Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-11-19

Time was when the Richmond Wing was
moderate, conservative, Union journal but i
S now taking The lead ofthe Charleston Mercury
as fire-eater. II mouths disunion as fiipPAnt-
ly as a regular nulH6er and raves like very
drab Here is one Of lie late specimens
ave can only state what we ftmly and re.
ligiously believe, that the Southern States will
not submit TO the Inauguration Of Seward a.
President Of the United States. We go fur
ther and say that the Southern States will
not submit 70 the inauguration Of any Black
Republican President whateyer--that is, any
man elected by the Republican party, as such,
IN its capacity Of 9 separate and distinct polit
icsl and sectional organization. In such an
event, we believe all the Gulf States, with one
accord, and at the same moment win 60 out Of
the U Union and set up for themselves, and that
the other Southern States, Virginia included,
will Ultimately, if not Immediately, take pre-.
eisely the same step We confess that, until
| recently, we have never so believed, or thought
or dreamed; but there is no mistaking the
temper and purpose Of the Southern people,
and the ominous signs Of the times"
The Wing even goes so far as to make the
dissolution and disbandment of the Republican
party the "only sure hope and guarantee of the
Union," and styles it "a threatening and in.
sulting organization"
The Whig editor is it subject for q mad
house. All such rant will pass as idle wind
The arrogant demand will not be complied with
Such insults will only swell the ranks and kni
closer the Republican hosts. The Whig sadly
mistakes if it supPoses its impotent threats
terrify in the least.
The Richmond Enquirer too is rampant or
the subject of what it is pleased to style
"Northern negrophlism." 1t declares tha
"Northern negrophilsm has supplanted pat
rotism, not only throughout Abolition ranks
but has invaded, to some extent, the 'Northerr
Democracy We sse," it says, Democrats o
prominence and influence joining in the sense
less whine for the pardon of old Brown" AND
again
Northern negrOphilism has corrupted public
aentiment it has conquered political parties
it has divided great churches; it has poisoned
literature; it has struck the eighth command
ment from the deeslogue; it has trampled con
seryatsm beneath its feet; it has nullihed tn,
laws of Congress; it has Rullifed the Consti
ton,
The palliatives of party are incompetent Il
arrest its mad career. A total revolution o
public sentiment at the North, by public meet
ings, by the press, by the statute books, az wei
as by the offices, only can prevent the inevita
BILE work, disuAiOR. The late elections brins
no hope. Not only have the enemies of tn,
South triumPhed, but their triumph is due {,
the fact Of their enmitY. If the South has no
been actually deserted, a criminal indifference
has been shown, in the late election, more dis
couraging even than the result itself.
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This Northern endemic, metropolitan, il no
only destructive to public interest, but unde
its debAsing and degrading influence, conser
vatiSe men have kept away from the pollS, fana
ties become mad.men, and public journals seen
to have lost not only their distinctive pOlitica
principles, but even their balance of common
| sense
The Enquirer's negrophobia thus raves oil
to the end OF the chapter. and comes to th
conclusion that ''non-interyenti n is but negro
philism white-washod," which, "if persisted ir
will destroy the Democratic Party and H.
| Union"
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