New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-16
THR CAUSE AND THE REMEDY


THE CAUSE AND THE: REMEDY.
The Cotton States are in a turmoil. Their
immediate neghbors partially sympathize IN the
excitement What is the cause OF this uproar
below the Potomac! We pass over the prime
source of all this confusiOn--tho "irrepressible
"conHict" between radically hostile social, in-
dustria and political systems-and notice only
two of the more recent and obvious causes.
/. The wanton Misrepresentation of the prin-
cples and objects of the Republican party The
political organization which has just elected Mr..
Lincoln arose out Of the repeal OF the Missouri
Comprense and the consequent conspiracy to
plant Slavery in Kansas by fraud and force. Its
clearly defined purpose from the outset was SIM
ply 10 right the wrongs of Kansas, and prevent
the extension of Slavery into Free Territories.
1t has stated, over and over again, and in the
most authoritative FORM that it does not propose
to interfere with Slavery in any State where 1t
now exists. These articles of its creed were
known and read of oil men who could read at
all And VET the crednl0us and il-infOrmed
classes of the South have, for years past, and
especially during the Presidential contest which
has lust closed been assured, in the most solemn
manner, by leading statesmen and journals of the
North, that the Republican party was bent on
overthrowing Slavery in the States through the
action of the Federal Government. and that oil
its protests to the contrary were sheer hypocrisy.
This wanton falsehoOd, reiterated and persisted
in for years, has doubtless contributed largely to
hp
bordering upon the Gulf of Mexico
ii. But this alone would not have been sufi-
Gent to drive those States to the extreme lengths
to which they seem tending. For twenty-five
years past band Of conspirators have existed IN
the extreme South, whose ultimate object has
been the dissolution of the Union, and the estab-
lishuent of saveholding Confederacy, to be
composed of the cotton and sugar.raising States.
The central point of this conspiracy was South
Carolina; Che chief conspirator, John c. Cal
houn. Dying, the great nulfer left his mantle
TO Rhett, Yancey, jeff Davis, Keitt, Boyce, and
the like, who have worn it with such dignity
they We're able. With them, the election of Lin
coin is not the cause, but the occasion, for try
ing, in the language of Yancey, to precipitate
- Inc COTTON States INTO rtNOlullOn.
Each sf the classes we have named haze COM
bDed to produce the commissions now agitating
20 large Il portion of the South. The leaders in
the secession conspiracy know that the Republi-
can party does not mediate any assault upon
Slavery in the States With Them the dissOlu.
ton of the Union is foregone conclusion. They
only seize upon the election of Lincoln as o pre-
text for cOnswnmating premeditated treason.
But, influential though they are they have been
able to lure so large q proportion of the masses
OF their people into this conspiracy only by means
of the falsehoods in regard to the Republican
have coined and circulated among them. In
accomplishing this nefarlous work, each of these
classes is essential 10 the other In breaking up
the Union, the Northern libeler and the Southern
nullifer are cooperating, each in bis appropriate
sphere.
What can be done 10 dspel the lurid cloud
which skirts the Southern horizon Let two
classes Of citizens act promptly, aud all will be
well:
J. Let those who have hbeed the Republican
party, come out and confess that they have told
ialsehoods about it. Let them depute their
chief men, their Eyerctts, their Cushings, their
DougaseS their SeymourS, their Woods, to 20
to the Cotton States aud assure our Southern
brethren that they and their followers have
slundercd us. This viii accomplish thousand
fold more to quiet their apprehensions and soothe
their nerves than letter or speech from Mr..
Lincoln, whom they have been taught to regard
as fanatic and an inceDdary.
ii. Let the President and his Cabinet do their
duty. Let Mr. Buchanan ut once deny the grave
charge OF keitt that be aspledged to secession
in advance. In his Annual Message, let him as
sure the country that he has no doubt that the
Administration OF his successor will wage no un.
constitutional war upon slavery in the States,
but will seek 10 protect the rights and promote
the interests OF IA c,s,es ia al sections of tho
Union