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Indianapolis Old Line Guard (Newspaper) - September 15, 1860, Indianapolis, Indiana Constitution the Union and the Equality of the states vol. , ind., saturday september 15, i860. The old line guard. Is pub Lushko of i. X Quot set x3 z3 k Tritat Indianapolis Indiana by Eli dec a Harkness. T 33 3ve s%1.00, until after the Kle Clion. In at Vance in All cases. Advertisements inserted at the usual rates. Who Are the disunion hits ? and Vdell not Long remain together when All the ties of affection and respect that bound them to Ether Are rent asunder. Such a Union is neither sum Rable nor according to the Douglas National executive committee or. Douglas stands branded As a disunion St there we leave him. Robert .1. Walker of Mississippi. In a letter written by or. Walker in 1856, he said Quot the Union Between the North and the South so far As the votes for the sectional candidates of the so called Quot Republican Quot party is concerned is already dissolved for no Man anticipates a solitary electoral vote for those candidates in any state of the South but this controversy is to be seeded exclusively in favor i and by the exclusive vote of the North and the rights i lavishes and interests of the South Are to be a Lilly Dis a i extract from or. Breckinridge s address on the i Herschiel v. Johnson of Georgia. Removal of the Senate from the old to the new Cham this gentleman candidate for vice president was Ber Jan. 4,1859. J in the Senate of the United states by appointment Quot such is on county Aye and More far More of the governor of Georgia for a Little Over a year than my mind could conceive or my Tongue could it a let us see what he had to say on the subject of Disu ter. Is there an american who regrets the past ? is i Nion there one who will deride his country s Laws Pervert a this Union could never have been formed upon her Constitution or alienate her people if there be any other bases than those of the most perfect equal such a Man let his memory descend to posterity Laden to Between the states. The slave slates never would with the execration of All Mankind. J have entered into the compact upon any other Condi let us devoutly twist that another Senate in another j Tion. They never would Lave agreed to it if Thev age shall Bear to a new and larger chamber this con i could even anticipated that a methodical and organized Stit ution vigorous and inviolate and that the last Gen attack would Jive been made by Congress upon their ration of in Stei Ity shall witness the deliberations of Domestic institutions. Sir it is All in Quot violation of the the of american states still United prosperous and letter and spirit of the Constitution. It is at War with everything like Good Faith and political fraternity Lias i was concerned a personal and go graphical guar Quot f t. \ 7i a t f a 4.1 i Quot i by submit to the aggressions of the North. Let not Antee that its merest was in the Union. I a a Lenien deceit themselves. A it is extract from or. Breckinridge s speech at Frank j supposed that tie people of the South Aie dastardly fort july 18, i860. I that they Are not serious in their Public resolves and Quot i am an american citizens a kentuckian who Liat play have so far degenerated from the chivalry never did an act or cherished a thought that was not of to Weir ancestry As to complacently under the full of Devotion to tie Constitution and the on Yoke of Northern aggression. Let not gentle ,.men deceive themselves. The South have too much extract from or. Breckinridge s letter of accept ,. Peace their property their Honor their All Are involved in the contest. Not less tiie Constitution and the Equality of the states than ten Hundred millions in value of their slave these Are the symbols of everlasting Union. Let these j property Are jeep added by this spirit of fanaticism and be the rallying cries of the a aggression. Extract from Gen. Lane s speech in the Senate i Oes the history of the world furnish a single in dec 19 1859 stance of a Peone so Craven hearted As to submit to itto a t 1 1 tie a resisted Lazard of the Security and safety of so Quot no Man loves the Union More than i do and no a a a a a it of proc Rev ? i ask gentlemen to one would make greater sacrifice to Ina stain and pre a invoked and the serve it. I Muld do it at the moment when tie coun Southern character before they no try requires it at the expense of every drop o. Blood. Southern states will tamely extract from Gen. Lane s speech at the serenade submit to insult degradation and plunder under the in Washington City june 26,1860. Forms of legislation. What the a i have been influenced from Zariv manhood to this South Means is this having entered the Union in moment by love of country and i shall Ever continue Good Faith she will abide the compromises of the to be a Patriot and a True Friend of the Constitution institution and she expects the North to do and the Union. Let no Man Ever Sav that there was likewise. But if this cannot be so if having the and Dis unionism in tie convention which placed in numerical majority tie Ortli will trample upon our nomination the Gallant and gifted