LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 011 897 906 HOLLINGER pH8.5 MILL RUN F3-1543 /.^ )^ Oi READ, REFLBCT, AND CIRCULATE. " The Union must and shall he preserved. " Andrew Jackson. J DISUNION. Are the People of the South in favor of Disunion? THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS OF THE SOUTH DISUNIONISTS: THE FACT PROVED. /^^^^^^ It is a melancholy as well as fearful truth, tha% in spite of the dying admonition of Washington^ this glorious Union has already ceased to be an ''object of primary regard" to thnu-ands and tens of thousands of its recreant sons. We blush to record so humiliating a fact, but we dare not Siippress it. The painful, revolting truth must be acknowledged. It is idle and even perilous to shut our eyes to it. We could not if we would. The sun himself is hardly more glarirg. It is seen and heard and felt in every q lartcr of the South. It assails the heart and senses ou all sides. The atmosphere is filled with it. It is at once the most palpable and portentous event c-f the canvass. The idea of disunion, from the despised and dishonored heresy of a wretched faction, has at length grown to be the cherished and avowed faith of the leaders of a party which aspires to the pes-- session and control of the Government. This is sober, indisputable reality. The treason en- gendered among the nullifiers of South Caroi- lina a quarter of a century ago has spread and strengthened until the whole Democratic party of the South is touched and tainted by the foul poison. We cannot look the evil too boldly in the face. The Democratic leaders of the South are unblushing disunionists. In support of this damning charge we shall proceed to cite the most damning proof. The process is as simple as it is conclusive. Out of; their own mouths shall we convict them. In the first place, the estrangement of the Demo- cratic State of Sjuth Carolina from the Union is complete and unquestionable. This is undis-- puted. The ablest and most trusted of her. If. press, the Charleston Mercury, thus openly de- through the Goverrior of the Stale. Mr. Wise Clares it: ^^s but just addressed the f ollowins; significant But upon the policy of dissolving the Union, letter to a political friend in Pennsylvania: of separating the Sou'h from her Northern ene- mies, and establishing a Southern Confederacy, Richmond, Va., Sept. 6 18 6. parties, presse. P^'JliSV^"?' j^^/l^.^^^^^^ Dear Sir: On my return from a short absence K?A-xr i\"5?R ii^url NOT SnI or HFft ^ founa yours of the 29:h alt , asking my opin- ^o'^r^ci^T-?o^DipJ^Mr?TIv?s?o^^^ io" on the qnesfioH-" Would the election of ATol^^^'m^roTRFSS WH^^^ ^S ^0 r Fremont to L P.esidency b ing about a disso- m^5nr««n TO Ti\^^ IP^ TV FAVOR OF '^'^i«» °f ^^^ Unior?" My answer is, that the PLEDGED TO THL LIP* IN FAVOR Oh ..^.y ^pi^it of sectionalism which runs such a DISUNIOIS. mere adventurer as he is, in every sense, has South Carolina, we may add in passing, is not engendered so much envy, haired, and malice only a Democratic State but she will go for between various sections and factions of our „ -', .^^ . .. , . ■ people, as to create a wish in the mu,d? of many Buchanan with a unanimity unrpproached by ^^ ^t^^'^^ ^^^ ^ dissolution of our blejsed Uaion, any other State or community in the nation, that, to tell them his election would brngthat The treasonable virus is s*ill intense and active lamentable event about would make some of his uoon the soil that begot it. Now mark how it bitieresl opponents voe for his election for the . ' ,. " J .. r . , A* I -11 very purpose of affecting that execrable end. has diffused its fatal venom. Mark especially His election would bring about the dissolution huw it has inoculated regions hallowed by ear- of the American Confederacy of States inevi- ly patriotism. The Norfolk Argus, a leading tably. Why? For the reason that if New Democratic paper of Virginia, recommends the Yor^, Pennsylvania, and Ohio were siavehold- „ ,' '. . ,, .. . itig States and Canada were to assail them with people of Virginia lo call meetmgs in every ^^^^ ^^^ violence and "all uncharitableness" county to appoint delegates to assemble at Rich- which Black Republicanism is assailing us wi h, mond early in December, to miiture the best there would be public war in thirty days by means for an amicable dissolution of the U.ion. ^ very patriot's time-piece .Whether the ;,r... . . ent itate of peac(fn.t rfvohUion, of warake bro~ The Richmond Enquirer, the most prominent ifi^rhood, of confederated anta^o nsms, of shake- and influential as well as the most temperate haul enmity, of sectional union, of united ene- pres of the orthodox Democracy of tke South, mics, s/iaJt unnaturally continue, depends : ., ^ 1 -^u <• « a i,-i( nreciselv uDon the issue wtiether Black Repub- Das recently teemed with sentiments o bitter fi'^^^^^^^^^.g^P",,,,. enough to elect John C Fre- hostihty to the Union, of which the following ^^^^^ ^it^ all :he demon-isms at his heels! You is HO extravagant instance: may do wlia* vou please with this letter. 