Newbern weekly progress. [volume] (Newbern, N.C.) 1858-1863, 1861-04-02
WHAT MEN OF ALL PARTIES SAID
ABOUT DISUNION.
Millard Fillmore when a candidate against

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ABOUT DISUNION
| Millard Fillmore, when a candidate against
| Fremont said:
We see a political party presenting ca;ldi-
dates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency,
! selected for the first time from the free States
alone, with the avowed purpose of electing
those candidates by the sutfrageS Of one part
of the Union only, to rule over the whole Uni
ted States. Can it be possible that those who
are engaged in such measure can have seri-
riously reflected upon the consequences which
must inevitably follow in case of success >
Can they have the madness or folly to suppose
that our Southern brethren would submit to be
governed by such Chief Magistrate
Suppose that the Sout having a majority
of the electoral votes should declare that thev
would only have Shareholders for President and
NicePresident, and should select such by their
exclusive sufirages to rule over us at the
North. Dou you think we would submit to
ii? No, not for moment. And do VO,I be
| heve that Your Southern brethren are less sen
sitive this subject than you are or less zeal
Gus OF ther rights, fyou do let me tell YOU
that you are mistaken! And. therefore YOU
must see that if this sectional party succeeds
it leads inevitably to the destruction of this
beautiful fabric reared bv our forefathers
cemented by their blood, and bequcathed to US
as precious inhcritauce
s. tell you my friends that | feel deep
ly, and therefore | speak earnestly Oh this
subject (clleS OF, You are right ~ for 1 feel
that you are in danger. | am determined to
make clean breast OF it. | will wash my
hands OF the consequences, whatever they
may be, and tell YOU that we are trembling
on the brink of volcano that is liable at any
moment to burst forth and ovcrwhelm the ma
ton
Daniel Webster, in his speech at Capon
Springs, Va June %, 1851. said;
g do not hesitate 10 say and repeat, that if
the Northern States refuse wiliuly and delber-
ately to carry into effect that part Of the Con
stitution respects the restoration Of fugitive
slaves the South should no longer be bound
to observe the compact. \ bargain broken on
one side, is broken all Sides
join Bell said i'll the United States Senate
in 1856:
"The question is whether mutual trust and
confidence shall continue to animate and en-
courage mutual efforts in promoting and multi
plying common benefits, or whether mutual
hatred and distrust shall step III to check all
progress, to distract and coniound all iont en-
deavors for the common welfare in fine to en-
tail upon the country all the evils of endless
discord. That is the question. And, when
you present that issue to me, | say give me
disunion, give me anything in preference to a
Union sustained only by power, by consttu
tional and legal lies, without reciprocal
trust and confidence. If our future career is
to be one Of eternal discord, of angry crirnina-
ton and -crimination, give me rather scpara-
ton with all IT'S consequences. If am to be
at peace, let It he peace in reality; if | am to
be at war; let me know ut once, that | may
put my house in order and to bc ready to meet
the consequences.
Terminate the suspense which is more in
tolerable than open rupture''
Herschel Y. Johnson said i'll 1856:
q suppose Mr. Fremont, if elected, will
prove true to his own declarations, to the plat
form of his party supporters. If so, his cleo
ton will inahgurate line Of policy and Con
gressional action that must drive the Southern
States to dissolution. He may deceive his
party &c, but this, You will allow, is rather
broken reed for the South to lean upon and
therefore, his election will be tie signal for her
to prepare for the worst. If he redeem the
pledges to the country, it will not be in the
power of human wisdom to save the UniOn.-
And seeing this, is it to
be supposed that the Southern States viii quiet
ly await their own ruin? VIII they not take
their own protection i'll their own hands, in ad
vance Of the catastrOphc?
Is it supposed that the South is so blnd-as not to
forcSee the consequences, and can it be expected
that she will stand and await their arrival be-
fore she will resort to defensive action?
''Nain and idle is such an expectation
x The
Southern States arc not to be deceived: True
to the instinct of self preservation if not i'm
PEELED by the higher impulses they will not
wait until they are fcttercd before they resort
to means Of defense, if they can, or resistance
if they must
Gov. Lctchcr, Of Virginia, a Douglas man,
said:
"The irrcpressibIe conflict doctrine, an
nounced and advocated by the ablcst 9nd most
distinguished leader Of the Republican party,
is an open declaration of war against the inSt-
tuition of African slavery, wherever it exists
and | would be disloyal to Virginia and the
South, if Ibid not declare that the election of
such Il man, entertaining such doctrines, ought
to be resisted by the slaveholdins Strtcs,-
The idea of permitting such I man to have con-
troll and direction of the army and navy of the
United States, and the appointment of high
judicial and Executive officers, Postmasters
included, cannot be entertained by the South
for moment"
In the Presidential contest the Chicago
Dcmocrat, Lincoln's home organ, presented
the following extract from one of his speeches
in the canvass with Douglas, for the Senate in
1853, as the true issue" to be met. Since
the election, we see it stated IN leading Lincoln
papers at the North, that he refers TO this rec
in the administration of the Government:
II 6eLiere this Gorernment caRn0t e1sdnre
permanently hair Stare and huIf free. do
not expect the Union to he dissolyed-I do
not expect the house to fall-I do not expect
it will cease to be divided. 1t ariU become all
one thing, or all tie Other: Either the oppo-
nents of slavery will arrest the further spread
of it, and place it eehere the putlic mind shall
rest IN the delief tt0t 1t IS IN the course IF al
innate ertinction, or its advocates will push
it forward till it shall become alike lawful in
the States, old as we'll as NORTH as we'll
as SoutE."-Abrnh0ns Lincoln.
The Independent says that the surrender of
Fort Sumter sis the most unexpected and pro-
digious national humiliation known to our his
tory" It says: I'VE had better all bow down
at once to the Hotspurs at Montgomery, and
entreat the Congress there assembled to let US
come into the manlier and more stalwart con-
federacy which they have inaugurated."
Mrs r. A. Lockwood, of Lafayette, Ind,
recently received letter from Col Fremont,
at New York, informing her that he was ready