Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-02-26

DIsUNIoN IN THE SourH.-While it is no.
torious that the ultra fre-eaters of the
Southern States have for years medilated a
dissolution of the Union, and are now ma
king every possible effort TO bring it about,
their ultimate design being the formation of
a Southern ConfedeFacy 10 embrace in its
limits Cuba, Central America and portions
of Mexico--it is also an undeniable fact that
The conservative portion of the people Of
those States do not approve of such trea-
sonabie projects, nor in any degree symPa-
thise with those who advocate them in Con-
gress or elsewhere. We published a few
weeks since several extracts showing the
extent 10 which the disunion feeling prevails
among the Congressional leaders referred TO
we now add a few paragraphs on the 9TH
er side; not all that could be adduced. but
sufi Glen to show that the fire-eaters do not
carry all the Southern people with them or
reflect their sentiments--and if they should
proceed to carry their threats into execution,
we doubt not it would soon appear that they
and their ollowers comprise a very small mi
nori,y OF the iuhabitants'o of that section Of the
Union.
The Memphis (Tenn.) Eagle d Enquirer,
of the 18th inst. thus expresses itself on the
~Leeornpton fraud and the threats that the
Union will be dissolved If Kansas is DOT ad-
mitted under il:
"Having precluded the possibility Of ma
king Kansas a Slave State, the Presidents
message accompanying the Lecompton Con-
stitution, narrows the issue to 4 question of
fraud. Those who sustain him uphold might
against right, Federal power against popular
sovereignty, a corrupt political party against
the immutable principles of justice. Our
Washington correspondent says that South
ern pot house members talk v~aliantly about
a dissolution of the Union if the Lecompton
Constitution is rejected by Congress. Now
these Locomotive distiIleries may fune and
sweat over brandy-smashes, but fer an overt
act of treason against the Union of the
States, their own constituents would hang
them with u hickory bark.
Dir. Stanton, u Southern man, reliable too,
tells US that fonr fftiIs Of the bona fde resi-
dents of Kansas are opp 3sed to The Lecomp-
son CONSTITUTIONAL these precious scouu-
dreIs would dissolve the Union if the people
of that Territory don't choose to submit to
Executive dictation--take u constitution they
ioath aud Bbhor."
The Richmond Enquirer, which, until the
establishment OF the South in that city,
was regarded as a prominent organ OF the
6re-eaters, in its issue of the 18th inst.
says:
"We have seen it intimated in the event
of the rejection of the Lecompton Cons,itu-
ton by Congress, there will be a movement
among the Southern States towards 4 DISCO
luton of the Union. Such an idea may
possibly be entertained by a few of the over
heated madcaps of the rna!content clique OF
uncomprotnisiug disunionists. But that the
conservative sense of the South-that on
stiiutionai sentiment, which backed Mr.. Bu-
chanan in 80, and s~ust3ins him stills in
favor of it, We d. not for u moment aPpre-
bend. 1t is irae, The Kansas question in
wolves that great principle of fairness, just
ness aud equality, which must be maintain
ed if the slave States are to be protected and
secured in their sovereign rights. But that
the return of the Lecompton Consti-
tuition by Congress, for the ratification OF
the people of Kansas, would be an in
fringcment of that principle, we are not
prepared to admit. Ia earnestness and urgen-
cy, the "Enquirer" yields to no journalin the
country in its advocacy OF the acceptance OF
the Leconpton Constitution. But if Con-
gress shoald determine to disregard the re-
commentators of the President, ana to torn
a deaf ear TO the arguments and appeals
Of those Democrats, North and South, who
Insist upon the admission of Kansas with
out further conditions, we s}lall dissent from
the decision, without joining in any war-cry
of dlsunioD."
The Baltimore American, one of the
most ably conducted and popular of the
Maryland journals, quotes the following from
BACON to indicate the estimate it places up
on, the di*union threats So freely uttered in
the halls Of Congress:
"Becaase half a dozen grasshoppers I'M
der u tern make the field ring with their i'm
Fortunate clIink, whilst thousand of great cat
tie repose beneath the shade OF the oak,
chew the cud and are silent, pray do not
~inagine that those who make the noise are
the only inhabitants of the field; that OF
course they are many in number; or that at
ter all, they are other than the little, sllrivell-
ed, meagre, hopping, though loud and trou-
b iesome insects of the hour"
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