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The Daily Dispatch: November 23, 1860., [Electronic resource], The secession movement at the South. (search)
entiment of the Northern press — movements at the South--affairs in Virginia, &c., &c., &c. Below we collate the latest mail intelligence bearing on the present secession movements at the South. In our telegraph column will be found some later events: The Views of the Governor of Kentucky. Governor Magoffin has written a long letter to the editor of the Frankfort Yeoman, the sum and substance of which is, "stand by the Union." As Mr. Magoffin is a political friend of Mr. Breckinridge, this letter will be understood to contain views not widely at variance with those of the late candidate for the Presidency. Mr. Magoffin says: "Mr. Lincoln has been elected according to all the forms of law under that Constitution which we revere and regard as the depository of our rights and the shield of our safety, and not withstanding his threats and the danger of carrying out his principles, he may not do it.--We must wait for an overt act, hoping that truth, and reason, an
The Daily Dispatch: November 23, 1860., [Electronic resource], The Republican Programme, (search)
ertainly affording no excuse for it — it is reasonable to suppose that a reaction will soon take place among the Southern people themselves, which will overthrow the disunionists at home. It is a great mistake to class the supporters of Mr. Breckinridge as disunionists. Some few of them may be, but Mr. Breckinridge himself, and his supporters as a class, are, I doubt not, as sincerely attached to the Union as many of those who, for political purposes, during the recent excited contest, souMr. Breckinridge himself, and his supporters as a class, are, I doubt not, as sincerely attached to the Union as many of those who, for political purposes, during the recent excited contest, sought to fasten upon them the stigma of disunion.--Should the conservative and Union men in any particular locality be unable to cope with their adversaries, and South Carolina or any other State, under the lead of nullifiers and disunionists, who have for years been seeking a pretext for breaking up the government, plunge into rebellion, and without cause assail by force of arms the constituted authorities of the Union, there will be but one sentiment among the great mass of the people of all par