New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-11-12
Ne6 0rlfans 1aiIp Crestfrt.
MONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER IL, 1880.
THE PRESIDENT ELECT.

/
Abraham Lincoln is President elect of the United
| States. All the Northern States, with the excep-
j tion of gallant and glorious New Jersey, have
voted for him, and in most Of them his majorities
are very great These majorities are more signf-
cant and suggestive than anything else-more so
than the election itself-for they Enthusiastically in
dictate the hatred to the South which animates and
controls the masses of the numerically strongest
section of the Confederacy.
| In emergencies of this kind it is the height of
folly for men to strive to shut their eyes and stop
their ears against stubborn facts Especially is
this proposition true in regard to the people of the
| threatened section. They, of all others, should
| look at the facts as they are and should prepare
/ themselves accordingly to meet whatever circum-
stances it is legtmately nferrable the future may
have in store for them. They must, if they would
pluck the flower of safety from the nette of dan
| ger, neither be blind nor deaf nor inert. They
must boldly, but deliberately, calmly and ju-
diciously, meet whatever questions or dangers
Northern abolition sectionalism may force upon
them=-and to meet them as they should be met
the sooner the proper steps are taken the better
for all the parties to the controversy which seems
4 to be unavoidable and imminent. 4
In crisis like this there should be neither hesi-
tation, vaeillation faltering. We should either
submit quietly to Abolition domination, and do no.
thing, or we should go to work with resolution
| prudence and inhexible determination. If we are
| going to submit, let do so without any fuss or
excitement. If we are going to fight, let us pre-
pare for the conflict while we have time, without
osentation parade, and then go into the battle
determined to preserve our liberties or perish in
the attempt. If we are going to act at ALL let us
act forthwith but, in the name Of common pro-
prety, let us have as little talk as possible, no
matter which alternative is adopted.
Since the election of Lincoln most of the leading
Northern Abolition papers have essayed the her
culean task ofreconcing esoutkern people to his
Presidential rule. Having succeeded to their hearts
content in electing him--haying villifed and ma
ligned the South through long canvass, without
measure or excuse-they now tell us that Mr.. Lin
coin is very good man, a very amiable man. that
he is not at all violent in his preudces or partial
tiles: that, on the contrary, he is moderate,
kndly-tempered, conservative man, and if we will
only submit to his administration for a time we
will ascertain that he will make one of the best
| Presidents the South or the country ever had
"Wll you walk into my parlor said the spider to
the fy.n
Now, as it is generally believed most things are
possible, Mr.. Lincoln may be all that these Aboli-
ton journals say he is. But, we do not believe a
word they say. We are clearly convinced that
they are telling falsehoods to deceive the people
of the South, in order to carry out their own sell
fish and unpatrlotic ptu poses the more easily.
They know that although Lincoln is elected to the
| Presidency, he is not yet President of the United
States, and they are shrewd enough to know that
grave doubts exist whether he ever will be. The
chances are that he will not, unless the South il
quieted and if any such catastrophe happens, all
their past labors and all their expected plumbers
and spoliations will elude their rapacious grasp
Hence the indecent and hypocritical haste with
which they attempting to conciliate the South.
ern people.
We propose to measure Mr.. Lincoln by his own
standard. None of his friends in this or any other
latitude can object to such measurement. Mr.. Lin
coin is quite an old man, and we shall quote moth
ing against him which can be charged to the indis.
cretions of youth.
Some years ago the free negroes of Ohio pre-
sented Gov. Chase with silver pitcher as a token
Of their affection for him. The ceremony of pre-.
sentation took place in Cincinnati and Abraham
Lincoln was present. Mr.. Lincoln was called
upon, and made speech In that speech he
said z.5
embrace with pleasure this opportunity of de-
caring nag atsdpprobation of that clause of the
Constitution which denies to portion of the col
ored people the right Of suffrage.
True democracy makes inquiry about the
color of the skin, or place of nativity, or any other
circumstance or condition. Iregard. therefore, the
exclusion Of the colored people, as body from
the elective franchise, as incompatible with true
democratic principles.
Mr. Lincoln made a speech at Peoria, Illinois, or
the 10th of October, 1854. Here is an extract
from that speech:
That no man is good enough to govern another
man ecit',oR tle others consent ! say this is the
leading principle-the SHEET-ANCH0R of Anlel.
tcan Repabticontsn
The n,aste, not only governs the
slare without his consent, but he governs him by
he prescribes for himself. Allow all the governed
an EQUAL VOICE IN THE GOVERNMENT, ani
that and that only, is self government.
| Howell's Life of Lincoln, page 49,
On the 18th of June, 1858, Mr.. Lincoln delivered
a set speech at Springfield, Illinois, Here is
paragraph from that speech:
We are now far on the fifth year since a polio,
was initiated, with the ayowed object and confden
. promise of putting an end to slavery agitation
. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation
has not only not ceased but has constantly aug
mented. In my opinion, it will not cease until
crisis shall have been reached and passed. A hous
: divided against itself cannot stand believe thi
Government cannot endure permanently half slay
and half free. do not expect the Union to be dis
solved; do not expect the house to fall but d
expect it will cease to be divided. 1t will becom
all one thing all the other Either the opponent
of slavery will arrest the further spread Of it, an
place it where the public mind shall rest in the be
lief that it is in the of ultimate extinction
or its advocates will push it forward until it sha
become alike lawful in all the States, old as well
new, North as well as South.
Still later, in speech at Chicago July 10, 1856
we find Mr.. Lincoln promulgating sentiments lik
these:
: If L were in Congress, and vote should come II
J. on question whether slavery should be prohbite
in new Territory, in spite of the Dred Scott dt
cison, would vote that it should.
All the foregoing extracts prove Mr.. Lincoln
be thorough radical Abolitonist, without exeel
ton or qualification and in the last one he declare
his willingness to violate his oath were he in Coz
gress, sooner than allow slavery to exist in a TER
. tory. II he was so anxious to perjure himself as
Congressman, it is barely possible he will be pa
tieularly scrnpulous about his oath as President.
$. We have presented the above extracts, not wit
view of stimulating excitement, but for u
general information. We wish our people TO /
fully posted, SO that when they act, they may Al
advisedly, and with full knowledge of every in
id portant matter pertaining to the past which h;
any bearing upon the present.