Daily national Democrat., 1860-02-09
Iselnss Threats.

The Atlanta (Ga) American, commenting
upon the resolutions of the Senate of Ala
bama, recommending the Governor to call
a convention to consider how to protect the
State in case of the election of Republican
President, says:
LAS long as our leaders can retain power and
govern the country, no matter what they do, we
consider the Union a great blessing, and the
paramount public good ;" butjust as soon as orr
leaders lose Do3cer, whenever they have so mis-
governed the country and become so corrupt that
the people threaten-aRd only Htredten-to eject
them, then in our judgment the time has come to
dissolve the Union That is the glst Of their re-
solves, editorials and speeches."
This is pretty plain talk for Southern
paper. It's not applicable as applied to the
Democratic party as a whole. bat when APP
piled to the disunionists and dsorganizes OF
any section of the couDsry, it is direct home
thrust. The gaseonade of the Alabama Legis
lature like similar threats uttered elsewhere,
can have no effect upon the great body OF
the South. 1t is intended merely to iufiu-
encs the Charleston Convention-to get a
platform adopted there suitable to their own
peculiar notions. in regard to the slavery
question. This accomplished, Alabama will
be the most loyal State in the Union. SO it
goes The motto is rule or ruin" and "ev-
cry man for himself"
Perhaps ut no time in the history of our
country, has this spirit been manifested Ia
such degree rs at present. Congress is full
of it. Nearly every State has some fire.
eating or fanatical representative, who spout
forth his twuddle about the dissolution of tn,
! Union, or the irrepressible conflict doctrine
These men profess to speak for their coustit-
uents, just os though the great body of the
people really believed that the Union could
OF any time be dissolved. and that it is held
together by nothing but rope of sand.-
Among those who have expressed themselves
on this subject is Senator from California.
! Does he reflect the sentiments Of the people
of this State when he says that it "is utterly
impossible for Republican President to ad-
minister this government over asaveholding
State p or when he intimates that there is II
reason why the Southern States should pre-
pare for dissolution of the Union? lie
stands in the Senate, as the spokesman of his
constituents, and declares in SO many words
that those of the Southern States pledged to
resist every aggression upon their rights
such as the election of a Republican Pres
ident, will be dishonored if they do not car
ry out out their expressed Intentions He
says, also, that sin the event of the dissolu-
tion of the Union, California will be found
with the South" We apprehend that the
people of California do not agree with Sena-
tor Gwin in his view of this subject If Il
Senator from California can so msrepresent
the political opinions of his constituents, it is
but fair to presume that other Congressman
and Senators give the same false coloring to
the sentiments of the people Of their States
One not accustomed to the usual Congress
ional twaddle and gaseonade, might really
suppose that members had been sent there
for no other purpose than to hurry on di-
vison of the Confederacy. We are told that
a foreigner asked recently, after listening to
a hot debate in Congress, whether the Union
would be dissolved before or after the cleo
ton of Speaker lie was fresh in the
country, and did not know that gasconade i.
one thing, and the Union sentiment of the
! people quite another.