The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-12-21
The London Times OIL the Presidential
Rlantion .I ..r4a

Election. ar4
The event which has occupied the at
tontion OF the United States for the last
fur years has at length come to pass, ard
virtually. although as yet not legally, Mr..
Lincoln has been elected tho President, aud
lIamlin the Vice President of the great
American Confedoracy. The event had
/ been long forcscen, and will surprise nobody
who has paid the least attention 10 American
politics. 1t is the natural reaction against
| the outragcs and excesses Of 1866 and 1856,
tho protest Of the freest and bcst educated
I part OF the American people against the
acts of high.handed violence and oppression
which preceded the advent OF Mr. buchanan
to pOwor If the South has Mt length found
that it is not omDipotont in the councils OF
the country, that unpleasant discovery is
owing to tho foolish and Incorporate uso
which the South has made of its prosperity,
While demanding the most implicit respect
for its own opinions, the South has been
even ostentatious in prcclaiming bitter
and cynical contempt for tho opinions and
feelings of othors. Slavery has been de-
Tended as tho normal and perfect state Of
human society, aud tho North bas been bit-
terly taunted with its honest industry, and
the coarsenees OF manners which the fastid-
ious Southern planter traces to that cause.
While claiming for itself the monopoly Of
tho government of the United States, the
South has constantly held tho language Of
disaiTection, and tho United States have
been ruled by party which was perpot-
ually talking of disuniting them. So far
from wondering that these things should
havc produced the results wo have just wit
messed, it has long appeared to US impossible
that they should not. Mankind, If ruled at
+ ALL must be ruled either by force or por-
suasion. Tho South could not employ the
former, and have long substituted the
language OF provocation and defiance for tho
latter. But these and many other circum-
stances, whilo they fully account for the
. change which has taken place, tend very
considerably to diminish its significance
Had the South been always reasonable and
and conciliatory, we must have regarded
; the olcc,on of Mr.. Lincoln as evidence OF
u an intolerance of the very institution OF
, slavery which might portend results fatal 10
tho stability of tho Union but the South
has really taken so much pains to bring the
present result to pass that il has no right TO
Lc surprised at its own success.
The causes to which tho election of a Re.
publican President is owing, are chiefly in-
toresting TO US so fur as they afford US any
guidance in estimating the effect such
change will produce on tho foreign policy
of tho Union. We do not expect that, 30
) far Us cur own affairs arc concerned, we
have changed Presidents for the betteri
nor, on tho other hand, do we fear that the
change will be for the worse. That 1t is no
longer generally popular in the United
e States TO be on i'll terms with Great Britain
. has been abupdantly proved by the gon-
r erous and hospitablo reception Of the Prince
! Oh wares. lmS goou Wes"s a"a ~. go u",
a goou In.on,.o"s III nS nSnrs,"n,i,nS "a r.,
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But although this may be all very plain
l. and easy to us, there is considerable mum
ber OF persons IN America, 10 whom, spar'
;. from mere political consideration, the change
, OF ires'oents is DOT mater Oh 'nu,norenco'
i ,nho.o n,o orr saus s;b;I;,os on tho snI,;sct ii
u wncse acu'e ee"s s'o'''oo .....;' =" .no 49,
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seS.,e s't ,r ;n .Inr.. .nra sooner or LATER to
~, ."u ,h ;os.;,n,;on of sIavorv ;tself will
&c ,"'Im Ion, ,"U urdor with a yioorous hand. We
n oo nep' 30, o % snd tho Sunrcme Court Of
II .'1p,eS u'ay TNpS s,,,os ras,oroS If not ~ i'm .
a.,t.i;,r .nu GM - soma,bing more like a balance
b Ps' a;';, oy, hn ,ha nnpoin,mentsof eminent
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epuU".an y; .hn "d.n;s,ra,ion of the terrtorie,
nnu ~ .,S;ah ,.,II ronder IN, yenetition of
,opa. ,;to ,hose of x ansas imoossibIe.
=, 60. - AZ. 49,.
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}, nave mncn moro 10 expect i'oh 'uo 10"
= fresluen,. MS Po"e'e aio 'o's ""'0s
and will be confined within a space much
narrower than their strictly legal extent BY
,Io 1a,arcifu xyhich haR made Mr. Hu.