Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-12-13

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Buncombe Uni0u-savina aieetinas.
The Cotton serfs Of Boston have followed
Tie BEAD ofthe tape -rneasurers in Philadelphia,
aud ventilated their Union-saving patriotism
for the hundrelth time in a monster meeting.
at which Edward Everett and Celeb Gushing
were the principal mouth pieces. New YORK
is to follow soon, the merchant princes having
appointed committee 10 make the arrange
ments.
We trust the frightened hunkies in the
great commercial cities have read the speeches
Of Southern members in Congress They slap
in the face and spit upon the actors iu all such
BuncOmbe Union demonstrations. Like Mr..
Curry, OF Alabama, they do not regard them
as the c,uect index of public opinion They
see the true test in the balot-bOx, and like
sensible men acknowledge the force Of public
opinion as expressed in the votes Of the sturdy
yeomanry of the free North and West. We
rejoice that at last cottonocracy in the cities
passes with the South for just what il is worth,
aud Southern party slaye-drivers are forced to
cry out that their constituents look solely to the
Democracy of the North as the National allies
of the South.
Tho same spirit in the South prevails out of
Congress. The Richmond Enquirer excaims
"Au hail Fernando Wood and Greene @.
Bronson"-and says "the result in New York
City is worth moro to the cause of conserya-
item than any meeting that can assemble, and
all the resolutions that may be published" 1t
speaks of the Tammany Democratic wing as
"but little better than our declared enemies"
and halls the result with great joy and salts.
faction"
In the exubersnce Of IFS good feeling over
tho election of Wood and Bronson, the En-
quirer gTacously concludes to tarry in the
Union year longer! In speakingto and for
Virginia it says:
Let us prepare for disunion; not precipitate
it. Between this and the 4th of March. 1861
this Union cannot harm us. la the meanwhile
let us enact laws Of retaliation and non.inter.
course, and establish a direct trade. and conse-
quenty, friendly relations with Europe. Let
us charge heavy license ior the sale Of all goods
from the North, whether produced there, or
imported from abroad; let us send our cotton.
rice and tobacco directly TO Europe let us
establish strict espionage over all visitors from
the North, and a ttricter espionage over all
| Virginians who deal or associate with them -
Thus, we shall build up commerce, manufacs
turesi and other interests at home, aud become
independent OF the North, before wholly mart.
ing company with her. Thus, we shall pive
her foretaste of abolition and disunion; pinch
her food aud clothing, injure her commerce. and
manufactures, turn her laborers out of employ
ment, render her capital Improbable, and de.
populate her cities. Whist, too, we still keen
open the door of reconciliation, and leave room
and opportunity for pacific solution OF sec.
tional difficulties. This course OF conduct viii
encourage our Northern friends, with whom
it would be impoltic and painful TO party by
furnishing them with unaRs erable arguments
against our enemies, who now think they can
dispense with our products and our market. -
We should attain all the ends Of disunou
whilst still remaining in the Union, and gain
time to form alliances and prepare for civil war,
if that be inevitable
, We might divide our enemies, too, by direct
ing our retaliating and non intercourse legisla.
ton only against those States most inimcal ia
the South, and giving monopoly of our trade
to the less inimieal In event of disunion II
we are wary and prudent, the dividing line
will run hundred and fily miles north o
Mason AID Dxons and of the Ohio Ii would
be imprudeDt as yet TO call Southern Conven
tion, because such Convention might not agres
on the time and mode and measure of redress
for although the whole South is now united il
the resolution to defend our peculiar Interest,"
Il. aud fnsfttt.tsav,g h., 4
there would be difference OF opinion ns to th
urgency Of the occasion, Such a Convention
of the whole South would at once array tn
whole North against US, b. forcing unnecessAri
ly a sectional issue. o.
Let each Southern State act for itself and
, il be brought to the issue of arms, the rest O
those States will instantly fly 10 the rescue
Disunion within the Union is our presen
policy
0 The election Of Black Republican as Presi
dent IN 1850, unless that patty adopts new lead
ers and new platform, will render disuHion in
evitable Oh the lth OF March, 1861. We shoulr
delay il until that time, pre- pairing for its conse
quenoes, with the hope that returning sens
OF justices on the part Of the North may rende
il unnecessary.
The Washington Republic hiss a very pat An
pertinent reply to all such dsunion rodomor
tads as the Richmond Enquirer and Vrgini
sPOuters indulge in II says;
Here in Washington, full of Yirginilns, an
with the State itself in sight Just across Oh
Potomac, il would bo hardly necessary to motto
such statement But lest it might mislea
, people at distance, IL may be worth while /
- say that a movement 10 dissolve the Unio
= would not 10 dey commend tbs support of a col
poral's guard IN Virginia. There Is not sinpl
man, in any responsible position, in the whol
n length and breadth Of IL, who dafes 10 propOs
such thing. The question Of tho Union wa
M said by ex Senator Ryes, year ago, 10 be
s. question ended forever, go far as Virginia
!, concerned. The nulliieTs Of the Gulf State
T. have long ceased to hope anything from tia
quarter. he political unity OF the region upo
y Chesapeake bay is settled by geography, and
., not to be settled by politicians.
An answer still more 10 ths point il Virgini
= FIRE eaters should persist in their threatene
j, treason, is found in the following paragraph
taken from an able article on the disunion er
: demie in the Missouri Democrat, st. Lou
4 journal that aided Benton in putting halter
: around the necks OF nullifers and secessionisl
In that State. The Enquirer should read an
heed
Letthe leaders OF the Calhoun faction, Sen
Of ators, Governors and Editors, propose revolu
iis tion as the alternative Of the refusal OF the
: luJicrous and pTepOsierous demands, such a
d tbe election OF slavery pFopsRandist to Al
/ Presidency In 1860, the revival Of the Africa
n slave trade, the protection Of slavery IN tie Tel
ritOSies by the Federal law. and certain modif
- eptioDs IN the Constitution in the interests Z
n slavery; while such Journals a. the Oharlesto
\ Mercury shrek for q Southern Cohfederacy ,