Year: 1860

form the nucleus of southern organization
hich must be formed to meet the agrees
ions Of northern consolidation through the
general Government"


The Spira ofthe Sorth, published in Ala
bama, said


"What remains, then, but to do that which
has been done in all ages and countries, by
sensible aud right-minded people, who have
the misfortune to differ irreconciably-ro
SEPARATE


Such were the sentiments Of the Yaneey
press, now supporting Breckinridge.


On the 9th of May, 1859, another South
ern, Sectional Convention met at Vicksburg,
Mississippi We quote from record of its
history:


Ex-Governor McRae, ex-senator and pres.
ent member of Congress from that State, be-
ing Ill and unable to attend. gave it his en-
enlargement by sending to it a letter of
regret, in which he enclosed series of reso-
lutions, of which the following touches the
main matter in hand:


"Resolued That the success of the Repub'
lican party in the election of a President of
the United Stntes by sectional majority in
1860 upon the principles above declared,
will be a virtuous dissolution of the compact
of the existing Union of the States; and in
that event this convention recommends to
the people Of the slave-holding States to
meet Immediately in connection to determine
the mode and measure of upholding the con
stitutional government rs it at present exists,
by preventing the installment into office OF n
| Republican President and the Inauguration
of the Republican party in power; or, falling
in that, to resolve the slave holding States
into separate independent organization,
with such constitutional form of government
as will best secure their safety, their honor,
/ their rights aud institutions, aud make them
a power Of the earth.


Read the above carefully and see how
rank is the treason.


R. Barnwell Rhett, following up the same
idea, said


"All true craftsmanship in the South con-
sists in forming combinations and shaping
events as to bring about a dissolution of
the present Union and the establishment of
a southern confederacy."


Mr. Keitt of South Carolina said


should the Republican party succeed in
the next Presidential election, my advice to
the South is to snap the cords o. the Union
at once and forever


Now, we call especial and careful attention
to the following extract of a speech delivered
by Mr.. Yancey in the State Convention of
Alabama which sent delegates TO Charleston;


"To obtain the aid Of the Democracy in
| this contest it is necessary to make a contest
in its Charleston Convention. In that body,
/ 1 4 fA
a decision. If the State-rights men keep out
of that convention, that decision must inevi
tably be against the South, and that, either
in direct favor of the Douglas doctrine, or
by the Endorsement of the Cincinnati plat
form. under which Douglas claims shelter for
his principles The State-rights men should
present in that convention their demand for
u decision, and they will obtain an indorse-
ment of their demands, or denial of these
demands. If indorsed, we shall have n
greater hope of triumph in the Union. 1t
denied, in my opinion, the Staterights wing
should secede from the convention and appeal
to the whole people of the South, without
distinction of parties and organize another
| convention upon the basis of their principles,
and go into the election with a candidate
nominated by it, as a grand constitutional
party. But in the Presidential contest a
Black Republican may be elected. If this
dire event should happen, in my opinion, the
ouly hope Of safety for the South is in a
withdrawal from the Union before he shall
be inaugurated before the sword and the
treasury OF the Federal Government shall be
placed in the keeping of that party. l
would suggest that the several State Legsla-
lures should, by law, require the Governor,
when it shall be made manifest that the
Blaeb Republican candidate for the Presi-
dency shall receive a majority Of the electoral
vote, to call a convention of the people OF
the State to assemble in time to provide for
their safety before the 4th of March, 1856 &.
IT, however, a Black Republican should not
be elected, then, in pursuance of the policy
Of making this contest within the Union, we
should initiate measures in Congress which
should lead to a repeal of all the unconetitu-
tioIal acts against slavery. If we should
fail to obtain so just system of legislation,
then the South should seek her independence
out of the Union"


We ask, in conclusion of these extracts and
the comments thereon if the whole Yancey
programme was not carried out at Charleston
and at Baltimore and at Richmond. Was
not his advice taken? Was not everything
done as he had already dictated in the Ala
bama Convention, and as his newspaper or.
gans had dictated in various portions of the
South? Is it not demonstrated that Yancey
was the controlling spirit Of the party which
seeded at Charleston and Baltimore and
nominated John G. Breckinridge h?
! DENTISTRY IN MA1NE-The profession I
dentistry in Maine is reduced to pretty fine
| point, as will be seen from the following ad-