, 1860-10-24
How L1ncolnsa Election Will Anect
NTAm NhaEs


mEmf6a8s
IFton Tho NsuphIa AIpea1l
Thsrs II 4 yast dsal Of no1ssnss sxplodsd
hbcus the effects Of L;neola's election. In tke
first ple>e. we do not Relieve that Lincoln will
bs the ne1t President, and II ha should become
Buchanan's successor, No do not Imagine that
any I1remediahle harm will be done. rs has
only q veto power, and can do nothing oi2jure
tee South in reference to any OF her peeuiiar
interests, till the Senate and Supreme Court
are radically changed. II the Slater south Of
Ms choose to convert this republic into smother
Mexican confederacy Of miserable fantious, war.
ring Ss2tss, On account ot soma fauoed wrong
which may or may net hereafter be imposed
upon us, We can only: say that such States Will
lose this most sensfble portion OF ther popula-
tiou, Let erery extreme Southern Ssata secede
and set up for herself; let her begin e5stem
Of taxation adequate to ne support o. N tnae-
paying citizens will leave politicians to manage
The 'rhirlwiod, whcas te1roEs they have aMa-
kened, aud will crowd INTO Tennessee and the
Middle States mud their cities.
Should tho accession OF on: or two Southern
States occur, iflet alone by the Fedora! Gov
ernnent for siT months, sueh States will "se-
cede" again, backwards into the Union. Abe
Lincoln need not use the nary, or the army;
we could not fight Our brethren Of the South,
however, uuiustihab.e the quarrel in which they
usv involve themselves. nut therc IL no need
for m army OF navy to bring seeeding Sta' ea
to their senses; We will be enriched while they
will be Impoverished BY such movement, till
necessity would invoke reason, and the hetJ
be de.hroued, azd the Union would soon again
BE- perfected On more durable basis, II possi-
ble, than thst On which it now rests
But why is ell this lhodomontAde about Sc
cesaion md revolution confined to the extreme
South? Tie people there do not suffer as 70
do. We lose thousand Slaves to ten lost By
Alabams aad South Caroliaa- Wc must be
overruu snd our cities deaolated before The ex-
sreme south csu be invaded by the North. In
point Of fact. the Southern States should await
she action Of the Middle States; il they do not,
it must be apparent th.t they dlst1ust our sense
of right md honor, and that they are willing TO
forcs us into struggle, the evils Of which eau'
not for years sffect them.
It :o!fows that in case Of any usIust1dable &C.
tion occurring in any extreme Southern State,
il behoores us to take care OF our s1tres. It
We see no cause for secession. re should AID
would have nou8ht to do with it; and Chatles~
ton, ;nsteed OF becoming the great political and
commercial carital Of ths Southern con!edera.
CT. woul1 dwindle iuto utter ans:gui6canee.
While Memphis would grow, apace IL wealth
and population By the exodus which would
take place among the laboziDg tax paying ci.i'
z.ns Of the se:eding States. We csn CONCEIVE
of no ill tI.c.S necessarily arising to the con-
setvative Middle States and cities Of the urlon,
uuless Lincoln and his adhersnts ara outright
madmeu.
There il nothing Of irjary to this city to be
apprehended from the election ~. ot L.nooin. eSen
were an issue Of the present contest 10 lament'
able, 1T all probable.
The apprehension Of danger, 50 far as it e1. {.
lists here, is at least ground'ess. Memphis VIII Il
gain both wealth aad population from any eisil
comuot;on arisipg south Of us. and wa are sat-