The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1860-07-19
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CRY OF DISUNION.


cation, The Enquirer is n ofthe best
exchanges that comes to tho Home
Journal Office, and its editorials arc so
sensible, Speaking ofDisunion 1t says:
With inst and equal rights to every
State, there will be no disunlonists in
any section; but a denial OF the benefit
and equality designed by the Constitu.
ton. will makes disunionists in every
section. We have respect enough for
the manliness and courage oftho North,
crn people to bclive that n successful
refusal Of their just rights would make
them rs much disunionists ~ we know
such refusal would create the South.
Resistance to wrong and injury--to
tyrany, whether Of one ma or eigh.
teen m%illions-is tho cherished birth.
right Of every citizen of the FeCc Al
Union. A penny on tho pound Of tea
was an abstraction utterly Insignificant
and worthless when compared with the
consequence ola war OF seven years,
an expense Of millions Of treasure, and
tho loSp Of thousands Of lives; and yet
that penny created an independent pco.
ple, and built up q nation, now one Of
the first powerg oftho world. Dlsunion
in rs had not moro enemies nor less
friends, because OF its insignificant pen.
ny abstraction cause; nDr will dlaunlon.
lists in 1861 b. deferred by the tory cry
of Union, when u majority ofthe States
have authoritative pronounced tor'the
irreprcssiblo conflict against the rights,
interests, property and lives OF the mi
nority,
If the Southern States are to be III.
ined BY missiles hurled by the hands Of
Lincoln and his followers, not from IL.
iinois against Kentucky, but from
Washington City, with the power and
patronage of the Fedral Government,
against the institution and lives Of the
Southern States, it will be Il matter Of
small consequence whether that ruin
follow the effort at independence or
comes rs the natural consequence OF Il
~scrvile submission to Black Republican
rule. Mr.. Yancy as the advocate Of
disunion without cause, would be pow.
e~rIess; bat rs the bold and powerful
champion Of the rights, property and
lives ofthe Southern people, eve with
the cause created by an abstraction,
would prove 4 most powerful Moses to
the second exodus.
Upon the accession ofLincoln TO pow.
er, we would apprehend no direct act
ofvi0lence against negro property, but
by the use Of federal office, contracts,
power and patronage, the building up in
every Southern State II Black Republi-
can party, the ally and s~tipcndiary Of
Northern ianaticism, to become in Il
few short years the open advocates Of
abolition, the cOntiscation Of negro
property by emancipation sudden OF
gradual, and eventually the ruin of cv-
cry Southern State by the destruction
ofncgro labor. By gradual and insid-
uous approach, under the fostering
hand oftcdral power, Abolitionism will
grow up in every border Southern
State, converting them into free States.
then into 'citics Of refuge for runaway
negroes from the gulf States. No act
ofviolence may ever be committed, no
serVile war wagcd, and yet the ruin
and degradation Of Virginia will be a
fully and as fatally accomplished as
though Observation-Disclosures! e 1.-THE
land. There are no consequences that
can follow, oven forciblc disunion, more
disastrous to the future prosperity Of
the people Of Virginia, than will be this
u,,rinur fIn cnalc pf Itp,rLl ,,,J ,l,,,, /
ion, Of emancipation and abolitionism
by Northern hands, to be cultivated
and harvested by the people Of Virgin,
ia
If Mr.. Iancy Isl disunionist to avert
these sad consequences, there will be
no odium in the charge; on the contra
~, the best and noblcst mon of the
Southern States will rally around the
gallant Albanian, to avert the c0nsc-
quenccs so calamitous to the peace and
prosperity Of the Southern States.
The supporters of Mr.. Breckenridge
are no more disunionists, because Mr..
Yancy may be so considered, than arc
the friends Of Mr.. Douglas slave-traders
because Mr.. Gaulding, or some such
man, advocated the slave trade unre-
hukcd in the Douglas Convention. The
only Georgian present in the Douglas
Convention advocated the slave trade
in a labored and silly effort for nearly
one hour, unrebuked by any delegate;
and yet we are not uncharitable enough
to charge the slave trade upon Mr..
Douglas because ofthe folly ofhis (;cor-
gia supporter.
These are reflections which address
themselves to the supporters Of Mr..
Douglas in Virginia, and to all those
who advocate two tickcts-Douglas amp
Johnson, Breckin'i dge and Lanc-in cv
cry State.
The running Of two tickets in Vir.
ginia has other consequences equally
serions. 1t divides and distracts the
Southern people, and, BY the division,
and the animosities which it will ex-
cite, encourages the tanaticism of the
North. 1t matters not how true to
Southern rights and Southern inter
ests the supporters Of Mr.. Douglas may
DC, the very act Of separation from the
great body Of their friends, neighbors
and associates Of the South, and the
adoption of the silly slogan, '~disunion,'
towards their tellow-citizens of the
South, will give the n the character of
submissionists, which will cause them to
be regarded by the North as the pio-
necrs of Black Rcpublicanism in the
South. In vain will they point to the
record nj Mr.. Douglas as justification
against the suspicious they will have
excited ut the South and the hopes they
will have encouraged at the North.