Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-12-06
Object of Disunionists.


States which contain the largest number Of
| advocates for secession and disunien are
the States which have suffered least in the
past from any of the aggressions charged
upon the Federal Government of their con-
federate States Of the North 1t is also a
matter of notoriety that the Southern
States which dying at the border have
suffered laost from the sectional disturban-
ces that have so long prevailed are precise
" those of the sIayeholdDg States which
arc least disposed to adopt the policy OF
separation.
What is the ndubitable inference from
this Simply that the policy Of disunion
finds its most strenuous supporters among
those lcho look tor 1t to the oHainment Of
future purposes, and not at all for the cure
Of past grievances. If the latter were the
inspiring causes of the movement it woulG
proceed from the States which have the
most, we may almost say the only, substan-
tial reason for complaint
Reduced, then, to, the inevitable logical
necessity of finding the priman' mobile of
this agitation, so far as it takes its motives
from calculations Of interest, in some pros
pectiye aims which cannot be secured in
the Union, but may be secured in
4" Southern Coniedelacy," We obtain use
ful hint on the subject from the following
prudent outgivings, which are commended
to the special attention of our readers
in the border slaveholding States. We
quote from the communication of writer
in the Charleston Courier, who signs him
self " 4 SoatherD Planter" and who, after
stating the labor demands Of the South,
expresses the hope that the South Carolina
Convention will not discuss the question of
reviVing the foreign slave trade, and he
gives as a reason for this cautious reserve
that such discussion may repel and dis
gust the frontier States. He says:
The question of more labor and the open
ing Of the slave trade should be postponed
until all tie Stare States are aoi}li1tg TO uaite
ariM as in forming a Southern Confederacy
and hare perfected their internal arrangements;
nor should any measure that is calculated to
keep any Of our Southern States from us be
argued Or acted upon by the Convention
The opening of the African slave trade | am
satisfied acW hare an important bearing on the
action Of many Of tie present frontier States,
either in uniting them with or separating
them from US, and even if q common destiny
forces them into connection with US hereafter,
it would be preferable for them to become
willing rather than unwilling CO partners in
our concern. This question will also have
much influence with the great nations of Ea-
rope in acknowledging our independence,
and will create like interest in the CONNER
tial treaties they may form with US"
In other words Virginia, Maryland,
North Carolina and the rest are to be invei-
gled into the new Union before the real
objects are declared. They are necessary
to strengthen the Confederacy; but, after
they shall have been used for this purpose,
the opinion, not only of the border States,
but of the civilized world against the re
vival of this deplorable traffic may be sue
cessfully braved Who shall venture to
predict the disaster8-moral, social and fl
nancial-that may ensue to the benefcent
form of scrvitude which now exists in the
South if the arrangements of the present
Constitution be disturbed