Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1860 — Democratic Threats. [ARTICLE]

Democratic Threats.

“I presume that. M r . Sherman will be elected, for, doubtless, traitors enough can be found in the ranks of the An.li-Lecompton Democrats. But if such should be the case, I would counsel the Southern members of Congress to retire from these halls, and let the Union be dissolved.” —[Iverson, a Democratic Senator from Georgia. “It' the Republican party could be defeated, the Union would be preserved. But if such a party were to succb ’d, the sooner the Union is dissolved the better.”—[Moor, a Democratic Representative from Alabama. “'Die Representatives from the South will never consent that the creature and champion o! the Republican party (Snermao) shall take possession of the Speaker’s ejair.” — Pry jr, a Democratic memo ir 'rom-V irgitiia. “If you want to know m. advice to Mi,<s issippi, I say the sooner we get ‘jut of the Uni 'rt the better.”—-Singleton, a Democratic member from Mississippi “It a Republican Piesident be elected the South will secede, and D> inocrat'C party oi the North will su.uain lie? S-xatl).” [ExGoverrior Weils, of .’li.-'ii" “For my part, I mi ready to proceed to extreme measures, even to a dissolution ot the Union.”—[Yulee, a Democratic Senator from Florida.