'V o ilr9 rc-PGctfuliV* Th". election of Fremont would be certain and ' HENRY A WISE. inevitable disunion Let the South present a compact and undivi- ^^ ^ decorous respect, ded front. Let her snow to the barbarians that ia-ueai-ii n.c m n & * u tt • a her sparse population off>3rs litilebopes of plan- what studied depreciation of the Union ana der; hfr milit-ry and self-reliant habits and Jier vvhat cold-blooded indifference to its destruction mountain retreats, little prospects of victory; j^gg thiMetter imply No'hing could be more and her firm union and devoted resolution, no j^' 1^;,^; telian. It is reeking with disunion- chances cf conquest. Let her, if possible, mepui-^ioj-ueiiou. x . ^ ,. , „ , DETACH Pennsylvania and Southern Ohio, isLU. It holds up the existing national conted- Southkrn Indiana and Southern Illinois eracy, the condition of all our present great- FROM THE North, AND MAKE the highlands f.^g,g and of all our future grandeur, to the pub ■ BETWEEN THE Ohio and the Lakesthedivi- :.^ ^ , 33 a ''state of peaceful revolution, DING LINE. Let THE South TREAT WITH Cal- lie conumi)., d= a i ', , , , iFORNiA, AND, IF NECESSARY, ALLY HERELLF of warhkc brothcvhood, of confcdcratul antog-^ WITH Russia, WITH Cuba, AND Brazil onisms, of shake hand enmity, of sicHonai Thislanguageiscertainly of the very essence Union, of united enemiis,'' and winds up by of disunionism. The heart that could conceive boldly pronouncing i's continuance '^unnatu- and the hand that could pen sentimenis like bal » Gov. Wise does well to air his treason- these must be not merely ripe for dissolution but able vocabulary while he may. Under any one pledged to it. And the party that could ap- of the petty despotisms which would spring plaud or silently endorse such atrocious senti- out of the ruins of the Union, if unhappily the ments would gladly dissolve the Union fo mrr- Union shou'd be reduced to ruins, so malignant ■ row. Who can doubt i'? But the Democracy a freed, m would insure him the halter it has ^f Virginia have epoken not less t^istincMy most richly earned him row. la addition ts ) these aulhentic indications of the traitorous known of all men. No special proof could views and sympathies of the Democratic party deepen the detestation which the mere mention in Virginia we m'ght readily bring forward the of their names must excite in the bosom of every published sentiments of its other leading mem- good and loyal citizen. Wa cannot forbear, bers, but it is perfectly unnecessary to do so. however, to quote briefly from one or two of We will add, however, the disgraceful fact Ihe latest though scarcely the boldest manifes- that Virginia is represented in the Senate of tations of their treasonable feelings and de- the United States by two politicians of known signs. Senator Slidell, of Louisiana, in a re- and strongly marked hostility to the Union. cent letter to his constituents, holds the follow- Such are the Democratic leader- of Virginia, inj unmistakeable language: the most conservative and moderate of the It is but within the last two years that I have Southern States. The leaders of the Demo- P^™?"^? "^^'^^^^^ ^?rL°^l^H%'^n7ifI'hP l^n^"" ,,,,„,. the dissohi'ion of the Union, and, until the nom- cratic party in the more fiery and radical States jnatlon of Fremont, I have only looked at it in of the Sjuth are of course proportionally ex- the distant future. Now, il presents itself as treme. So fierce and notorious, indeed, is their a question which we may be caltid upon to de- u 1 J fl 41, TT • „ tuoi. tv,„„ „«o,i «r,i,r t^ Ko cide in 0.11 its dveud reaUtij in u few skoTt moiitks . hatred of the Union that they need only 'O oe , , , i , r\.i,„ii h. »„*-„«„j .,,,,. Should Frem^^nt be elected, 1 snaLL be satisfied mentioned to be recognized and abhorred by ^,^^^ ^ majority of the peop'e of the free States every patriot. They need hardly be even men- enti'rtain towards in feelings that render the idea tioned. Iheir names have acq lired the power of living with them on terms o, ^quality hoijeless. a c J- • „ ,•„ 4^K= r,;^„„io- or, The issues presented by his nomination, the an- of synonymescf disunion in the popular ap- tecedents of those who brought him forward, prehension. At the very thought ot dis- ^j^^ opinions and purposes avowed by every union they come thronging up with the re- speaker at every meeting of his party, are such sistless force of unchangeable association, that no Southern man would dare to incur the Yulee, of Florida, who sat at the feet '^^.