Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-10-01
TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. ?, 1860
Look, before You Leap +,

There is no Disgusting the fact that shonld
Mr. LINCOLN be elected to the Presidency.
there will be great trouble in the country.
This trouble will come whether there shall be
sn organized attempt at resolution or not.
There is a universal opposition to the doc
trines proclaimed by the Republican leaders,
throughout the Southern States of the Union
The Union party are striving to avert that
event. and the disunionists are as zealously
engaged to bring it to pass. Should LINCOLN
succeed, the course of the disumonists will be
determined BY the number of votes polled by
Mr.. BREcKINRrDGE. Should this vote equal.
in proportion, that cast for Mr.. BUCHANAN, we
have not the slightest doubt that serious eff
fort will be made to dissolve the government.
II in the result it should be shown that O
large majority of the people at the South are
for Mr.. BRECENRIDGE, the disunion leaders
will take 1t as an expression in their favor,
and proceed at once to initiate steps to pre-
cipitate the Cotton States into q revolution.
We have every evidence that this course has
been predetermined npon. and will be pur-
sued at all hazards and to the last extremity
They will regard the election of Republi-
can as an open and unmistakable declaration
of war upon the interests, institutions, and
constitutional rights of the South; will seek
10 make that impression universal convie-
ton; and will appeal to the Southern people
for armed resistance should it be necessary in
the formation of Southern Republic. The
newspapers will be fnll Of it. and pamphlets |
incendiary in their character, aad teeming |
with appeals to the people TO throw off the |
yoke of tyrannical and hostile majority, |
and 10 assert their freedom and independence, |
will cover the land like the leaves of val |
lambrosass vale 4 thousand arguments. |
which we have not now the time nor the de- |
sire TO enumerate, will be made to lash the |
popular heart to fury and the popular arm to |
resistance and war. All this depends on the |
vote of the South itself in November. If that |
vote should be against Mr.. BREcKrSRGDGE. the |
disunionists would submit rs they have done /
before, and bide their time. They will sleep on |
their arms as they have done for years, with |
their sentinels, Hakeful and watchfuI. on the |
walls, Oft announcing that day approaches, |
IN the invasion of Southern rights. Such will |
be the course and the policy of the disunion
leaders. The question for the people, who |
control everything and are most deeply in
terested, to decide, is, whether they are for
the Union or against the Union If they are
for the Union let them vote against the dis
union ticket. and for the Union ticket; and
If they are for dissolution of the Union
for revolution and for war. let them vote the
disunion ticket, and prepare for the conse-
quences.
There are some in the Northern border
States of the SOath, who are shallow enough
10 suppose the issue in the pending election
Is for party sscendaney. To all such we can
Ivy say, they are greatly mistaken. and
80 W ! hn u, deceived II cace. To