Daily national Democrat., 1860-10-03
Disunion Confessed---The Plan.

The fact thas Lane and Breckenridge are
the candidates of the dsunionists cannot be
successfully denied. The Montgomery (Ala)
Mail thus openly avows the purpose for
which Breckinridge and Lane have been
nominated. That paper says
Run three Presidential tickets against Lin
coin, thereby giving Lincoln a certain chance
for election. After Lincoln is elected, some
southern committeeman of them, per-
haps-will refuse to let postmaster, ap-
pointed under his administration, take pos
session of the office Then the United States
authorities will be interposed to "eniorce the
law" Then the United States authorities
will be shot down or they will shoot some
body down. Then the people of the com
munity will rise up against the United States
government, and will be sustained by neigh
boring communities, until civil war, with all
its horrible butcheries, envelop the land in a
shrould of blood and carnage!
r. Barnwell Rhett of South Carolina, the
fellow-engineer of Yancey in the secession
movement at Charleston and Baltimore,
made speech the other day at Charleston,
in which he eXulted that 1--WE have now at
last got the two sections of the Union pitted
against each other" and then he appealed to
the audience whether they would not help
to break up the government rather than per-
nit Lincoln to be inaugurated. How plainly
is the secession game here disclosed The
very object of the secession leaders was to
divide the Democratic party so that Lincoln
might be elected, when their time would
come to "precipitate the cotton States into
revolution And Mr. Breekinridge has lent
himselfto the use of these leaders
The Charleston Mercury is calling atten-
tion to the character of the next Legislature
of South Carolina, urging the selection Of a
certain class of men. The thing has an in
terest, because it is understood that the dis
union game is to commence in South Caro-
lima and Mississippi, by action of the Legis-
latures of those States, respectively instruct
ing their Senators and Representatives not to
assemble in Congress at Washington, in case
Lincoln should be inaugurated.
THE Douglas organs are still parading ex-
tracts to prove that some years ago, some Of
the prominent Democrats endorsed Squdtte,
sovereignty; but they do not mention that
the speeches were made prior to the delivery
of the Dred Scott decision, and that these
Democrats, as per agreement, have made
their opinions conform to that decision.-
Express
Does the Express mean to say that sq,tatte'
sovereignty has heretofore been Democratic
doctrine? Ifso, we deny it most emphati-
cally. The Democratic party never has pro
mulgated the doctrine that the people of al
un-orgdnized territory had the power to pro
hibit or establish slavery among them, o
$ that the people of an uN.organzed territor.
c had the power to NEEDLE with it in any man
! ner whatever. But the people Of an ORGAN
= zED Territory can, under the Kansas-N ebras
y ka bill, through their Legislature, contro
! Stare property to the same extent that the,
can control any other property. Now, if an,
of these Breckenridge supporters ever di,
endorse sqtdtter sovereignty, they did it OIL
their own responsibility and not because tn
Democratic party imposed such doctrn
upon them. In the Dred Scott decision tn
Court decided that Congress had no powc
to prohibit nor abolish slavery in the Terri
tories-thus establishing non Intervention OF
the part of Congress; and leaving the sui jec
entirely in the hands of the people of tn,
organized Territories. In endorsing popular
sovereignty, no man is obliged to change h
position to fully agree, not only with the Su
preme Court, bat with Judge Douglas.