The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-11-02
The Disunion Plot.

III Is my palnlul uuty 10 connrnni on
undoubted authority, the statement which
has gone abroad from this city, duplicating
certain high officials in the most diaboli.
cal schemes of treason and Disunion.-
The gentleman who revealed the plot is
r. J. LAcKEY, Esq, late Of the Treasury
Department. He is a Virginian by birth,
and son-in.law to Ex-Governor King, of
Missouri, and enjoys reputation in this
community for integrity and goodness of
heart, of which any man might be proud
II was dismissed from office few weeks
ago, on the pretended ground that he
had declared his preference for Lincoln
over Breckenridge. This he denies, and
the probabilities all go to sustain his de-
NAL, for he is not only Southerner, but
the owner of large amount of slave
property in Missouri.
Mr.. Lackey distinctly states that high
official in the Treasury Department COM
municated to him the plan of the Dis
unionists, Of which he cordially approved.
The plan, as stated, is for the Governors
of the Southern States to convene their
Legislatures by proclamation on the SM
day Of November, or as soon thereafter as
the election of Mr.. Lincoln can be ascer-
tanned; that tic legislatures ~W proceed to
declare The onion dsSoircd, and to pronounce in
.tacor Of Mr.. Breckenridge as the President of
The Southern Union.
Mr.. Laclcey at once denounced this
reasonable scheme, and pointed out the
folly and wickedness in which it originated
and the terrible consequences to which
an attempt to put it into execution would
lead. There can be little doubt that this
patriotic and honorable course of his was
the real ground of his dismission, although
his preference for Mr.. Douglas, and his
refusal to pay black-mail for the promo
ton of Mr.. Breckinridge's election,
would be ample excuse for it, in the esti-
nation of Mr.. Cobb.
lam sorry to say that there is every rea-
son to believe that Secretary Cobb is aware
of, and listens to this conspiracy against
the Constitution and laws of his country,
which he has taken solemn oath to sup
port, if he is not himself an abetter in
it. lie is the bosom friend of the gentle
man who revealed it to Mr.. Lackey, and
that friend, who is man of excellent
private character, is known TO be pro-
foundly impressed with an idea of the
wisdom and patriotism of the Secretary
If Mr.. Cobb has no sympathy with this
nelarious scheme he will not permit those
who avow their completely in it to hold
Office under him. 1t is monstrous that
conspirators against the Government are
not only permitted to go at large in the
face of day, but are the peculiar favorites
Of the party in power, and the recipients
of its patronage.
The Georgia papers freely state that
Mr.. Cobb while on his recent visit to his
home, avowed himself in favor of dis
union in the event of Mr.. Lncoln's cleo
ton. This allegation, and the charges
made by Mr.. Lacl1ey, cannot have escaped
his notice, or the notice of the official or
gan. Yet no contradiction has been put
forth, and the inference is irresistible
that the charges are true. If Mr.. Cobb
were impeached by the obscurest news
paper or politician in the Union, with
disloyalty to Slavery, the official paper
would take the earliest opportunity to
brand the allegation as false; but an i'm
putation upon his loyalty to the Union,
and to his official oath, is deemed of too
little consequence to require contradc-
ton.
But the Treasury plan of Southern
Confederacy is by no means secret con-
fined to the superior officers of that de-
partment. The subordinates are hurting
it about the streets in tone of defiance,
which shows that they have the utmost
confidence in its success.