^'^y ^""^ «'^i->^'^ ''^ accepting office under him. of Calhoun with an implicitness which j„ g^^jj ^ struggle, not only will the proud eclipsed the veneration of Paul at the feet of spirit that now animates us have been impaired, Gamaliel, Toombs and Stephens, of Georgia, but we will have lost allies that an earlier open „ J, ■ • J «v, T. ♦;„ ^..t^ resistance would have rallied to our sunport. who confessedlv loined the Democratic party '"-■="' ""^ ■ "^ WHO LUiiiccuij* jui.icu y J J ^^ ^^^ HESITATE TO DECLARE THAT, IF a few years ago under stress of hostility to the Prj-^ont be elected, the Union cannot Union, ard whose voices have never since been and ought not to be preserved, lifted at home or in the councils of the nation And Senator Brown, of Mississippi, the pub- but for disunion. Clay and Yancey and Winston, Uc confe sor of Mr. Buchanan, thus writes of Alabama, who are nothing if not disunion- home from his watch-tower at Washington: ists, Soule and Slidell, of Louisiana, burning Suppose we fall; what then is to be done? fire eaters, who in this juncture are known to Will the South submit to the rule of a President speak the sentiments of the entire Democratic and a party who come into power breathing un- , „ ^, .„,,_. .. ,„ . dying hostility to our progress, our safety, and party of their State, Q utman and Brown and ^;^^ domestic peace, and buoyed up by the Davis, of Missis ippi, the master spirits of the breath of a devilish fanaticism that would tear Nashville Convention, and the most urqialifled the Union from its moorirgs, and trample the and bare faced of all the foes of the Union, constitution under foot? Ik we are prepar- , ^ - „ , -r , ED FOR THIS, THEN LET US TAKE WITHOUT Brown and Turney, of Tennessee, and John- ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ subordinate position son, of Arkansas, and Howard, of Texas, are which our masters assign us, and be con- but representative names, selected at random tent to do their bidding. When we have frjm the seething and foaming mass of the o^'^^ submitted to disgrace like this, ,. , . o .. o 41. mu there WILL BE NO use IN C MPLAINING As- Democratic leaders of the South. They are ^^^^l might the serfs of Russia coxMplain black disunionists all. Their spirits are sold to of the Czar. the demon of disunion as unreservedly as Surely no person of common discerrment can Faust's was sold to the devil. Their hearts are fail to see in these public declarations, and .n, 9*eeped deep and low in bitterness against the scores of others like them, the spirit of eager Union. They are pledged every whit as fully disunionism, waiting only for a pretext to strike to the lips in favor cf disunion as their fellow- a parricidal blow at the heart of the nation., traitors of South Carolina. They are disunion- Their true meaning and purpose are as transpa.- ists of national reputation. Their infamy is j-gnt as the air of heaven. They are the precur- sor3 of full-blown treason. We might easily extend such sickening evidences indefinitely, but the case is too clear for controversy. The disunionism of the Democratic leaders of the South is as staring as tbe sun at noon-day. It is expressed on all possible occasions and in all practicable forms. It proclaims itself in all their acts and words. It is the g-eat pervading principle of the Southern wing of the party. It is the central, animating, governing, over- powering fact of its councils. It is the stand- ing theme of its press, the favorite topic of leg- islative resclve, the p;t subject of official cor- respondence. Not only the Democratic presses ol Virgicia but the Southern Democratic presses generally are hotly in favor of disunion, and most ceaseless and ardent in their efforts to fan the fl:me of sec'ional discord with a view of effecting that