The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-10-03


monarchies maintain mighty aeeh. aud may
possibly harbor ambitious designs.
southern OpiaAon On the Success Of ths
Republican Party.
Every voice which reaches us from the South.
whether it emanates from the press, from the
lips Of the politician, or from the hearts OF
the people, is ringing with discomfort, anticipa-
ton of coming evil and a spirit of resistance
to oppression in view of the probable success
of the republican party at the Presidential cleo
ton, and the elevation Of Mr.. Lincoln to this
chief magistracy of the republic.
However we may condemn the extreme opia-
ions of the Southern secessionists, and depl0re
the lengths to which their orators and sp0kes-
men 60 in propagating disunion principles, ii Is
impossible to shut out of view the fact that the
public declarations of Mr.. Lincoln, Mr.. Seward
and all the other agitators of the republican
party are calculated to spread alarm through
out the South, and justify the people Of that re-
gion In assuming defensive attitude. Nor Is
it possible to misunderstood the point to which
the South must inevitably be driven should the
republican party attain power to carry out the
policy which its leaders openly pronounce to
be its especial mission and purpose. Secession
or no secession, revolution or no revolution, No
and temporary disruption Of all social order.
as well as disorganization of the commercial
relations between the North and South, must
be the result of the dominance of faction
which enters the field Of contest on basis Of
warfare against one section Of the country.
And in this light alone can the claims of Mr..
Lincoln's party be considered. They do not
shirk or dodge the Issue; hostility to Southern
institutions and the total abolition Of
slavery-which means death to the Southern
States, death preceded by bloodshed
and revolution-are the battle airs echoed
from every stump and every Newspaper in the
service of the republican party. The South Is
not blind that it cannot see, nor deaf that it
cannot hear, nor stupid that 1t cannot compre.
bend all this. But it is not in the South that
the mischief can be averted With the cosser-
vative men of the North and Middle States il
lies to put down this desperate faction whose
triumph presages such dire results as are
fcreshadowed every day more and more in
every quarter of the South.
1t is the duty Of every man who loves peace
and the existence of the confederacy better than
power and spoil to resist the election Of Lin
coin, and thereby avert the disasters which
menace the country; and that duty must be
performed by himself, and not through the poll
ticians, who are not to be trusted.
We have laid before our readers for months
past the expression Of popular sentiment as We
found it in every section of the country, and
more particularly In the South. There il 40
installing Its meaning. The success of the re-
publican party viii be but the signal for
troubles and calamities which 1t becomes every
one to guard against, and which can only be
averted by the defeat Of Abraham Lincoln.
Today we publish letter from Mr. Keitt, Of
South Carolina, in which he sets forth the posi-
tioR In which the South would find itself in
case Of Lincoln's election, and openly pro-
nounces that dsunion is the only alternative
left the fifteen slave States, against which an
undying warfare Is proclaimed by the agitators
of the republican party. Mr.. Keitt is, perhaps,
one Of the most ultra men at the South, and we
are prepared to hear violent language and ex-
IRENE opinions from such quarter; but, at the
same time, we think that no one who reads his
letter can fail to see that he does not write
strongly without cause, or that his picture Of
the position which the Southern States would
occupy, in the event of the Inauguration Of such
. policy Is Seward, Lincoln and the other re-
publican leaders proclaim, Is hardly overdrswu,
coming from the pen Of Southern 6re-eater.
The truth is that the country at this moment
stands In q very dangerous place; and the sen
timents Of Mr.. Keitt, like those Of Senators
Toombs and Stephens, to which We adverted
the other day, are but the indications Of Q
storm which is certain to break upon us II the
sectional abolition party Of Messn. Lincoln
and Seward is not defeated at the polls in
November by the overwhelming voice OF the
conservative people of the country.
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