Red Wing sentinel., 1860-12-05
WHAT WILL LINCOLN DO!
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Everybody is anxious to know what
I.incon will do, now since he has won
the golden prize. We think there can
be but little difficulty in sswcring what
he will not do. 1t is prctty,clcar that
he will not effect one single one of the
objects which broughtahi,n into power.
The destiny Of the Territories can not
be altered, for even Seward admits
that they will all be free under the
operations Of the present laws. Free
spe eech will stand just where it now
ST ards +; free homes, and all the free
humbugs with which the peoples ears
have been stunned for the last five
years, will remain just as they now
exist. They will be saved up in the
party armory for new agitation for the
election in 1864. Not one single slave,
more or less, will be cmancipatea BY
means of his election. The only effec,
upon the poor African will be perhaps
to get him murdered in some hopeless
attempt at insurrcction, and to bind
his chain little tighter. The world
need IL OF look for relief in any of these
matters from Abe Lincoln. He has
too much sense to touch them. If he
mentisns them at all, it will be simply
because he knows he cannot effect
them. It is therefore very clear what
lie will not do. re
What he aoiH do we think is not
very difficult to foresee. His first
great effort will be to ally with the
Wing party in the South, and thus
nationalize the Republican party. To
do this he will be compelled to aban-
don the 'tirrepressible conflict This
he will do fully and effectually. He
will not deny his past position but he
will declare that the long looked for
and happy hour has alrely come
when the public mind rest in the salu.
tary belief that slavery is in the pro-
cess of ultimate extinction. There
will be no further need Of the slavery
agitation.
Abe has always ccntended that he
was not particular about hundred
years or so; he only wanted the nation
to rest in the belief of the ultimate ex-
tinction Of slavery, some time this side
the day Of judgment. Go it, Abe
the road is open, and they can't COR
ner you on this point. They will cry
"dough-facc" little at you; but what
care you, when you have got in the
White House, beyond the Ohio river.
"'rlcrc at them thou Thy tail may toss,
A running stream they dare ma cross"
The slavery question will thus be dis
posed Of and satisfactorily announced
to be already in the process Of ultimate
extinction, and Of which will be quite
true; for Abe knows that the moment
the agi,ators let it alone, and cease to
make it political question:, that moment
the process of its extinction commen'
ees SIS slowly and certainly to Operate:
This bugbear once settled, the
road Of Old Abe begins to. clear up.
He at once saysto the Old Wings Of
South, ''let us now renew our covenant
since the only question that divided
Us has thus been EXHAUSTED and set.
tied" lie shows them one hundred
millions Of spoils, under a high tariff,
to pay them for the 1aunts Of the fire
eaters, and demands to know what is
to prevent them from being re.baptiz-
ed into the cid communion, "scein9
there is much ecater here.'' Bell and
Rives 60 into the cabinet; the immor.
tai Bolts is provided for, and other
Southern worthless, who have long been
choked off from public crib, bought
over by the glittering prizes Of the
Ipublic patronage! s--.-s.r.. 49, a3.g
7 Thisiis Lincoln's programme as we
understand from outside stand point,
Sectionalists will be completely sold.
Seward, Wentworth and Carl Schurz
and the like of them, will foam with
rage: The Democratic Republicans
will damn the wl4ele proceeding as q
"Whig trick" The four years ofAbc
Lincoln's term will be spent in trying
to keep the Union together, to undo
what he has done. and reform the
old Wing tariff party. The whole
farming and laboring people of the
Northwest and the Middle States
will be sold out TO the manufacturers
Of New England; while the Wings OF
the South will sell out the planting and
farming interests Of the South to ge,
office and save the Union. Depend
upon it, there will be general *sscll.'
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