dire result. "We could conve- niently quote endless columns of extracts from the leadirg Democratic p pers of the South breathing the most relentless animosity to the Union. There is scarcely a Democra^tic Legis- lature in the South that has not debated the Union and resolved against it, and scarcely a Democratic Governor who has not denounced it over the broad seal of his office. Even the Democratic Stat« of Texas, which, after count- less difficultie?,has but fair'y got into the Union, has desperately resolved vp^n breaking it up in the naked contingency of Fremont's election. The spirit of disunion is rife throughout the Democratic party of the State. Says tbe New Orleans Delta, itself a vehement advocate of disunion: The first minds in Texas are beginning to ponder the facts and contingencies to which we have alluded. They are beginning to ask: 'Is Union with Abolifionism, accompanied by de- gradation, insult insecurity, and disregard of constitutional and solfmn compacts, preferable to independence and undisturbed sovereigntj?' Let the time come, and none but a practical answer in the negative may h^ expected, how- ever the faint hearts, who cloak their treacher- ous cowardice a' d selfishness under a sickly -sentiment of Union, may pule and whimper at the startling event. And thus it is incontesfibly tbrongliout the Democratic party. We do not doubt that if the question of Union or Disunion were submitted to the mere Democratic party of any Southern State, with the exception of Kentucky and per. baps Tennessee, the Union would be voted down by an overwhelming majority. This is our earnest conviction, and the facts we have addu- ced must work this conviction in every dispassi- onate mind. It cannot be longer resisted by in- telligent minds whether dispassionate or pasiion- ate. And i: ought not to be longer resisted The horrible, appalling fact that we have a disunion pirty in cur midst should at once be clearly re- cognized by every patriot, and a common and united effort be made to crush that party like a serpent into the dust — crush it before it stran- gles Qur liberties in its deadly folds. There now is not and cannot be the shadow of a doubt that, with all the unquestionet^patriotism of its confiding masses, the Democratic party cf the South is not merely hostile to the existence of the Union, but meditates its actual destruction upon a contingency which it ardently prays for while affictisg to pray against it. The Demo- cratic leaders of the South not only contem- plate disunion as a desirable thing, but they have absolutely planned its achievement. This startlirg fact, besides being the manifest and un- doubted purport of the proof we have advanced, and saying nothing of the bravado of Mr. Brooks, of South Carolina, which, in this con- nection, is not without a deep significance, is thus expressly attested by the concurrent testi- mony of two credible witnesses of widely dif- ferent political sympathies. The Washington correspondent cf the New York Courier and Enquirer, an able and reputable gentleman though a free-soiler, says: 1 am informed upon the highest Democratic authority, that several cf the Democratic Gov- ernors of Southern States are engaged in an active and grave correspondence with one anoti'er and with leading Southern politicians, tne object of which is to agree upon a call for a general convention of all the Sou'hern States, dependent upon the event of Col Fremont's election. This is simply a plot of disunion and treason. • • » • I have reason to believe that the Southern directors in the National Democratic Commit- tee (one of whom gave me the information) were about to commit the madness of circula- ting a s'atement of this disunion movement £S an electioneering document for use in the campaign, in tbe belief, that, as soon as it be- came known at the North, the "conservative classes" there would rush to the support of Mr. Buchanan, and thus remove th Confederacy. But the sounder advice of the Northern members of the Committee pre- vailed, who gave it as their opinion that such a prcceeding would only arouse a sentiment of indignation against the whole partj', and pro- mote the interests cf Col. Fremont. In regard to this movement, it is the opinion of my informant that it can be checked only for a time, and that should not the North yield in time to the menace of disunion, the proposod Convention will be held, and no man can fore- tell the consequences that may