The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-11-05
The south and the Revolutionary Conss-
qusMcss OF Lincoln's Election.

The south and the Revolutionary Conss-
qusncss OF Lincoln's Election.
We have to announce this morning that with
in the next thirty six hours this momentous
Presidential contest will have terminated in the
triumph or defeat of the republican party and
ts sectional programme for the extirpation
Of Southern slavery.
We all know that the whole weight of the
battle is thrown upon the State of New York,
and that the decision in the State may be turned
to the right or to the left by the result in this
city. We all know that the wealth and pros
perity of this city and State flow from the Union
of these States, North and South, and that any
serious arrangement of our political relation
with the South must result in reducing thou
sands Of our financial, commercial and manu-
featuring classes to bankruptcy, and the mass
of our laboring population to idleness and des.
titution. That serious political arrangements
must follow Lincoln's election we have been
endeavoring to show from the alarming m AMI
festations of Southern public opinion since the
late Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana elections.
These manifestations of the temper and purposes
of our Southern brethren are too serious to be
disregarded any longer. 1t is not the empty
gasconade Of noisy politicians that the republi
cans are trining with, but positive revolution
airy movements. Active secession proceedings
have already been initiated In several of the
Southern States In anticipation Of the disunion
signal of Lincoln's election.
In South Carolina the Legislature, which Is
to meet tomorrow, will, perhaps within few
days, prove To the most incredulous that that
State is in earnest in her protestations Of resist
ance TO an abolition administration. Alabama
and Mississippi, under provisions of law, will
each hold State convention should Lincoln
be elected, to decide for their people between
submission and secession. From Georgia our
advices, almost without interruption, run in
favor Of immediate and active cooperation with
motion, win necessarily draw into the league
Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, and the
league thus constituted will be quite sufficient
for the permanent dissolution Of this Union,
peace or war.
This Is the view Of an earnest writer to the
Charleston Mercury, who says that few States
leading of will render the secession movement
las secure from attack as any greater number
and that at will be even much better for the
fnal and complete effect, and for secession being
accomplished peacefully, that no State border
ing on the abolition section shall secede at first,
or among the foremost" because "the border
slave States will better serve the more South
ern seeding States, and defend them II assail-
ed by the North, by remaining in their present
political connection for proper time"
Nor il this idea Of q border protection a
mere chimera, for In Virginia we are informed
full Fifty thousand men have been enrolled
for the purpose Of defence against Northern
that the object OF these Virginia military pre-
para,ions, including Minute Men, arms and mu-
nitions Of war, Is TO defend any sovereign
State agains, federal coercion. This simply
means tina. Virginia will not permit any federal
troops 10 cross her borders for the purpose Of
reducing any seeding State or States into sub
mission
quences Of Lincoln's election-the seces-
zion Of South Carolina and several other
States, and the arming Of the border
slave States 10 protect the seeding States from
federal coercion. OF course, any attempt BY
arms on the part Of the federal government,
under such state Of things, 70 coerce the g.
cedIng States into submission, would be crimi-
nally foolish In the highest degree, for II could
result only In . calAmitous civil war. Citizens
Of New York all these dangers may be avsrtsd
in the defeat Of Lincoln. Upon New York
more deeply interested in the preservation Of
the Unien than any other Stste-the responsi
biliy is thrown, and with united effort on the
part Of the Union allies Of the city aud the
State 10 morrow the Union and the constitution
may still be saved.