American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1860-01-26
ReV.Dr. BEecIxinridge to his Neph
-. eW, the Vice President. 30

makes two columns and a hall, closely
printed, in tie Louisville Journal gently
demonstrating with his nephew, John G.
Breckenridge, ,"Vice President'Of the Uu.
led States and Senator elect from the Com
monweaIth Of Kentucky" for the Disun.
ism of his late speech at Frankfort. We
subjoin a few extracts. He opens with
these "Doble rehections:" 1tHts
"For period of nearly seventy years,
the people of Kentucky, even from the
moment OF their existence as a free and
separate Comm nwealtb, have bestowed,
first upon your grandfather, and then up>
on your father, and then upon yourself
every mark OF confidence and love it was
in their power to bestow; and in no In
stance did they ever refuse either Of you
any distinction that either Of you was viii.
ling to accept. and in no instance did they
ever complain that either ofyou had come
short Of what they expected Of you. Such
testimonies are on the part CT such peo.
pie, accumulated until you now find your
self in position for good or evil to the
whole nation, scarcely inferior to that Of
any other person, increase all the ordinary
responsibilities which rest upon you 10 the
very highest degree, and new ones to the
most affecting which can address them.
selves to a true heart. Every man in this
nation. still more every man in the Com
monweal,h which has SO signally honored
you. will ponder these things just in the
degree that they expect or hope anything
from you, in this season, which you have
yourself, in The most public and emphatic
manner, declared to te iull Of peril TO the
whole American people, and most pecul.
iarly tossbe people Of Kentucky. l know
you will admit that every one Of them has
the right 10 address to you these noble re-
flectiohs-warning you ty them, in man
ner at cnce earnest and confdiug, that your
people do not expect y'u to allow their
destiny 10 be compromised, and yourself 10
be overborne and carried away by events
and parties" &c.
| kENTUChf NUT fUh DlSuNlUN-6ECESAlOI
SUICIDAL.
AS 10 the dissolution of the American
Uuion--the settled and deliberate couvic>
lion Of Kentucky is that it is no remedy for
anything whatever, but that it siof itself
the direst of oil calamilies. Kentucky
never had any existence as Common,
wealth, except as one OF the States Of the
American Union. She never had dis
loyal thought towards that Union, or to-
wards any sister Slate; she never for one
instant desired TO enlarge her rights under
the Federal Constitution, or TO exercise an y
Of those rights Extensively. or 10 deny tc
others their EQUAL rights under that Consti
tuition. Wholly unable to comprehend
how itwould be 10 the interest of any
State to secede from the Union, or how
the sight to secede can be considered any
thing else but purely revolutionary, SHE
sees nothing in The past conduct OF the
Federal Government to justify secession i
it We're a constitutional remedy, nothing
in the aspect of The tin es promising any
thing but disaster TO the country, to every
seeding State, and most especially to her.
self, frcm the application Of any such rem
edy, whether by war. by revolution, by
the formation Of new cohlederaciOs, or by
The secession ofihdisidnal States. AS fal
os she can understand, lis mainly the un
ruly passions Of unreasonable men, and the
violent assertion of dubious or, 10 say The
least, extreme rigbts-ahd the madness o
political parties in their struggle for power
that has brought the country to its presen
perilous condition. The true remedy fol
such disorders is not the breaking up o
the government, but the due enforcement
Of the laws, and posterity will execrate tc
the end oftime whatever Government
shall allow the lAwless conduct of AM
portion Of the people to run into secession
or divide others into it. The lives of trai
tors ought not to weigh feather agains
the peace Of security, much less agains
the very existence Of the nation: and thei
|, blood cements instead OF weakening tb
foundations of society. Civil war itsel
|, WllDlu tuo OulUub SOlIlUIo as OifH Wal al
, ways is, is necessarily temporary, and i
inconsistent with the ultimate preservation
of everything destructive in our presen
nationality, and in all our institutions, gen
eral and particular; and universal civj
war at this time, ,Uithin the Union, coul'
, hardly fail TO end in the permanent establis
! ment, for the whole country, of just wha
our fathers established from l776 to 1888
! But after the division Of the Union upo
8 the slave line, and the necessary breakin
| cut ola fierce and intermnAble war alon
! a frontier, extending from the Atlanti
! Ocean to the Western border Missouri, h
man can foresee state Of case when peac
S can ever be preserved along that frontier
+ as well as II oeh be in the Union, and an
. man can see that any futdfe union Of tn
. divided portions 6f the toniederacy, if an
8 union shall ever be possible, must be upo
Q the very terms now existing. The inev
4 able effect Of the recent events at Harper
Ferry, taken all together, must be to Civ
degree of security to the whole slay
frontier ,Oithin tie Union which no part
s il can ever have out of,Me Union, and tn
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