Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1860-11-02
Disunionism.

The idea of dissolving the Union IS
fought at the South with all sorts Of in
telleetual weapons. As sharp speci-
men, we take the following from the
Frankfort Commonwealth, an old Clay
Wing Journal published in the slave State
of Kentucky:
" AT every Presidential election these
fllibusters remind US of the poor French
man who locked himself INFO a room with
a rich ditto, and threatened to blow his
own brains out and charge the rich one
with the murder, unless the latter gave
him then and there five hundred dollars.
Every four years these Southern Quix-
otes swell up with bad whisky and worse
logic, and tell the balance of the people
if they don't do so and so, that they-the
Quixotes-will secede. We are tired Of
their gasconade, their terrific threats, and
of their bloody prophecies. They were
never calculated for any higher destiny
than that of frightening old women and
young children. They have been reviy-
ed and repeated until-to use an expires
sion of vulgarism-they are played out.
Their bombast is absolutely sickening. .
Ia a different vein is the following cool
unanswerable calculation, by Hon. B. F
Moore of North Carolina, in a Union
address
T" In any attempt to sunder the Union
on account of slavery, / fear a deep agi
tation among ourselves. / fear thai
when the disunionists, under the plea o
protecting slavery, shall demand of the
people to calculate the value of the On
ion, not few of them, in the agony O
their feeling, in the prospect of misery
and the increase of their burthens, vii
be induced in the excitement of the lime
to retort, and demand in turn the vaIu,
of slavery. Even with perfect unior
Of the Southern States, after severance
the republic would require at least TWEEN
ty-fve millions for an economical gov
eminent in time of profound peace
The portion of North Carolina in thi
burthen could not be less than two mill
ions, and would be raised almost exclu
sively by direct taxation. This larg
sum, added TO our present levy, woul,
gather an annual tax of nearly tire
millions. For how many years in sue
; cession do you think the State coul
bear such an exhausting drain Til
result would be an emigration to som
less burdened land, or the Reputation c
every bond of the State. Our siste
States Immediately around us would b
no better off,
The apparent and probable calamitie
of disunion are not half told in the Gel
tain annual imposition on the people {
three millions, with certain increas
for all time to come while the product
Of our industry shall be carried from u
and our wants from abroad be brougE
to US in British bottoms, allowed to mo
nopolize all the commerce of the new r,
public as the price of her favor and pre-
posed protection. Among all the injurit
complained of by the South to justif
disunion, not one of them will be redress
= ed or mitigated by the event.
> Tie IN,
would so delude the people by cheatin
them into an irretrievable position of u
seen peril, would drive them with Il
sword whenever such means might |
placed in his hands. ] hove asked tho.
;, who favored disunion for their divtdtp
line, and their scheme of governmer
| have seldom received any other answ
than, /" Oh we can take care of on
!. selves" On one occasion only have
heard the outline of scheme of peal
and safety-this was from one who b
long been in public life, and by his par
regarded as an able statesman. II is We
" simple, land would be very efficient if prs
: ticable. ID as tohaUe on The dioiding bora
Territory Of one hundred miles acid
: PeopSed By Pro Slavery men, aoitlomt
:" slave an a. An abolition element of V,
" power and activity introduced into
= slave state TO secure slavery.
Let not the absurdity of the dew
provoke a smile, but rather eneoura
: our hopes for an everlasting Unis
- The scheme, if practicable, may, perha
:" be an equivalent for the present cons
r. tutional proviso for the surrender of
- gitive slaves"
b, GA careful writer in the New Ye
We World estimates by counties the maic
bit ties at the election in that State, q
a comes TO the general conclusion that