Nebraska advertiser., 1860-11-22
The Southern Press.

The Nashville Union thinks that Sew
ard would be less to be feared than Lin
coin, as having more calmness, nerve and
control Of his party, and adds, that in
case a failure of the election by the peo-
Pile, Lincoln would have been elected in
the House.
The Nashville Gazettee says that half
the North and all the South is against
Lincoln, and thinks that with a Senate
opposed to him, he can't do much harm,
and %counsels patience.
The Atlanta American, after certain
calculations in which figures don't lie,
concludes, "sixlhly, all who are in favor
of civil war, starvation, ruin, desolation,
robber, arson, murder, and the utter de-
struction of the South, should go for dis
union if Lincoln is elected"
The Richmond Examiner discusses the
state of politics. and derides the issue of
union or d~isunton as a trick to avoid pre-
senting a true issue, adding that the
great care of any President will be, not
to weaken, but strengthen the Union.
The Richmond Wing ventures the fol-
lowing prophesy: "Not one in a thou
sand of all the ofice-holders in the south
will decline to continue in Office after
Lincoln's election.
The Helena Shield, Ark, thinks that
the owners Of negroes in the border states
are selling their slaves South as fast as
as they can, for fear their value will
depreciate upon Lineoln's election. ave
ask all southern men to consider which
will be the border States in case of dis
union? Will Sit be Virginia and Mary
land and Kentucky and Missouri? Or
will it be North Carolina, Tennessee and
Arkansas? Slave property will be cheap
-worthless-in the border States, when
in secession no constitutional guarantees
need be respected by the North"
The St. Louis Republican says that
reasonable and ambitious men "Are wild
with an insane idea hat a Southern con-
federaey would be a heaven on earth
when it would be to them worse than a
hell but, like Lucifer, they deem it bet
ter to reign in hell than to serve in heav-
en-; and they are moving all the machin-
cry of devilish malice and ingenuity to
produce a place where they can enjoy
their ambition.
The Louisville Journal rebukesth the dis
~uni0nistss and derides their claim to be
the champions of southern rights.
The Daily Progress, printed at Newton
North Carolina, says Of an effort to organ
ize a branch of the South Carolina Min
ute Men, "the attempt proved a misera-
bic failure. This is as it should be, and
we rejoice at 1t. South Carolina may
plot TO break up the Union, but North
Carolina never"
The Charlotte Wing says, that the
motion to organize a company of "Min-
ate Men," made at a meeting called for
the purpose, was so coldly received that
not a single person in the Court House
seconded it. The chairman condemned
the attempt.
A secessionist in Alabama writes to the
Charleston Mercury that Alabama is d.
vided. "There will be a large party, we
admit, in our midst, who will, under the
shallow pretext of waiting for an overt
act, advocate the most AFFECT submission.
This party will be led on by able and
eloquent men. 1t will combine the en-
tire strength Of the Douglas and Bell
factions, and will also carry off from the
Breckenridge party all of the foreignvote
and a very large portion of the merchants
and traders" The writer is strongly in
favor of resistance to Government, and
thinks there are now q majority in favor
OF secession, but doubts whether they will
be two months longer.
Many of the Journals endorse the pro-
position of the Methodist for a doy of
special prayer for the allaying of section
al animosities.
The pepele of a town in Alabama late
ly expelled a young schoolmaster by the
name of Brewster, because be hailed from
Massachusetts. They are now negotiat-
ing for his return, having become con-
Einced that he was not an A~boli6onist.
The Richmond Enquirer declares that
not a uan in Virginia desires the disso-
luton Of the Union.
The Mobile Advertiser ridicules the
idea of opposing the Federol Government,