The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-11-09
THE DlsuN1oN oRY.
THE TALK THE CAPITAL

THE DlsUNION CRY.
THE TALK AT THE CAPITAL
Foreign Protection Invited for south
ern Confederacy.
Correspondence Of the N. Y. Times.
.,.,..'>... +.io-, .' WASHINGTON, Oct. %.
In my letter which appeard in the TINES
on Friday, l barely announced the discov-
cry of q diabolical plot to dissolve the Un.
ion, and gave very brief statement of its
outlines. I now have it in my power to
give highly interesting details of the trea'
sonable scheme. These details afford unmis
taxable proof that the conspirators have nc
confidence in the sympathy of the masses
even of the Gulf States. Their plan is tc
betray the South into rebellion, by repe-
titon of the Lecompton fraud. They dread
the consequence of direct appeal to the
people on the question of Disunion. To
elude this danger, the general convention o.
the seeding States is to be elected by their
several Legislatures, and upon this body full
and conclusive powers of dissolving the
Union, and of electing Breckenridge to the
Presidency, are to be conferred
The people are not to be consulted, either
in the initiatory process of electing the Con-
vention, or in the ratification of its resolves.
The reasonable oligarchs, with character
istic contempt for the rights and interests Of
the people, are determined to take the re-
sponsibility of proclaiming Southern Con-
federacy, and the masses will be dragooned
into acquiescence by fire and sword. All
who resist, or decline to aid the traitors,
are to suffer death and a con6scation of
property. ...... ......
It is expected by these miserable plotters
of treason that they will have the active co.
operation of England and France, and par
ticularly the latter. The Southern Con-
federacy, in order to enlist the sympathies
of these foreign Powers, will open their
ports in the free admission of their merchan.
die. This policy would accord admirably
with the Free Trade theories of the Gulf
States, but how it will comport with the
maintenance Of an independent Government,
we are not told. 1t is, however, expected
that, instead of protecting themselves, they
will be protected by the great military and
naval Powers of Europe. Louis Napoleon
has been consulted, and has given promise
of any number of troops, whenever his in
tervention shall become necessary. They
even rely on the employment of Northern
mercenaries to defend them.
Such are the beggarly and cowardly ex.
pedients upon which the Disunionists depend
for the accomplishment of their desperate
schemes. Well may they refuse to submit
such measures to the calm judgment of the
people. A coup detat is their only chance
of success in precipitating the South into
irretrievable ruin.
Correspondence of the Philadelphia Press.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20, 1860.
Senator Fitch, of Indiana, is in town. He
will receive the thanks of the President for
having succeeded, in company with Bright,
in electing the Republican State ticket in
Indiana.
The President was asked, a few days ago,
if he would resist secession. He remained
silent. .....
The excitement in the South is increas-
ing. Gov. Letcher continues in his warlike
measures. Senator Toombs openly declares
be will resist the Inauguration of Lincoln by
seceediDg. 49,.
The Disunion chiefs calculate especially
upon the assistance of the young men of the
South who do not own negroes the same
class which was called by the negroes and
mulattoes in st. Domingo, in $780," les
petits blancs," 1.-THE little whites,) for the
purpose of distinguishing them from those
who were proprietors. The real slave
owners, and all those who have something
to lose, are utterly opposed to secession. If
the Northern people will only remain silent
spectators, and not increase the excitement
now existing in the South by intermeddling,
something which the rebellion leaders anx-
iously hope for, the conservative element in
the South will drive out the Disunionists in
short time.
Disunionism means submission to Eng
land. The South, in the event of disso-
luton of the Union, will become British
dependency. England is laboring for the
achievement of that result.
If the President did not secretly counte.
nance the disunion movement, be would
dismiss from his Cabinet Secretaries Cobb
and Thompson, who are the principal
movers in that iniquity. lJ,,...
Aaron Burr did want nothing more than
is now advocated by our Seceders. he de
sired to form an independent empire within
the boundaries of the United States. He
was tried for high treason, and died in exile,
despised and Stunned by bis countrymen.
The abettors of the present reasonable Sc
cession movement will share bis fate.
The people Of the South will never con-
sent to become British subjects.
10 McKURBIN is gallantly on the stump
in California for Douglas, and made re-
cent speech at San Francisco, some two
hours long, which created marked sensa-
ton. He is out in letter defending Doug
las against the charge of refusing to speak
in favor of Broderick after the death Of the
latter. The Douglas boys seem to have
taken possession Of California and of Ore
gon. Cal. Baker, the new Republican Sen
ator from Oregon, like Eli Thayer, of Mas
sachusetts, is strongly for popular sover-
eighty, and sees, in this doctrine, the only
way to defeat the Southern buccaneers in
the Pacific States. .....
1t is stated that, in view of the increasing
power of the Disunionists of the South, the
conservatives of that quarter, headed by
Henry 5. Foote, of Mississippi, Alexander
II. Stephens, of Georgia, Isaac E. Morse,
of Louisiana, Gen. Sam. Houston, OF Texas,
George w. Jones, of Tennessee, Timothy
Rives and VIM. G. Rives, OF Virginia,