Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1860-10-27
ANOTHER LEAF SHOWING THE AP-
PROACd1NG COMMOTION.

PROACh1NG COMMOI1ON.
Below we copya an editorial from the Chicago
Times and Herald, the home organ Of Judge
Douglas, showing what men at the North
think of the da gers that now beset the Re-
public. Let the true men of. the country
read reflect and respond in such way that
the patriot will rejoice, and the popular heart
be made to beat in triumphal joy over peo-
ME rescued from all the horrors of civil COM
motion:
D1SUNIoN.-The republican journals are
some Of them, already warning the people
against appeals for the safety of the Union
The people Of the North are being stimula-
ted by appeals to their pride to unite and to
e7cfv the disunion spirit OF the South. 1t is
claimed that the simple fact that the wrongs
heaped upon the South are to be inflicted
under the forms of the Constitution, is an
overwhelming answer to the resistance Of the
South. We are not of those who attempt to
make bug bear Of disunion. That the
Union has been more than once in actual
danger, we verify believe. That it never
was in so imminent peril as now, we equally
believe. As Northern citizen, we would
by no means suffer ourselves, or advise others
to take counsel Of an unmanly fear. he
danger at present is not that we shall be actua-
ted bv untimely fears, but that we cannot
believe the real dangers that menace U.S.
The cry of danger to the Union has often
been raised, and sometimes falsely. Those
who have used such threats for mere party
ends have been the cause Of great, and per-
haps irreparable, injury to the country
These false clamors, and the safe adjustment
of our real dangers, have tended to induce the
very general belief at the North that all the
threats Of disunion are hollow scare-crows.
The false clamor about disunion islittle more
wick ID than this false sec;;;.-it5 Is fatal. u
Lincoln is elected Ike great question ls to be
tried, whether the Southern people Will sut-
fer themselves to be undRrsthe absolute con
troll Of hostile body of men, organized and
living wholly outside their limits and be-
yond the reach of their influence. We trust
they may do So But there is one argument
put forth why they should and will yield ODE
dience that will have little weightsouth of Ma
son and Dixons line-and that is, that Lin
coin will be elected under the forms of the
Constitution.
The Southern people believe that while
his election may be covered by the ages of
the Constitution its object is the violation of
their dearest rights under the Constitution.
| They granted the trust powers of the Consti-
! tuition to the control of the majority, with
the belief that they would beshared by them
selves, and would be exercised for the common
good and that when an inimical sectional
majority wicld them to their oppression, it is
"a virtual forfeiture of the trust. They do
not doubt, either, that the most intolcrable
| oppression might be carried on under the let
ter of the Constitution itself, and that it mat
! tiers not to them hOtc they are oppressed, SO
long as the fact exists. These we know to
be the views of the Southern people. How
far they will feel justified In asserting their
rights Of selt-prcservation, upon the election
of Lincoln, we know not. But we must, in
all caudor, say that we have reasons to be-
lieve that they will make the effort to place
their interests promptly under their own pro
lection The evidences OF sectional aliena-
ton and general distrust are complete. We
have, too undoubted evidences that power:
full organization exists, pledged to prompt ac-
ton, and that it is rapidly increasing. One
great motive is stimulating the idea of imme-
diate action, which is wholly overlooked in
the North. The people OF the South very gen
orally believe sooner or later the Union viii
! be dissolved, feel that to suffer the army and
the navy and the whole power of the central
government to pass into the hands Of their
enemies would render their efforts to form a
separate government far more difficult and
dangerous The feeling is therefore gaining
| ground chat they must secure their footing
before Lincoln gets the power OF the govern
| 1ent.
We have many reasons to believe that the
people of the South anticipate the election OF
Lincoln, and that they are organizing for
action Upon the views just sugggge suggested. The
recent results in Pennsylvania. Ohio, aud In
diana vii. not tend to lessen their fears or
preparations. tits believed In the North
that a majority of the Southern people would
not think the election of Lincoln cause for
dissolution. This may be true, and perhaps
as true. But the large majority who do think
it good cause, and the men who are disunion-
lists per Sc have resolved to force the issue, as
We verify believe. This, we have no hesItan-
cy in saying, they have the power to dos
Fifty thousand men even might by Their ac-
ton, bring on results that would involve the
| whole South. That Lincoln's election would
pass off without disaster we do not believe Tor
one moment We say this in Sorrow, not
in anger. We say it in no sense; as.we have
before said, as appealing to the fears OF the
public, other than those just and patriotic
fears which ought to make men review their
opinions and calculate the cost Of their action.
aea The Hon Daniel; S. Dickinsonso of New
York isoutin letter, calling, in stirring terms,
upon every national Democrat to come ont
and give his vote and influence tosths Onion
Electoral Ticket,