The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-11-14

We give below, the Southern Geographic dis
patches, up to late hour on Sunday night. They
must 60 for what they are worth. Guns, drums,
cockades-marching, counter.marching, tarring
and feathering, and altogether it seems are to
end in a convention Of one or more States, to
zee about secession. Twice before, such con-
ventions have been held, and the world stands,
and the Union inside of it.
a doleful sound" comes from the TONES.
He resigns, sound always doleiul 10 Locoioco.
A Chestnut" also pops from the farmers fire.
without waiting for the monkey to make the cat
pull il out-so no more Of them, at least at Ma
tionsl expense. Two opinions appear oprevail,
even in the cotton States-the politicians being
for disunion or secession, and the People against
il. Time will show which will prevail. England
and Scotland saw such times in 1859, in Ills,
and again in l145, but the Government stood.
The House Of Stuart died in exile and privacy,
and William and the ;wo Georges in their beds,
aud the lneal descendant and heir of the latter,
now holds the imperial throne of England, Ire
land, Scotland and Wales.
The silk and velvet cavaliers" OF the House
Of Stuart, in its day, wore not only cockades,
but love-locks, and Toledo rspier. but against
them, the earnest voice of majority of the Com
mons Of England was raised, and it prevailed.
Secession IL revolution, and what is here to
Justify revolutisn9 Secession is revolution, be-
cause the constitution, which holds the States to-
gether, as a commonwealth, has no provision for
secession For all its constituted acts it has
provisions.
What will the world think-what shall We our
selves think A goTernment based upon basis
SO unstable as TO be without strength to enforce
an election held, conducted and concluded under
its very terms--nay, upon the very second arti-
Gle of the instrument Were such document
worth the eight years war, and the lives and
money and happiness which it cost?
England, with her unwrtten constitution, is
afflicted bv no such weak and insane fears of dis
solution, az the result Of every unexpected
change in Government, wiring the bosOms OF
our Locofocos who fear to lose Post-Ofhces and
Custom. Houses But England is sturdy and
s.eadfast When she did not want slavery, che
would not have it, but she passed no resolutions.
To France, it is all one, whether it be Mon
archy ard regning family, Republic, all En-
pire or Despotism, il is all one 10 her, so that
the chicken is in the pot, and the wne-cup is not
empty. She can have revolutions Of an hun.
dred days. revolutions of three DAYS, and coup
de etafs of one day, and dance and sing through
them all.
Americans are no Frenchmen they mean,
Government, laws, aud political obligations, when
they swear to support them, and when they elect
men who swear to support them. They do not
lCok upon the constitution Of the United States
- a rope o. sand, to hold or break, because
Toombs, or larcey, or Chestnut, or any other
Southern bully takes notion that he can't stand
President constituticnally elected.
As Congress has no power TO grant to South
Carolina or Georgia, the right to secede, in obe-
dience to the objects of their present action,
should they, with or without other States, hold
conventions, and make such demand, il would
be refused, either tactly or otherwise, what then
comes Of it? These States must return to their
allegiance, or resort to overt acts of treason. In
the latter case, who doubts what would be the
results We have no doubt The laws would
be enforced, at the point Of the bayonet if ne
oessary, and where is the true man who would
not help TO do it? Our Government has protec-
ted our fathers, and i, has protected rs. Shall
We fail TO requite the obligation. In case it
should come to this, then what becomes of slaves
and of slavery: In such case Southern man
might az well own a nest of rattle-snakes, and
take them to bed with him. The absurdity Of
these hot-hes is as manifest as daylight-so
plain that 81 who runs NAV read, and the way.
faring man, III ough a fool, need not err there
in ~"