The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-11-23
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SECESSION OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
me governor Of Kentucky on the Crisis -
Sentiment of the Northern Fress-rfove-
ments ut the South Affairs in Virginia,
&c, &c, &c

Below we colate the latest mail in gence
bearing on the present secession movements s {
the South. 10 our telegraph column will be
found some later events:
THE VIEWS or THE GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY.
Governor Magofiin has written a losg letter
TO the editor of the Frankfort Yeomap. the
sum and substance of which is "stand by the
Union" AS Mr.. Magofin is a political friesd
Of Mr.. Breckenridge, this letter will be under
stood 10 contain views not widely at variance
with those OF the late candidate for the PresI-
dency. MIR. Magoflin says:
"Mr. Lincoln has been elected according to
All the forms OF law under that Constitution
which We revere and regard the depository
of our rights ana the shield of our safety and
Notwithstanding his threats and the danger of
carrying ont his principles, h, may not do IL
We must wait for overt act hoplng that
ruth, and reason, and Justice en bodied in a
clear, an impartial delineation of our rights
under the Constitution, rs expouuded by the
Supreme Court cf the United States, VIII yet
prevent il.
Let US reason with The Republicans still
further let lis demonstrate more earnestly
firmly aud uoitedly ; let US Al all events wait
for the overt act, and then Kentucky can and
VIII join her sister slave States. This it seems
10 me, is The course of moderation and pru-
dence and wisdom; certainly SO, because nei-
Their Mr.. Lincoln nor his party can pass any
law, II the Opposition remains'true, that will
violate our rights. lie can't even get an ap-
preparation bill through Congress TO carry on
the Government. He can't appoint his Cabi-
net officers who may be offensive to the DEM
CcrauS party and to the slave States He can
do nothing. With the present House OF Repre-
sentatves and Senate, backed by the Supreme
Court, 10 violate our rights. Let the anti Re-
publican members OF the Opposition firmly
resolve not to discuss the question OF slavery
any more, and when the Republicans have
Done let them vote down Neir meas urss and
proceed to business upon the other important
interests OF the country. The question has
been discussed too much already and let them
resolve they will discuss il no more Il only
produces dlscord, strife, ordinations and re-
ordinations, and sundsrs all those fraternal
ties socially, politically and religously which
bind us together"
He makes the following diYect appeal to the
Secessionists:
ITO South Carolina and such other States
who may wish TO secede from the Union l
would say, the geography OF this country Will
not admit OF a diyIsion-the mouth and
sources OF the Mississippi river cannot be
separated without the horrors of civil war
we cannot sustain you in this movement t
merely on account of the election of Lincoln.
DO not preClpitate us, by premature action,
into q revolution or civil war, the conse-
quences of which will be mos fTight tful TO ali
of us. II may yet be avoided. There is stiil
hope, faint though it be. Kentucky is u border
State, and has suffered more than all of you.
She claims that, Standing upon the same sound
platform, you will sympathize with her, and
stand by her, and not desert her III her
posed perilous border position. She has
right 10 claim that her voice, and the voice OF
reason and moderation and patriotism, shall
be heard and needed by you. If you secede,
your represen tatives Will go out of Congress
and leave us at the mercy Of 81 Black Repub-
Iican Government. Mr. Lincoln will have no
check. He can appoint his Cabinet and have
ii confirmed. The Congress will then DE Re
publican, and he will be able TO pass such
laws as he may suggest. The Supreme Court
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you to stand by US and by our friends in the
free States, and let us all, the bOd the and
Just in the free and The Slars States, with Il
united front stand by each other, by cur prin-
ciples, by our rights, our equality, our honor,
and by the Union under the Constitution. i
believe this Is the only way TO save it, and we
can do it,
SOUTH CAROLINA VIEW OF vIRGINIA's Po-
sITION.
