Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-01-06
Virginia Democracy and rEisso uri Re-
pubIicauisu.

1nahe exuberance of its good feeling over
the election of Wood as Mayor of New York
the Richmond Enquirer gracicusly concludes
to tag,y in the Union year longer. In speak
ing te and for Virginia it says:
Let US prepare for disunion not percipitate
it. Between this and the 4th of March. 1861
The Onion cannot harm US. In the meanwhile
let US enact laws of retaliation and non-inter-
COURSE and establish direct trade, ard conse-
quently, friendly relations with Europe Let
US charge heavy license for the sale of all goods
| from The North, whether produced there, or
imported from abroad let us send our cotton.
rice aRd tobacco directly to Europe; let us cs-
tablish strict espionage over all Virgnians
| who deal or associate with them. Thus, we
stall aailsi up eammeree, manufactures, and
other ifisefcsts at nome, and become intlepeil-
dent Of the North before wholly parting COM
pany Hlth her. Thus, We shall give her fore
taste Of abolition and disuni0H pinch her food
and clothing, injure her commerce and manu-
features, turn her laborers out of employment,
render her capital Improbable and depopuIate
her cities. Whilst, too, We still keep open the
door TO reconciliation, and leave room and op-
portunity for pacific solution of sectional DIFF
fieulties. This course Of conduct viii efcour-
age our Northern friends, with whom it would
be impolitic and painful to part,J by furnishing
them with unanswerable arguments against our
eneifsies, who now think they can dispense with
our products and our market. We should at
tain all the ends of disunion whilst still remain
ing in the Union, and gain time to form ALLAN
ces ana prepare for civil war, if that be neyit-
able.
Nemlght divide our enemies, too, by direc-
ting our retaliating and non-ntercourse egisla-
ton oaly against those States most ininiical to
the South, and giving monopoly of our tratls,
to the less inilnical. In event of disunion, if
we are wary and prudent, the dividing line will
run a hundred and fifty miles north of Mason
& Dixons, and Of Ohio. 1t would be impru-
dent as yet to cal! Southern Convention be-
cause such Convention might not agree on the
time and mode and measure of redress, for al
though the whole South is now united in tue
resolution to defend our peculiar interests and
Institutions by arms if occasion need, there
would be difference Of opinion as to the urgen-
cy of the occasion. Such Convention of the
whole South would at once array the whole
North against Us, 10y forcing unnecessarily
sectional issue.
Let each Southern State act for ITSELF and
if it De brought to the issue of arms, the rest
of those Staes viii instantly fly to the rescue.
Disunion within the Union is our present poll
cy
Tie election of a Black Republican as Pres-.f
ident in 1860, unless that party adopts new
leaders and a new platform, will render disun-
ion Inevitable on the 4th of March, 1S6l.-I
We should delay it until that time. preparing
for It's consequences, with the hope that retur
ping sense OF justice, on the part of the North,
may ep,ler it unnecessarily" /
'2-Aow hear what the MISSOURI DzxooHAr has |
To say Oh this question of. disunon in the event
of the election of a Republican President:
" Let the leaders of the Calhoun faction, Sen |
ators Governors and Editors, propose revou-
ton us the alternative Of IL refusal of their lu-
dicr0us and prtposterour demands, such as the !
election Of Il slavery propagandist to the Pres
idcncy in 1860. revival Of the African slave
trade, the protection of slavery in the Terrific |
rics by the Federal law, and certain nodlfica- |
tiors in the Constitution in the interests of
slavery while such journ9 the Charles |
ton Mercury shrek for a Southern Copledera- /
cy at once. They all concur in saying that |
the time for action will have arrived the mo
nent it is ascertained that the opponent of the
Charleston Convention nominee has been cleo |
ted.
Should these fanatics undertake to make
good their words by their deeds, they will as
surediy die the death Of felons and traitors
Their own soil-their plantations streets and
squares would be the scat of war. Their bOr- /!
ders would be wasted, their cities bOmbarded, |
and their commerce ruined ; and there is TOO
much reason to fear that serviie instructions
would add their darker terrorS to the scene OF
blood and fire. The propagandists of Disuli- /!
ion do not probably know that the army and
navy are loyal to man that every ship and
regiment in the service would obey with alac- !
rity the duly elected President, who could be
sides, raise armies of volunteers with the stamp
of his foot the parties to the strife would not
be the North and the South, but the one peo-
pie of the United States and the rebels Or /
ganized society and bands of anarchs and des- |
tructives and to the standard OF order and
legitimate authority the valor of the country
would rush instinctively and in overwhelming
numbers.
But it is unnecessary to pursue this line OF
argument until the danger which we are con- |
templating assumes more definite aspect.
Truth for Uuion-savers.