Year: 1860

IFesldehtlhl Ondlr 10 oTlhS tnen 10 q proper
sense of their insignfcance They talk,
now, of dissolving the Union, Immediately
upon the election of Lincoln, without wait
ing for him to commit any overt acts against
the South. This is what the Disunion lead
ers talk about. VIII they be sustained
Not at all. There is vast conservative ele-
ment in the South which will never go for
Disunion The old Henry Clay spirit is
awake in Kentucky as Breckinridge has
found, and it is awake in Louisiana, Georgia,
and all the other Southern States. Said Mr..
Clay, on a memorable occasion, 81 have been
asked, when, Mr.. Clay, will you agree to
dissolve the Union ? l reply. Nerer, NEv-
Err = And such is the sentiment Of all those
gallant and glorious men who fought under
his banner, and who idOlize his memory.
Nerer will they agree to dissolve the Union.
They are not specializing on this contingency
or upon that which will make it necessary
to dissolve the Union. They leave that bus
mess to the incipient traitors and hatchers of
reason Henry Clay could not conceive of
time when it would be necessary to dis
solve the Union. In his view, when the
Union perished, all was gone, and there was
nothing left but for the pen of history to re-
cord, amid the tears of the world, the signal
failure of free government.


Strange as it may seem, these very men
who are for dssolving the Union, in case
Lincoln is elected, are doing their utmost to
elect him, by voting for Breckenridge and
thus dividing the Democratic party. Are
such men lovers of the Union? No sir.
They desire its dissolution, and are deliber-
ately working for it. They will weaken,
however when the crisis arrives, for they
will find, when they come to try it, that the
old jackson spirit is not yet dead in the
country Jackson proposed to hang the
nullfiers higher than Haman, and there is a
power residing in this government, when
well backed by the people, which can make
that same class of men stretch hemp in 1861.


If the men who talk Disunion were sincere
in their love of the South, true Democrats
and desired the success Of the Democratic
party, and proposed disunion only in case Of
the absolute rejection of all overtures of
peace on the part of the South, it would be
different. But they are deliberately labor
ing to defeat the Democratic party, and to
bring on that very state of things which
they say will justify dissolution of the
Union.


Why, even in this loyal State of California,
you will once in while see a full-fedged
Disunonist stick up his head and talk about
the necessity of cutting the bands of the
North and South asunder You point him
to the ground of Non-Intervention which
will prevent the necessity of such a result.
He grants it, but still swears that the South
has right to Intervention for protection of
slavery in the Territories. The Supreme
Court, he says, has so decided. You tell
him that there is a difference of opinion
that many eminent men think that the Su-
preme Court has not by any means drawn
the line, with any distinctness, between
Congressional and Territorial sovereignty.
He still declares that the question has been
decided, and insists that, because he thinks it
is decided, it is so, and the Union must be
dissolved if the imaginary decision is not
| carried out. How can you reason with such
men You cannot And the only wav to
answer them is to tell them to try rebellion
against the laws when they get ready and
see how they will come out at it


The Disunionists. we say, are getting bold.
Governors in their messages to State Legis-
latures have recomm ended secession. and
Legislatures have passed resolutions approx
ing the sentiment Of such messages But,
after all, Governors are but men, mere indi-
viduals, and so are legislators. A traitor
and rebel can be hung, just as well, with the
title of Governor or legislator, as without it,
and Gen. Jackson stood prepared to hang
Governors or anybody else that defed the
laws of the Union. Whether rebellion
against the Government could be successfully
carried out according to the Disunion pro-
gramme, would depend altogether upon the
kind of man that sat in the Presidential
Chair.


Men who deprecate the election of Lincoln
and labor to prevent it by voting the regu-
lar Democratic ticket, are entitled to credit
for their sincerity, but those who pretend to
think that his election would be a crisis de-
manding dissolution, and who are yet doing
their utmost, by voting for Breckenridge, to
bring about that very crisis, cannot expect
to be regarded in any other light than that
| of covert enemies of the Union.


THE EFFEcr.-The Republican demonstra-
tion, few nights ago, in this city, has been
the means of making hundreds of votes for
the Douglas cause. 1t was plain to see, by