The Charleston Mercury, alluding to the
proposition of Southern Conference and
Virginia's agency therein, says:
This is the measure which South Carolina
proposed 10 Virginia last winter. 1t was
hu0led down and r-jected as a dis union mea-
sure. II IL had been adopted an abOlitionist
would not, III all probability, have been eject
ed Pl es dent Of the United States, and the Sec
tionalism of the North might have been alarm
ed. II was an exceedingly conservative pro-
position, which Virginia was unable 10 appre
ciate. The times have now passed beyond IL.
Virginia may now call, but the South will not
answer She is com mpletely denioraliZed d in the
estimati CT the South; and no Southern
State, intent on vindicaung her rights and
preserving her institutions, would 20 into q
conference with her. She has placed the Union
above the rights ard institutions OF the South
and will only seek conference with the
Southern States in order to bring them down
10 the level of her fatal Union policy.
Virginia and the other frontier States may
as we'll al once understand their position with
the cotton States. They aro not expected to
aid the cotton States in protecting themselves
and redeeming their liberties. They will prsc
tically aid the Northern States in attempting
to obtain in the South an acQuiescence In the
rule of &bolltIonists at Washington. The
Southern States, however, Will disregard their
cOunseis. They want no conference but an ths
Con AUen!ion Uhich lCt assemble to franle the Con-
stlfpttoH and complete the organization or
Souihern Confedsracy. They intend TO seceds
from the L nIoI, ana construct a Union among
themselves, and Will be glad TO find Virginia
and the other border States in counsel with
them after this great reyolu ion. But II these
value their own dignity, or respect our wishes,
let them keep alooffrom us until they are pre-
pared 10 dissolve their connection with The
present Union, and TO unite their destinles
with that of the other Southern States. II
lhey Will not be our friends, let them not be
our enemies, by unsolicited and undesired ef-
forts under whatever amiabie pretext-of pre-
serving al abolished Union, TO subject us to
the sec tional despotism of consolidated gov
ernment under the control Of aboli;ionlsts al
w
gone Hencefortn we are two people.
VIEW OF THE HEREAFTER.
The Philadelphia Bulletin, Republican
paper. which Immediately succeeding the eles-
lion was foremost among those tanning and
insuIting the Southern disunion sentiment
has now that dissolution stares it in the f7cs,
drawn the following picture Of the result:
We know that secession is not peace
ful remedy We know that il cannot be
allowed. But it Is mistake 10 suppose
that wise statesmen have ever. looked TO
coercion of q sovereign State with any
other feeling than that it was the very ex-
tremesI resort, not 10 he thought OF until
every thing else within human compass hac
been tried. l. is mistake to suppose that
even Jackson resOrted 10 mere threa tenlng ano
naked force in 1892. His proclamation is full
Of the kindiiest appeal to everything mag
unanimous and patriotic IN an American heart
1t depicts in tones that are almost tender In
their manly earnestness the consequences OF
disunion and 1t is well known that measures
were taken by General Cass and others at that
time to secure the good offices OF Virginia 10
prevent ulterior measures. We need naroly
call the attention of the Eastern States to the
grand u.terance OF their great orator, who
prayed with deep pathos that Providence
might hide from his eyes "the broken and dis
honored fragments OF once glorious Union,"
and who with "A heart stirred TO its mighty
depths gave forth that utterance which is
written upon the American ornament in let
ters of living light, Liberty and Union now
and forever, one and!nseparable !"
No tongue can describe, no Imagination can
conceive the horrors of a civil war in America
among this Anglo Saxon race. Conceive only
that we exasperate each other until federal
army marches against South Carolina-
Georgia has voted million OF dollars for de-
fence Alabama marches TO sustain her sister
State A hundred thousand Southern men as
brave as we, men whose fathers fought nj
Eutaw Springs and Guiiiord Court-house,
who retreated with Greene and storIned the
redoub;s at Yorktown side by side with our
Pennsylvania line, now stand in deadly oppo-
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