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l. 'V"' VIC NeW I0rk World, Of TUeSddV
THE ELECTION AND THE UNION.
ShoGid the result of to.day's vote he the elec
.lon OF hr Lincoln, it would be bad political stra-
uyo.S reSy ior the South to commence, thereupon,
/ movement Tor secession. We do not mean that the
South would commit bunder if it sbouId 90 ont
/ OF the OnIon-for that is too obvious for remark
! nor yet that as the South cannot get ont of the
oilon, ~ Is bunder to attempt it, but that the Sc
cesslonists would take the most certain method of
strengthening the administration.
ihe south should beware of converting all Union
80 lrtp supporters of Mr.. Lincoln. If that sec
as 70 snail so far acquiesce in the result
all citlZens both North and South yybo bayya 49, ~
Posed Llncolns election, will continue hostile after
MS accession to power. His administration vouId
De confronted at the outset by a powerful and vipi
Iant opposition which would keenly scrutinize all
ms measures, and take prompt advantage of all his
mistakes. This powerful opposition, besides being
numerically stronger than the supporters of the
administration, would have on its side the Senate
and either majority all but majority of the
House OF Representatives With these formidable
means of embarrassing the administration, thew
would unlike it) be free from responsibility. They
could block every tavorite measure of Mr. IincoIn's
In Congress; they could assail his apnnintmants +o
once the recommendations in his messages and his
lorelgn policy, at every vulnerable point They
h cJGlI turE 10 account any incpient disaffection
WhIch might be occasioned by his distribution of
me federal patronage. They could help on the
teud between the Seward element and the Blair
Greeley element of the Republican party.
creating
powerful opposition to the new administration
VIII be cast away if there should be any serious at
tempt to break up the Union. Once endanger that
and hundreds of thousands of citizens who voted
against Lincoln, out of regard to the Union will
from the same motive rally around his admnistra-
tlon If certain Southern States, then should pro-
ceed, upon the ascertainment of the result to call
conventions, and set agoing the machinery for i'm
mediate secession, they would perpetrate n great
biunder. They would take the most effective
means OF strengthening an administration which
IA host E1yA ~.
would in that event be supported, not only bv the
party that elected him, but by every friend Of the
Union IN every section of the country
From the Philadelphia Tedger-Jodepeudent
The sooner, and the more quietly, and with rho
eastiniammation, these wounds State are healed
the better. 10 say that dsunion cannot ultimately
succeed, is only to utter truism. The only parties
who could desire it are in the South and on tho
ground Of anti-savery feeling at the North Rut
this antisavery feeling would be no less strong if
untempered by Southern influences of travel of
commerce and Congressional union. 1t would be-
come more intense and triumphant in the section
where 1t Telgned. Nor would it have the same re-
straints it now has, from the laws of CONGRESS-
Every slave who crossed the borders would be free,
and, Knowing that, how many would stav? Fifteen
hundred miles of border land would soon let all tho
slaves loose who were not in the convulsions of q
servie insurrection.
Should any States then attempt to declare tbar-
selves independent, nothing more would he wise oT
necessary than to leave them alone for six months
especially II the movement at all general in
the South Blood cries for blood, and were the
government to attempt with the least unnecessary
violence, to coercG the South in a single State Il
would waken sympathy, incite others to ioin and
leave lasting feeling that no time could heal
From the philadelphia Press Forsaey Douglas DenI
May not the very fact that Mr. Lincoln has been
chosen by the free States alene make him anxious
to administer the Government in spirit of cOncilia-
tion and justice? 1t would be a noble mission if
man traduced as the foe of our Southern brethren
should devote himself to the Christian task of as.
suaglng their prejudices, and disappointing their
apprehensions.
At all events, let us hope for the best Let the
incoming Administration have fair trial If the
new President shall do wrong, the laws will pun
ish him. ald if animated by the fell purposes
which have been attributed to him, he shall make
war upon any, even upon the smallest State, or es-
say to withhold or deny single right to the hum
biest citizen, the same masses that have put him
where he is will fetter his hands and consign him
to an infamous oblivion.
From the Philadelphia Anerican-RspuJlican
Our belief has always been, and is not now for
the rst time expressed, that the mere fact of going
into the White House nationalizes so to speak, the
elected President, whatever may have been his pre-
vious predictions. He is compelled, from the ne
cesslty OF the case and from personal contact, to
mngle with all interests and men of all parties. and
therefore to ignore, even if he cherished, all local
or sectional jealousy. Mr.. Lincoln will enter upon
the duties Of President free from bias and with
as national sentiments, any incumbent of that
office ever did. More than that, he will go to
Washington disposed not only to cOncate but to
convince the South, bv fair dealing that he has no
war to wage against it, and is anxious to have
peace, happiness and prosperity. 1t does belong
to us to speak for Mr.. Lincoln, but we venture to
assert upon no other evidence than that furnished
by his past career. that his inaugural address will
do more to restore confidence and to dssipate ap-
prehension than any public paper issued for a
quarter OF a century. At all events let us give
him fair trial, and at least hear before we strike
From The Neto TorI. Herald
we nave neither space nor time this morning to
al lAnfrt 4
Gus revolution in our political affairs. The con-
servatives, who still believe in the strength of the
Union, will be comtOred with the assurance of an
antirepubiican majority in both houses of Congress-
The success of Bell and Everett IN several on The
southern States is also considered as affording
powerful guarantee for the maintenance of the
Union IN the South: Upon the Congressional issue,
the city of New York has discharged her duty
handsomely. We begin with this day new epoch
IN the political history of the United States The
Republican party have crossed the Rubcon Are
our anXietics at an end, or are our troubles only
about to begin? We cannot answer until we shall
nave heard from the Legislature of South Carolina
touching the test question Of Lincon's election.
From he Washington Constitutional
From the returns which have reached us we are
forced to the lamentable conclusion that Abraham
Lincoln has been elected President Of the United
States from the 4th of March next
We declare this opinion as to the eyeDtfuI result
OF yesterday with sorrow which has no source in
party defeat. The people of the Northern States
by an apparently overwhelming majority have
TehueFeu ihelf NeTGict on an issue fully made
and after full deberation, and that verdict saws
that they deny that fifteen States of the Union are
entitled to equality in the Union; and that the
future policy of the Federal Government shall be
based on active deadly hostility to the South and
her institutions. What the effect of that verdict
immediate ultimate, will be, we do not intend to
prophecy. We see in the immediate future gloom
and Storm and much to chill the heart of every
patriot in the land. We can understand the effect
| that will be produced in every Southern mind when
! he reads the news this morning-that he is now
| called on to decide for himself his children, and
his children's childreQ, whether he will submit
tamely to the rule of elected on account of his
hostility to him and his, whether he will make
struggle to defend his rights, his inheritance and
his honor
From the Washington Star-Brectjnri3ge DemocratJ
The Stars readers, we take it for granted, were
not unprepared for the result Of Yesterdays cleo
tlon for it has sought to raise baseles hopes in
their minds upon the subject; having for weeks past
clearly toreseen that the defeat Of Lincoln was i'm
! possible. They have, as good citizens now before
! them, the plain duty of submitting with grace to
the will of the people manifested at the ballot
box. Those who may hesitate to do will thus
prove unworthy Of the high prerogative of Ameri-
citizenship, which embraces obligations it will
be remembered, we'll privileges.