Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-11-14
THE SOUTHERN DISTURBANCE.

cerned in the disunon cutlery, which comes
to us so noisily from the south, are playing
political game 1t is their last and most des-
perate ate mpt TO break down, or distract, the
republican party. There are disunionists in
the south, and there are lordy political leaders
whose proud ugliness refuses submission TO
the fact, that Abraham Lincoln has been elect
ed president by party which they have SO
fiercely cursed. But. in the reports mat
come to us by telegraph, (many OF winch
are manufactured there is an evident
aim TO produce an cfect'-ah ann 10
scare the republican party and bring 1t
in humility to their feet. The shameless
northern helpers Of treason have called for
conservative republicans" to come out and
make a satisfactory declaration of their views;
and Mr. Lincoln has been called upon to speak
out in the same way, and even to withdraw
from his position as president elect Here is a
specimen from the New York Herald =
"The north have it still in their power to
save the Union by conciation and justice TO
the south. But it is especially incumbent on
the conservative portion of the republican par
ty to come out and declare their sentiments,
for they are responsible for the consequences
now produced by the election of Lincoln.
1t is their duty therefore, now to make all the
PREPARATION in their power, by defining their
position and repudatng all designs OF inter
fering with the social institutions of the south.
Xxx And let Mr.. Lincoln, if he values the
peace OF the country, and if he has any Just
appreciation of tie value and glory Of the
Union of the states, lose no time either III
making an announcement which will soothe
the tumut of revolution at the south, or in
YeSiqninq as President elect and ieaving some room
for accommodation.
From another source comes an intimatiOn
that when the noise and confusion of the
cotton states have become as terrible as posi-
Bile to weak nerves and cowardly brains,
Virginia will step in a mediator and de.
mand such a reconstruction of the government
as will make it impossible to elect president
without the consent of "a majority Of the SOUTH
1t is hardly possible that the author of this
report will ever declare his name to the
public but, the very extravaganza of what
he says betrays the purpose of the reasonable
agitators to secure some political advantage
by their disunion noise. The time for all
that, however, is past. The republican party
has never done or proposed an evil thing
against the southern states, nor have they
thought of yielding up their own rights under
the constitutions, in order that the republic
may be ruled permanently by the few slave
holders in it. 1t is not because they have been
injured, but because their atrocious schemes
against the public welfare are likely to become
powerless, that democratic leaders now con-
nira and talk of hpcomino traffic s.
In all the discussion of this talk of disunion
there is nothing quite so cool as the impudence
with which some of the democratic and "cOn-
stitu'ional union" papers call on the repub-
can party to declare TO the world that it has no
purpose to abolish slavery in the states. Such
a purpose has never been heard of any
where out of their own INSCRIPTIONS
ibels against the republican party. Let
these malignant falsifiers retact the libes
with which they lave disturbed the pub
lie peace The republicans made their
public declaration of principles at Chicago,
and there is not single leader of these eXtrem-
lists, north or south, who does not understand
them. MIR, Lincoln is on record in the com.
pletest manner, and has no need TO speak now,
even if the presidential electors had actually
met and chosen him president. 1t is a great
satisfaction to know that Abraham Lincoln is
equal to tile duties of this crisis. He has a
clear head an honest mind, and not an atom
of cowardice. He will meet the occasion
Dobly and constran even his maddest oppo-
nents to acknowledge his patriotic devotion to
the interests Of the whole country.
The southern noise on the subject of dis
union does not arise from any fear Of Mr. Lin
coins administration. Nobody, not even the
maddest oracle of the folly in South Carolina,
believes that his influence would be used
against the constitutional rights of any state in
the Union. The election of Mr. Lincoln is
only pretext; aud there is something for
study in the circumstance that the men who
have so long ruled the democratic party can
openly take measures to destroy the Union,
without being instantly blasted by general
outburst of Indignation which would cause
their names to rot in everlasting infamy.
What would happen to any leading men Of
the republican party who should do or talk of
doing such things as are now done by some
OF the foremost men of the broken demo-
cratic party,-by Chestnut Toombs, Wise,
Keitt, Governor Brown, and many others
Why, they would be smitten to hopeless ruin
by the executions Of the country. They
would be outlawed and hunted out of exist
ence, and their party would be annihilated
1t was time to destroy the political ascendeney
of men so reckless and dangerous as the
democratic leaders. Their rule was DESTROY
ing the republic. Their political downfall will
give it safety.
Let them play out their game. 1t cannot
last long. The southern people will presently
become sick of it. Already it is bringing
them the curse of financial disaster. The
banks of South Carolina will stop spe
cic payment, and when all the practical effects
of this most criminol folly are realized by the
people Of South Carolina and her coadjutors
the nullifiers will become powerless and fall
into disgrace. They are rushing the move
ment now in orher TO foresa reaction and
make it impossible, and the barbarous infu-
ence Of slavery operating everywhere among
them may put it in their power to do
some mischief; but as there is great deal in
the south besides the viainy of mad poit.
Clans, the present disturbance is pretty sure
10 result in such a settlement of several i'm.
por'ant questions as the reckless men who
raised 1t did not anticipate.
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