result frcm an assemblage of that character. And this statement the Washington corres- pondent of the New Oilcans Delta, a gentle- man of veracity though a fire-eater, confirms as f jIIows: It is already arranged, in the event of Frf- monl's election, or a failure to elect by the people, to call the L-gis!a'ures of Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia, to concert mea sure= to withdraw frcm the Ui ion before Fre- m'lct can get possession of the army and navy and the purs3-strine;s of Government. Gover- nor Wise is actively at work already in the mat- ter. The South can rely on the Presidtnt in tke (mergency conlemplattd The question now IS, whether the people of the South WILL sustain their LEADEFS. Undoubtedly this is now the only, the over- ruling question. The design cf the leaders has ceased to be a question. It is openly confessed. The traitors have blazoned their n? fjrious pur- poses before the public eye. They have written them in livins; letters upon the very sky. And we now put this momentous question. Will tha people of the South sustain their leaders? Are the penple of the South prepared to nourish a party or a faction, tte capital article of whose creed is a dirmemberment of the Union, and which, whether it succeed in the pending can- vass or not, will bend its whole strength to the accomplishment of that infernal aim? Are the honest, patriotic masses cf the South willing to extend their countenance and support to a set of political leaders at whose instigation and by whose direct and d'. liberate procurement the Union has been brought from a state of pro- found and heal'hful repose to the verge of dis- solution within the last four years, and under whose controlling auspices it would in all human probability be pitched ever the brink within less than four jears to come? Are the masses of the South in favor of disuniot? This is the true q'.iestion to be decided in this canvass, and we press it upon the solemn atten- tion of the people. The Buchanan party cf the South is to ail in- tents and purposes a disunion party. It is as completely under the subjection and control of disunionists as the body is under the govern- ment of the scu!. Every disunionist in the South belorgs to the Buchanan party, and every solitary one of its leading members is a disiin- ionist. Disunionists think for the Buchanan party, plot for it, speak for it, direct it, and furnish, beside all its guiding intelligence, the majority of its numbers. It is in every just and important sense a disunion paity. Its design is to uissolre the Union or to attempt its dissolu- t'on upon the first colorable pretext — upon the election of Fremont, if Fremont should be elect- ed, and if not, then upon the next promisirg contingency which its own treacherous machi- nations may succeed in bringing about. Its pi;r- pose of disunion is a fixed one, and its exertions to that diabolical end will never cease, unless extinguished now at;d forever, ia the first flush of its treasonable avowals, by the aroused ancj indignant patriotism of the people. Shall it be extinguished or no'? Shall the blazing fire- brands scattered amidst the trairs which lead to the megaz'ne cf the Union be promptly trod- den out where they Up, or shall they be rashly caught up and hurled streaming with fire into the explosive heart of the Union? Shall disu- nionism be blasted in the germ, and the nation go forward in its career of unshadowed prosper- ity and renown, or shall it sprirgup and expand until the liberties cf the nation wither in its poisonous shadt? Fellow citizens of the South! the issue is with you. And assuredly the issue is not a slight or un- important one. It is not a secondary one. It is the first and paramount issue of American politics — the most grave and critical and vital that ever commanded the attention of any civil- ized people. It is nothing less than the issue r f national life or dea'h. It seems not only super- fluous but in some degree sacrilegious to enlarge upon the gravity of such an issue, 3 et the sub- joined reflections by one cf the first intellects of the countrj' upon the more tangible and im e- dia'e consequences cf disunion to the States in the valley of the Ohio may not be inappropri- ate to the popular exigency of the hour. They cannot be read End pondered without the most profound and anxious concern for the perma- nency of a Union so unspeakably precious and the most b undless indignation and