Year: 1860

We are not among those who believe
there is no danger Of secession of some Of
the Southern States. The boiling of dele
gates from the Democratic Convention at
Baltimore, and the nomination Of Breckin-
ridge, was the work Of avowed disunionists,
who we'll knew that by dividing, and for
the time being disor gadizing the Democrat
ic party, Lincoln would be elected. They
evidently believed that the election OF Lin
coin would bring about dissolution OF the
Union. aud took the most elfectual method
to accomplish that result in order to give
the Cotton States an excuse for seeding.
They may have mistaken the sentiments Of
ne Southern people. Senator Gwin un-
doubtedy mistook the popular sentiment in
California, when he announced that this
State would secede from the Union in the
event Of a Republican being elected to the
Presidency; and other disunionists may
have been as much at fault as Gwin when
they inaugurated the programme to insure
Lincoln's election.


The dlsunion politicians have so often re-
peated the assertion that they have come to
believe it themselves, that disruption Of
the Confederacy would completely ruin the
North and build up the South aud this be-
lief is undoubtedly almost universal in the
Cotton States Gov. Pettus, of Mississippi,
stated not long since in published letter,
that in less than six months after the Union
was dissolved one half Of the people of New
England would be in the poor house. Sen
ator Hammond, in one of his speeches in
the Senate, said that the Northern people
derived their principal means of subsistence
from the profits Of shipping cotton to Eu-
rope. About the time the bolting took
place from the Democratic Convention at
Charleston, prominent follower OF Yancey
stated in speech in that city, that disso-
luton would make Charleston great COM
mercial emporium, and that i; would soon
contain population of over two hundred
thousand inhabitants. These and similar
statements have been so often reiterated by
disunion politicians that they are now taken
for granted by the Southern people, and
unless they should succeed in dissolving the
Union they may never find out how sadly
they have been mistaken.


A disruption of the Union would undoubt-
edly create commercial revulsiun through
out the whole country. Possibly many
manufacturing establishments would be
broken up In New England, producing
much suffering for the time being, and COM
pelling the operatives to seek other occu-
pations and ether fields of enterprise. But
the inhabitants Of the border slave States
would suffer the most, aud to them the dis.
solution would be most disastrous. Practi-
cally the Canada frontier would be brought
down to Mason & Dixon's line, and once
across the border, there would be no means
of reclaiming fugitive. A slave could
not be kept within two hundred miles of the
line, and as natural consequence, the in
stitution would soon disappear in what are
now the border slave States. Disunion
would be disastrous to the industrial inter-
ests of every section of the county, would
benefit none, ana the prayer Of every pat
riot should be, that the people to whom the
preservation of the Union is intrasted will
be made 10 realize the consequences in time
avert the threatened danger.