The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1859-08-25
The Disuniom Sentiment

There probably never has been a time in GU,
political history when the disunion sentiment
was so bold and outspoken as at present
Southern statesmen and newspapers speak out
in no guarded language, but make their utter
ances distinct and defiant. The causes which
lead to this reckless disregard of the sacredness
of the Union are apparent. The Democracy
are distracted, rent with divisions, and despair
Of success in 1861 turn which way they will,
they SEQ the hand writing on the wall In the
prospect of being deprived of the patronage of
the party, they threaten to dissolve the Union !;
hoping by this expedIent to frighten Northern
doughfaces. This kind of strategy has been
used with effect in some former periods of our
history, and they hope to use it for a like pur-
pose, and with like effect again. The w ash
ington States, the Douglas organ, has raised the
traitOrous shout for disunion in the event of the
election of a Republican President. This threat
Of the States is caught up and re-echoed by the
Democratic press Of the South, and many
silly people think the Union is really in
danger.
Whatever amount Of threatening and noise
the South may make about the disruption of
the contederacy of States, if the people presume
to elect Republican President, it is all mere
sham ; at least it is so with the more intelligent
leaders. In no part of the Union is there so
much said about its dissolution as in the States
where slavery has the most predominating in
huence, yet no States IN the Union can SO illy
afford to run the hazard of dissolution az these
intensified slave States they have no ability to
survive such an event. Slavery confined to n
Southern confederacy, and depending entire
ly on it for defence, would be at the mercy of
the first outside influence that should choose to
assail it. Such a confederacy could be nothing
more than provincial dependency, and would
be necessitated to submit to the dictation of
any power Of Europe or America. 1t is nom
sense TO talk of disunion it is an impractica
bility, except with the free consent of all the
States.
Various reasonable plans have been suggest
cd for defeating the Inauguration of a Republi-
can government. 1t has been proposed that
the present Southern members Of the Cabinet
shonld refuse to yield up their seals of office to
Republican successors; thus, by usurpation,
keep possession of the Government. Although
such reasonable suggestions are never likely
to be carried into effect; still they evince the
desperation of the party from whence they EN-
anate So it is also proposed that the incoming
Of Republican administration shall be resist
cd by force; Democratic newspaper published |
in Mississippi, called the EagEe Of The South"
calls on the Democracy to maintain its power
in the language following:
We have been divided heretofore, and have
given and received some hard blows but let
them now DO remembered only as honorable |
scars. Let us come forward, as one man, and !
take our position, clearly and Enthusiastically
let it be heralded from one end of the country |
10 the other, that the Southern States aoM not sub
mt to the Inauguration Of a Black Republican
President"
The idea of band of traitors congregated at
Washington to resist the Inauguration of a Re.
publican President is too absurd to be enter
tanned as a probable event; the negro drivers,
with all their Northern sympathisers. could |
never bring their courage to the sticking point
for such an act
Equally idle is the threat of the Southern |
Democracy to withdraw from the Union, if Con-
Rress shall refuse to acknowledge the consti-
tutional obligation to protect slave property in
the Territories, although in this demand the
South is doubtless in earnest, and will insist
upon its recognition in the Charleston Conven-
ton