The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1860-10-05


No one other argument has been moro IRE.
qusntly addueed against the Republican party.
than that Il IL driving the South to disunion.
This notion. We have often combsted; certain
iy the South cannot dissolve the Union unless
they 60 to work about Il, farther they will not
20 to work unless Il pays.
Our Southern neighbors wouldindeed b con-
siderably more absurd than We have ever sup
posed them to DO u they proposed literally to
cut their own threats, merely to spite the re-
publican party. A large land owner In Louis
lana and . Southern millionaire IL DR.. Stephen
Duncan Of Natehes. Miss. He has as much In
tersst In the disunion question - any one. and
the following letter written to his partner. A.
Mcwilliams, shows what he thinks about Il:
SARATOGA SPlIxos, N. Y, Aug. Is, 1850.
"DEAR SIR lit II most strange to me that
any cotton or sugar planter should, for one
moment, allow the thought Of disunion to en-
ter his mind and yet there are too many-by
far too many, fear-who indulge In such
thoughts. Any man Of sense and rejection
cannot fSil to go that, amer disunion. We would
be In no better condition IN any one respsei,
and In almost oil respects infinitely worse. Our
taxes alone would consume more than one quar-
ter Of our products for under Southern Re:
public, there would be no premium collected
from imports, but oil derived from direct taxa
ton, and to an enormous extent. II Lincoln
Il elected, there will be . strong effort to dis
solve the Union In the extreme South, without
waiting to test him by his acts. This would b.
monstrous, indeed yet there 10 great fear that
II will be attempted. II Ia the spite In the Dem;
ocrstic party, and consequent bitter hatred and
yindictiye denunciation which now pervade the
cess of Bell aud Everett In Louisiana. A party
that has shown itself incapable Of governing
itself surely ought not to be trusted with the
government Of the country. Nothing can pre-
vent the election Of Lincoln but the Withdraw
al of both Breckinridge and Douglas, or an
uprising Of the people such - there was In
1870, In determination TO put down both par
ties. There Is much talk Of union Of the
three parties In this State (New York; and
Pennsylvania to run one ticket only this viii
carry the election Into the House. II 10 con-
ceded by oil that neither Breckinridge nor
Douglas can be elected, and that neither OF
them can obtain q majority In oil the Southern
States. In my opinion. there Is but one safe
course, and that Is, abolish oil party names and
party distinctions, and the people unite on Bell
and Everett - union men. Ifthey can be elect
ed, We might feel ut peace, quiet and harmony
with total cessation OF oil sectional feeling and
strife for the next twenty years to come. And
with such an assurance, Southern property
would Immediately rise In value. II there b.
no such assurance-if there be o prospect oil
continued sectional striie-property must de-
preciate many men will be deferred from pur.
chasing or investing In Southern securities by
the apprehension Of this continued sectional
strife, and this continued threat Of disunion,
God alone knows what Ia to be the issue Of THU
strife. ~ the Union Is TO be dissoiped, !, for
one. rould be for selling out my possesston,
Immediately. STEPHEN DUNCAN"