Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-12-26
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southern Conservative Opinion.

Those who from tho violent speeches OF |
Southern and Northern Democratic Members |
Of Congress make up their minds with fear
and trembling that the whole South is in favor
of disunion, and about to madly and reckless |
ly rush into it, arc very much mistaken. There |
are still sensible people at the South, and when
we meet with the expressions of their feelings |
we rejoice to note and reproduce them. We
have little budget Of such expressions now |
First comes the New Orleans Bee which says
We needy hardly say that deeply as we
should regret the election Of Black Repub-
licau President, we should be very far from
regarding such an event as plea for dissolv-
ing the Union. While We have Constitution
and laws, we Of the South, equally with the
North, are bound to acquiesce in the choice of
Chief Magistrate, legally and constitutiOnally
effected As well might the North invoke
disunion as the sole remedy left in case Henry
A. Wise, or any other slayeholder should be
elected President. Whomsoever the people
may elevate to the highest office in their giit,
the South should respect, until either through
his own action, or that Of hostile Congress,
some law should be passed plainly and palpa-
bly, at war with the guarantees Of the Consti-
tuition and the hberties Of the slaveholdng
States
The Savannah Republican thus strongly re-
Dukes the call for Southern Convention:
Our noble band of sisters, all embarked in
one common bottom, need not be taught their
duty by set of gassy, fire eating politicians,
such as are likely tc constitute the staple of
Southern Convention. Is there the most remote
| probability Of another abolition raid into
Southern State after the terrible Lesson that
has been taught the tranegressorsl We think
there is not, and that the present agitation for
Southern Convention is either a senseless
cry from timid, panic-strieken. would-be lead
ers of the people, or n well planned scheme for
an ulterior purpose which it is not prudent now
to avow. If the former, we regard it as wild,
visionary and suprenely ridiculous.
The Baltimore Patriot vouches for the 10y
atty of Maryland to The Union thus
The declarations of Mr., Crawford, of Geor.
gia have no terrors for Maryland. Let who may
be elected President in 1860 according TO the
forms prescribed by the laws of the country,
she for one will submit 10 tho election and stand
by the Union, even though the Congressional
delegation from Georgia, gravely announced
by Mr. Crawford, shall seek to prevent the in.
auguraurn of the new President Nay, even
though every State in the Union, North, South,
East and VAST shall repujiate the election,
Marylanl will insist on obedience to the Fed
eral Government, and rally to the flag OF the
, Union.
A correspondent of the National Intelligen
Ger, himself stakeholder, thus sums up the
profit and loss of disunion;
Yet for all this ] am utterly unable to Sc,
that we. of the South will at all better our
selves by "renouncing altogether" our connec
tion with the North Shall we be removed I
hairs breadth further from the Norlh Shal
we cease TO hear the rawlings Of Inadmen, OF
the dtlusions II fanaticismi Shall we, az
aliens aud foreigners, have a better claim upon
2 the conservative element still existing at the
North than we now have as members and
20 brethren of the same couloderucyl Every one
of these interrOgatories must be answered in
the negative What, then, do we gsnl Why
) directly IN the teeth ofthe true but eX pressivC
q and comprehensive sentiment recently attribut
, cd in your columns to the famous Taeyrand
= namely, "uoppy is the nation without from
tiers" we gain an immense boundary, subject
at all times and at all places to such lorays an OLD
i Ossawatomie Brown has recently inaugurated
Il at llurper's Ferry, and with no Pennsylvauia
Judge or Governor TO hold merely suspected
5, fugitive, to give sistor commonwealth time II
hunt up and send on witnesses TO identify him
> as recently was the case with the fugitive Haz
b lett, arrested at Carlisle. Is such an act az th
to weigh nothing or be accounted as no com
pensation for the wild rawlings of deluded mel
and women, led on aud encouraged by tina
most dangerous of all men, the merely am
bilious political demsgogue. Unhappiy, the
South as well as the North has its full share o
this class Of men.
! And the Richmond (Vs,) Morning News tell
us, in spicy language, what all this disuniol
talk means. Says tho News
Some men talk as 1ippantly Of dissolvn
this Union of States, as IL they mediate
crushing an eggshell No doubt there are som
souls, confident in their own conceit, who ar
ready TO undertake the job by contract, at a
hours warning, and who are prepared to fur
nish promptly all the krequisite suggestions {
wisdom and skill-of ways, means, men an
money. No doubt Of il. Horace says "N
aOrtaiibuS aTduum eSi," which, being moderI
ly translated means-"there are some fellow
whose selfsuficiency is unbounded." Di
solving this Union we take leave to say to thes
gentry, is a serious thug. 1t cost great doI
of time, labor, wisdom and patriotism to forI
ito make il possible II will requr
something more than empty yapOring or col
ceited predictions to undo It Politicians an
demagogues may pratt about il with peIsoni
importance and profit, but the people will poI
X der long before they lend their hands to an a,
~ so pregnant of results. We are not 90 wise
our fathers were, nor any better. We unde
stand the demagogues very well--with ths
disunion means Democratic success.
We commend the above extracts to the a
tention of all Northern Democratic SLAYER
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