New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-09
GOING TO GO.

Tie People OF the United States have lnd'cated,
according to the forms prescribed by the Consti-
ution, their desire that Abraham Lincoln of Hi
nois shall be their next President and Hannibal
Hamlin of Milne their Vice President A very
large plurality of the popular vote has been cast for
them, and a decided majority of Electors chosen
who VII undoubtedly vote for and elect thom on
the fret Wednesday in December next. The
electoral votes will be formally sealed up and for
warded to Washington, there to be opened and
counted, on given day 10 February next, in the
presence Of both Houses of Congress; apd it will
then be the duty of Mr.. John c. Breckenridge, as
President Of the Senate, to declare Lincoln and
Hamlin duly elected President and Vice President
of these United States.
Some people do not Ike this, as is very natural
Dogberry discovered, good while ago. that
"When two ride horse, one must tide behind"
That is not generally deemed the preferable seat;
but the rule remains unaffected by that circum
stance. We know how TO Sympathize with the
defeated for we remember how acc felt when
Adams was defeated; and Clay; and Scott; and
Fremont. 1t is decidedly peasanter to be on the
winning side, especially whcn-as noY-it happens
also to be the right lie.
We sympathize with the afflicted; but we can
not recommend them to do anything desperate.
What is the use They are beaten now; they may
triumph 1ext time: in fact, they have generally
had their own way: had they been subjected to .he
discipline Of adversely as often as we have, they
would probably bear it with moro philosophy, and
deport themselves more be6ttiDgly. We Live 70
learn: and one of the most difficult requirements
Is that Of meeting with graceful forttlde.
The telegraph informs US that most of the Cotton
States are meditatiDg withdrawal from the Union
because of Lincolh's election. Very well: they
have right to mediate, and meditation is profit
able employment of leisure. We have chronic,
invincible disbelief in Disunion as remedy for
either Northern or Southern grievances; we can
not perceive any necessary relation between the
alleged disease ard this ultra heroic remedy; still,
we say If anybody sees lit to mediate DisunoD, let
them do 30 unmolested. That was base and
hypocritc row that the House once raised, at
Southern dctaton, about the ears of John Quincy
Adams, because he presented petition for the
dissolution of the Union. The petit ,Der had
right to make the request; it was the Members
duty to present it. And now, if the Cotton
States consider the value of the Union de-
batable we maintain their perfect rgh' to discuss
it. Nay: we hold with Jefferson to the inalien-
able right of communities to alter or abolish forms
of government that have become oppressive or IN
furious; and if the Cotton States stall become sat
isfed that they can d. better out Of the Union than
in it, wo insist on letting then go In peace. Ihs
right to secede may be revolutionary one busi
exists aeyertheless; and We do not see how one
party can have a right TO do what another party
has right to prevent We must ever resist the
asserted right of any State to ROMAN 10 the U1ion
and nullify or defy the laws thereof; to withdraw
from the Union is quite another matter. A1d
wherever considerable section o. our Doion shai'
deliberately resolve 10 90 out we shall resist Oh CO.