The eastern clarion. [volume] (Paulding, Miss.) 1837-1863, 1858-11-13
ThsReant Elections.

The clcCtionsin the Northern States
have gone largdf for the Black Rcpub-
licans-that parF having elected their
State ticket wheaver an election for State
officers has been Nd, and secured mem
bers Of Congress nough to give them a
majority in the nat House Of Reprcscn-
talivcs. This resh Il anything but com
fortinr 10 Southea minds, or to those Of
any section who Dire the perpetuity Of
the Union ON the Finciples Of the Con-
stitution.
Without a sped 'hd extraordinary
revolution in pubf sentiment at the
North. the electioriof Black Republic
an 10 the Presidenq two years from now,
Is an assured eved- Our confidence
however. in the rccufrativo power OF the
democracy, Is great. Waterloo defeat
bcfell them i'm 1854 dtcr the passage Of
the Kansas Nebraska bill but thcy re-
covered from its cffct IN time to carry
the Presidential clccan two years later.
We are not without hope that a like
good fortune may salt the country
again, and that we soll once more he
saved from the disastnis consequences
Of the election Of a PRO ient for one half
Of the Confederacy. I'll the accession
to power of party plekcd to war upon
the constitutional righh Of portion of
the States.
wv take il a. forPnc conclusion
that the South will not omit to an abo-
lition rovcrnment-thatih Me attempt to
inaugurate an administrapn elected on
the simple ground Of haility to their
rights and institutions, wlbe the signal
for the Southern States resume the
powers they delegated to " eral Govern
ment and withdraw from N Union. No
people, with proper spirt OF indepen-
dcncc. with any appreciate Of popular
rights or their own dignity, eght to con-
sent to live under governu u ayowedly
hostile to them and their hrests, and
pledged 10 their oppression NJ degrade
ton. That the high-souledtnd chival-
rous men Of these SouthernStates will
ever consent TO occupy the Psition in
which they would be placed blhc install
lation Of an abolition Presideuhnd Cabi-
net. we do not and will not Believe
The people Of the North QUOT to be
given to understand this by sol an ex-
preston Of Southern sentimcnthom the
press. from the halls Of our ste Legis-
latures, and on the floor Of Cowcss, a.
will leave them in no doubt Of q fact
and thenif they choose to force d issue
upon rs. they will do owith a filknowl-
edge Of the consequences whicharc to
follow. The only security Of oufrights
in the Union is the Government. hmin-
istcrcd upon national principles, aH with
the disposition to protect those rihts a.
guaranteed by the Constitution. nlen-
ever the North shall choose to avaaher-
self Of the superior electoral and gre
sentative strength which she possess in
the government. 70 place it, control tto
the hands Of a party whose great le,ler
and oracle has declared its programusto
be the extinction Of negro slavery on e.
continent, it will be folly for us longeto
expect justice or protection from sucta
government. Every principle of mad
honor, every impulse that would prun4
us 10 spurn an insulting assumption n
superiority over Us, every sentiment 4
selfrespect, and every feeling Of indPen-
donce which fits men FOR condition aher
than one Of ignominious vassalage and
subsection, would call upon US in sud- an
event to dissolve all political connection
with the North, and establish a govern.
ment which would afford US protcctian-
one Of which We would be the conaitu
ents, not the insulted and oppressed sub
Il icrts