The Oxford intelligencer. (Oxford, Miss.) 1860-18??, 1860-12-12

clouds may not burst in fury upon the--iaps
IL d allslged, forexamplc, that ne presF
dent elect has been chosen by fair Maori
~ under prescribed forms. But need \ say
to those who have read history, tlrat ny
despotisua Is more absolute than that of an
unpripcipled democracy, and no tyra'my
more calling than that exercised Through
constitutional formulas But the plea is
idle, when the very question we debate is tls
perpetuation of that constitution now con
verted into an engine of oppression, and the
continuance of that union which Is hence
forth to be our condition Of vassalage.
saw it with solemnity and pain, this union OF
cur fercfathers is already gone. --'s IL existed
but in mutual confidence, the bonds OF
which were ruptured in the late election
Though the form. should be preserved, It's,
in fact, Destroyer We may possibly enter
tain the project Of demonstrating IT.; but
it will be another union, resting upon other
than past guarantees. '.In that we say a
new covenant we have made the first, old,
and that which decayeth and waxeth old
is ready to vanish away '-"as a vesture IT
foIled up" For myself say that, under
the rule which threatens MS, | throw off the
woke of this union as readily as did our an
cestors the yoke of King George Ill, and
for causes iinmeasurably stronger than those
pleaded in their celebrated declaration. ail
1t is softly whispered, too, that. the sue
ccssful competitor for the throne, protests
and ayers his purpose to administer the gov
eminent in conservative and national splr-
it. Allowing him all credit for. personal in
tecrity in these protestations, nc is, in this
matter, nearly as impotent for good as he is
competent for evil. He is nothing more
than a figure upon the political chess-board
whether pawn or knight or king, will here
after appear-but still silent figure upon
the chcckered squares, moved by the, hands
of an unseen player. That player is the par
ty to which lie owes his elevation a. patty
that has signalzcd its history by the most
unbushing perjuries. What faith can be
placed in the : protcstations of men who
openly avow that their consciences are too
sublimated to be restrained by. the dobiga-
ton ofcoyenants or by tire sanctity of oathsl
No: we have seen the trail Of the serpent
five and twenty years in our Eden twned
now in the branches of the forbidden tree,
we feel the pangs Of death already begun as
its hot breath is upon our cheek, Kissing out
the original falsehood, aye shall not surely
die" L
Another suggests that even yet the Elec-
tors, alarmed by these demonstrations OF the
South, may not cast the black ball which
dooms their country to the exccutioner. 1t
is forlom hope. Whether we should coun-
sci such breach Of faith in them, or take ref
uge in their neutrality-suspicious. such Il re-
suit would give a president chosen by the
people according to tho constitution--arc
points will not discuss. But that it would
prove cure for any of our ills who would
| believe 1t is certain that it would with
some show of justice, exaspcratc party suf-
fciently ferocious that it would doom us to
four years of increasing strife aud bitterness;
and that the crisis must come at last under
issues possibly not half so clear as the pres
emit Let US not desire to shift the day Of
trial by miserable subtcfuges Of this sort
The Issue is upon us; let us meet it like
men, and end this strife forever .f',1 -I
But some qnieiist whispers, vet further,
this majority is accidental, and has been
sweled by aceessons of men simply op
! posed to the existing administration; the
, party is utterly heterogeneous, and must be
shiverel into fragments by its own, success
| confess, frankly, this suggestion has stag
gcrcd me more than any other, and sought
to take refuge therein H'
Why should we not wait and sec the effect
Of success itself upon a party whose elements
might devour each other in the very distr-
button of the spoil Two considerations
! have dissipated the falacy before me. The
! first is, that, however mixed the party,
abolitionism is clearly its informing and ac-
tuating soul; and fanatcism, is bloodhound
that never bolts its track when it has once
tapped blood. The elevation Of their cand-
date is far from being the contamination Of
7 their aims II is only the beginning Of tina;
contamination; and, if all history be not a
lie, there will be cohesion enough till the
end Of The beginning is reached, and the
dreadful banquet Of slaughter and ruin shall
glut the appetite. The second consideration
, is principle which cannot blink, 1t is no
where denied that the first article in the
creed Of the new dominant party is the re-
striction Of slavery within It's prcscht lihiits
II is distinctly avowed by their orgais, anil
in the name Of their elected chiefain; ~ viii
appear from the following extract from nm
article written to pacify the South and to re
| assure its fears .ri .f.i srr .-t4n5l ruo r
There can be no doubt whatever in tho mind
of any man, that Mr. Lincoln regards slavery. as
moral, social, and political evil, and that il
should be dealt with as such by the Federal
Government in every instance where il j. called
upon to deal with it at ALL On this point there
is no room for questien-and there need be no
misgvings as to his official action, The whole
influence Of the Executive department Of the
Government, while IN his hands, win be thrown
against the extension of slavery into the new
territories of the Union, and the re-opening of
the African slavetrade. On these. points he
will make no compromise, nor yield one hairs
breadth to coercion from any quarter, or. IN any
shape. He does not acccde to the alleged tecisr
ion of the Supreme Court, that the, Constitution
places slaves upon the footing of other property,
and protects them as such wherever its jurisdic-
ton extends, nor VIII he be, in the least degree
governed or controlled by il In his executive ae-
ton. He will do all in, his power, personally
and officially. by the direct exercise Of the pow
ers Of his Office, and the indirect influence in
scparable from II, to arrest the tendency TO
make slavery national and DerDetral and tn