The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-08-08
tFrom the Pittsburg Post.l
DiSuniOn,

Some people are npathetic enough regard
ing public affairs, to suppose that what al.
ways has been, always will be, and hence
they regard the cry of Disunion as an idle
sound. 1t is manifest that ever since the
meeting of the Charleston Convention the
Disunion party of the South has been pre-
pairing Tor the dissolution OF the confederacy
in case of the election of Northern Repub.
licun President. That the Disunionists ore
serious and determined in that m1tter there
can be no doubt.
The Hon. Lawrence M. Kei,t, of South
Carolina, has issued an elaborate manifesto,
and the Hon. VIM. L. Yancey, of Alabama,
brief, but significant letter, which mqy be
taken as an indication OF the feeling of
large numbers of the people of the cotton
States, aud which show that the cry of sc.
ceasion. raised four years ago, has gained
strength, and that some of the most prom
nent Union men of 1856 are foremost in the
ranks of the Seceders.
We find the letters of Mr.. Keti and Mr..
Yancey published at length in the New
York Herald. The former states his con.
clusions plainly. His style is calm and
temperate, and be writes like man who
expresses the deliberate convictions of
powerful party, rather than one who gives
vent to his own crude and ill.digested fan.
cles. In his letter, the position of the Re.
publican party is fairly stated. He accepts
for the party creed Mr.. Summers view -
First, that slavery is barbarous, and the
South necessarily in savage state; Second,
that the South, being inferior in every wsy,
hold tFihntaru fo ha Lsal
section is hereafter to be the sole fountain
OF political power. What follower of Lin
coins banner can deny that these are the
issues OF his party, as presented by Seward,
Sumner. Helper and other leaders and teach
ers of the Republican masses. Mr.. Keitt
proceeds to prove that the "impendno cr..
sis" is upon us-that the "irrepressible con
tlict" Is "iviDg and terrible realty." He
asks pertinently what would have become
OF the government had the Black RepubIi.
cans held the executive power when the
John Brown affair took place at Harper's
Ferry. His sympathzers would have sided
with him as matter of course, und the land
would have been deluged with fraternal
blood. The motto of the South is "Equalty
in the Union, or independence out of it."-
II the party which John Brown represented
succeed in the next election, "loyaty to the
Union, will be treason to the South"
Mr.. Keitt calls for union of all parties
in the South for Breckenridge and Lane, but
he evidently has very little hope of their
election. He is prepared for the inevitable
result. He advises secession, and points
the way towards such contamination, and
closes with description OF the rottenness
of our political system, in which, though
overdrawn, there is too much that is und ,ni-
ably true.
The letter of Mr.. Yuncey advances the
same conclusions as that Of Mr.. Keitt. 1t
is short, and we give it entire:
MONTGOMERY, June Is, 1860.
DEAR SIR: Your kind favor OF the 18th
is received. hardly agree with you that a
general movement can be made that will
clear out the Aegean stable. II the De.
mocracy were overthrown it would result in
giving place to greater and hungrier swarm
OF flies. The remedy of the South is not
such process it is diIigent organz ,tion
of her true men for prompt resistance to the
next aggression. 1t must come in the ma.
ture Of things. No national party can save
US no sectional party can ever do it but il
we could do as our fathers did -organz
committees of safety all over tho cotton
States, and it is only in them that we can
hope for an effective moyement-we shall
fire the Southern heart, instruct the South
ern mind, give courage to each other, anC
at the proper moment by one organized, and
concerted action, we can precipitate the
cotton States into a revolution. The idea
has been sladowed forth in the South by
Mr., Rufin and has been taken up and re-
commended by the Advertiser the Mont.
gomery organ of Mr.. Yancey] under the
name Of "The League of, the United South.
erners," who, keeping up their old parry re-.
ations on all other questions, will hold the
Southern issues paramount, and will inhu.
ence parties, legislatures and statesmen.
have no time to enlarge, but to suggest
merely. w. L. YANCEY.
To Jas. s. SLAUGHTER.
Now, it will not do for Union loving men
| to disregard these indications of popular
feeling at the South. i Lincoln is elected
it appears that an attempt at dissolution oil
the Union is determined upon. 1t is no,
alone the evidence of Messrs. Keitt and
Yancey which we have on this subject
The influential Southern presses declare that
the issue is between the North and the South
as represented by Lincoln and Breckinridge;
that the South will be defeated, and that the
State Legislatures must be prepared for the
worst. In the Gulf States the feeling in
favor of secession seems quite unanimous
the border States are undecided, and in Vir.
ginia there is dangerous element at work
II these people are in earnest, as they ap,
pear to be, thereis truly terribly important
crisis approaching in the history of this GOV
ernment. That the South, il united, car
secede, we have no doubt, and that the inju
ry, in financial point of view, would be
greatly against the North we are equally
certain, 1t the dissolution of the UlSon is q
fact already determined upon, It 10 time to
prepare for it. ..s.
And this preparation, in our view. may
best be made BY the Democracy of the
North taking such steps as shall insure the
defeat of the sectional Northern candidate
|, Mr.. Lincoln. He is not strong with the
people. 1t is only necessary for the con,
servative, Union loving men Of the North to
|. cast their undivided vote for Mr., Douglas
, and thus put Black Republicanism snd oil
danger Of disunion 10 the wall. The defea