Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-10-02
TUESDAY MORNING. OCT. 2, 1860.
Look, before You Leap.


MI. LINCOLN be elected to the Presidency,
there will be great trouble in The country.
This trouble will come whether there shall be
an Organized attempt st revolution or not.
There is universal opposition to the doc
trines proclaimed by the Republican leaders,
throughout the Southern States Of the Uniou.
The Union party are striving TO avert that
event. and the disunionists are as zealously
engaged to bring il 10 pass. Should LINCOLN
succeed the course of the disunlonistS will be
determined by the number OF votes polled by
Mr.. EEECKESEIDGE. Should this vote equal,
10 proportion. that cast for Mr. BUCHANAN. We
have not tue slightest doubt that a serious Ell
fort " i'll be made TO Dissolve the government.
If in The result it should be shown that q
large majority of the people at the South are
Tor Mr BRECKNRIDGE, the disuniOn leaders
VIII take ii a. an expression in their favor,
and proceed at Once-to initiate steps to pre-
cipiIatc the Cotton States into 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-
San ~ an open and uRmistakable declaration
VI war upon the interests, institutions, and
constitutional rights OF the South; will seek
10 make that impression q universal consic-
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 full of it, and pamphlets
incendiary in their character, aud teeming
with appeals TO the people 10 throw OF the
yoke of tyrannical and hostile majority.
and 10 assert their freedom and independence,
will cover the land like the leaves OF Val
Iambrosas's vale" A thousand arguments,
which we have not now the time nor the de-
sire to enumerate, will be made Ia 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. II that
vote should be against Mr. BRECENRIDGE, the
lislnionists would submit as they have done
before, and bide their time. They will sleep on
their arms as they have done for years, with
Ihtir sentinels. Makeful 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, wh,
control everything aud are most deeply in
terested, to decide, is, whether they are for
the Onion or against the Union. II 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-
quenees.
There are some in the Northern border
States of the SO1th, who are shallow enough
10 suppose the issue in the pending election
ia for party ascendancy. To all such We can
Only say, they are greatly mistaken, and
they had as we'll be undeceived at once. The
real contest, whatever may be said 10 the
contrary, and whatever gloss may be pat
upon the surface, ia between the friends of
the Uni0n and its enemies. If the latter pre-
vail, those who think they have party to
build up and sustain and strengthen, " III be
left without party, and without Union to
exist in IS party. The only alternative
left Is for the friendsnf The Union TO vote for
the Union ticket, and for those who are tired
Of It and want it to come TO an end. to vote
The disunion ticket. This is the real question
in the South
In the North The issue i somewhat differ
emit. III, awaiting themselves Of the superior
numerical strength which they hold, the
Northern people choose to elect Mr. LINCOLN,
they must also prepare for the troubles that
must follow. In that event. if the Union
ticket should even prevail in the Southern
States, 4 Republican administration elevated
on the ayowed principles of the .'irrepressi-
be conflict" will find great difficulty in fill.
ing the Offices in the Southern States. Very
few, il any Southern men viii accept Office
Is the friends of such an administration.
Whoever shall accept Office will do so as the
friends OF the Union and not as Republicans.
being ready at all times to lay down their
Offices whenever an effort is made on the part
of that administration 10 use the power of
the government, as an engine of oppression,
or for the purpose OF attacking the rights or
equality of the States under the Federal con-
Hence the administration or LIN
coLN could count on no effective support from
the Southern States. from any party, in car
rying out the distinctive principle of the
party. In Congress and everywhere else in
the South, 1t would meet with determined
aid vigorous resistance TO its peculiar dog
mas upon the question of slavery, upon
which alone il stands as party organization.
If, therefore, it should attempt to push its
teaets to extremities, it would induce union
at the South in opposition to it; and if per-
sisted in would prove as effective in precipi-
tating reEolatien, as any other party. And
the tendencies are all that way; if the
administration fail 20 urge its peculiar doc
trine on the subject of slavery it will destroy
ltseii al The North, where alone it holds its
powsF-F There can be, therefore, no motive
for the sincere Hover Of the. Union at the
North, TO vote for LiScoIS. 1t is true that
if the Union men of the South defeat the
dIsunionists in this section, theigovernment
may go on foE q time; bat the issue will only
be postponed for brief period, If the Repub-
hean hostility 10 the peculiar institution OF
The South is TO be made part OF the Federal
administration For. as we have said, The
moment the effott is made TO -engraft tn
dogma Of tho 'irrepressibie conficr' on th'
government the people OF The South, for al
practical purposes, will be united against IL
In this view of.Ihe case, those who vote fol
Ar. BREcEERrDaE in the South, are voting
direetIy far NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. who vote for Nj