The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-03
The Disuuion Programme.

The Washington Constitution, the Brock
inridge organ, almost daily pub fishes edito.
rails, declaring that in case of the election
of the Northern sectional candidate, dis
solution of the Union, by the secession of
the Southern States, is inevitable. MIR.
YANcEY, the leader in the bolt at Charles
ton, and the controlling spirit of the Breck
inridge organization, has declared his deter
mination, in his celebrated Slaughter letter,
to d" fire the Southern heart. instruct the
Southern mind, give courage to each other,
and at the proper moment, by one organized,
concerted action, we can precipitate the
cotton States into a revolution" Mr..
BoNHAM, a prominent South Carolina rep
resentative, and an earnest supporter of
BREcK1NR1DGE, declared in speech to his
constituents a few days ago, that the inaugu'
ration of Black Republican President,
should be the signal of disunion. And now
we have Mr.. KE1rr, a distinguished Brock
inridge light, out in disunion manifesto.
He says the South, in the event of Mr..
L1NcoLN's election, must wait for no overt
acts but dissolve the Union at once.
"South Carolina Alone" he says, "must
at all hazards secede." We quote from
Mr.. KS letter the following:
In my judgment, if the Black Republican
party succeeds in the coming elecuon, the
Governor should Immediately assemble the
Legislature, and that body should provide for
State Convention, which should protect the
State from the dishonOr of submission to Black
Republican rule. Before the tribunal of the
world, and at the bar of history, we shall stand
justified. Freedom lives much more in the
spirit of people than in the forms of gov
eminent. We shall receive the plaudits of
brave men for preserving freedom, and not re.
proaches for SCATTERING despOtism. Senator
Hammond, in his unanswerable and c0nsum-
mate arguments on the admission of Kansas
and "squatter sovereignty" has exposed the
resources and rights of the South. Upon both
we may safely stand. This Union is just as
travellers tell us many Eastern habitations are,
palace to look upon, all fair on its outside,
and presenting the appearance of house that
should last for generations; but the master
puts his walking stick or his boot heel through
the rafters, and he finds that the white ants
and that all that he sees about him is coat
ing of paint, which an obtrusive blow may dis.
perse in cloud of dust. The skirting boards
have already persisted, the rafters are now
ready to tumble in.
The above language betrays the object of
YANCEY, SL1DELL, DAVIS 4 Co., in breaking
up the National Democratic Convention.
A divided Democracy, they argued, would
ensure the election of LINCOLN; and the
election of LINCOLN, they now insist, must
be the signal of the secession of the Southern
States from the Union. We honestly be-
lieve this result to have been the Interior
object Of large majority of the boilers in
their secession from the Charleston and
Baltimore Conventions. A small squad,
from the North, also seeded from the Con-
ventlon, but we presume they we're not in
the secret of the dsunion leaders, although
they consented to play the part of servile
tools of the traitors, for federal patronage
and federal money. To this class; the
WH1rNEys and HALLErTs of Massachusetts,
and BEcKERs and FR1DLEYs of Minnesota,
belong.
But We have no fears either of the eec-
ton OF LINCOLN, or of secession from the
Union, or an attempt at secession. DOUG.
LAS will be the next President and be will
serve the traitors and corrupt treasury
leeches. who sold themselves to play
stool-pigeon part in the disunion game, as
JACKSON would have treated the same class.