The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1856-11-13
FOR BUCHANAN.
FOR FREMONT.
THE PRESIDENCY.

lie StupcnuouS game Tor the Presidency
which has been playing for the last twelve
months, may now be numbered among the
things that are past. 1t is now ascertaincd
beyond doubt, that the Democracy holds
the highest trump, and will sweep the
stakes. Whether the triumph of the Dem
ocratic party is a triumph of the Union
whether sectionalism is to he crushed down,
and the Union perretuated, is yet one of
the great problems to be solved by the al-
ministrati"n of Mr.. BucmAxAS.
We regard the late contest as a battle
between tho constitutional rights &c .lc
:.:"iii. ai'd the ar;is'avr,y ..,,m,im,eut OF
the North and it may be said with truth,
that the anti-slaveites, aboltionism and ne
gro philanthropy, have sustained Water
loo defeat; yet we know from their blind
Jealousy, and invcterate hatred of the South
and her institutions, that they will not "gvc
up the ghost though defeated, they
are still our enemies, and will again rally un-
der their black banner to do battle against
Southern rights.
The leaders Of this party are class of
men who maintain their power by slavery
| agitation" to whom Il state of order
would become sentence of obscurity.-
They arc nourished into dangerous magni-
tude 10y the heat of intestine disturbances :;
and it is no wonder that by sort of snis-
ter pcty, they cherish i'll their turn the dis
orders Which are the parents of all their
consequence"
We would gladly hope that some bold
measure may be instituted erc the admins
tration Of Mr.. BUcnASAN closes, designed
to operate as an everlasting estopel of the
slavery agitation. But we dare not antici-
pate such a result while al, a!.rli:i3r :u...
jorlty holds supremacy in .;;i,:. 'r:,'&ll 81;
Congress. No President t. ri'nlnis,r.,,
ton, will ever be abe H. ,ccon,;isil this
result. II he $pu.i !,,, but hcen true to
her own iis!ts, >i:i.iv years since, an etcr-
nal qnietus would have been placed upon this
disturbing element. Tho howlings of IA
naticism would have been hushcd, and our
otherwise happy land, rejoicing in peace
and harmony. But through patriotic,
though mistaken policy, sho has made
concessions, which, instead Of aIlaying strife,
have invited to further aggression.
The Missouri Compromise of 1920, was
a dangerous precedent, and all the compro-
misses since that day, have worked manifest
injustice to the South. We say it was
dangerous precedent; because it admitted
the principle, that tile Constitution, which
should be sacred, and only to be altered in
tho manner prescribed by its provisions,
could be affected by act of Congressional
Legislation. 1t has been the Inauguration
OF that policy, which is grasping to subvert
the plainest provisions of that instrument
by The legislative enactments of ruthless
majority.
We do not deny, that majority should
rule, under the proper checks and restraints
OF the Constitution. But we rcpudiate the
proposition, that the will of an unrestrnine,l
ana iiccntlous majority, should become the
law Of the land 10 Which We must bow in
humble submission.
Tyranny is the same, though it come from
q single tyrant, or from the million.-
Come whence it may, it is the duty of any
people, who cherish the blessings of liberty
to repcl its encroacliments.