilien resolution Wa
adopted abandoning tie fed. as far a
she President was concerned, bot urgin
upon The several districts to coucea,rai
oil their forces upon The election Of mem
bers OF Congress. TIE i'll feeling 9
strongly manifested heretofore by II
leaders OF The two factions continued
rage as isrceIy as ever. Throat cu,tir
dime will soon arrive"