Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-08-18
The DIsunIon Conspiraey--AIabaD
LEGISLATION.

In former numbers of the PATRIOT, we have
charged that there exists in the South a con-
spfracy to break up the Union, and adduced
incontrovertible proofs to sustain the charge.
In no quarter have those proofs been denied,
or their correctness impeached, nOtwithstand-
ing efforts have been made to weaken their
force by resort to TidicuIe and satire, COW
erts even of the strong when reason and ar
gument fail. We propose, to-day, TO prose
cute the subject still farther. anG submit ad-
ditional testimony. We desire the conserva-
tive masses of the South TO be fully informed;
and if they will fall into the snare which has
been prepared FOR them. it shall he no fault
of ours.
From the evidence heretofore adduced. it
has been shown that the conspiracy has not
been confined 10 any one State; that leading
men, now the active and earnest supporters OF
the Baltimore Richmond nominee for the Pres
idency, JOIN C.. BRECKINRIDGE, in a majority
of the Southern States, are parties to it.
Nevertheless. the chief leader, and lis most
faithful adherents, belong to Alabama. South
Carolina, the hot-bed of secession and dis
union IN former years, gives place, for the
present, to Alabama, whose restless. dissat-
isfed, and discontinued spirits are led by WM.
L. YANCEY. Their disuniOnism is not a re-
cent thing. 1t has been growing for ten years
past. Protesting to see in the compromise
measures of 1850, which restored the nation
to quiet, a sacrifice of Southern constitution
al ~ IaIr,I h. III xinu
to reach public sentiment, and TO mould il to
their purposes. These clubs held a conVen-
ton in Montgomery, Ala; in February, 1851,
and adopted platform. In the following
resolutions, which formed part of that plat
form, We have their aims and objects distinct
IL enunciated
That in our opinion. due regard for the
rights, honor. and interests of the people OF
this State, and each of the Southern States.
demands that they should at once set their
house in ORDER with view to secession
40. That the question of the secession OF
Alabama from this government is reduced "a
that of time only"
From the day of the adoption of these
resolutions to the present time, the disunion,
lists of Alabama have been untiring in their
efforts to prepare the State for secession
Every public question which has arisen, and
was by any means susceptible of being tor
tured into an engine OfagitatiGn to strengthen
the ill-feeling engendered between the North
and the South, has been eagerly seized and
used for that purpose: whilst every public
man who dared to interpose to restore peace
and quiet has been denounced and hunted
down as an enemy of our section. Taking
advantage of the complications growing out
of the Missouri Compromise, and the con.
test for the supremacy in Kansas, the Sou
thern League was substituted for the South.
ern Rights Clubs, as preferable means to
''fire the Southern heart and to pave the way
for secession. In Alabama, the Vaccinations
of the conspirators have so far succeeded
that it may be truly said the ''hOuse has been
set Ia ORDER" and the State prepared for the
extreme measure Of secession We do not
mean to say that the great majority of the
people are prepared for this measure. On
the contrary. We believe they are opposed to
it. But, Mr.. YANCEY, and his aiders and
abettors, have succeeded, in getting meas
ures through the Legislature which give then
the power to rush the State upon the breaker,
of disunion in spite of the wishes of the ma
jority of the people. And this brings us tc
specify the legislation of Alabama, the add
tional evidence of the disunion conspiracy
which we propose to adduce to-day. First
in the series of measures are the following
Joint Resolutions
Calling CoHCesatiOH ia certain contingency, N
the election Of a President Of the United States
WHEREAS; Anti-slavery agitation persis-
tently continued in the nOn-slayeholding
States of this Union, for more than a third OF
century, marked at every stage of its pro-
gress by contempt for the obligations of law
and the sanctity of compacts, evincing a
deadly hostility to the rights and institutions
oil the southern people, and settled purpose
10 enect their overthrow, even by the subver-
version OF the Constitution and at the hazard
of violence and blood-shed: and whereas n
sectional party calling itself ReDubIican
committed alike by its own acts and antace'
dents, and the public ayowals and 500,
Vaccinations of its leaders to the execntion
OF these atrocious designs, has ACQUIRED The
ascendancy in nearly every Northern State
and hopes by success in the approach;no q,
Presidential election to seize the government
itself; and whereas, to permit such seizure
by those whose unmistakable aim is to per-
vert its whole machinery to the destruction
of a portion of its members would be an act
of suicidal folly and madness, almost with
out parallel in history; and whereas, the
General Assembly of Alabama, representing
people loyalty devoted to the Union of the
Constitution, but scorning the Union which
fanaticism would erect upon its ruins, deems
it their solemn duty to provide in advance