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this among those who are tyrannizing over the South, is fatal to the cause of union itself. They will never yield an iota of their usurpations as long as they think we are divided at the South. Union and firmness amongst the Southern States, and, above all, in the most prominent of them all — the mother of States and statesmen — are absolutely necessary to convince our assailants of their error in counting upon Southern divisions as the easy means of subjugating the South!--"If," says Mr. Breckinridge in his trumpet-toned appeal to his fellow-citizens of Kentucky, to meet in Convention--"if, before the passions-of men become aroused, and a series of unfortunate events drift us into strife, Kentucky (Virginia, we say,) and the other border States, shall calmly and firmly present a united front against it. I believe it may be arrested. Fifteen States are Potent to Prevent war. This, too, will strengthen all the true men in the Northern States who resist the atrocious policy. Upon thi