Red Wing sentinel., 1860-07-18
VIEWS or THE NEW YORK Elk.
PRESS ON THE SECESSION AT
RAITyM(tNE HUiij

VIEWS or THE NEW YORK Elk.
PRESS ON THE SECESSION AT
BALTIMORE. 1Hit>7
Secession from the start Was inevitable.
The elements were personal rather than ot
principle, and hence is irreconcilable by
principle. Douglas had control Of the ma.
jcrity Of the convention, and the minority
from the start determined that the majority
should never rule. The President and bis
Cabinet, the latter in person. too. Secretary
Cobb and Secretary Thompson both, at
times, being on the ground, were bent on
defeating Douglas. or, on breaking up the
convention, and their $lO0,0OO.OU Of pat.
ronage And power were used most unscrupu-
!ously to do it. The Federal officers, nu.
nerous in tho convention, were made to
tremb.e and to thwart action, in oil possible
ways, while over their heads were hung in
threat, the sword Of "removal." Hence
Douglas personal friends naturally became
Indignant and revengeful, determined to
bring to bear the whole power Of the Doug.
las majority. That majority, however, was
ever in the unity of New York. Her thir-
ty.tive votes were to decide every issue be.
tween the North and the South. Hence.
oil possible efforts Of power and Of tempta-
ton were brought to bear upon New York,
snd the majority often waversd under the
personal manipulations Of the Administra.
ton, or Of its agent. Senator Slidell, Of Lou.
isiana,-the cajolsry given TO Dick;nson's
or Seymour's friends, and the strong tempta-
ton to sacrifice even Douglas for peace and
harmony" The New York delegates, how
ever. were men Of higher order than usu.
silly 60 into New York conventions. Most
Of them are well off in the world, il not
rich, and if marketable for ambition, or IN
the love Of power, not marketable for money
direct
But the result Of all this is the
certain, inevitable revolution Of parties in
many Of our States, especially in N. York
--the pivot now--if not in Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut
and Rhode Island. Douglas ever had u
strength in the Northern: States that no
Democrat had strength beyond, above
his party,-because Of the free fight" he
has csen making, 50 hesoically I must say,
with the Administration. The cry is al
tstopped in the North now, Of no backbone
in these Northern Democrats, these dough.
faces = no spunk, no pluck.'' In all the
fire and fury At Charleston, they showed
"plucx" that was admirable, and here, for
week, they faced the $loO.O0O,OO0 Of the
Administration and all the bullying Of the
Secsssionists to break up the party if you
don't give up Douglas" have, myself
while revelins in delight As much even as
Yancey could, over the smashed machine.
admired and gloried in their real backbone
Abolitionis,n in the North 10 to be weak.
ened not strengthened, by their Tough off
of Southern sectionslism. Lincoln is far
more easily to be defeated by Douglas, free
and untrammeled in the North by the sins
Of the Administration than with all these
on his shoulders to weigh him down. The
Coyode Committee and its resolutions are
nothing t. him. We can all embrace men
who wash themselves Of Buchananism, and
who are as free now from Southern disunion
as from Northern abolitionism. The great
Union Party, now in the might Of the mass
ss, is installed, and we must all stand UPON
one common platform to protect It. TAR
PLAN OF THE SOUTHERN SEcEssIoN1srs IS
TO HAVE LINCOLN ELECTED, und apon that
u rry md czamor not only for diassolutio.,
Of IT, U1ion, but to create that passion and
public opinion South, which would mob
Southern U. 8. Msrshsls, Pos:masters, Col
lectors. etc, if any among them dare to ac-
cept office under him. At all hazards, and
BY ell sacr,6ces--one and oil, the Union
men Of the North must forbid this unholy
alliance.
The Northern sscessionism here amounts
to nothing. The spectacle Of " Asssachu.
sets" going of was so ludicross that the
loudest "horse laugh" greeted it. The
Collector Of New York, under. sense Of
dntiful necessity, Of course secedes with .
gentleman (Mr. Bartlett): from tho Bing.
hampton District. To state this ease is but
to state tho impotsney Of Ill the Free State
secsssions: Pennsyl1anis threatening ".
csssion TO the last, ssnsibay declined to take
the fatal leap. The few scattering Office
holders that elsewhere secede are but acting
their parts to save their offices. The solid
Northwest stands ono aud invincible. In.
deed, there is net secession enough any,
where North fo1 ssed."
The National Democratic party in the
North thus exists in It's unity, Intact and
unspotted-with . foothold now upon
dead weight negro ballast, which has been
uTSSSnS u IOs yeaSS 70 'SnO oOtsOm OF the
sea. II Democrats ore wise then, and we
old Wings Of the North are wise too-we
can all rise from the bottom, freed from that
drag-and under tho common cry Of the
Constitution, the Union, and the Enforce
ment Of the Laws, lift up tho Ship Of State
with white men only once more 70 man and
steer it. J.B.
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