The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-10-14
EFFECT OF FREMoNTs ELECTION.

Ia discussing the probable effect of the
triumph of the black republicans in Novcm-
her, the Richmond Enquirer remarks that
the election of Mr. Fremont on anti slavery
ground, will virtually exclude the South
from all share in the Executive Govern
mcnt, since no man of honor can accept a
seat in the cabinet while he condemns the
election and the policy Of the resident.
No doubt Southern men will be found ready
to take Office under Mr. Fremont, but to
consider them as representatives of the
South would be about as reasonable as to
have considered Benedict Arnold Il Cen
cral in the American armies after he had
deserted to those Of England.
To tell the South that slio is represented
by men who are put in office only because
they are against her, is adding insult to
injury. 1t is equivalent to notifying her
that unless Size viii adopt rencgadcs as her
representatives, She shall have lone.
M7 Frcmont's election will, therefore,
virtually exclude the South from all share
in the power of appointing to office, in the
di>pensation of fifty or sixty millions of the
common revenue, in the granting of numer-
Gus lucrative contracts, in the command Of
the array and navy, in the execution of the
laws, III the negotiation of treaties, and.
most important of all, in the veto power.
And this Will be done, QrOwediy, because
she claims ten out of the twenty five States
l Il nj, -,
formation, and, realty. because she has re-
tanned institutions in twelve of the thirteen
states when the confederation was formed.
1t is penalty for not changing her opin-
ions and institutions in conformity with the
changes of her progressive sisters.
Til" first effect of the change will be the
humiliation of the veto power, so far as
the South Is concerned. The next will be
the rcmodclling of the Federal judiciary
as vacancies occur, and the introduction of
abolitionism on the bench of the supreme
and inferior tribunals. The Senate will
fall in the natural course Of events, at no
very distant day, and the whole Federal
in all its branches and DEEPEN
denotes, will become hostile to slavery.
We shall then be viewed by this Govern
mcnt. as the London Star warns us the
British Government will look upon u.s.
when we implore permission to return to
our former allegiance, we shall he con-
sidcrcd as "a colony of lepcrs," and "a
gang of convicted fclons." Of course our
treatment will be accordingly.
As matters now stand the Army and
NAVY are weak, the Notifications in the
Southern harbors unfinished, weakly gar
risoned, and many of them commanded by
Southern officers. OF course this state OF
things will be quietly rectifed. The forts
will be finished, the garrisons strengthened
and entrusted to men who may be grelied on.
Such public property as might be seized
in the Southern States-arms, munitions,
the contents of sub-treasuries, ships in the
dock yards, and the like-will be quietly
withdrawn.
Then slavery in the District of Columbia,
in the forts and dock-yards, and the slave
trade between the States will be aholised,
Kansas rejected if she adopt slavery, the
fugitive slave law repealed, and if the South
be maddened to resistance the effort will
be made to ''suhjugate her to freedom"
y The proprietors of the Salisbury
Herald offer that office for sale.