The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1860-11-22
sfsy which they had no hand in bringing

versy which they had no hand in bringing
on.
A large meeting in Hancock county on
Saturday, adopted unanimously firm con.
servativs resolutions, declaring That the
election of Lincoln was no cause for dis
solution, but the unfriendly legislation OF
many OF the Free States is an outrage on
the community of the Union, demanding
resistance. .-....... .s.-..
A majority Of the counties in the State
have held meeting in favor of secession.
Many, however, were strongly conserva-
tive, while some were in favor State
Convention, and all oppose coercion Of
the seeding States. .
A meeting in Bryan county declared
that no Northern fishermen or hunters
should hereafter operate in that section,
and tina: those at present fishing and hun
ting DO notified to leRye.
South Carolina VaIor and Statesmanship.
"Let not him that girdeth Oh his hsr-
ness boast himself as he that putteth it
off, was most excellent piece of advice,
which il universally followed would hav e
saved mankind vast de lof modification.
1t is not only piece OF good advice, how
ever. but it implies mCst valuable rule
whereby 10 predict the Results of human
enterprises. They who boast when they
put on the harness, seldom have occasion
10 do so when they putt off again. He
who celebrates victory that is yet to be
gained, will find his spirits failing him
precsely in proportion as the labor OF gain
ing it becomes serious. '.t'
Some Of our friends are borrowing
trouble about the appearance OF things in
South Carolina. such demonstrations
such enthusiasm, such elegant speeches,
such exciting responses, such throw
ing out of palmetto banners, such firing
off of blank cartridges, such a hurling OF
defiance in the very teeth of the Union
must mean something-must be followed
by counsels as decided and acton as des-
perats. The prognostics are the other way
These gentlemen are celebrating their vic
tory before they have gained it, and our
word for it, when the fighting time ar.
rives, they will be found rs amenable to
reason as ever descendant of Ancient
Pistol or Captain Babadll since the daya
when braggars were invented.
Your men of action seldom say much
they quietly resolve, and then proceed 10
business. Your men of words seldom dc
much; their appetite tor action usually
passing off in eloquent passages. The do
ings at Charleston, if they indicate any
thing, show most conclusivelY that the
actors in them have no capacity for the
thing which they propose to undertake; NO
knowledge of what is to be done, ard not
the remotest conception Of the effect which
secession will have upon them or their Isl-
low citizens. .....
The wisdom Of all ayes and nations
has declared that nothing is so ominous Of
lame and i'm; orient conclusions as this
preliminary word valor. Barking dogs
never bite, saith the proverb, and in scme
form or other this idea has Obtained the
place OF an established maxim everywhere,
These flaming rhetoriticians, these potent
Aaunters of palmetto flags. there valcrous
exploders of blank cartridges are not the
men by whom the work is to be done
when South Carolina advance in battle
array against the Union, or the Union
against her. They will then be found
unfit both for action and for counsel--as
unsafe 10 advise as impotent 10 perform,
Cincinnati Press.