kentuckian and As Quot a a its outrage our feelings and disregard our Politi Socia Ted my name on the ticket for no living Man a Al Equality As confederates we cannot be would go farther to preserve this Union than i would held to abide the violated Bond. None would go further than John c. Breckinridge. To Union of our affections is the Union must be preserved. It shall be preserve Tjit which was formed by the Constitution to Stab go a a Lish Justice ensure Domestic Tranquillity amp a. If. I through the blindness of fanaticism or the Folly of in let with a full knowledge of the views of our Gal a warranted legislation it becomes sub revise of these Lant Standard bearers with a full knowledge of the fact transformed into an engine to oppress that they have never breathed one word Liat the most. Of be an object of love and wicked and perverse imagination could conjure into Jtj will forfeit All title to even the Shadow of a want of fealty and allegiance to Pic App. To Cong. Globe to the Constitution and the Union with a full knowl go sess. 30th Cong Pate 304. Edit the of the fact Liat not Only in words but in deeds. T i a i a i. 11 i a c 11 i i / Quot i a i a a i this a portion of or. Johnson s history would be in upon the Field of baffle which was never graced in. With the presence of Douglas Quot Everett or Lincoln and Ila Mies in the fierce Shock line alone of All the candidates attested their deep Quot m t on account of those measures. We regret that our Devotion to lie country _ j. Extract from ave in the face of their spotless record their Revo ,. I a it. A a Luti onary ancestry and their Gallant conduct in up Campaign. Holding the Flag of their country upon a foreign soil we come Down to a later Date. On the 29th of while the other candidates were reposing in ease at september 1856. Or. Johnson wrote a letter to the Home and some of them too giving Aid and Comfort editor of the Ali Ladelphia North american which to the enemy we find men so utterly reckless of truth we find republished m the Washington Union of Ocas to give utterance to the foul libel that they Are Tober 16, 1856, from which we make the following sex the candidates of Dis unionists. And a 0u what ground tract do they put Forth a slander so base and false Why u j suppose Init. Fremont if elected will prove True because some of the supporters of or. Breck Indge i declarations to the plate inn of his part have at some period of their lives said that if the and the expectations of his party supporters. If so North trampled upon the constitutional nights of the i election will inaugurate a line of Public policy and South and att Emited by intolerable oppression and the enactment of unconstitutional Laws to degrade debase and crush her she would be justifiable in be congressional action which must drive the Southern states to he Mav deceive his party amp a. But this Vou will a i of Xvi Lukl r Al it Jijo i Juul Lulao a a Alt ceding and because a few others of his advocates pro Pfow is rather a broken Reed Lor the South to lean claimed that the election of Fremont in 1856, and ,. And therefore his election will be the signal for Lincoln in 1860, would Lead to a dissolution of the to prepare for the worst. If he redeems his Union. Now if tie of these sentiments pledges to his Paliv and his party redeem their pled shows messes. Yancey and Keitt to be Dis unionists we t a country it will not be in the Power of he aver that we Are prepared to Brand the charge of Dis Wisdom to s ave the Union. And Union not Only Union the brows of the chief supporters seeing this is it to be supposed that the Southern of Douglas and Johnson and Bell and Everett but i a a it .�11 Pietla await their own ruin ? a ill Thev upon the brows of these candidates. We go still fur i for Wii Protection into their own hands in ther say we Are prepared to establish that the poli-1 Advance of the catastrophe ? is it Ticiano who either by insisting upon unreasonable con supposed that the South is so Blind As not to foresee editions As the Only Means of preserving the Union by j consequences and can it be expected that she counselling resistance to the government on account Vij Ujj a a a cd Vait their arrival before she will of past wrongs had come to be known All Oyer the resort to defensive action ? vain and Idle is such an country As Dis unionists per be Are now to be found in j expectation. The Southern states the Douglas and Bell Camps. And in proof of our deceived. True to the instinct of self assertions we Appeal to the record j preservation if not impelled by higher impulses they Stephen \ Douglas will not wait until Thev Are fettered before they resort come upon the stand or. Douglas. Quot you and Youri to of defence if they can or resistance if they friends have classified the supporters of or. Brockin-1ride As Dis unionists because some of them have said i r Adall these extracts study Well their import and thai the election of Fremont or Lincoln would Lead to by is not Herschel v. Johnson a Disua Komst of the a dissolution of the Union. What did you say in rank est stamp ? 