tells the people of Kentucky that resistance must be resorted to, sooner or later! And General Martin, of South Carolina, in a late ratification speech of his, thus alludes to Breckinridge: "And having read carefully his speech, delivered at Frankfort, Kentucky, when he could not have expected a nomination, I am now better satisfied that he is a States Rights man of the strictest school, more satisfied than I was when I gave him my vote at Richmond. In that speech he lays down a broad ground,—a ground that I will close my remarks with, and save me a great deal of what I intended otherwise to say. He tells his people that the Democratic party was a very good thing in itself, but they were not to rely upon the Democratic party or any party. They were to rely upon themselves. The South must rely upon its own strong arm, and be prepared for any and every emergency." We will only add that every prominent Disunion man in the South was for Breckinridge. W. L. Yancey, of Alabama, is the bell-wether of the Disunion flock in the South, and the man who had an interview with Breckinridge at Washington and coaxed him into the lead of the traitorous gang who have conspired to subvert this Government. Here is said Yancey's celebrated Slaughter letter, which defines his principles, and which will slaughter Breckinridge, and all others engaged in the same infamous cause of Disunion, and their children after them in all time to come. We predicted that twelve months from that time, Aaron Burr will be regarded as a patriot, compared with the movers, speakers, and active partisans in this Disunion scheme :— "MONTGOMERY, June 15, 1858. "DEAR SIR: "Your kind letter of the 15th is received. I hardly agree with you that a general movement can be made that will clean out the Augean stable. If the Democracy were overthrown, it would result in giving place to a greater and hungrier swarm of flies. "The remedy of the South is not in such a process. It is in a diligent organization of her true men for the prompt resistance of her next aggression. It must come in the nature of things. No national party can save us; no sectional party can ever do it. But if we should do as our fathers did,—organize committees of safety all over the Cotton States, (and it is only in them we can hope for any effective movement,)—we shall fire the Southern heart, instruct the Southern mind, give courage to each other, and at the proper moment, by one organized, concerted action, WE CAN PRECIPITATE THE COTTON STATES INTO A REVOLUTION. "The idea has been shadowed forth in the South by Mr. Ruffin,—has been taken up and recommended by the Advertiser, under the name of 'League of United Southerners,' who, keeping up the old party relations on all other questions, will hold the Southern issue para mount, and will influence parties, Legislatures, and statesmen. I have no time to enlarge, but to suggest merely. "In haste, yours, &c., "TO JAMES SLAUGHTER, Esq." "W. L. YANCEY. But why disguise the issue? This Breckinridge party made up the issue of Disunion, and throughout the South boasted of their purpose to convene a Congress at Richmond and go out of the Union. A Breckinridge meeting in Louisiana adopted a string of twenty-seven resolutions, and a friend at Homer, Louisiana, enclosed them to us in a printed slip. The following are two of these resolutions: "Resolved, That, while we place a high value on the Union, we place a still higher on the institution of slavery, and if unfortunately we must be compelled to part with one or the other, we cannot hesitate to part with the Union. "Resolved, That we will use all possible means to keep the yellow fever from New Orleans and other seaport towns of the Slave States, by establishing and enforcing the quarantine law, and encourage emigration from the whole world to the great commercial city of the South, where health and prosperity is most abundantly found." Hon. James O. Harrison, a Douglas Democrat, made an able speech at Lexington, Kentucky,—at the door |