Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1860-08-03

BIZ late number Of the New York Herald
declares not only that d;ssnlon is the design Of
Yaneey Co, hut that there is no escape from i.
in the event Of Lincolns election 80 fully is the
editor Of the Herald satisfied that the Union is on
the Of dissolution that he advises merchants and
others TO cloee mp their accouu,s with the South in
order to save something from the wreck and warns
oansereto prepare for the monetary crisis TINT Is 70
follow. Breckenridge win be tho President Of the
Southern Republic, says the Herald, and Lincoln Of
the Northern, and that paper treats the subject in
manner 80 grave as TO invite serious attention to its
conclusions. That disunion is contemplated by the
getters up of the Breckenridge ticket no one will
deny who has carefully weighed the testimony: and
II equally true that the same parties win attempt
in the event Of Lincons election ITO precipitate the
cotton States into a revoution;" but whether sue
eessfuy or not must depend upon the extent to which
blind, unreasoning madness has seized upon the
southern mind
Show us the necessity for disunion, and our voice
will be for IT. but that necessity does not exist and
if the Union be dissolved, it will be the result of
diabocal passions operated upon by the basest am
biton that ever planted evil impulse in the heart
Of selfish demagogue. Is Lincoln invincible?
We think not. There are men enoughin the North
who abhor thedea ofdsunion, to crush him in every
free State, and there are men enough in the South
not yet ready for disunion, to crush the disunion
party and give every Electoral vote to candidates
as true to the South as they are to the Union and
concert OF action between all the conservatives of
both sections can animate Republicanism and dis
unionism, and so eectuay settle the slavery ques-
ton that peace and harmony shall everywhere
prevail. Then where is the necessity for disunion2
1t does not exist and cannot exist until the North
is so thoroughly Republicanised that conservatism
shall be powerless and the South at the mercy of
corrupt and fanatic horde against which there is no
security except in armed resistance But whilst the
Republicans are largely in the minority, they can
succeed only through the divisions Of the majority
and if that majority is reckless and unpatriotic
as TO fail TO do its duty, it can deduce from its own
wrong no argument in support of greater wrong
to which it would resort as a remedy or relief Do
all that patriotic, sensible men can do to defeat the
Republicans, and then, if fail, it will be time
enough to take council for our safety. Instead of
doing this, however, the Breckenridge ticket has
been put in nomination to aid in the election of
Lincoln and every sensible man knows that every
vote given for that ticket is vote for Lincoln
whose election is to be the signal for disunon And
from whom comes the cry that there is a necessity
for dissolution Of the Union2 From those and
those only, who are for Breckenridge, nominay,
but for Lincoln, in reality. We speak not of the
rank and file of that party, for they do not know
what they are doing, but of the Yanceys, Rhetts,
and Keitts who are striving to create necessity
they will term the election of Lincoln-for dis
union, with its train of countless horrors.