Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-12-07


or in choice Of officers. We have just been
through presidential election of unusual
excitement in many Of the States, with very
little in this. 1t has been in no slight
degree, as the South says, sectional con-
test, and the North has beaten. Mr.. Lin
coin, though all the prescribed forms have
not yet been gone through, is essentially
chosen President of the Union for the four
years after the l.h Of March next. sit
seems TO me they are making a great fuss,
said hard laboring man to me the other
day. "Why, we have had the election and
the North has beat What can they do
about it?" Strictly practical as my friend
was, il was clear he had only the theory of
the thing in his mind According TO the
constitution, the South must bear with
Republican president, though q northern
man, for the next four years, Just as the
North, with nearly double the population,
'has acknowledged a southerner in that
office for forty-eiglt years out Of the seven
ty-two years Of our government. For two
thirds Of the remaining years the office has
been held by northern men with southern
principles-the mere organs Of the slave
power. What more faithful servant has
the South ever had than Willard Fillmore?
What more supple tool than Franklin
Pierce or James Buchanan But now
that there is chosen northern man with
some northern principles, the South scorns
submission. The leading Republican pa
pers are eager in their assurances Of mo
harm done or meant. They point TO
Lincoln's record in congress, TO his answer
TO Douglas catechism on the stump, to
prove him a true friend of the Shareholder
no advocate of the blacks. But the
South discerns a little leayen working in
this northern mass, and she vows she will
turn the whole thing over. She will be
free free to buy her negroes where she
pleases, take them whittier she pleases, and
hold them as long as she pleases, and we
hear Of little from the South but of seces-
sion, and of meetings wild for it, of Palmet-
to flags, blue cockades and lone stars. ad
Hbtlum.
That there are earnest disunioniSts at the
South, in South Carolina and the gulf
States, there can be no doubt. There is
another class there now less prominent,
W no dread disunion, yet join in the present
cry hoping to alarm the sensitive CONNER
cial spirit Of the North, and get some val
liable concession in return for allowing Mr..
Lincoln to take his seat at Washington in
accordance with the constitution and the
laws. They too declare their terms, and
unless these are granted they will join the
disunionists. The Nec York Times, most
able paper, which year or more ago
called itself of no party, though now pro
Tossing republicanism, after printing
with commentator, speech from Mr..
Stevens of Georgia, delivered in the hall of
Representatives there, Nov. IA, advising
delay and further efforts for redress of griev-
ances before coming 10 secession; and in
another number most insulting speech
from Mr.. Hill made at the same place
on the next day, also advising delay, is
obliged to confess " that this is not the high,
est type of Unionism. Yet, pretty plain
ly, the ~ Y. Times thinks it the best We
can get, and that we had better take it ant
come to terms. Now what are the terms
First, AN EFFICIENT FUGITIVE sLAvI
LAW. That which Daniel Webster advo
Gated and Willard Fillmore signed, is no
strong enough. Though "the effort t,
swallow that " is said :" TO have killed tn
Wing party, the Republican party is ex
pected to swallow a tougher one, or al leas
make fewer grimaces. And the Ne'
York Times and the Aibany EUenin
Journal, and even the Springfield Repu6h
can, recommend trying. All these persona
liberty bills so offensive 10 our souther
shareholders, must be repealed. They mu;
have free hunting ground. Mr.. Hill c
Georgia, says: (see ~ T. Times, Nov. y
'Now let the South compel a northern
President to execute the laws (the fugitiv
slave law against northern people; yea
the very rebels that elected him. Her
voice called out 10 Mr. Hill:
Do you believe Lincoln would issue hi
proclamation
Mr. Hill We could make him do i
III Is his ootl.. II viii be "a s,a;,o,. &c, ,.o
fuse, and we shall have the right 10 ham,
! him. He would be on southern territory
and for his life he dare not refuse"
Neat, THE REMOVAL OF OBSTRUCTION
BY TERRITORIES IN the INTRODUCTION
OF ALL PROPERTY. Property of cours
means slares as well as other things i
southern language. There is somethin
tangible" says the -4iJany Erening Jouna
with evident delight, quoting paragrap
from Georgia, with the above demand.
Why moi" the shrewd editor goes o
to say, "restore the Missouri Compromis
line?" Yes.-Let the Republican part,
after setting forth in its platform. as ii