1856 ? a Soule of Louisiana. At the democratic Meetins called to ratify the Nom 1 1 1 1 a. To xxv. Nil. Yuzui a. A in. To try a tins gentleman who was smuggled info the Doug nations of or. Buchanan and or. Breckridge m it a a y. Quot at. ,.��,. Las Baltimore convention As a Delegate from Louisiana was hmm ton cite june 7, 1856, or. Douglas said 1 1 j i i 1. 1 to a Laski Jiuu a it a. And who there voted and advocated or. Douglas Quot this Union was made through the Constitution nomination was some veal a ago a United states sen and cannot survive for a single Day the obligations of of a and we Well recollect the vehemence with which that instrument can this Union opposed tie Compromise measures of 1850, and be preserved in the hands of a political party whose i proclaimed that he was willing to a rupture the Union Quot principles of action is Host Dity on the part of one half because the boundaries of a proposed state Calitr of the states against the night and institutions of the j Ere too Large in answer to Imp. Douds he other half of the Union can sectional strife sectional Ujj hat if her boundaries were changed he would animosity and sectional warfare produce that frat i of. Admission but if not it was sufficient Nal feeling and brotherly love which is essential to pre. U rupture the Union Quot hear him the italics serve the Republic As our fathers made it ? no less a Cai it Italy Are his own than the int Ity of the Constitution the preserve i Tion and perpetuity of the Union depend upon the matter of the Boundary then Wastun Reault of this election Quot a Ingle devised Tobe merely no a a a purposely in at a ratification meeting in the City of new York i a Quot Fth Obj by deep Chr. It was to be effective on the nth of june 1856� or. Douglas said and Yre Sawe for a object to exclude the a South forever from All share in the territories through Quot their Republican doctrines were sectional and would tend to Arm father against son and brother against brother to subvert the Constitution and finally to prostrate the Union never to Rise in a speech delivered in the Senate August 27, 1856, or. Douglas said Quot it is a painful reflection that one of the great political parties of the country allow passion or prejudice or ambition to urge them to an extent that would destroy the very Temple of Liberty in which we Are assembled. I believe that it is a question of Union or disunion depending upon preserving the Constitution of the United states the Chicago times the Home Organ of or. Douglas in a recent Issue aug., 1860, uses the following language o o Quot it is worse than madness for us to suppose that a continuance of the present state of affairs is consistent with a perpetuity of the Union. People cannot spoliation of her rights and a degradation of her severe Ismay without an alternative that does not end in an inglorious submission or a rupture of the Union. This measure the admission of California will pass i have no doubt but its consummation will be the consummation of one of the most grievous the most revolting and the most unjustifiable wrongs that can be inflicted upon a people living As we do under a constitutional compact. Now i ask the senators who compose a majority through whose vote this measure is to pass i ask them do they think that the people of the South will Long Brook and endure such enormities do they suppose that they could quietly submit then truly would those masters slaves deserve to be slaves themselves that they could be reconciled to a coalition where to submit to disgrace were prudence and to be Conte in it tible a App. Gong. Globe is sess. 31st Cong., p. 1520. And All this solely because the boundaries of a state were in his estimation too Large can tie Douglas committee Point to any expression uttered by any Friend of or. Breckinridge so intensely disloyal and disunion As these remarks of or. Soule but the Compromise measures were passed in spite of his of it position. Id he then yield no he went Home and raised the Banner of i resistance to them. In a speech delivered in new Orleans november 30, 1850, we find him holding this language Quot will i counsel you to submit ? no never. I can Only hurriedly sketch such remedies As have suggested themselves to my mind. We must first assert that the late measures of Congress inflicted wrongs on the South which must be redress etl. Such of these measures As May be repealed you ought to insist upon being repealed. Of that character is the abolition of the slave Trade in the District of Columbia. Quot moreover you should demand some compensation for past injuries and wrongs and some Security for the future some certain guarantee against continued aggression something that can give you peace and Security in the Union. This alluded to the amendment to the Constitution for two presidents one from the North and one from the South proposed by or. Calhoun. When you have this Justice then sing a ans to this Union. Quot if however you wish to invite and encourage further aggression if you wish to bring Dishonour disgrace and Rutiri on the it out in to make our Lovely country a Prairie in the re Public coins posed of dependents on the Tavor of the Strong and suppliants of their rights then submit to these oppressions and sink to the level