Year: 1860

was the only convention lAto Whlch the
South Carolina delegates would 60 at all.
The Secession Convention at Baltimore was
not reasonable enough for them. This Rich
mond Convention nominated Breckinridge
for President, and Brecllinridge accepted
The papers that particularly supported the
Richmond Convention openly declared that
it was a sectional and not national body,
and that they did not desire any atiiiaton
with the National Democracy. They wanted
an ultra southern party, and therefore they
sustained the Richmond Convention.


James L. Orr, of South Carolina, is one of
this squad, aud he emphaticllly declares
himself in favor of an immediate dissolution
Of the Union, in case Of the election of Lin
cola and Hamlin What pure patriot


Yanccy's views we have already noticed
an open and thorough disunionist; one of
the kind old Jackson would have been pleased
to hang.


Bat The blackest treason, if possible, yet
ayowed is hat of r. Rarnwen Rhett, who
heartily sustains the Richmond Convention.
His speech at Charleston not long ago, is as
full of treason as was ever the heart Of Ben
edict Arnold. lie says, in the first place by
way of preliminary to the utlerance of his
ultimatum, that there is direct, unquestion-
able antagonism between the two sections of
the Union-an autagonism, he says which
existed before the formation of the Constitu-
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as follows:


81 do not say what may do in the event
of a Black Republican being elected You


may think and enter upon resolves. The
difficulty is, if you were to make up your


minds to that alternative they would not


believe you. They would believe that you


were merely talking These men have no


more idea that the Union is in danger than
b other hearsay. They have no confidence in
e your courage, decision and regard for liber-


ty. The believe that You will submit to their


aggression as ignoble slaves, and they to-day


go on with their aggressions, stepping step
r 10y step, until they finally lift the mighty
wave of abolition and ruin.


cit is for you to say that YOU will meet it.


And how will you meet it Let us all unite
with the banner floating over us inscribed
thereon, Equality of the South in the Union,
. cr Independence out of it." That is the flag


under which we are now to fight, and with


that flag in our grasp, with the shield Of the
+ Constitution, that bright keen sword raised


by State Rights let MS like men fight on the


issue. If we are successful, there is trust
4. at least of happy and better days If We
,e are not successful, what thenI South Caro-


lima what then? VIII you allow a sectional
. fanatical party, whose creed is hatred to tn,
a South, the only cement of it, heterogenou,
II mass is hostility to slavery-will YOU allow
Is these men to rule over you TO degrade yol


from position as equals in this Confederacy
: If SO, forget Fort Moultrie; forget Eutaw
Is for their memory will be only a burning


weight in your hearts, and will cause the


mantle OF shame TO the check of your chill
: dren.


! 81 am very chary of seeing the South pass
' resolutions am sick at heart of vain at
e tempts to hold out the olive branch when we
it should or sp thesword.


$ still, will say no more | leave the


question with you to consider whether as


freeman whether as descendants Of the men
i of '76, who framed the Cons,ituton-w wheth-
k er as descendants Of the men who so long and
$ pertiuaciously in Convention fought for what


seemed the shadow of a right to the South


who threatened no Uuion-Whether or moi
you will yield-whether or not You will b,


content to live in a Government in whicl


you are no longer equals, but subjected vas,
le sails"


i When a man makes studious effort &c
St weaken the faith of the people in the form
e. of Government under which they live, and


to distort the history of the country in such
# a manner as to cause them to think that one
section has been steadily imposed upon by


the other-a gross missrep epresentation-and


that the rights of that section are no longer


safe under the Government, is he not coun-
selling rebellion, and is he not a traitor As
suredly he is.


Mr. Rutledgc, another Richmond man,
said in a recent speech:


J "Will the South give way, yield, submit.
, and sink down, to use Mr. Calhoun's words.
spoken from this very platform, into affect


submission 2 God forbid, We hope for the


best The South has been firm up to this


point Ii she has resisted the minor points
with such resolution recently, let Us hopeand
pray that in honor and constancy, she will
t also stand firm when the piratical flag is run
up to the mast head and nailed there. Upon
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al Government ought to be made to stop
within the limits Of every Southern State
5 No Judge should administer Federal Justice
no Collector should collect Federal customs


throughout the Southern States: no South


ern maa should consent to hold Office under
commission signed 10y an Abolition Presi-
dent, and 1t will be for the people Of the
South to say whether any Northern man
shall be permitted to enter the State lines


with such interests"


The same false cry of imposition upon


southern Rights 1t is a mere pretext for
' disunion. Men, who know better, are thus
a seeking to inhame the minds Of the Southern
G masses, knowing that the people must at least
imagine that they are abused before they
e will think about going out of the Union The
5 object Of their leaders is to establish South.
$ ern Confederacy, in order that they, them.
selves, may become great men and WELD


high power They know full we'll that the
Rights of the South are perfectly safe in the
hands of united Democracy but in order
to make them not safe, they seek to divide
the Democracy and to throw the Govern
ment into the keeping of the Republicans
If they should succeed in this, they will raise
a terrible cry over the very result which
they are laboring with all their might to
, consummate.


Such are the supporters of Breckenridge


Breckinrdge has endorsed all their senti


ments by accepting nomination from their