Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-11-28
WHAT THEY MAY EXPECT.

Jubilee on the Goth. The city was crowded
with strangers from the surrounding States,
all of whom made it point to see and shake
hands with the President elect. The Wide
Awake procession, in the evening, halted in
front of the residence of Mr.. Lincoln, and
gave cheer after cheer, until s'honest old Abe
made his appearance and thanked them for
the compliment. An immense concourse
then assembled in the Wigwam, and were ad-
dressed by Senator Trumbull. As his speech
may be looked upon as a foreshadowing of
Mr.. Lincoln's policy, we are induced to give
an abstract of it. After congratulating the
Republicans on their victory, and eulogizing
Mr.. Lincoln, Senator Trumbull proceeded to
say:
Mr. Lincoln although the candidate of the
Republican party, as Chief Magistrate, will
neither belong to that any other party.
When inaugurated he will be the President of
the country. and the whole country; and
doubt not ,ciH be as ready TO defend and protect
the State in ,chich he has moi received solitary
rote, against any encronchrnent upon its constf-
tutionaI rights, the one in rhich he has receir-
ed the largest majority. While they, by whose
votes he has been designated as chief Magis-
trate of this Republic, will expect him to
which he was elected, they know, that in do
ing so, no encroachments will be made on the
reserved rights of any of the States. They
know that the Federal Government is one of
delegated powers-that it can do nothing ex
cept the authority for the act can be found in
the instrument which created it, and that all
powers not conferred are reserved to the States
or the people of the States. When their po-
litical opponents have charged the Republi-
cans with Aboitionsm, or attributed TO them
a desire to interfere with slavery in the States
or some fanatic has insisted that they ought
to do SO, the reply has invariably been, that
the people who made the Federal Government
did not think proper to confer on 1T such an
authority, and 1t has therefore no right TO med
die uith St0rery in a STATE than ii has TO NEEDLE
trith serfdom In Russia, nor are the people OF
non -slaveholding States, in any way responsi-
BILE for slavery in the States which tolerate 1t,
because on that question they are to each
other as Independent governments. l have
labored in and for the Republican organiza
ton, with entire confidence that whenever it
should be in power, each and all Of the STATES
,conld be left in as complete control OF their
affairs respectively, and at as perfect liberty to
choose and employ their own means of protect
ing property and preserving peace and order
within their respective limits, as they have
ever been under any administration. Those
who have voted for Mr.. Lincoln have expect
Gu, anu StlH expect tnlS, anu tney Wouiu Hot
have voted for him, had they expected other
wise. regard it as extremely fortunate, for
the peace of the whole country, that this point
upon which the Republicans have been so long
and so persistently misrepresented, is now to
be brought to practical test and placed be-
yond the possibility of doubt. 1t should
he matter of rejoicing to all true Republi-
cans, that they will now have an opportunity
of demonstrating to their political adyersa-
ries, and the world, that they not for inter
fering with the domestic institutions of any of
the States, and are not the ddUocates Of negro e.
qualify amalgamation, with which political
demagogues have SO often charged them.
When this is shown, a reaction will assuredly
| take place in favor of Republcanism. The
Southern mind even will be satisfied. The
| rights of Northern men will be respected, and
the raternat feeling eristing in olden times ,chen
men from all parts OF the country tcent forth TO-
| gefher 10 battle for common cause, against a
| common enemy, wiH be restored.
Disunionists per Sc, of whom unfortunately
| there have been few in the country, for
| some years, understand this, and are now in
hot haste to get out of the Union, precisely be-
cause they perciere they cannot much longer
maintain an apprehension among the Southern
people that their homes and tiresides and liues
| 10 be endangered by The action Of the Federal
| Government. With such, now or never is the
| maxim hence they seek to inflame the public
|
poses OF the Republican party, with the hope
of preciptating the Southern States into a
! position from which they cannot, without dis
honor, afterwards recede, we'll knowing if
| they delay till after the new Administration
| is inaugurated and tested, it will furnish no
cause for their complaints. Secession is an
| mpractibilily or rather an impossibility. The
Constitution provides no way by which State
may withdraw from the Union-no way for
the d issolution of the Government. 1t creates
| the general Goyernment-interfere but little
| with the individual rights of the citizens, ex-
cept for protection; it is chiefly felt in its
benefits and its blessings, and not in its exac-
| tions. If every federal officer in South Caro-
lima were to resign and their Offices remain
vacant, and its convention declare the State
out of the Union, it would all amount to little
except to Inconvenience to the citizens of tha,
State. So long as the State did not interfere
with the collection of revenue, on the sea
boards, the people in other portions of the U-
nion would not be in the least inconvenienced
What is the South Carolina army to do when
raised whom is it to fight /? Manifestly if il
commences a war on the U. S. officers engag-
ed in collecting the revenue, it becomes the
aggressor. This would be Revolution, and
making war without cause, for South Carolina
makes no complaint against the present rev.
enue laws. Is she prepared for this 2 To
become the aggressor?
The only use l can see for her ssminute
men" is, that they will enable the people the
more readily to suppress any uprisings in
their midst, which their misrepresentation
Of the puposes of the Republicans may have
encouraged. She complains that the fugitive
slave law is not executed in some of the States
This, if true, the whole country knows to be
a sham, so far as South Carolina is concerned
She is so situated that no slave can escape
from her limits into free states. However
much cause the border slave states may have
to complain of the escape of their negroes in
to the free states, it is clear South Carolina
can have no such complaint. In her resolves