Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-10-08
In,oD.,.,epey orPOor BreekinridEe.

We concur With the Louisville Journal that Jonn u
B7eekinridge may be very hOaes: politician out &c
seems to have wonderful power Of adapting his oehet
TO whatever he thinks a. the time to be bis own Pohoa
interests He can fully believe thing or fully believe
s opposte JUS, as the one belief the other may seem
,,ped At the moment to promote the success OF his as
piratons. For instance when he made MS speech al
Frankfort last winter it suited his purposes 70 oe'e'e
aud 70 say that there was very general and powerful
spirt Of Disuuion in the Southern States Here Is 'ne
language that he used:
Aud have seen in the Representatives OF the lower
Southern States q most resOlute and Determined sps
Of resistance In the meantime perceive sensioio
loss of that spirit Of broherhoodthat ieeng Oh oNe
for A common counrv-that favor OF loyalty winch arc
Al last the surcst cement Of the Uniou;so that IN the pres
cnt upbappy state OF siiais | was almost tempt,
al 10 exclan that We dissOying week oy wees anu
month by month, the threads are gradually ne'uus
Themselves nsunder and stranger visiting NeSnns'Ou
;bt i,,ciBe that the Executive OF the United States
vas the President OF two hostile Republics Tue
Personalities from South Carolina, Georgia, ALABAMA
Mississippi not 10 mention other Southern states, say 'l'
tbev r,sent their coustituents-nay that they soaSo
" 20 As far ss their cOnsuuents-and most Oi uio u
clare that they are ready at any moment lot sepa
Confederation some Of the Southern legislatures nave
,l resolves OF this character-Sud we may saiey as
sumo that it is the true feeling Of the people.
Here Mr. Breckinridge nine months ago, told ms lei
lovizens that the representatives not only OF south
Carolina Georgia, Alabama, aud Mississippi but oil o'her
Southern States, ay0wed themselves ready at any me
aspt for separate confederation, that they declared
their constituents to be sin more eager for it than them
selves that some Of the Southern Legislatures bad pass
ed resolves in favor of Southern Republic and iaa' 1t
Nigh, be safely assumed that this the true feeling oil
the Southern people. Then he not candidate Tor
the Presidency though he hoped to be. No" ne Is
candidate of the Southern Disunioaists, and it suits his
views to believe and to say that the Dsunionsis, about
whom he tried to alarm the country last winter, are not
Dsunioui5,s. He SAYS in his Lexington speech;
81 have 10 dsabta great many gentlemen IN the South,
rn States Of the Union thuk that their cons itutoHai
rph.s will never De recognized. few are perhaps per
So Di,unonists though doubt If there are h'ty sneh III
,hc Union
So in December Mr.. BJeCkinridge believed and said
that some Of the Southern Legislatures aud the Repre-
scuatye5 Of the principal Southern States in Congress
declared themselves ready and their constituents still
reader "a, any momeu. for separate confederation
and m il was safe TO assume that this the true tee-
as of the Southern people, and all know that the
Southern Dsuuion feeling has increased very greatly
since that time both in violence aud in extent and ye
Nc B. now procllims his doubs whether there are nifty
Dsuaoasts in the Uuiou. What under heaven does he
mean bv Dsunonsts If he doesn't mean the men ready
A. any moment for separate confederation Why
ill be- from any palry feeling Of misguided ambition
h, rs With his countrymen in such an emergency as
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