of your slaves and take their places in the social and political is ales let us not Bend submissively to wrong but knowing our rights it us dare maintain milks Taylor of la. This gentleman is a member of Congress and Clair Mianof the Douglas National executive come Pittee. In the latter capacity he has recently Issue u a Locin nent to prove Itiat or. Breckinridge is the candidate of Dis unionists and then in the most Pharisaic Al spirit he adds Quot thank god no Dis unionists sustain and h. V. Johnson Quot it is exceedingly strange How soon some men forget their own history and record i a a perhaps because there is nothing creditable in Vliem i to remember. Or. Taylor always has belonged to the Soule fire eating school of Louisiana. He and or. I Soule. Are bosom friends linked together in tie same a a political faction and working for a common end. A let us hear what he had to say in Congress about disunion Quot if tie counsels of these men tie republicans find favor wit i us a few Short weeks or Mont Lis May to sufficient to fill a land where it has been All Sunshine with Quot Clouds and darkness Quot and amid the surrounding gloom such contentions and conflicts May arise in Wlinich Section May be arrayed against Section. State against state and tier lamps Man against Man in deadly j strife As Wou lil make All men shudder wit i . To Cong. Globe 1st sess. 34th con Gress age 187. Again on Page 885, Imp. Taylor said j Quot and Liat will be the inevitable result of this state i of things a growing out of this crusade the South which is now preached with such Zeal and fury by so Many Northern priests and Northern a politicians i m ill Tell you. If these furious and repeated assaults upon Southern rights and Southern feelings Liall at last shake and loosen in the hearts of Southern men he love and reverence for the Union which constitute a the foundations on which repose tie pillars Sun porn eng our National government As they inevitably will do that mighty fabric will topple Over and Rushing to its i base the nation itself will be shattered into fragments and the altars of True religion Avill be overturned with the priests who now desecrate them by their false doctrines and be buried deep beneath the awful there that will do for the chairman of the Douglas executive committee Quot thank god no Dis unionists support Douglas and Johnson quota. H. Stephens of a. Or. Stephens we regret to see is one of the Doug-1 Las electors at Large for the state of Georgia. We i propose to give a few Short extracts from his s Ceci ies in Congress Quot i Tell that gentleman and i Tell this House that the Day in which aggression is consummated Ilion my Section of the country much and deeply As i regret it this Union is dissolved. A j Tell you for one before that god who Iii Les the universe i would Tatlier that the Southern country should per Ishu that All her statesmen and All her Gallant spirits should be buried in honorable Graves than submit for i one instant to . Globe 1st sess. 31st Cong., Page 29. J the president or. Fillmore having sent a Mes-1 Sage to Congress that he had Given orters to extend the authority of he Federal government Over the disputed territory Between Texas and the government or. Stephens said Quot and now in conclusion on this Branch of the subject i assert that if he the president attempts thus by Force to arrest the Legal authorities of Texas it will 1 be a Gross usurpation of Power Wlinich Sli Ould be resisted. And if you wish to know what i mean by resistance or How it should be resisted i Wiy distinctly it should be resisted by arms. A and no Man need delude himself with the opinion that in such a conflict Texas would be alone. I have lately expressed the opinion that the first Federal gun that shall be fired against the people of Texas Avit Hout the authority of Law will be the signal for the freemen from the Delaware to the Rio Grande to rally to the Rescue. A Quot i do not place a Low estimate upon the value of the Union to the state but i do not consider its Diss Lii Tion with All the manifold attending evils of such an event in full anew before me As the greatest calamity 1 that could befall us. Far from it. Whenever the government is brought in hostile array against Nie and mine i am for disunion openly boldly and fearlessly for revolution. When that Day comes if it Ever does Down with the government will be my motto and App. To Cong. Globe 1st sess. 31st Congress Page 1,083. Henry s. Foote of Tenn. This gentleman funner by United states senator from Mississippi now of Tennessee conies next in the list. Hear him Quot yes sir i have examined this subject in All its bearings and i have no hesitation in declaring it As my solemn conviction that if California is dragged into the Union in the Mode now proposed the Southern states will feel that such intolerable oppression has been already imposed upon them As to justify nay to demand secession from the Union in order to save themselves from evils still worse than disunion . Globe 1st sess. 31st Cong. Page 366. Again on Page 403, or. Foote said Quot now when our adversaries have threatened us i with utter destruction now the honorable senator