The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-10-12

The Breckinridgers and Disunion.
While it would be unjust to charge all the
supporters of BREcK1NR1DeE with cherishing
reasonable designs and meditatiug the dis
ruptlon OF the Union, yet every man of in
telligence Enosos as positive fact that he
was nominated for the special purpose Of
firing the Southern heart" and "precipitat-
ing the cotton States into Revolution"
The Yancy fire-eaters, lead on by yam.
CEY himself and aided by the whole power
of the Administration, produced the Demo
cratic schism and brought about BREcK1N-
RIDGES nomination. YANcEY is now re-
ported as coming North for the purpose OF
stimulating disaffection and promoting LIN.
coins chances of election; because LINCOLN 8
election is indispensable to stirring up
Southern ire to the revolutionary pitch.
In this connection we copy some ex.
tracts from different journals showing the
state of feeling at the South. The follow
ing is from Georgia letter to the N. Y.
Times.
The desperate Southern faction have seized
upon his Norfolk speech like drowning men
upon plank, and he is now denounced with a
bitterness hitherto reserved especially for Mr..
Seward and other leaders of the Republican
hosts. The "Little Giant is represented as a
monster with seven heads and ten horns, whose
garments are dyed in the blood of the South,
and the whole issue is sought to be made upon
the question whether the South will submit to
forcible subsection under Lincoln and Douglas.
Mr.. Toombs declares that the Inauguration of
Lincoln will be the signal for his resignation as
United States Senator, and of his nomination
of himself for the 'White House of Georgia"
Mr.. Toombs, as an enemy of corruption, is a
useful member of the Senate, yet venture to
predict that the Union will survive his resigna.
ton, and that Georgia will show herself insen.
slble to his wooing for her local chief magistra
cy, "charm he never SO wisely" The substi
tuition OF Mr. Stephens in his place in the Sen.
ate would also be consolation not to be des.
pissed by the country in its bereavement.
But here, quoting from the same letter,
we have prominent man who takes more
rational view of disunion
In this connection 1 will allude to a letter
from wealthy planter, DR.. Stephen Duncan,
of Natchez, Miss, to a friend, which l find in
Louisiana paper, with the heading ." Read it,
ye cotton and sugar Planters" DR.. D. is said
to be one of the wealthiest citizens of the
South, and he frankly tells his friends that IF
the Union is to be dissolved, for one would
be for selling out my possessions Immediately"
He says that " any man of sense and reflection
cannot fail to see that after dissunion we should
be IN no better condition in any one respect and
in almost all respects infinitely worse" Taxes,
he predicts, would consume one fourth of the
profits of industry uuder a Southern Republic,
property would depreciate, and many men
would be deferred from purchasing Southern
securities. He regards any attempt to dissolve
the Union on account of the election of Lincoln
as ''monstrous." When the time for action
arrives this will be the general voice of the
property holders of the South, and it is quite
safe to predict that their voice will outweigh
that of the Breckenridge demagogues, who are
more troubled at the prospect of holding Office
than on account of danger to the South.
Here is an extract from another Georgia
letter, dated Augusta, Sept. %, addressed
to the New York World, the writer of which
gives correct version of the sentiments
and object of the Breckinridgers of the Cot
ton States:
Inc opinion seems gaming ground that LIN.
coin will be elected, and should he be, my can.
did opinion is the Union will not exist till April
do not consider the election of Lincoln just
cause for dissolution, and will do all can to
prevent so great calamity as disunion, com.
ing, as it must come, by revolution and civil
war. But nearly all the Breckenridge men con.
slider his election just cause, while few of
the Douglas, and few also of the Bell men
concur with them. If left to the people of each
State we would not dissolve this the Breck
men know, and therefore desire Mr.. Lincoln's
election as that would afford pretext for resis.
lance in some shape or another, and if 100 men
resist the laws, and Lincoln bring Federal
troops to enforce the law, as wonld be his duty
that would be he beginning of the end. l
frankly tell you, sirs, that conservative Bell and
Douglas men cannot restrain the people under
such circumstances. The first federal gun fred
at Southern heart, whether right or wrong,
williproduce, inevitably, civil war and revolu-
ton, the end of which none can see.
Such being the BREcK1NR1DaE position
in the Southern States, whence the influence
which nominated him proceeded, and which
will hereafter control the whole BRRcK1N.
RIDGE organization, is it not marvellous
that men can be found in Minnesota, few
though they be, who sustain it by their
words, and who mediate the treason of sus-
tanning it by their votes?