Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-11-14
THE UNION FEEL1NG IN THE SOUTH

THE UNION FEELING IN THE SOUTH.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York World states that Ex- Senator PRArr, of
Maryland, called on Gen. Cass to see if some
means could not be devised by which the Pres
ident could call convention of all the States
choosing to be represented, for the purpose OF
denouncing secession, and making conciliatory
propositions. Gen. Cass replied, that he knew
no way to bring about such aconyention, except
by the voluntary action ofthe States themselves.
The Baltimore .fmerican-a paper which,
although of respectable ability, was rather
ultra previous to the election-in its issue of
Thursday last, says =
ssAs the smoke of the battlefield clears a.
way and the victory on one side and defeat on
the other is settled beyond the possibility of
doubt, we may look with comparative calmness
upon the aspect of affairs. While single
chance remained it was well enough to give
all our energies to the accomplishment Of one
object-the defeat of Lincoln. We have
fought as loyalty we could, some of us un-
der one banner and some of us under another,
against the common enemy, and we have not
prevailed. 1t only remains for US to gather our
scattered forces and make arrangements for a.
mother struggle upon another and more fortu-
find no such field out of the Union. Suppose
Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri
should respond to the invitation of South Car
olina, and by formal enactment withdraw
from the Confederacy The only result
would be to engirdle ourselves with an extend
ed Abolition frontier, affording ten thousand
avenues of escape for fugitive slaves, and Sc
curing their safety if once over the border as
really as if they were landed in Canada or in
England. For the very reason that we regard
the doctrines and principles of the Republi-
can party with Interchangeable hostility do we
insist upon maintaining our position of equal
ity IN the Urion, and Watching over our rights
from the Ohio to the great lakes, and from the
mouth of the Susquehana to the most north
ern point of Maine. The law that provides for
the return of our runaway slaves is operative
so long as the Confcderacy is unbroken. and
whether resisted or evaded or obeyed, it is
still the law of the land, and we are in posi-
tion to demand its enforcement. But what
could the citizens of United Southern Con-
federacy say to hostile nation that harbored
our fugitive 20
The Star, Breckinridge paper printed at
Washington City, says =
ssThey have, as good citizens, now before
them the plain duty of submitting with grace
to the will of the people, as manifested at the
ballot-boX. Those who may hesitate SO to do,
will prove unworthy of the high prerogative
of American citizenship, which embraces OBJ
legations, it will be remembered, as well as
privileges. That Lincoln has been overwhel-
mingly elected, according to the forms of the
Constitution, is undenia BILE and that his ele-
vaton to power in the Government under that
election, can no longer be opposed except by
naked and papabe revolutionary means, is no
less apparent. Those who counsel aught but
acquiescence in the result, under the circum-
stances, counsel neither more nor less than
revolution and that, too, while the South are
the richest and most prosperous community,
under the Government of the United States,
that the world contains under any Government.
AT this moment, there is not tlthe of the
want, crime, and individual discomfort with
ones lot in life, at the South, that exists at
the North. This is, for the most part, doubt
less the result of the South's advantages of
soil, climate, pursuits and Institutions. What
man of common sense, with aught accumula-
ted that may be endangered by revolution, will
be rash enough to favor any such violent change
as is now proposed 70
The Rockingham, Virginia, Register, refer
ring to Gov. Wise's late explosion, says:-
owe presume it is scarcely necessary for
us to say that the insane movements and
speeches of Ex-Governor Wise, aud his eff
forts to get up companies of sMinute Mem
in Virginia to resist the Inauguration of any
President elected by the voice and will of the
in this stronghold of the Virginia Democracy.
The people here are resolved to oppose the e.
lection of Lincoln by all fair and constitu-
tional means but if the people will that the
reigns of the General Government shall be
placed in his hands, the Democracy of the
Tenth Legion will not be involved in the
reasonable purpose and effort to preveut his
Inauguration. Upon this point there is but
one opinion amongst all our people,
The Raleigh Standard, the organ of the
Breckinridge party in North Carolina, refer
ring to Gov. Wisc's speech, says:-
"We regret to have to record the above.
Gov. Wise is in favor of disunion in the event
of Lincoln's election. He says he will look
to Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, and Florida, to 'leap at once, for
herself and by herself, into the contest
North Carolina tCiil take no such leap.
The Louisville, Kentucky, Journa! says -
ssMissour, and Tennessee, and Kentucky,
and Virginia, and Mary land, deprecate the
dissolution of the Union; but South Carolina,
and Florida, and Georgia, swear that the u
Mon shall be dissolved, on account of the e.
scape of Missouri's Tennessee's, Kentucky's
Virginia's and Maryland's slaves! What dis
interested creatures South Carolina, Florida
and Georgia must be ~
How THEY WILL DO IT.-George n. Saund-
of New York has discovered, and has
kindly informed the public in long letter,
exactly how the Union is to be dissolved, and
what are to be the dreadful consequences. If
we may believe him, only the cotton States