or. Clay be speeches us to be Jia Tient and moderate and kind to Trust to the mercies of those whose hearts seem steeled to All the tender Char j cities of life and to remain indo Routly inactive whilst j the Fetters of a degrading the Dom Are fixed upon our free limbs. A Well sir whatever others May say or think i declare it to be my solemn and de liberate opinion that i Fiche aggressions now threatened j shall actual take place or wrongs heretofore Perpe a rated upon the South shall remain much longer untre dressed it will be impossible for this Union to hold to Gether six months longer. A Only a few Days ago in a speech in new York City a or. Foote announced that if Lincoln be elected Quot All the efforts of All the. Union men North and South Ivo. 26. Would not be of Lucient to prevent the destruction of the 1 ii Ham Waunch. Of it a. A leading Douglas Man was a member of the thirty fourth Congress and delivered one of the Ablest j speeches we Ever heard on the subject to prove that i slave i property ought to be protected in the Territo a Ries and that the South ought to submit to no restrict Tion upon this right. He said Quot they the Southern states ought not <0 submit i to it Ujjin principle if they could and could not if they would. Quot i Quot it is in View of these things sir that the people of j Georgia have solemnly resolved that if Congress shall i pass a Law exit luding them from the common Terri j i tory with their slave property they will disrupt the j ties that bind them to the . To Cong i Globe 1st sess. 34th Cong., pages 297, 300. Isaac k. Morse of la., is an sex Tieniber of Congress and was one of the bo-1 Gus delegates to the Douglas Baltimore convention., he enjoys also like his Friend Soule the unenviable notoriety of having opposed the Compromise measures of 1850, Anil clamouring for an Linen ailment of the Constitution according to or. Calhoun s programme. Let us listen to him awhile Quot Toliese things the agitation and discussion of slavery cannot last and the Union continue. Why if no legislative enactments of an offensive character were Ever passed the indulgence of their feelings will tilt innately estrange these parties. The first hostile movement was Mafle when Missouri applied to be admitted into the Union. After five months of angry discussion that state was admitted and the Missouri Compromise passed. There ? was the fatal error of the people of the South. Uliey a should have resisted at every Hazai Al As they , do at some time or Othor every Attenni get to prevent them from going when they please where Thev please and with what property they please into any Ami All the territory of the United states every acre every spoonful of which was the Coni unit a property if it shall to shown by the legislation and practice of this government that the provisions of the Constitution Are not sufficient to secure All the rights of property in slaves in Esse , Niu Scudo it Yundu 1 desire to have additional yet exclaims the Hon. Liles Taylor Quot thank Iod no Dis unionists support Douglas and Johnson Quot in the Alexandria a Sentinel of the 24th oct. 1856, we final a Spee from this same or. which we quote Quot he or. Morse was a states rights Man of the Ultra sort. He had he Jed with deep concern at the threatened election of Fremont. Rather than submit to such a wrong and indignity he spoke the sentiment of his people when he said the South a would have thrown herself Back on our rights and Honor Quot e. F. Ca Jeli. Of gentleman was formerly a Meinberg of Congress from Florida but now resides in Missouri. He is very free in his denunciations of the Yancey Dis unionists. As he terms the supporters of or. Breckinridge. Let i us see Liat he once said on the subject i Quot this Union was of braided on calculation on the very nicest calculation and can Only be continued on calculation. A Jive resolved to resist at every Hazard and to the last extremity Arhat is called the spirit of the age which would array the Powers of the a Over Vincnt against the inter ests of our Section. A a revolution disunion will be the inevitable Conser Wuence of the consummation of these after arguing strongly in favor of the equal rights of the Southern Jie Ople to have their property protected in the territories Cabell announced Quot w c Tan Only remain in the Union a your a trials. If we of tamely submit to what is proposed my Friend from North Carolina says we deserve to be whipped through our fiilds by our slaves. I think sir we shall Merit the deeper Ili Grace of being kicked at every Comer of the streets by that gentleman from Ohio or. Giddings who has sneering by told us we could not be kicked out of the exr of. Winston of Al Iiama is a Douglas elector in that state. On the 7th nov.,&Quot 1857, in Iii message to the legislature he said Quot the Union is not with us of the South a Paramount political Good however much we May and do. Desire its continuance under a strict adherence to con j Stith tonal provisions and guarantees. Ashen these can no longer be maintained or when further aggressions upon our rights is Practised by a dominant political Power at the North we have everything to gain and nothing