The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-11-28

/ feet remedy for existing grievances, and per
feet security for the future. To destroy the Un
| ion forthwith would be an act based upon the
abandonment of all hope Of justice and right. L
should be the last resort, and adopted after every
thing else had failed. On the other hand, TO dc
nothing would be to give confidence and boldnes,
to those who would oppress Us, and nerve theil
arms for further and more ntolerabe wrongs
Power unchecked never fails TO strengthen it:
hold and increase its demands.
Whatever the South NAV be justified in doing
at the present time, we look upon the destruc.
ton of the Confederacy as a eonsummaton mos,
sincerely to be dreaded, and so fraught with un.
Certainty that it should only be ventured upon
when every effort for reconciliation shall have
been made, and all hope shall have passed Are
we to-day in that condition! We hope, and
would fain believe not We may be mistaken,
but still to our own mind We have not reache j
the stage OF despair. AT least, it is the part Of
prudence to make one more effort before We pro.
ceed to extremities, and il i certain that We
shall lose nothing by brief delay We take il
for granted that all will agree that the Union
should be sustained, provided it can be done
with honor and safety to ourselves. The man
who would not is esther poor patriot or a worse
statesman. AS matters stand, we do not see
how the South can agree to live unteI the gov
erment Of Lincoln aid his rarity, except under
an authoritative guaranty from the Northern
States of the Union that every cause that las
made the idea of such dominion Objectionable
and odious shall be effectually removed. This
alone can preserve the Union and give peace TO
its pats. We cannot exist long together, even
should the present storm be allowed 10 pass over,
aud there is 40 better time than the present for
an sr,;ctnIe understanding and settlement, or a
peaceab!e separation. In recollection of the no.
BILE efforts and sacrifices Of our fathers 10 form
this confederlted Government, the countless
blessings it has conferred upon their children,
and its glorious inf Ience upon the Cause OF hu-
man liberty and civilization throughout the world,
We are uhsng to give it up without one more
carries, and patriotic effort to decide whether or
not it can be maintained consistently with Justice
and honor.
To this end, we would suggest tha, National
Convention TO be composed OF three delegates
from each and every State in the Union, and ap-
pointed according To the pleasure of each, shall
be cons itutci, to meet az the earliest day prac.
ticab'e aud u whom shall be referred all the
questions of controversy and division between
the North and the South Such a body, com.
posed OF the wise d prudent men of the coun
try, We feel sure, could agree upon plan that
iugs, give peace to the nation, and place us once
more ON the highway Of glorious career. We
would have it assemble on the 22d OF February
the birthday of Washington-and at InGepen-
dence Hall, in Philadelphia, with the hope that
the men selected as the saviOIs of our country
in 1850 may catch some OF the patriotic fre ths;
animated the breasts of the noble founders of
the Republic.
We submit the suggestion, with the painful
consciousness that the temper of cur country
men at the present moment is not favorable 10
its calm and GispassiOnate consideration, but with
the hope that II more quiet period is approach
ing, when some true-hearted, trumpet-t0nged
patriot of the South shall sound it abroad and
speak peace TO distracted people. MAJ We not
cherish the additional hope that it will touch the
heart Of the Empire State of the South, and
that she will take the lead, and hid all her South
ern sisters follow in her train? What grand
it would bel
We believe in the eventual success of our
project, if tried. If, on the other hand, il should
fail, there will be no division then, a. now; but
one mind and one heart will animate us all. We
shall stand discharged of every responsibility,
and free to resume the rights We have surrender
ed for the public good, and able, as an ndepend
ent nation, to maintain them against all the world.
FROM the New Orleans True Delta, Nov Is
The mercenary traders and infamous polite
ians who go, up the political monster called FU-
sion in the State of New York, and who found
dupes here and in other places i'll their mercantile
speculation of purchasing electoral success,
have found out since their scheme Of welding
~enile conservatism and disunion conspiracy up-
ON National Democracy has So signally miscaT
ried, and that the Bleckenridge;s are really in
earnest in their purpose of breaking up the I'm
ion, that some new move is necessary on their
part to retain the monopoly OF national commerce
they have so long enjoyed. Accordingly they
are now mploGing honest old Abe, OF rail-Split
ting the most chvalrous, To come to their aid in
A proclamatian, epistle or address to their South
ern brethren, assuring them OF the perfect secu
riy of themselves, their possessions, real and
included-if they will only
not secede, but content themselves with Bu-
chanan increase of tariff, exclusion OF slaves from
the Territories, and other small matters Of which
and by which the fre-eaters set much store
Indeed, it is even confdentially whispered that
honest old Abe will not be dsinclined to give
Yancey, or jeff. Davis, or Henry A. Wise, or
Rhett, or keits prOportionate and equitable di-
vision Of the cabinet, and rumor, seemingly au-
lucrative, alleges that our little man, Benjamin,
will be promoted ard a carte blanche, IA regards
appointments to office in Louisiana, vouchsafcd to
h 3 "Boss," if proper degree of niaileability i
only attained of the aggressive material III this
quarter. For all these wonderful results are We
not to be indebted tn our psotean neighhors and
kinsfoll in New York, who, furthermore we are
assured, are willing 10 guarantee TO Old Gordon
Bennett the same share OF presidential victual'
and condesceiiSion his particular friend aud pro-
tege James Buchanan, was induced TO extend
that high principled, honorable, and most intiu-
entail individual. II over,ures so important
these cinno; calm the troubled waters Of South
cru discomfort, we reail, Cannot see what our
New York friends and their allies in this quartz?
can next undertake for the purpose. seeing thar
they utterly fai ed in buying votes, even with
New Orleans aid 10 carry their fusion OF contG-
sion combination, and are now most perplexing-
" placed between two rather hot hrcs-the
Black Republican, in their rear and the fl:e-Eat
ers in their front. Times seem TO be very much
changed sith che inhabitants of the q Empire q"
City and the Empire State since 1857, when
they, operating ppoa some OF our weak-kneed
in their affections, were ordering,
our banks 10 suspend, as 1t WAS
monstrous presumption for Us to dare to suppose
We could be honest and just when they were
forced by necessity or interest TO be otherwise.
1t nothing else comes Of the disuuion movement
than the creation o. this alarming perserbatiOn
among our imperious kinsmen OF the 4" Empire J"
City, We shall be equally fortunate AID happy,
for it will at least demonstrate that if the worst
comes to the worst, and the enemies Of the Un-
ion, North and South, really succeed against it,
the trouble, disaster, ace, and ruin will lot
be exclusively the South's, Us our Northern
friends have 50 often pompously aud ignorantly
proclaimed. Al sections will suffer pretty near