, 1860-12-05

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WHAT THEY WANT.
The tact, suspected from the first thai
i!lc secession movement is using the elcc-
ton Of Lincoln IS pretext for what has
1o7 long time been in contemplation, il
>:cry DAY confessed BY those who put tlat
movement on foot. Under the guise ofrc-
sistancc, and behind those brave words
which arc full Of "honor," PATRIOTISM
duty" aal the like, no one who has been
m attentive reader Of the facts u they
have been developed, can fail to sec that 4
regard for the dollars 10 be put into their
purses by l:sunion, is the handspring Of
the pure patriots who are striving to break
~ the government
II South Carolina it is believed that
Charleston las en-: abilities for riyaling the
:-ea;ncss IF New York, and that nothing
l.t the Union an 1he commercial arrange
;ncnt5 which grow out Of it. prevent her
sudden advancement to the position Of the
1esiiug city Of tic South. She has firc
1:arbor, accessible at all seasons; she is
connected with the country in the rear By
system Of railroads which We may no.
alcc! tn despise; she is the centre Of large
export Trade; and in the minds Of her pct,-
i'!c, nothing bu! release from the dfsabil-
ties which the Constitution and Congress
impose, is necessary to make ner the entrf-
p. for the commerce Of half q iozen South
Gra Stat.s. Her merchants, in ilnagina-
lion, see their warehouses crowded with
The products Of tie looms and workshops
of the worll, and the streets throngcd witt,
Customers. The holders Of real estate.
which l..cs but slightly appreciated in raluc
since tho war Of 1912, feel sure that thcy
o:7n tic gro:ud upon which great city
may ris,. and all elasses, pccring into the
:ature cs il is revealed TO them by prophetic
s,lcsna;s and AcGraths, see in disuniou
The means Of sudden and welcome riches
They say that with disunion comes free
trade and the rapid growth and new pros
pcrity Of tho mart in which it is car1ied
on; and go Charleston pussucs her course.
Nhile'sae Inns her own ends in view, tie
country hibutar; to her has not less I'M
poEnnt, though terfold more 1eprehen-
s:blc o1,jec. 10 accomplish. There the
planters arc longing for more niggers, to
cultivate in cotton the broad acres whicl,
inyi.c the plow. It is their belief that if i.
IS r:::!st to import nigger from Virginia,
i. is not wrong to import him from Africa
hcaco they demand an extension Of thci,
right 10 buy men in all markets in which
they arc for sale. They are told, and truly
enough, that the Union and the laws o.
Congress, which they may not hope to r.
peal, arc the obstacles which lie in tllt
way Of the accomplishment Of their wish
cs; and that disunion cs.d laws Of thci
OWL, in which, bSunics On the slave t1ad
arc o,erc:3i would surely give them, Il
el5Q 10 $500 each, all the niggers they Dc
Sire. They follow the lead Of Charleston
and repent TO the echo all the treason tina
the city uttcrs The influences which ar
at work in Charleston and South Carolin:
operate with equal force on Savannah an
Georg:a. All the expectations Of tho fir
arc common TO the last; md the NEAR
which arc invoked to put one out Of IL
taion will be brought into plny to imp
the othcr. They draw together, md vi
aTrivc Dy tic one road ut the same goal.
!. would be easy to show that under Il
notions, which these treason-mopgcrs e,
terrain, there lurk fatal fallacics; but it
not our object to point them out. We vii
only to call attention to the fact that I'll
cry Of oppression and wrong with whit
these two States arc stunning Norhe'
cars is only cover to hide delnsi7
schemes for making money.-a fact whi'
is already clearly established by the II
guarded admissions Of the leading traite
themselves, If such is the truc conditi
Of affairs, what, we ask, will concession &
compromise DO toward insuring perm
nent peace, unless, indeed, all that the
ceders dcmnnd were granted at ono
What item in the grand scheme Of Fl
trade and multitudinous niggers would
repeal Of the Northern Personal Libe
LAWS knock outt What would the ena
mcnt Of new atrocities under the name
Fugitive Slave Law, do toward satis
ins tue real Southern demands? VI
wnu}d the extension Of the Missouri &C
promise line to the Pacific, effect: WI
in shor1, less than reconstruction Of
government on the Carolina plan, shall
offer as the basis Of settlement? We
these questions to the subnlss'onists
the North, telling them, what they
learn too late, that they have not conn
hcndcd the cause Of the angry dispute.