The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-10-18


do not believe word of it. The fusion of New
York will carry that State against Lincoln, snd
without the vote of New York he cannot be elected
President There is, at this time, o hope too that
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Rhode
Island may go against the Black Republicans. If
Lincoln does not get a majority of the electoral
college, the election will devolve on the House of
| Representatives. The Senate will have to elect
ice-Prcsident from the highest candidates for
that office, who will be IIamlin and Everett. The
latter will be chosen. In the House of Represen-
tatyes there will be sixteen votes for Lincoln md
seventeen opposed to him. Of these seventeen,
four are equally divided between Bell and Breckin-
ridge. The friends Of the former will prevent the
election of the latter, and the fourth day of
March Edward Everett will become President of
the United States This, 1 think from present
appearances altogether probable. Mr.. Everett is
o patriot and gentleman, statesman and
scholar, and have every confidence in his admins
tering the Government strictly on Constitutional
principles.
But suppose it be Lincoln elected. Is that
any reason why should break up the Union,
throw the country into revolution and civil war,
and endangcr our property, our liberty and ln.G--
pendence And this, too, before We have seen
any danger. 1t would be like maps cutting his
thrAat keep from dying. What would you say
| of man who became alarmed, and was afraid that
his house would burn up some night because the
shingles were dry, and make his wife and children
sleep in the woods to avoid the danger of such n
conHagraton You would pronounce him mad
man And yet he would be acting with the same
precaution that chnraccrizes those who advise II
dissolution of the Union 10 escape the dangers of
Abraham Lincoln's administration of the Govern
the President elect can do no HARM If he advises
dangerous measure and it is adopted by the
House of Representatives, it will not pass the
Senate If Seward is nominated as Secretary Of
State and Sumner rs Minister to England, their
nominations will be rejected by the Senate.
1t does not become brave people wise peo-
pie to be alarmed too soon. When danger comes
let us meet it like men. DO not fly from an enemy
before you ascertain his strength. We will not
give up so great boon as this Federal Govern
ment OH an uncertainty. 1t would be like the lone
y traveller rendering his purse to a suspicious fell
low whom he meets in the woods before Ii was de-
manded. in order to save his life. The Black Re-
publicans do not pretend TO have any power 10 in
tcrfcre with slavery where ii already exists They
only contend for the right to keep it from going
where it docs not exist This is the worst feature
in their programme. And it really amounts to
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slavery can be carried, where it does not already
exist No one now supposes that slavery can be
! introduced into Kansas or Nebraska. 1t is already
established in New Mexico. And like water
which always seeks its leve, slavery will go where
T il is profitable, and cannot be forced where ii is
not. Every people soon find out their own inter
est and pursue it in spite of al legislation.
Southern politicians have been in the habit of
confounding the principles of the Black Republi-
can with those of the aboiitioniss. They arc dis
tinct and separate. The abolitioniss arc sincere,
honest, fanatics, -worshippers, who will not
be restrained by any constitutional principle from
the abolition of slavery. They have already de-
clared that they will not support Abe Lincoln for
the Presidency. Gerret Smith has been nominated
as the candidate of this party. He will probably
receive twenty thousand votes in the State CT New
York On the other hand, the Black Republican
party care nothing for the negro and will venture
nothing to accomplish his emancipation Their
only ambition is TO get the Federal Government
into their hands and share its spos and Offices.
The negro question they have agitated only for the
purpose of uniting the free States in Presidential
elections against the slave States. They know that
if this can be done they will succeed, for there is
a large majority of votes i'll the free States.
But, fcllow-citizens, the institution of slavery,
pervading fifteen States of this Union, forming tue
basis of their wealth and prosperity, worth hum
dreds and thousands se@illions Of dollars is too
sssron9 and powerful ever to be successfully as
sailed by any power on earth. have no appre-
hension of it. None at al. The African is adap-
ted TO slavery, and happier and better of in that
condition than any other. In all ages, for more
Than four thousand years past, he has always been
and must always be either slave or savage lie
has not the energy, industry or talent for selgov-
ernment and civilization. African emancipation
has been signal failure wherever it has been at
tempted. So happy and cop;ented is the slave In
the Southern States that he does not aspire to or
desire his freedom.
Let me tell you also, and all my fre-eating
friends throughout the State, that this great and
glorious Union of sovereign States extending from
the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, with her thirty
five millions Of Inhabitants eminent for their pros
perity their wealth, civilization virtue and patri-
otism, is likewise too strong and powerful united
by too many ties geographical, social, commercial,
agricultural, mechanical and political ever to be
DESTROYED whilst our present enlightenment and
civilization continue When dark age shall come