Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-11-28
Southern Sentiments.
What the South Expect.

S4G0V
What the South Expect.
From the New Orleans Della, the srsan Of
jefferson Davis. who is leading Dis-Un.
ionis, Of the South and at the same tims
Secretary at War under Pres. Piefee.]
The Presidential contest Of 1855 10
ended, and that of 1860 has just commsn-
ced The struggle for the Presidency 10
ended, and james Buchanan is elected, but
the issues involved in the contest arc not
yet settled. These are yet in the womb Of
the future, and what the next four years
may bring forth, We must wait to zee,
hoping for the best, while We shoald b
forearmed against the worst.
The resistant attitude Of the South,
combined with the division Of the OpPosi-
ton, led to the result We have witnessed.
But the confusion in its ranks, now, 1t u
likely, will be succeeded BY harmonious
organization in 1860.
When the admission Of Kansas into the
Union comes to be acted upon, the South
will learn the manner in which the late
contest was conducted. She will find, We
fear, that the Nom Ertension OF Slavery
,ca, the middle ground on ~hich the "'ajo'
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North agreed to stand. She will fad it will
be difficult, if not impossible, to lring
Kansas into this Union as Slave State.
She will find that the day Mr. Buchanan
signs bill to that effect, if ever passed.
bis party will be dead aud buried At the
North.
There il but one Offset to this condition
Of things, and that is to make the South
so strong in her material progress, in her
domestic reforms, in her social convictions,
in her political attitude, as to keep the
North in check by the only arguments
which remain to be used against free soil
PEAR, AND INTEREST.
If Mr. Buchanan rely upon old explo-
ded expedients for success if be dsvotes
himself to laborious do-nothiug policy,
converting the foreign department especial
ly into an immense circumlocation Office,
be will sigually fail, and find his admins
tration, at the end Of four years, sunk lower
than ever plummet sound. He owes his
election to the South, and to the defiant
attitude Of resistance which she was begin
ming to assume. He should bear that
fact we'll in mind. He will be . traitor,
and insensible to every manly feeling OF
gratitude, if he forget it and disregard the
obligation it implies. Then let him live
up to the letter and spirit Of the Ostsnd
letter let him look to our interests in
Cuba, which, BY right of geography and
of political necessity, should be ours
let him fortify Walker in Nicaragua,
and forestall Spanish and French designs
upon Mexico; let him place the great To
huantepec rou. beyond the hasard Of being
lost to us, BY securing the grant Of strip
of Territory across the Isthmus; Let him
do these thugs, and we can laugh to scorn
the subtle policy of Seward, the rhetorical
rsving of Sumner, and the blatant menaees
!. of their followers.
Not alone in the South, would be fnd
, approval for suchs course. The aeq1,isiou
Of slave territory, BY conquest or annexs-
ton, would find nearly Is many supporters,
.vowsd or silent, in Boston, New York,
and Philadelphis, - in New Orlsans.
, There would be howl from the Aboli-
tionists and free negroes Of course.
We will have John A. Quitman, oi
8 Mississippi, in the House, and Jeaersor
, Davis Of the same gallant State, in the
Senate. They are both men Of principle
J regarding fidelity to noble ends infinitely
: more honorable and glorious than ignobl'
success. They are Injured to the battle
harness, both civic and military, and in
peace or war, the South will always kno"
,. |. where to find them. They have no moan
u past ct their backs, but they are men o,
+ the future, too, and in settling the great
. question which must be met sooner OF 10
!, Ter, they will have conspicuous parts ia
, sn.ct. That questisn is this, to witt
+, Wh.,bsr this Union shall be Northern
and secsional-to uss . seeming contra
+ dietion in terms-or Southern and n
; tional ........--
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the better prosecution Of the Liquor LAs
I bss passsd the Houss Of Rsprssentativss
!, Yermmf,ty ss~eety majority