The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-11-25
From TIE LhaTIesiOn News
The Crisis-The Remedy.

On Saturday, we declared our conviction
that a relation had been established by the late
elections between the North and the South-ves.
In the last wesk-which would be fraught with
the most disastrous and degrading CONSEQUENT
ces to the latter, unless she at once prepared
for and formed a Southern Confederacy So
abrupt and possibly unexpected. an an
nouncement may have been startling to our
readers. 1t could not be more 50 to them than
was the realization of lis necessity bv ourselr
or than the happening of the events which pro-
duced 1t. We beg them to consider those
events and to conceive fully the magnitude of
their import. A few weeks since. Pennsvlva
MIA, the State of the President himself who has
stood like bulwark in front of the Constitu-
ton, the South, and the genuine Democratic
party, turned against him, and elected 10 the
next Congress an overwhelming Black Repub-
lican delegation So Maine Vermont. and
Iowa, unanimously. Ohio changed her Con
gresslonal delegation from 9-Democrats and -
Black Republicans, to only Democrats and ID
Black Republicans: so Indiana, from Demo
Gratis aud ) Black Republicans, to ; Democrats
and Black Republicans. These elections
were an unmistakable announcement by those
States that there shall be no more STARE States
admitted into this Union, and that Stare proper
~ shall hare no constitutional tenure ~, the
ftot ttN-ulINtliN IN the leeln OF the aufhOrl
ty of the bred Scott decision. On Tuesday
last. Massachusetts, Michigan. tthe State of
Cass,) and Wisconsin. followed unanimously in
the same track, and, 10 our amazement, New
Jersey virtually SO, with , Black Republicans
and AntLecompton Democrats. 1t is true
that the election in Illinois has turned in favor
OF Judge Douglas, nominal Democrat But
II did on ant-Southern grounds-on the
ground of his declared opinion that the people
of a Territory, even when in a Territorial or
ganization, had the right to pass laws "unfriend-
ly" 10 Slavery, and could thus exclude it. This
IS IN direct cOntravention Of the decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States in the late
bred Scott ease, that n Shareholder was entitled
TO legal protection to his property in the Terri
tories, and that, of course, Territorial laws to
the contrary were void. But from whence is to
come the enforcement of this decision. or what
Southern master would now risk the chance :?
But another fact cOnclusively shows the charac-
ter of that election, and the nature of Douglass
triumph. 1t selected for the next CONGRESS- \
solid array of Anti-AdminiStration and Anti
Southen members Black Republicans and :
Free State Kansas Democrats On the. same
dav, last Tuesday, what was the attitude .taken
by New York? Senator Seward had ALREADY
declared that the North was the victor over the
South that the North had secured the majority
IN both Houses OF Congress, and could and
would possess and control the Government =:
and that it settled that all new States should
be anti-slave, and but add to her strength. He
was not content with a triumph as to the Ter.
ritories and new States-there must be a new
excitement, and another and more important
victory over the SOuth-one that would utterly
reduce her to destruction and vassalage Hence
ON the 18th Of October, at Rochester, y. y he
issues his pronunciamento to the effect that
.Sidrery must be assaulted and abolished an tn,
Southern States Themselves
lie thus not only scorns the sovereign right
Of our States to regulate and preserve their own
municipal institutions and interest, but he de
clares interhecne war; under Federal usllrpa
ton, upon them, our States, and our people
lie plants his party on this platform, and on
the I'd instant the people of the Empire State
whose city and interest fatten on Southern
riches, elect Morgan, his tool and candidate foI
Governor by 10000 majority, and in the face
of and upon the very platform he announced
And, more, his party elect % Black Republ
cans TO Congress, to only Democrats, and re
ducing the present Democrats from r. And
who can doubt that all the Black Republicans
elected from all the States mentioned will en-
dorse the monstrous Rochester platform of theiI
leader What does this foreshadow of the re
suit in 1860? And let it also be here observed
that all or nearly alof them are pledged and
intent TO increase the tariff and the burdens Of