Santa Fe gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1859-1864, 1860-12-08

will come out oil the present trouble, and that in.
stead Of dividing It will re-unite the Union, heal
ing many Of the breaches, and dlssipating much
Of the illfeeling engendered by the sectional con.
tests Of the last twenty years. The way to safety
often lies along the path Of danger.
From the 81. Louis Republican.
Shall 81. Lsuis speak for the Unisn.
The telegraph gives information Of movements
in the Southern States, which indicate purpose
to destroy the Union The result Of the Presl.
dental election 10 the reason assigned for these
desperate manifestations The parties to them
seem 50 for under the dominion o. sectional pas
sions, that they stop not for a moment to inquire
whether Secession isa remedy for any alleged
grievances, much less do they take time to consider
the consequences. They are urged on by mad.
ness which seem to defy control They have for
years been taught to believe that, out Of tho
Union, the South would be an elysium, and they
shut their eyesto the danger that it may by sew.
ering the band Of Union, become desolation.--
it is evident that they regard Disunon as hol.
day work iorgetIuI that The disruption Of nation
Of brothers is violation Of oil the laws Of nature,
Of morality, and Of religion.
Missouri does not unite with them in their des.
perate schemes With aunoyances in regard to
her slave property ten fold greater than those On.
dured by The Cotton STATES, il has never entered
into the minds of her people that Dsunion would
improve their condition. They are with few OK.
ceptions steadiast in their devotion 10 the Union,
The commercial capitaI of The Stato NAV, In thi.
respect be regarded asa unit Under theaa cir.
cumstances Il isa orava ouaution whsther NJ
Iouis shaII remain sant aml tharahv aaam to m.
prove the destructive eif,rts Of Southern Disup.
ists9 If nat wLv ia no mnvs mada m nrocnrs an
expression far ths Union nm tha nart of har mao.
plei Has mt tbs tima arrivod fhr tbsm IN spaat
out? In our opjnion il has Let ths movement
he startpd and h viii oss,,n,a sncb cbaracter and
pronor,iops as will be an tbrughout Ina connt.
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Men Of MI parties have INIT N in sucb n mov.
ment in Boone and Randolnh counties Kan.
tueky ia also mo,i No. and in N,la while healthy
public sentiment viii be- heard on tbis question
lfit be right that the Ieoslatures of South
Carolina end Georgia should proclaim Dlsupiou
sentiments. and have them bealded ali over ths
country as the will of the peonIe Of tboso State,
which 40 far "a Georgia il concerned IA moi tina
If an army NAV be mised, and everything in the
State put on a war iootinp.-if KElrr and fooNps,
and ike politicians are To be tolerated in making
trsasopab o declarations aOaipst tbe Uniop--cer.
tainly il NAV be allowed 10 the people Of S. Louis
and Missouri 10 meet together and proclaim their
views Of The crisis in which the country i placed.
II ia their duty to do it. The time may come. in
the course Of Mr.. LIScoLys administration, when
Missouri may be found acting in conceri with
Sout Carolina and Georgia, but to attempt to
break up the Union now, months before he can "a
into Office, and for no better reason than that q
sectional President has been elected, cannot be
defended by any person in his right mind.
Other States have right 10 be heard as well
as South Carolina and Georgia, on question Of
SO much moment and though the former State
may precitate herself out Of the Union, the good
sense the sober judgement. the patriotism, Of the
fourteen other slave States should be brought into
requisition before they consent to keep her com.
pany. We think we see in the delay which South
Carolina has imposed upon herself--in the mod.
crate, through unusual, measures which Georgia
is dis 90 to provd, in the way o'r,taston u "a
the offending Northern States-in tho ample
tine alfred by Alabama and Mississippi for redsc.
ton and con,uitation-sipn, of returning reason,
Virginia is sient-North Carolina has not spoken
Louisiana Is ouet--Maryland has declared.
through ali her presses AGAINST secession-Kep.
tucky IA wholly committed AGAINST it-Tennesseo
is equally true to The Unon...and Missouri giving
now mora votes than anv other slave State has q