Year: 1860




Hamlin will inevitably be elected Thus will
he consummate his purpose-thus will there
be afforded an excuse for disunion, and the
Southern States will secede from the Union.
This is the scheme, and damnable, diaLoli.
cal scheme it is Should it fail Mr. Yancev
loses nothing. Should it succeed, he becomes
the great man Of the Southern Confederacv.
Is there any man, yaluiug himself as an
! American citizen, valuiug himself as a lover
of his country, who does not despise, detest
and abhor the very thought Of such traitor ?
Great men, beside whose intellects the mind
OF lancey dwindles into insignifcance-
founded this Government They established
ii amid difficulties and dangers no living ma.
can estimate. They gave lis Constitution.
most perfectly adapted to the grand expert
ment Of a free contederated government
With prayers TO Heaven, with devotion Of
their lives TO the cause, and with deem and
solemn injunctions to posterity, they gave US
the Republic under which we live. Is for
man like Yaneey and his Secession, Dis
union tribe, to destroy all that those great
Fathers of our Country have done for us
lslt for them to creep under the basis of our
Government, with undermining secresy, and.
in the very glory of its power blow it into
atoms? Surely not, surely not. Yet, every
man who votes for the Yancey ticket votes
for just such consummation as this.


1t is idle to attempt to disguise the fact.
Dsnnion is at the bottom of this Boltipo
movement from the Baltimore Convention
Look at the men who lead it. Yancev no
one doubts is an enemy Of the Union. Ofhis
nght-hand man and confrere. j. Barnwell
Rhett, of South Carolina, the great CLAY said
10 $780, publicly in a speech of surprising
eloduence in the Senate of the United States
IN reference to remark correctly rerorted
to have been made ty Mr.. Rhett:


81 said nothing the character of Mr. Rba,t
for might as well name him-I know him
personally and have some respect for him.
| But, II he pronounced the sentiment attribu.


TED to him, of raising the standard of dis.
union, OF resistance to the common govern
J ment, whatever he has been If he foIinpa IN
that declaration by corresponding overt acts.
re 0tIt be traitor, and HOPE HE WILL MEET
WITH THE FATE OF TRAITOR"


Thus did Henry Clay think Of such men as
Rhett and Yancey. And thus were they
considered by all the leading statesmen of
the country, in Henry Clay's day. Thus are
they regarded now by the most Trustworthy
statesmen that we have


The contemplated treason Of Rhett and Of
Yaucey ct ID oD'ne genus is ripening into ac-
tion. We hear dark rumors from the Gulf
States of schemes to bring a dissolution to
pass at an early day A correspondent ofthe
Cincinnati Enquirer every positively and
soIemnly assures that paper that rumors of
the most reasonable and startling character
in regard to the real objects of the Breckfn-
ridge secessionists and disunonists, have re-
Gently been made known to two prominent
politicians of the South, and overtures made
to them which they spurned with indigna-
ton. The correspondent further Gays that,
II he was at liberty to mention their names.
IN connection with the traitors who made the
advances, it would create the most intense
alarm and solicitude for the stability and con.
tinuanee of our glorious Union. A daring.
unbridled and uuscrupuIous set of madmen
who are continually referring to the sagacitv,
the nerve and success of Louis Napoleon. are
the leaders OF the increment now on foot to
overthrow the government of tlis proud and
happy country. Ifsuccess should attend them
in the plot now matured and to be carried ont
by the Ides of March next. all, thev think
will be well with them. If, on the contrary.
their scheme fails and their traitorous con
duet be crushed by the power and force of
the popular feeling, they think they have
secure retreat behind State Governments.
where they will take shelter to save their
neeks from the halter they will so richly de.
serve


In connection with this rumor, there is an
other that there is an organization already
established in the South, the object Of which
is to wrest from Mexico cotton,growing
portion of her territory and adding it to the
cotton States, establish an independent South
ern Republic, by force and arms, at the first
convenient opportunity. These are rumors,
but they are not to be idly disregarded, at
time when we see men boldly getting M in
a Convention which affects to nominate a
President of the United States, and declaring
with the appreciation of such Convention
that they are in favor Of Disuuion and Seces-
sion


1t is we'll for the people to ponder upon
these things and weigh well their conduct in
the present most fearful emergency.