Year: 1859

and consequent war between the North and d
South in the hope of being thus enabled to incte


servile war, with all its horrid accompanments.-


Shall these conspirators wholly escape similar re


ribution2


If the contemplated occasion for the treason ha


occurred, and the whole plot been acted out wha


would have been the fate of Kentucky and Tennes
see2 Though there not probably man in eli


ther State who would have voted for disunion We
it is probable that both would have been precDita
ted into full participation in the national and Oh
domestic civil war. At the first flow of blood,
would>havc been almost impossible to prevent on
impetuous young men from mingling in the con
tiict. Nothing could have prevented them but tn
earnest unanimous remonstrance of the leadin.
men of all parties Could such unanimous remon
STRANGE have been obtained?


If the misdeeds of the Hartford conventonist
justly sank the old Federal party under the weigh
OF popular odum, what ought to be the fate of Tn,
party that honors, sustains, trusts and submits il
self to the guidance of such moral traitors as these
Put down that party, and though justice may moi
be fully satisfied yet all the punishment that can h,


inflicted will reach these conspirators collectively
and individually. Whether they shall be placed
individually, like the Hartford conventionsts under
the ban of an enduring political prescription the
nation will determine hereafter. s'..
No sooner had the contemplated occasion for the
proposed treason failed to occur than they began
sehemng as to the use they should make of the vic
tory obtained by their party in the contest for the
Presidency. The scheme for disunion was only de-
ferred, not abandoned. One of the most talented
and influential among them, in published address
to the Governor of South Carolina advocating dis
unlon gave II as his opinion that 'all true states
manship in the South consists in forming combina-
tons and shaping events to bring about a speedy
dissolution of the Union and Southern conieder-
acy. The talented Senator Hammond, in a speech
delivered to his constituents last summer expressed
the opinion that if the North succeeded in electing
the next President it probably would the South
ern States generally would not agree to secede for
that cause but if such a President were elected
second time, or if Congress passed another tariff
then he believed that they would But it seems
from more recent revelations that the disunoniss
are not so patient he supposed them to be- The
two leading Democratic organs of Louisiana and
Mississippi have lately warned the people of those
States that in 'all human probability the Republic
cans would elect the next President and as disunion
was the proper necessary consequence of that event
urged the selection of such men as candidates as
would be best qualified to accomplish that object
Last year there was publicly organized in Alabama
what is termed the Southern League" having dis
union for its undisgused object A Democratic pa
per published in Mobile announces that at a recent
conference OF leading men of the party it was re-
solved that the attempt at disunion should be vgor-
we
have the action of the Southern Convention held in
Mississippi There all disguise has been thrown
aside. In the event of the Republican partys cleo
ting its candidate the next Presidential election the
convention recommends measures to prevent the in
stallation of the Republican Preside mt by forcibly
retaining power in the hands of the present Admin
straon, or falling in that to the slaveholdng
States into separate confederacy.


Mr. Boyce, of South Carolina a leading Demo
,t,,tixr l,t
lished within the last few weeks says: at is but
too proable that hostile sectional party North will
soon acquire possession of the government In
that eUet the South should not remain moment lon-
ger IN The Union. Then / go for Southern ndepen-
dence at all hazards"


Whilst these notes Of preparation on the part of
disunionists are so distinctly audible, win not the
people of Kentucky and Tennessee be aroused to a
proper sense Of their danger? In voting for Cover
nors, Legislators and members of Congress, will
they not select men most reliable for counteracting
the project and preserving the Union? 1t is said
that some democratic candidates, whilst confessing
danger to the Union, are urging the people of Ken
lucky and Tennessee TO intrust its preservation to
their party, because they say theirs is the only
party having the power to preserve it. With more
proprety, it might be said theirs is the only party
having power coupled with the inclination to des-
troy the Union. Its members have control of at



because they arc disunonists. The Republican
party is not even suspected of any tendency to dis
unonSm and there is not a single disunionist in the
ranks of the Opposition party. As to the abolition
dsunionsts, they scattered through the North
that they have effective party power except such
as they evinced in two instances in procuring the
election of abolition Senators by the purchase of
Democratic votes. The proposition of these Dem
ocratic candidates is in effect nothing but an insult
ing threat As the danger all proceeds from mem
bers of that party it is saying to the people let our
party continue to rule or it will ruin you Let the
party continue TO rob and waste your treasure in
paying its venal followers, it will break up your
government The patriotic freemen of Kentucky
and Tennessee will spurn the proposition. They
will scorn TO owe even the preservation of their
loved country to the bought forbearance of a cor
rupt party. That country must be saved by the
love and valor of its patriot sons or il is not worth
preserving.


In the opinion of many thousand conservative.
Union-lovng men, the time has arrived for combn-
ing the strength Of all such toward preserving the
Union. Conventions representing seventy thousand
of them in Kentucky, like number in Tennessee
n like number in Virginia and forty or fifty thous-
and in Maryland have so declared They may
fairly be considered as representing, when decar-
ing, the sentiment of the whole nation outside the
Republican, Democratic and Abolition parties
llNl idNN lhNlNth NhlatIhullNt IhllIloln pl every
section to follow Mr.. Cays advice, cast away all
party ties and combine into great national party,
having 'PreSerUdton Of the JHion' for its principal
if not sole platform.


From the well known fact that full thrce-fourths
Of the shareholders Of Kentucky are among the OPP
positioniSs who have organized the movement in
this State it may be inferred that they stand in the
same relative proportion in Tennessee and Maryland,
and that the Oppositioniss embrace full one-haf
of the shareholders of Virginia The inference is
also fair that they embrace at least moiety of all
the shareholders in the entire South. In the opn-
ion of many intelligent persons though this may
not be true, ii considered 70 the numbers Of
slaves held, yet it is less than the truth when the
Shareholders large and small, are all counted by the
head


All that this great body of Shareholders want in
reference to this peculiar property peace and quiet
on the subject For its protection they neither de-
sire nor ask the aid Of any political parties. Their
right is well defined and sufficiently guaranteed in
th2 constitution. With the feeling Of calm security
belonging to proper manhood, they believe that no
body will ever attempt practically TO pass that limit