contempt for those reckless and ruthless spirits who would gladly lay it in ruins. We commend these just and pregnant reflections to the thoughtful atten- tion of every citizen: Wha^, *hen, does this thing •ailed disunion sever all the ties of intereit and etr^ction which mean? We have been taught to look upon It bind us toi;ether, and convert this now happy as a dreaded something of mutual disadvantage, valley into a great battle-field? Have we so an undefined sort of national calamity that little intelligence and true patriotisna as to suf- might overtake the nation in a remote future, fer our p \s-ions and prfjudices to be so played the particular features cf which there was no upon to our own self-destruction ? present need for irquiring into with any care. Kentuck>'s great orator mislocated the "key- But if the danger is i.ow upon us, if it is al- stone of the Federal arch," when he as=igntd ready at our door, it is high time that we should that function to "good old Pennsylvania." Its fully understand what it means. If it be one true position is further west. It would savor of the alternatives brought lo the mind of every too much of mere compliment to assign si'ch a vo'er during the prf sent contest for the Presi- great function to any one State. The compli- ds'cy, he should be able to undfr^'and and ap- meut is large enough to be divided among a predate what that al'ernative means It means cluster of states. It properly belong- to ourgreat a hostile army on the other sia-^ cf the river, valley of the Ohio. If the States of that valley bjmbarding the ci'y of Louisville, battering are severally true to themselves, they will be down and burning its houses, and leaving the true to each other. They should take every fair city a mass of ashes and smouldering ruins, occasion to make known their deteimination to I: means the same thing to be done to Cincin- remain one and inseparable, let the balance of nati. It means the destruction of every town the Uuion break into what fragments it may. 0! either bank of the Ohio from Wheeling to The knowledge of that fwct would go far to iff- mouth. It means the converting the valley silence all disunion schemes and agitations, of the Otiio into a great battle-field for the con- For, if it be conceded thnt the States in this val- lending armies ot hostile nations It means ley are unalterably determined never to sfpa- broad track.j if ruin and df^solatiou which rate, disunion will cease to be a peril in our th^se armies will everywhere leave behind national career. It would no lorger be in the them. This is what it means for us who live in j-ower of man to break up the Union, or if at this vail' y. What it means in other localities, all, certainly not upon any dividiig line west of the people of the other middle States can fig- the Hudson, or east of the Rocky Mountains, ure for themselves. The de:ire for our commerce will always Su -h being its meaning for us in this val'ey, grapple to us Nf'W York and Pennsylvania as it behooves us in ac especial manner, more than the northern buttress, and the lower valley of the people of any other section, to carefully the Mississippi as the southern butti ess of the look into the supr)osed necessity for a resort to Fe-ierat arch. By thus binding them to us they any such alcern I'ive. will be bound to each other, and all lying be- This great valley of the Ohio has been pro- tween them wili be compressed into unity, and nounced by an enlightened forpign trave'er to the Union thus become i''de*/r«cii6ie. A mere be the most magnificent seat of empire that God sliver knocked ottfrom the Northeast or South- has anywhere provided for man ui)on the face cast, or even detaching the great hulk lying of Che earth. It is the site of five large pros- west of the Rjcky Mountains, wonld not mate- perous S'atfts find of a large part ot a sixth, rially injure either the prosperitv, the strength, It is alrffady the peaceful, happy, and pros- er the durability of the remainder. Can it be, perous ab de of seven mllions of people, and that in any hour of mad passion we ourselves in a quarter of a century will bs the abode of will pull asur.dcr the glorious arch, and bring more than fifteen millions. It soon will be the it down in destruction up in ourse'lvet? heart and centre of the po/ula'ijnj and must # # * # # in all time conti'iue to be the cen're of the But her slave property is far from being the population and power of this great