The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-08-28

those Who Hlb drew This fact I know:
Lincoln M be elected President IN
consequencSpf this disruption of the
/ Democratic party. He will be elected by
5oas-tAird oSthe. voters of tho United
States! TwSshrds of tile votes polled
will actuallyR cast against him! And
yet he will bcelected by the division of
the .oppositio1l sHe will barely get q ma
jority of the non-slaveholding votes, and
none in the slayeholding States. In fTsw
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Con-
necticut, Illinois and Indiana, he will not
receive a majority of the votes, butfcarry
those States, and, perhaps Oregon and
some others, BY a plurality vote. Bell
and Everett vii carry Maryland. vir-
ginia, North Carolina. Tennessee, Ken
lucky, and perhaps Louisiana, and
Florida. Brdaanridge and Lame will
have South Caplina, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi, Arkansas, California, and, per-
haps, Missouri, louisiana and Florida, if
the first is notSiven to Douglas, and the
two latter to Bal.
If elected Liaoln will come into power
with two-thirds T the people Of the United
States opposedlto his Administration
This ought, in sqne measure, to appease
the apprehension of those who affect to
be SO much alarrhd for the South. His
Administration till commence q weak
one, and it is no9probable that he can,
backed by one:thid ID of the people of the
the United Staff, seriously injure and
Cypress the other lwo-thirds
But we have an ther check on his abil-
-ity to do mischif. A majority of the
Senate of the Unied States will be opz
posed to his Administration, and no bill
can be law till itreceives the sanction
of the Senate. TEs majority in the Sen
ate cannot be charged for several years
to come. 1t is ddbtful, too, as to the
majority Of the Hose of Representatives.
More than likely tie next elections will
give, q majority q the members Of the
House in opposition to the Black Repub-
licans. This is te,be inferred from the
popular vote of two.thirds against Lincoln
in the Presidential election.
Mr.. Fillmore bedme President of the
United States witha worse. record than
Lincoln'has on the slavery question, and
he went out of>ofice very popular man
at the South! Hc Signed the Fugitive
Slave Bill, which Lincoln is. pleeseu !
enforce. Ho prevented bls-a=shed- and
civil war in New.Mexico and Texas, which
Taylor was,esont to infict on the coun
try-according to Senator Benjamin's
speech, lincoln does not stand pledged tc
the unconditional repeal of the Fugitive
Slave Law, or against the admission o1
any more slave States inio the Union, OF
to theRbolition of slavery in the District
of Columbia, or to the prohibition of tho
slave trade between the States or to the
acquisition Of moro slave territory.
Judging from the course pursued by
other Presidents, and that policy which
usually governs politicians whilst in pow.
er, instead of doing any rash, violent OF
unconstitutional aca b injure or offend
those opposed to him, it is likely Lincoln
will pursue q very cautious, polite and
wise course towards the South. 1t can
not be in nature of any man elevated tc
the Presidency to wish to see the Govern
ment broken up under his administration
the Republic dismembered and the coun
Try plunged into.a civil war. Very likely
his great effort will be to acquire popular
ity in the Southern States, and appease
their opposition by a rigid adherence tc
the Constitution and respect for the rights
of the South. 1t is not at all improbable
that the South may find more favors un
der the Administration of Lincoln thar
they have under any Democratic Admin
istration. It. may be that cold Abe
will go out of Office quite favorite with
the Southern people At least we should
give him trial.
The election Of President, in confor-
nifty with the Federal Constitution, is nc
ground whatever for breaking up the Re-
public, no matter how bitterly opposed tc
him we may be. We must wait and de-
eide On his acts and measures; nothing
less will justify us in the eyes of the world
or in opinions Of our own people. To in
culcate the notion that portion, of the
citizens of a Republic may break up and