to lose by disrupting every tie that binds us to the the Tanta Lia confederacy the leading Douglas paper in that state in a recent Issue says Quot what will the South do if Abraham Lincoln is elected president ? we answer this interrogatory by simply stating that the South will never per Init Abra i Ham Lincoln Tobe president of the United Stales. This is a settled and sealed fact. Let the consequences be what they May whether the Potomac is Crim soned in human Gore and Pennsylvania Avenue is paved ten fat Lionis in debit i with mangled bodies or whether the last vestige of is swept from the face of the american continent the South a will never submit to such humiliation and degradation As the inauguration of Abraham the same paper in another Issue says that unless Quot tie Compromise measures of 1850 and the restrictions upon the african slave Trade Are repealed we Are emphatically and unequivocally for the Dis unionists in Georgia under the Eye of their old Leader h. V. Johnson Are battling with All their. Might for Douglas. And so All Over the South. Is it possible that their deep Laid scheme of dividing the democratic vote by running sir. Douglas thereby electing Lincoln and then raising the Banner of disunion. As they did in 1850, will succeed Rell and Everett so the candidates of Dis unionists. The Peculiar friends of or. Bell taking the Cue from their Douglas allies Are also retailing the base calumny that the supporters of in. Breckinridge Are Dis unionists. And we regret to see that even or. Crittenden has Lent himself to the promulgation of the slander though he admits that or. Breckinridge himself is a Quot sound Union is it not a contradiction on its face to say that Dis unionists Are Labouring to elect Quot a sound Union Man Quot in order to break up the Union y it such is the twaddle to which or. Crittenden treated his Louisville audience. We use the words Quot Peculiar friends of or. Bell Quot in order to draw a line of distinction Between them and the Douglas men in the South Avaio arc supporting him Bell a the people cannot fail to have a perceived the perfect fusion and coalition going on Between the friends of these two candidates. The friends of the one Are the friends of the other. All Over the South and the i North they Are banded together against or. Breckinridge. All the Dis unionists from the South heretofore mentioned in this document As the friends of Douglas Are also the friends and supporters of Bell through the coalition entered into Between them. So that in class ing the Dis unionists for Bell we must take those already Given As for or. Douglas. This renders our task under this beading an easy one. I Lohn Bell of Tennessee. We know the gentleman Well. We know his Vas-1 Cilla fing course in the Senate How he at one time when desiring place and position from Tennessee could play the part of a blustering fire eater and How at another time when the Rich bait of a presidential nomination was held put to him by such men As Horace Greeley Wilson amp co., he deemed it not dishonourable to Consort and Voie with the abolitionists of the Senate against his own Section of the country. But it is not our purpose now to in it int out his inconsistencies. We desire at this time merely to hear from him on the question of disunion. What does he say Quot sir. No Man who loves his country no Man who has and just Pride in the reflection that he is an american citizen but must desire that these dissensions should cease. For sir it is not a Mere a prestion whether we shall preserve the Union for that May be and yet prove no great Boon either to ourselves or a posterity. The question is not whether the states shall continue United according to the letter of the covenant by which they Are Wund together. It is whether they shall continue to be practically and efficiently co operative in earn ing out the great ends of the association. The question is whether Mutual Trust and Confidence shall continue to animate and encourage Mutual efforts in promoting and multiplying common benefits or whether Mutual hatred and distrust shall step in to Check All Progress to distract and confound All joint endeavours for the common welfare in Fine to entail Union the country All the evils of endless discord. That is the question. And when you present that Issue to me i say give me separation give me disunion give Lue anything in preference to a Union sustained Only by a Kier by constitutional and Legal ties without reciprocal Trust and Confidence. If our future career is to be one of eternal Discoid of angry Crim nation and recrimination give me rather separation with All its consequences. I l am to be at peace let it be peace in reality and if i am to be at War let me have it at once that i May put my House in order and be ready to meet the con eau i a App. To Cong Globe 1st session 31st com., Jose 1101. Be Ali uni that this Gous further than Evin or. Yancey and or. Keitt have gone. They Are for the Union on the basis of the Constitution but or. Bell preferred disunion Quot separation with All its consequences Quot to Quot angry Crim nation and recrimination Quot merely angry words were enough Tor him. But we Are not yet done with or. Bell. On the 18th March. 