The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1860-09-05
The Plot Thiekens,

Mr.. Breckenridge accepts the Richmond iolliino4l'
There is a little bv-pay in the Brecklnrldge pro-
pramme that has Just been acted which is of peculiar
significance as showing the real OF the game tbat
his hackers have on hand. Mr. Breckenridge mas just
formally accepted the Richmond nomination! IL Is
fact and if its denied will publish his letter entlre
Now nobody pretends that the Richmond convention
was ANYTHING else than disunon convention Hon H.
B. Rhett of South Carolina described it inclination
all And Mr.. Rhett sometime since declared that II IS
the object of all true statesmanship to bring about
"a dissoutiun of the Union" Mr.. Burt leading
spirit of the convention secuted the idea OF his being
Irrational democrat He sectional democrat, he
was a disunionist! Mr. Yancey said national parties
will not save US" We influence parties, conven-
tions statesmen and at the proper time precpate the
cotton States into revolution And III late letter IN
reference to his former one he says there is not an
idea that do not entertan!" Ut the Richmond
convention, the Charleston Mercury says:
Instead of the democratic party beng Refrigerated
bv the Richmond convention it has been rent asunder
with wider dsintegration. The Richmond convention
was the great which produced the disruption OF
the democratic party That convention was called by
the seceders and its candidates are in the held against
the regular national democratic nominees.
The Richmond convention the creature of Mr.
Rhett and South Carolina and their coadutorsln other
States The members of it, from South Carolina, 1t
will be recolleeted did not go to Baltimore at all They
had business there, they said, and consequently
remained at Richmond till the rupture at Baltimore,
ton should be complete. When this part OF the pro-
gramme perfected, the convention proceeded to do
the business for which had assembled and it nomina-
ted Messr j. G. Breckenridge for president and Joseph
Lane for vicepresident its candidates 1t did not
think it worth while to lay down any patform-how
disguised Breckenridge to think that the
Baltimore national constitutional convention laid down
for its platform only the Union the constitution and the
enforcement of the awsl-it truly supposed that the
principles OF its members and their objects IN assembling
together sufficiently well known without there be-
ing necessity for declaring them on paper 1hey
manifesty thought such work quite supererogatory,
as indeed it would have BEEN Besides it would have
been difficult work for the convention to proclaim its
principles and its objects simply because its members
would, think, have qualed at the idea OF openly
declaring that their real and only object was to effect
dissolution of the Union.
Bold as they delight to proclaim themselves think
thev would have shrunk back aghast at such avowa
The dream of Calhoun would have reappeared to them
and the shadowy form of ghosts would have haunted
their slumbers and troubled them in the darkness of the
night when deep sleep falls upon men, But the purpose
of that convention cannot be mistaken The spirit OF
dsunion presided it, animated shaped and directed
its proceedings Well Mr. Breckenridge accepts the
conventions nomination formally and hopes he shall
be worthy of their confidence! The plot thekens Dis
union looms up in the distance! Proclaim, Messrs.,
your fixed determination to dissolve the Union if Lin
coin be elected and then proceed Systematically to
course of conduct that will have reasonable prospect
of producing that very contingency That is the pro
g anime. Acts and words all conspre to prove it
Read the ubatons of one of the advocates of this
gramme, which we clip from exchange;
1.-The High Peaks!'-A distinguished member of
the legislature remarked to few days since that he
fet gloriousy-coud the the high peaks of south
ern confederacy looming up in the distance"
| This has become common sentiment. Our people
no longer expect to be allowed to remain in the Union,
and very wisely they begin to look about to how
they shall take of themselves, that the high
peaks" of Independence are in sight.
But the south has much do in the way of prepare
tion and we think, but little time to do it in Our
volunteer armies to be gathered together-drilled
equipped. Arsenas arm factories to be erected
-muniton of bought and manufactured thor
ough police system created and put in operation.
Let every true man, them keep his eye on the 'hgh
peaks of a southern conlederacy."
Mr. Breckenridge, say accepts formally the Rich
mond convention nomination! Ho for the ''high peaks
Union democrats patriots friends and fellow citizens,
how do you like the picture? What say you of the
programme? Constitationalist Westinghouse Jefer-
sonious Jacksonians Clay men, Bell and Everett men,
what is your response? Shall the work of fathers
the constitution and the Union this fair fabric upon
which have been exhausted the euogSm and the blessing
of every tongue in every land warmed by the breath OF
liberty and cvilisaton 90 soughng down the eternal
sewers of political perdition? Go, answer-and go,
work, work. Ho for the high peaks of the Union and
the constitution! Ho for Bell and Everett Ho for the
! rescue-wogk! N. O. Bulletin.