Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-08-03

/ ter the assurance ilom the executive Eeau
that the exciting question should not be dis
turbed, we find the Democracy again fam
ming the elements Of strife, by the intro
duclion and carrying forward by the most
unwarrautable means the nelarious Kansas
Nebiaska Scheme. Not only so, but we
find them, in this very act, violating com
promises, and trampling under foot the
spirit and letter of sacred eompacts, the Vi
olation Of which tends directly TO sap the
foundations of our government Nor need
we dwell upon the systems Of frauds, the
absolute want of good faith, and the many
overt acts of the Democracy-all done
with the design TO carry out injustice, ex-
cite strife, and precipitate civil war-these
were done, with the cry of popular sover-
eighty "and "Unon"upon their lips, but with
treason in their hearts.
! Let us come down to a still later period.
Only few months ago while the Repre-
sentatives of the freemen Of the States
were ia the exercise of their legitimate du-
ties in the attempt to elect speaker an
officer provided for by the constitution, we
find the same Democracy, then but a fac
tious minority in the House, aided and
abetted by a Democratic Senate, and the
whole force of the executive government,
doing all in their power to prevent the or
ganization of the House-to block the
wheels of Legislation, and thereby thwart
the great ends of Republican Government.
Over forty of their number "entered into a
horrid conspiracy" binding themselves in
writing, 70 resist an organization Of the
House. Nor was this all. For weeks the
leaders Of the Democracy in the House,
poured forth the most bitter invectives
against the States and the Representatives
of a free people, rolled treason "as sweet
morsel under their tongues" and threaten
ed, that, in the event the Representatives of
the free States exercised their constitution
al rights, they, the Democracy, would tear
down the fair fabric of our Union, and
trample the Constitution under foot. We
might fill columns with extracts from these
speeches, but space will not admit and
they are fresh in the minds of most Of our
readers.
During all this time, the Democratic
press, both North and South, were extoll-
ing those disunion speeches, and reviling the
Union sentiments of the Republicans. The
New York Herald, the Democratic organ
at the North, took strong disunion ground,
reviling the Republicans of the House in
the most shameful manner on account of
their love Of the Union, stgmatizing the
avowal of the Republicans that the Union
must and should be preserved, as the
"bloody creed" Not only was disunion
openly advocated, mems principles were
bought and sold like stock in the market
and those who refused to become as mer-
chandise, were branded as unworthy of
confidence, and business men of the South
, were advised to cease dealing with them
and drive them into submission or failure
in business.
E Caleb Gushing, the President of The
e Charleston and Baltimore Conventions, o
both the Douglas ami Breckenridge wings
came out in his doleful disunion letter, Civ
n ing vivid Imagination of the awful seem
of imam on horseback" Mayor Woo
: in his Connecticut campaign speeches las
/ spring, adopted disunion as the burden {
d his song. And amid the ''irrepressible con
IS fict' which waged at Charleston and Bait
more, disunion sentiments were freely Vi
r tered, and cheered by the Representative
3 of the Democracy.
Y Among the leading spirits at Charlesto
9, and Baltimore were such men as l.. n
Ie keitt of South Carolina and the immorti
d Iancey. Yancey made speech in til
Breckenridge Convention, in which he de
clared himself disunionist, by acknowlede
ing that ten years ago he labored TO brin
E. about disunion Of the States He mad
y no declaration of any change of principle
or but plead simply a want of proyocation an
ne opportunity. Mr.. Keitt has since come OF
E. in lengthy manifesto, in which it is III
D. derstoOd that Yancey and other leaders {
Is the Democracy concur, openly avowin
disunion in case Republican Presider
Il becomes the choice of the people. In r,
er spouse TO tits the New York Herald, whic
Of for some time had been "yibrating betwee
ne wind and water" gave in its adherence
as the cause of Breckenridge and disunio
&c and declared that the Union was already
IL effect dissolved, and called upon busine
no men, doing business with both North al
nd South, to wind up their business, prepar
he tory to the final crisis, which was at han
m And the Camden (Ala.) Register raises IL
he Breckenridge flag with the following col
ey menis:
to I'VE have unwaveringly concluded (
is the last ten years that 1t would be belt
zoe q (for all concerned) to make two or mo
: " distinct governments Of the territory cor
~ prising the United States Of America.
N. I" and that such will ultimately be dor