nation, most important interest of Kentucky, either in Similarity of iudustrial pursuits, identity of a pecuniary, social, or political point cf view, commercial interests, and geogiaphical position In all these aspects there is another thing in compel its i .habitants all to live under one Go- which she has a much deeper and more para- vernment, and must so compel them fjr all mount interest. That other greater iulcrcat is time to come it they de:.ire their own happi- the preservation of the Union The great body ness and prospfrity. It is in this valley that of the wealth of every State is in its land. To the slaveholding and non-slaveholding States give proper value to that land, it must afford touch each other upon their longest line of sep- p-'-aceful, prosperous homes to its inhabitants, aration ; an indefensible line of near a thousand It must have facile access to its natural com- miles It is therefore that disunion upon the mercial outlets and marts. Break up the Union slave line should never be to them a matter of on the slave li.ie, destroy the bonds of amity choice in any state of tnings whatever. We between the North and Soutt; and we shall be- could mu ".h better atFjrd to give away the Car- come two hostile nations, seeking nothing but olinas, Georgia, and all New England to some mutual injury and destruction Where then foreign power than fake the first steptowaids will be our commercr? We shall have none, such an act of self destruction. Are we, at Our great outlet on the gulf will be blockaded the contemptible bidding or solicitation of mal- by a naval force from the North, and all access content disunionists in the North and Sjuth, to to the best Atlantic marts cut otf. The owners of slaves would imaiediately run the most of them to safer localities. With an undefended and indef-insibte border of seven hundred lEiles- we should be perpetually liable to predatory in- roads of armed invaders Everywhere through our State war would soon leave its broad tracks of ruin. It is true that Kentuckians are rot a race who would tamely submit to such injuries. They would have vengeance, and inflict similar injuries on our neighbors north of the river. Vengeance may be sweet, but it is not always prrfi'abl^. Their injury would not be our profit. When Kentucky c;in no longer give peaceful and prosperous home^ to her citizens, what then will be the value of her land? It would be arrogati'igfor our people porhapa too much to claim for them a very high degree of that moral quality which makes devoted, disinterested patriotism. But if patriotism be evinced in its higher properties by a loyal devo- tion to the Union, then we may safely claim that Kentuckians have no superiors and but few equals in devotion to their countiy. In their opinion disunion is a remedy for nothing, but is in itself the worst of evils. There breathes not a single disunionist within all her bounds It may be th it cur position mikes self -interest and p:itriotism identical. Happy for us if it be so; unhappy for those localities, if any surh there be, where interest and duty are not equally b'ended. B it be the fact with us as it ma} ; be it an cnlishtened sslf-interfst, or the nobler feeling of love for our cr uatrj ; be the prompter the pocket or the heart, the universally dis- seminatpd feelingamong Kentuckiansof loyalty to the Union shows thst in their estimation our pjreat paramount interest is, ever has been, ard ever w, 11 continue to be, the preservation of the Union. What then shall Kentucky do in this crisii? Where shall she place hersel'? What C7uld Kentucky do, save what she has gloriously resolved to do, throw her whole peerless heart into her voice and lift that ever eloquent', resistless voice for Millard Fillmi r ? Where can Kf'ntucky and her sis'er States in the great and beautiful valley of the Ohio place themselves in this critical contest but beneath (he banner of the UNION upheld by tnat tried and gallant and unfaltering champion of the UnioL? Where else but in the party of the trxioN should or could they place themselves to whom the Union is the sole condition cf public and of private weKare — fche key of col- lective and individual peace, prosperity, a-d power? Where else should the united people of ike South be found? And where else, if, in- deed, the Union is not a thing cf scorn and ha tred to them that it is to their leaders, will they, in this dtiV cfthe Union's utmost peiil, be found? Willth'='y. can *h