The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1860-09-19
niSunion

Mr. Breckenridge in his late speech denies that dis
union is the object Of his party. Il is truly astonsh
ing with what ettrontefy nowadays, men viii make
assertions which the5 know full WELL can be easily dis
proved by recorded evidence. 1t is known to all that
w L. Yaneey (the pupil of Dr. Cooper is the head of
the southern league party that he is the man who
broke up the Charleston democratic convention Mr..
Breckenridge plays second fiddle for Mr. Yancey, and
is his tool to 'precpate the cotton States into
revolution, But Mr.. Yancey ''reckons without his
host7-Louisiana, one of the cotton growing States,
never will consentto secede from the Union-she has
now the products Of least sixteen States pouring into
her great commercial emporium dsunion, she pos
sibly might lose this valuable trade and then retro
grade to its former insgnifcance whilst under the
Spanish government The citizens Of New Orleans
should take this matter into serious consideration and
vote that ticket which i best calculated to enhance
their future prosperity.
The present contest is neither for the supremacy Of
democratic whig prncpes-it is for the salvation
of the Union. A Union under which for eighty-foul
years We have prospered and expanded far any
other government that was ever established. Ourfore
fathers entered our country perfect wilderness-by
industry, perseverance, and surmounting almost un
heard ofdiculties it has been converted into the most
Iuxurant fields wtnessed-three States alone pro
ducing enough wheat to feed thirty millions OF people,
We beg feowcitizens not to be led astray by the
Syren notes those who would fire southern mind
and sat the proper moment" or time, precipate the
cotton States into revolution God forbid. This once
done and our beautiful cotton and other fields would
soon be converted in soldiers camps and flooded with
human blood Every aspiring would be seeking
power and there would be end to revolutions Let
US stick to that system of government which has SO
gorously carried US safe through eighy-our years.
Mr. Yancey in letter dated Montgomery, June 10,
1858, F." addressed to James Slaughter, ESQ., says:
ssDEAR SR-Your kind1c of thel5th is received.
hardly agree with YOU that general movement can
be made that will clear out the Augean stable If the
democracy were overthrow it would result in giving
place to Il greater and hungrer swarm Of flies"
"The remedy OF the south Is not IN such process.
Its in digent organisation of her true men, for the
prompt resistance Of the first aggression. 1t must
come in the nature of things. No national party can
save us; no sectional party can do it. But if we
could do as our fathers did-organse committees of
safety all over the cotton States, land it is only in
them that can hope for any effective moyement)
we shall fire the southern mind give courage to each
other, and, at the proper moment by one organised,
concerted action, precpitate the cotton States
into a revolution"
1.-The idea has been Swallowed forth in the south by
Mr. Ruffn; has been taken up and recommended by
the Advertiser, under the Of league Of united
souherners who, keeping up the old party relations
on all other questions will hold the southern issue
paramount and will influence parties, legislatures, and
statesmen I have time to enlarge, but to suggest
merely. In haste, yours, &c. WI YANcEY."
although written hastily and not for publication,
Yet it does not contain idea that do not now en-
terrain. ". /. YANCEY."
Was ever mere rebellious declaration published to
the world? If so, have never read it. Fire the
southern mind and then prccpitate the cotton States
into revolution" It was fortunate, indeed for Mr.
Yancey that Gen Jackson not alive and acting
president commanding the southern division of our
army for he certainly would have gracefully suspend
cd him from limb of the tallcst tree in the forest