Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-04-23

wear. Occasional said 'There is strong
body of men in the south who are bent
upon breaking up the confederacy is now
beyond controversy That these men nave
determined to make the election OF Lincoln,
should he be elected, pretezt to the lnau-
onration of this scheme of Disunlon is as
clear to my mind as the noon-day sun.
On the 10th: 'One fact ought to be
kept constantly in view BY the democratic
masses in the present struggle, and that Is
the complete identity between Breckenridge
and Buchanan The leader Of the Breck-
inridge or Disunion party is the President
On the Goth Of the same month 'The
Breckenridge men not only went out of the
National Convention when they found that
they had lost the game, but will go out OF
the Union if they lose the presidency, or
the Republicans should win it.
On the 18th of September: Any one
at this centre who reads the southern pa
pers, and hears the southern extremists,
will be compelled to resort to violent cours-
es should their projects in reference to
Breckenridge and Lane be defeated in No
vember.'
Maintaining the same position steadily
down to the day of the election, Occasion
al said on the 9th of October: The
conspirators in the Southern States are ac-
lively at work. Undoubted intelligence
constrains me to the belief that a wide
spread disunion movement is in process of
secret and rapid formation, and that we
shall see the first evidences Immediately
after the November election, should the
result prove favorable to Mr.. Lincoln. All
conservative men will ask, why do not the
extreme men of the South wait for the overt
act? IF Mr.. Lincoln is elected, is he to
have no chance to show his hand? Is he,
in advance, to be prescribed and persecu-
ted?
And in a speech qIoted from Sam.
Houston, delivered in Austin, Texas, be-
fore the election, this point was made
text OF fruitful comment. [ do not say
be asserted, that all these Southern Con-
stitutional Democrats are disunionists, but
| do say that all the disunionists are south
ern constitutional democrats.
On the 31st of October | quoted an ex-
tract from the Ficksburg (Mississippi) Cit
izen, announcing the forthcoming speech
of Jefferson Davis on the 4th of Novem-
Der, in that city, in which this language is
used: Jefferson Davis will probably be
the generalissimo of the southern army
After the Presidential election, when
the drama began rapidly to unfold itself, /
said, December 6, 1850: We'll may Jas.
Buchanan, President Of the United States,
employ the language of the great French
monarch After me the delugen We
are on the eve of a revolution, bloodless,
as yet, to which he furnished alike the in
itiative and the stimulant.'
| make these extracts, not for the pur-
pose of proving the fulflment of my pro-
phecies, but to remind my readers of the
Indignation with which the men who sup
iported Breckinridge, and Breckinridge
himself, claiming to be democrats par ex-
celence, denied the allegations herein set
forth, and particularly that which distinct
ly charged that the result Of their move
ments would be the overthrow OF the I'm
ion. They claimed that they were the
true Union men, and denounced me as a
culminiator for persisting in different
opinion. They would not see the conse-
quences Of their conduct-N ould not be-
lieve that Mr.. Breckenridge was craftily
preparing to transfer them to the tender
mercies of the secessionists-and even af-
ter the Star of the West was fred into,
and when their chosen candidate went over
to the public foe, they continued blind to
the enormous guilt of the conspirators, and
saw in the Republican party alone the real
enemy Of the Union. | speak, Of course,
of the politicians in the Breckenridge or
ganization. l have better hopes of the
masses. Will they not take lesson from
the page Of history here revealed, and now
believe me when | tell them that the pres
ent attempt to reorganize the Breckenridge
party looks to a calamity only second to
that civil war produced by Davis, Toombs
and Yancy? Doubtful before, they must
now admit that consequences confirmed all
my former predictions Should Mr.. Val
landigham succeed in his plan of recon
structing the Breckenridge party, he will
undoubtedly fatter himself that the recon-
struction Of the Union will restore his in
fuence and the influence of his former as
sociates in the National councils 1t was
well said on a recent occasion that the in
tellect and power of the late democratic
party are now in arms against the Repub-
lie, and if these elements can be brought
back, the struggle to maintain this
Government will have been struggle for
nothing, and the blood shed in defence of
the Renuhlic will have hee0 shed in vain