Brookville American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1858-1861, 1859-12-23


We have heard 80 much about the dis.
solution OF the Union by the Black Dem
ocracy Of tho South, that it has become
stale, and the threat is Il stencil in hon
est mems nostrils. 1t is Tut few years
since that these very hot spurs do
nounccd such threats as treason, and ac-
tually expelled old josh Giddings for q
Tess offence than they arc guilty OF ev-
cry day since the meeting Of the pres
cnt Congress. John Quincy Adams,
Notwithstanding all his past services,
grcatability and unimpcaehablc char
actor, barely escaped the fate of Gid
dings for presenting n petition, praying
IN certain contingencies for the dissolu-
ton ofthc Union, he, at the same time,
dissenting from tho views of the pcti.
TONERS The minions of tho party
howlcd oil over tho Union ut tho bid
ding OF their masters, treason! troasonll
trcasonlll
These party leaders with whom the
fugcmen Of tho Black Democracy Of
Indiana arc cheek by jowl, and at
whose feet they will cringe and crawl
Like whipped spanicls at the Charleston
Convention. arc now openly and in do
fancc OF an former protcsIations ayow-
cd advocates of u dissolution Of the
Union. Whit was treason then Is trea-
son. now, aud tho fate of Hannah mny
yet be theirs as u warning TO their CO
toniporaries.
Asa sample Of Southern writers of
tho Black, Democracy, and the senti-
ments promulgated, we invite attention
TO the following extract and pointed
comments from the indianapolis Journ.
al:nsu 80 .f-i4.
"a correspondent Of the Richmond En-
quirer urges the Democracy ofthc South
TO- dissolve tho Union, aud invite Louis
Napoleon 10 assume the Proctosato Of
their half Of tho Nation? Tho propo-
Il f. - .
sitioh at first view appears so ridiculous
as TO, induce tho opinion that some wag
has sh ggestnd ii 10 ridiculc the disunion
climors Of tho Democracy. But close
examipation satisfies us that II is no.
only serious, but sensible. The admis-
sion that Tho South could not protect
herself, which the proposition so direct
ly makes, is only frank statement Of
what Gov. Wise admitted IN his bully.
ing leuors TO Mr.. Buchanan and Coy.
Chase, and therefore, instead Of being
evidence ola hoax, is pretty good proof
fits genpinencss. A Protcctorate being
thus admitted to be indispensable, where
could the South look for n protector
witIso much propricty as to Louis Ma
poleon? lfc hnprsons those who de-
noupce, his institutions. So docs tho
South. He muzzles the press. So does
tho Soatb. His police watch all stran.
gers. 80 do the Southern police. lie
puts strong guarI, even TO the open
ingo his sabjccis letters against the
distribution of inccndiary documents
So docs the South. No man or paper
dare speak freely OF his government or
of himself. So it is in the South. Ma
polcon sends lis offenders TO Jail or
Cayenne. The South tars and feathers
hers In short, there is hardly one sim
Clio featuro OF Louis Napolcon's dou>es-
tic polhy that Is not adopted in the
South Now if tho South is unable to
protect herself as the Enquirer asserts,
womb not NapoIcon's Protcctoratc be
precisely adapted TO her wants? 1t
would be the fitting of well shaped
garment, made for somebody else, ccr-
taiuiy, and never worn before, but so
exactly like the clothes she has been
used 10, that II would feel us easy as an
old shoe. There is n remarkable pro-
priety indhe suggestion, after it be adj
mtteAsthnt the Enquirer is right, and
Il ciSooth will not be able to take care
of herself, that cannot but strike the re-
fcctirc reader So Napoleon's Protcc-
toraie and Democracy, 'one and indi-
visible, now and forever.