Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-09-15
& From the y. y. Herald.
E'he Consequences Of E.incOln's Election.
1~omcshing for Northern Men 10 Think

OIstasslonate men are everywhere begin
sing 10 ask themselves what will be the COR
sequence Of the election Of Lincoln. and it is
time that every man in this confederation
5ho has the good Of his country at heart,
should be prepared to answer this momentous
question.
The developments Of the campalg gu are
bringing clearly to view th" radical and rev.
oiutionary intentions Of the Black Republl.
can party. The spirit and tohe of its cam
yaign journals and documents leave no room
10 doubt the thorough aboiitioni>m of its
principles and its candidates. Helpers hand
book of treason, Lincoin's unmistakcAble
abolition speeches, and Summers rabiily IA
natlcal %haranyue in the Senate. are the
staple exposltions OF the Black Republican
creed, for the circulation of which every pos
able effol. is made. Horace Greeley, whose
position as a journalist manes him one OF tie
master spirits OF his party and enabled him
20 overthrow Seward, its originator and
leader. tells the world that De means Ito
labor for its eradication the institution OF
domestic servitude) from our own and all
other countries, as long as | live" VIM. II,
Seward, hmiins himself set aside for a less
prominent leader in his party. proclaims that
Lincoln is just as radical an abol'tionIst as
himself, il not more so: that he is enlisted
for life or dea.h in the 'irrepressible con-
aict," and that both belong to the Ma.sa-
thusetts school, in politics. The Black Re-
publican party of that State, fearing that the
Intense %tAnatical and destructive abolition
character OF ''the Massachusetts, school
would not be sufficiently evident from the
speeches and acts OF its Senators elect-Wil-
son and Sumner-has placed in nomination
for the gubernatorial chair Andrews, the
friend and intimate Of Vim. Lloyd Garrison
and Wendell Phillips, the open and declared
sympathizer with and defend of john
Brown, and the unblushing endor>er If their
constant reiteration, that they hold the c IN
pact Of confederation to be "a compact with
hell"
: These are the indeIible marks which, in
only sixty DAYS Of canvass, with a prospect of
success before them, the Black Republican
leaders have placed upon their followers.
Let no man hug to his heart the conviction
that he can cooperate with them for a while,
and then either control the folly that guides
their action, or escape from the misery and
ruin it will bring ifthey attain control Of the
powers Of the federal government. 1t will
then be too late to advise them, and ute. lv
~fruitless to abandon their support. Once in
power, they will not care for moderate
supporters. Conservative republicans will
be cast aside everywhere as broken and use
less tools-as they have been in Massachu-
setts-and only Black Republican abolition
lists Of the school Of Garrison, Phillips AMI
John Brown, believing that a repetition IN
the Southern States OF the bloody ma slt,es
witnessed in St. Domingo Wound be doing
God service, Will be entitled to place in the
civil service, the judiciary, the army and
navy Of the country. Concede, for arguments
sake, that for polite reasons they will not
deem it fit to iuaugurate the bloody and
mighty issue at once, what will be the course
they will pursue Here We have the sd-
mitted facts of their intended action, and in
them we may see reflected in tie mirror Of
truth the consequence OF Abraham Lincoln's
election as President.
The frs: step will be the appointment 10
every post Of executive or administrative.
power within the gift of the President of
men who believe that slavery is an evil aud
a sin; that it IS their moral and social, as well
as political duty, to make war upon it in
every way that this Union cannot stand
Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips and John
y I1SuC III tliC lDeOjlcS lIcS ID
proclaimed and the policy they have advc-
Gated. With men holding these views as
judges and officers of the federal courts, as
postmasters and collectors of customs, as dis
trict attorneys and marshals Of the United
States, there will an agitation Of
the slavery question such as the world has
never witnessed. Federal officers may re-
frain from immediate participation in crimi-
nal ac.e huf tho nhJucforr IF cla,,as <t,. G.
mentors Of ~servi!e incendiarism, and the
coming John Browns will pursue their ini-
q~uitous labors, in the full confidence that, if
arrested and brought to trial, it will be by
marshals, prosecuting attorneys, iuries and
judges that sympathize with them, and who
believe that the cause in which they are en-
gagged in the cause Of rishteou ness.
The effect Of this fact alone upon the spirit
of ~fanAtical abolitionism in the country will
produce the most disastrous results. Give
the criminal but the confidence that Of mea
Of his stamp will SIT as judges over him. if
and crime will at once become the
audacious ruler Of society. So it viii! be
with the ''irrepressible conflict" The under
ground railroad will be brought to the light
Of day, the stealing Of slaves will become a
trade Of which thousands will be openly
vain, heroism in the act will be worshipped,
and not alone Virginia. but every Southern
State, will have to record It's John Brown
raids, and the abolition promptings to incen-
diarism now seen in Texas will be witnessed
in every slave State from the Delaware TO
the Rio Grande, and from the Ohio to the Gulf
Of Mexico. In such q state Of things there
there will be no need to use the army and
navy Of the United States to suppress or ex-
tineuish slavery; it will only be necessary
to defeat its employment to suppress factions
and incendiarism. In such a state of things
parties will be driven to the highest pitch sf
excitement, acts of fury will be perpetrated
on all sides, and day by day the whole coun-
try will recede farther and farther from the
rule ofrcason.
With the Inauguration Of such a state of
things, we would ask the merchants of New
York, Philad lphia and Boston. what would