The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-08-28
The Befalo Of Freeoon.
LAWRENCE, X. IT.
Saturday Morning. Aug. %. 1858.
Disuniou.

The ultraists of the slave States find
themselves checkmated, at every step
they take toward disunion, by the conser-
vatives. The majority of the people of
the South are sagacious enough to per-
ceive the danger there is in them and all
their institutions, in leaving the Union.
But the ultraists, if in a very decided
majority, are exceedingly active. The
orators are always upon the stump, and
are always fearless. 1t is in Alabama
where we find the feeling of disunion
strongest, and its great champion there is
the Hon. Mr.. Yancey. Coming further
north, we find many professed pro-slavery
ultralsts, but they are more cautious.-
The Richmond South is one of this class
1t is, in its sympathies, with the Disunion
party. Its editorials all squint toward
disunion. It always copies the speeches
p Of the disunionists, and gives the fullest
accounts of their meetings. Yet it is
cautious about uttering any decided dis.
union sentiments in its editorial columns.
The South copied Mr. Yancey's recent
speech, and commented upon it. The
Richmond Enquirer notices the articles in
the following style:
"The great fault of Mr.. Yancev,s
scheme does not consist in the sprema-
ture' character of his attempt, but in the
fact that it intends 1. blow against the
integrity of the Union The enterprise
in which he is embarked, is one in which
the people of this State will take no part.
They regard his plan for committees of
safafv, and tho ,,IoD ,rb;o1 L. ..4-.lL-
to Mr.. Rufin, for league of United
Southerners,' with equal reprobation.-
They both involve disloyalty to the
pledged faith of Virginia. They both
intend that immediate disunion is desira-
BILE, and are proposed for the purpose only
OF rendering it practicable. They are
both adapted TO 'beget a sentiment of
envious mistrust' among the States of the
Confederacy /; and they are equally insult
ing to the Southern people. They pro-
claim that the South is dishonored by the
continuance of the Union; and yet that
Southern people are so ignobly uncon-
scious of the requirements of honor and
patriotism, that they cannot act openly
and directly through the State Govern
ments which they have erected. but must
resort to the intrigues of an irresponsible
league to prepare the disruption of the
Union, even while they consent to be
partakers of its benefits,
And the disunion faction consistently
pursues the same despicable course of ac
ton which they would impose on the
Southern people"
Ihls Is pretty plain talk, but there fol-
lows palmer and still more truthful. which
we viii quote:
The most ravenous of all the in
triguers for federal Office are to be found
among these same politicians. Pretend-
ing most deadly hatred to everything
which opposes Southern institutions. these
men have shown the utmost willingness
TO strike hands with Abolitionists. when
ever they could thereby attain place or
power Perpetually rubbing the sore of
sectional irritation, they are the first to
betray the South ON every matter of ac-
tuai importance to her interests. IF all
the mock enthusiasm which all tbsse
gentlemen evlnce were genuine and loyal.
they could long since have secured South
err independence beyond the possibility
OF invasion, without resort to the pitifnI
farce of Committees of Safety' and
Leagues of United Southerners., II
will be ten-fold easier, and less EXPANSIVE
to finish the James river and Kanawha
canal. Let the disunionists, who pretend
such eagerness to risk life and fortune for
the safety of the South, spend their money
and labor in building up Southern COM
merce. When they shall have effected
this, We viii have something like palpa-
bic guarantee of their honesty
1t has long been remarked in Washing
ton, as singular fact, that the hottest
disunionists of the South have been among
the most eager to get the Federal offices.
Lat the Southern Convention keep this
iacs before the people of the South, and
the" fanatics" viii be disowned-Ndtional
Era.
Human nature seems to be about the
same everywhere. The pro-slayery dis
unionists of Kansas, the Stringfellows and |
their compeers, admitted disunionists
were the first to desire Offices here, proba- |
bly,, because through those Offices they |
saw the means of success more readily |
than through any other instrumentafty. /
So, too. the practical Garrison;an dis
unionists in Kansas. who opposed the |