East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1860-10-04
THE DISUNION QUESTION.
Hon. Amos Kendall I'm Denunc ia-
ton of DisuniOnists. 80

The following letter from Col. Orr ant
the answer thereto are published at hi
suggestion af2
Ex SPEAKER ORR TO AMOS KENDALL.
ANDERSON, S. G. Aug. 16, 1860.
Ny DEAR SIR / have received youl
favor Of the 9th inst. Your age, expe
rience and ability entitle your opinions
to great weight on every rejecting mind
and | regret to learn from your letter
that you dissent from my recommendation
that the honor and safety of the south re.
quire its prompt secession from the Union
in the event of the election Of Black
Republican to the Presidency. You say
your 'mjnd is equally clear that the South
has long had peaceful remedy within
her own reach, and has it still, though
impaired by the recent conduct of some
of her sons" You would greatly oblige
me by full exposition of your opinions
upon that point, as well as the remedy to
be resorted to by us, should the Govern
ment in November pass into the hands
of party whose declared purpose is to
destroy our property, amounting in value
at the present time to not less than three
billions one hundred and fifty millions of
dollars.
Can it be prudent, safe, or manly in
the South to submit to the domination of
a party whose declared purpose is to de-
stroy such an amount of property and
subvert our whole social and industrial
policyY
In glancing at the evil and remedy, I
invite specially your attention.
l. To the persistent refusal of many
of the Free States and to large bodies
of men in all of them to execute the
fugitive slave law
2. To the untiring efforts of fanatics
who come to the slave States under the
guise of preachers, teachers, &c., in
inveigling away our slaves, and to the
general sympathy with their nefarious
purposes evInced by the facilities furnish
ed them by the underground railroad in
spiriting away our slaves beyond the
reach Of the owners
3. To the raid of John Brown and the
sympathy which his wel-merited execu
tion evoked.
mo4emcEQs Ithf cEaeanb brjRSPEu sia"cr
ried out by Abolition emissaries where
the incendiary torch of the slave, lighted
by abolition traitors, has reduced to
ashes one million dollars worth of prop
erty and where tho timely discovery of
IL . ull;.L .oL ~, oe .Iono cavad tbopeond .
of men, women and children.
These are the natural and necessary
results of the teachings Of Black Repub-
licansm; and if we have such develop
ments under an Administration which
Processes to guard our constitutional
rights, in the name of Heaven what may
we not expect when a great party takes
the Government and its machinery under
its control, avowing openly its purpose
to be the exterpation of African Slavery
wherever it exists?
Is it wise, if we do not mean to sub
init to such consequences, to allow
Black Republican President to he inaug-
ated, and put it possession of the Army,
the Navy, the Treasury, the armorcs
and arsenals, the public property--in fact,
the whole machinery of the Government,
with its appendicitis and appurtenances?
If the South should think upon this SUBJ
iect as | do, no Black Republican Presi-
dent would ever execute any law within
her borders, unless at the point Of the
bayonet, and over the dead bodies Of
her slain sons.
In your letter you say that you have
not taken me to be of that class of men
in the South who for years past have
been making and seeking pretexts for
destroying the Union. You have not
misjudged me nor my designs. | have a
profound and abiding affection for the
Union of our fathers, and deeply deplore
the existence of the causes which are
rapidly tending to it's destruction. Dur,
ing the whole of my Congressional career,
/ sought to tranquilize sectional strife
When I first entered the House, the
Abolition party, headed by Giddings and
Wilmot, numbered eight; ten years have
rolled away, and now that party is q
majority of the whole House. Is it not
time that the South should begin TO lool
to her safety and independence?
trust that the impending storm may
be averted; that our rights and the Unior
may be saved; that fraternal regard ma.
be restored; and that our country ma,
go on in the highway of prosperity tha
il has so successfully trod for the las
!. seventy years. This is the aspiration o
my heart, and yet l am painfully i'm
pressed with the conviction that it viii
never be realized. l am, very truly
your friend and obedient servant, .7a
JAMES l.. ORR.
Hon. AMOS KENDALL, Washington, ID. c. I.
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Mr.. KEYpALL's REPLY. r.eI