1858. He made a speech in the Senate from which we note Quot when the North shall by any deliberate act. Deprive the South of any fair and just and Espial participation in the benefits of tie Union if Tor example. The territory Kansas now pro used to be admitted into the Union As a state had not been sul it Jet to an interdict of slavery Tor thirty years if it were a tei Ritoli a such As that lying West of Arkansas by climate adj item to slave labor and by pop ution already a slave territory and if on App vation of such a territory for admission into the Union As a slave state the powerful North without any of the feelings and sentiments growing out of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise in regard to Kansas should deliberately announce to the South Quot you shall have no More slave that would at lord a pretext with which the South might with Sonu reason and with some Assurance of the approval of the civilized world and of posterity seek to dissolve the . 1st sess. 35th c ingress Page 132. The very contingencies Laid Down by or. Bell have i happened so far As tie i publican party is concerned. Tivey have Proela Nied to the South in their platform Quot you shall have no More slave the election of or. Lincoln will be the Quot deliberate Quot announcement of the decision of the Quot powerful North Quot to that erect and or. Bell then stantus pledged Quot to seek to dissolve the and it he is Par to Rollence to Union candid late Millard . Of new York. Or. Fillmore needs no introduction at our hands. While a candidate for the pies Deni a in 1856, he made some speeches one notable one at Albany where he took the position that the election of Fremont would Lead to a dissolution of the Union just As or. Keitt says now of the election of or. or. Fillmore a Aid Quot we see a political party presenting candidates Tor the presidency Ami vice presidency elected Tor the first time from the free states alone with the avowed a Mir pose of electing Toliese candidates by Suffrages of one part of the Union Only to Rule Over the whole United states. Can it be possible that those who Are engaged in it Uch a measure can have seriously reflect to d upon the consequences which must inevitably follow in ease of Success can they have the madness or the Lolly to believe that our Southern Brethren would submit to be governed by such a chief magistrate suppose that the South having a majority of the electoral votes should declare that they would have Only slave holders for president and vice president and should elect such by their exclusive suf Vages to Rule Over us at the North do you think you would submit to it no not for one moment. And do you believe that our Southern Brethren Are less sensitive on this subject than you Are. Or less jealous of their rights. If you do let me Tell you that you Are mistaken and therefore you must see that if this sectional party succeeds it leads inevitably to the of this Beautiful fabric reared by our forefathers. Amp a. # i Tell you that we Are treading Union the Brink of a Volcano that is liable to fair Ltd Forth and overwhelm the nation. Again in his to Hester speech or. Fillmore said the South the most populous the most wealth number of electoral votes and that it should declare that Tor some fancied or real injustice done at the North it would elect none but a president and vice president of slave hollers from the South to Rule Over he North. Do you think fellow citizens that you would submit to this injustice no Trub a you would not hut one unit Erard Cri of no would rend the skies and can Yon sup Jiose your Southern Brethren less sensitive than yourselves or jealous of their rights if you do let me Tell you that you Are much mistaken and you must therefore perceive that the Success of such a party with such an object. Must be a dissolution of the we fail to comprehend the Foree of the English language if these speeches did not counsel the South to resistance and disunion in Case Fremont was speaking. Hon. Jesse d. Bright will address his fellow citizens at the following times and places at 1 p. 31. Patriot Switzerland county. Monday sept. 10. Vevay Switzerland county tuesday sept. Ii. Vernon Jennings county wednesday sept. 12. Charleston Clark county Tenn Day sept. 13. Madison Jeff i son county Satu Nlay sept. 15.cambridge City. Or. E. Hibben will speak in support of the Good cause at Cambridge City on Friday evening 14th instant. a to Lokets. In reply to several inquiries we will state that we Are prepared to print tickets for state Congre onal and county officers on Good paper for s4.00 for the first thousand and 12.00 for each additional thousand. Orders received one Day can be returned by express the Day following. If Orcis Are sent be articular to write each name Plain and distinct so that there can be no mistake. All orders must be accompanied with the Money to receive attention. Address elder amp Harkness till oct. 1. Indianapolis. To beat. Four rooms in Glenn s Block Tho Best ventilated and most Central location in Uio City. Poly tonovl2- w. Amp h. La Len it a

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