The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-11-20
WASHINGTON, d. c..
THE SOUTHERN BUCHANAN PART,
WHO SAVED THE UNION
From the New Orleans Della.

From the New Orleans Della
The recent State elections in the North we
regard as decisive of the general result in No
vember At least, for arguments sake, we will
assume Fremonts defeat and Buchanan's cleo
ton as accomplished facts, and review the past
and scan the future accordingly.
Az soon as the election is over, the question
will be asked, Who saved the Union? and there
will be no lack of bogus Unionsavers, to claim
the whole merit of having done so. But we
will not wait for events-we will answer the
question in advance. We, of the Delta, togeth
or with the State Rights and Non-submission
journals Of South Carolina, Virginia, Missis
sippi, Texas, and other Southern States, have
saved the Union, if it is saved for limited
period, or for all time and what is more, we
have INDICATED the rights and the true interests
of the South at the same time.
There are two events, of late occurrence
which should not be passed BY in silence a,
the South. One was the pocket argument Of
JEFF. Davis, applied, as Secretary of War, to
the srmory of Springfield; the other, the stern
defiant attitude of the advance guard of the
South, known at the South as State Rights
men, and at the North as Disunionists.
The noisy workmen at Springfield were SO
intensely Republican" that they cast their
sovereign votes for Free-Soiler as their Repre-
sentative In Congress, whose duty it was to pre-
vent the further extension of Slavery, and to
save bleeding Kansas. This worthy Represent
alive, acting upon the known political prejudices
of the said workingmen at Springfield, helped
TO make the issue of revolution on the provisc
TO the army bill. Whereupon failed the army
appropriation; whereupon failed the working
men at Springfield to obtain their daily wages
whereupon their bread failed them, under an
order from Government to suspend the work
on the armory. The Free Soil member from
Springfield got suddenly weak in the knees
and-to use forcible Mississippi expression
"caved in" Thus, by the frmness of the
President, and the tact and nerve of the Secre.
tary of War; the Republicans met their first
defeat. The contest was transferred from the
House of Representatives to the hustings Here
they were met again-not by Government, not
by the Secretary of War, not by the lovers of
the Union as the first and all-absorbing good,
not by Southern Submissionists, 1.-THE latter
were mere flies, to be blown away by the first
breath of the storm but by voice which
came like the rush of many waters from the
South, and told of disunion, civil war, and, If
. necessary, snnihilation, before submission to
the election of John Charles Fremont. Mr.
Buchanan was already beaten in every North
ern and Eastern State, when the Southern par
ty was formed. Blinded by their own wishes
fearful of any admission of danger-his friends
resorted to mere bosstings, with an eye to wind
ward for the dear Union, if the Republicans
should succeed. The independent press of the
South sounded the alarm. Maine confirmed it.
The Southern people began to move, independ-
ent of their leaders. The Southern resistance
party, led by the Delta and Charleston Merc,-
Ty doomed up before the astonished gaze of
Seward, Greeley, Banks, Sumner, and the 9TH
ers of that crew. From that moment, the can
vass changed. The whole fire of the Northern
Abolition press was brought TO bear against
the Charleston Mercury and New Orleans Del
ia. Every argument which could be used was
resorted to, for the purpose of preventing the
growth of this Southern party, and its influence
on the Northern men. At first, the Democrat
10 leaders aided in this dodge. Seeing the
might of the weapon, however, they sagaciously
seized 1t, and turned it upon the Black Repub-
hcans with terrible force. The rest needs no
comment from the Delta or Mercury The
New York Herald, of the Goth October, tells
the story, and we copy an extract as the fin
fishing argument against the policy of submis-
sion:
"Unexampled efforts have been made. both
by speakers and writer's in the North as well as
the South, to work upon the national feelings
of the commercial classes in the Central States.
One after another, Southern Democratic Gov
ernors, Democratic Senators, and Democratic
office-holders under the General Government.
have been prompted to threaten the North with
dlsunion, in case of the defeat of Democratic
candidates; consideration of decency, of
loyalty, of common respect for the North, was
allowed TO interfere with the business of bully
ing the Northern merchants into the support
nf NJ p~n L.
of disunion, the talk of civil war, and forced
marches on Washington, appear very poor and
sorry stuff; but no matter how sorry and alb.
surd they were, they indicated diseased state
of the public mind in the South; and that dis
essed state of mind was enough to alarm the
commercial classes in the Central States, where
nearly all the commercial interests of the coun-
try are concentrated. To this cause we must
undoubtedly ascribe the sudden check of the
popular revolution, and the recent probable
victories in Pennsylvania and Indiana"
The Herald is pleased to regard the spirit of
resistance, manifested at the South through the
independent Southern press, as a diseased state
of Z" the public mind; 4" but the rationale of the
Southern movement, as exhibited in the North.
ern elections lately, shows that there was album.
dant method in that madness" as the Herald
should know as well as we do. Well, however
thns NC, buls dtIlIuuS Oh the south, the
bold presentation of the resistance issue, has
checked the popular tide at the North, saws the
Herald! Yes; and if the early policy Of Cal
houn had been acted on, if in 1850 we had
taken the same position, there would have been
no difficulty. The North dare not make the
issue of disunion; her desire for popular tyran-
ny can never be realized, so long as the South
Is true to herself.
Mr.. Buchanan, if elected, will owe his sue.
cess entirely 10 the reaction in the Northern
mind, caused by the determined attitude of the
Southern party. We may be called extremists,
or hre-eaters, or what mott does not matter
While we cannot be driven into the abandon.
ment OF principle to serve party success, we are
ready to maintain the rights and institutions of
the South, even to disunion. This conviction
We have fostered in the Southern mind. II is
pity 1t was not fostered there twenty years
since. 1t would have saved to the parties a
deal of trouble.