Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-10-04
THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 4. 1860:
what WIZ MIR. Buchanan DO

IL Is now certain that should LINCOLN be
successful In the pendilg race for the Prrsi
dency, and should the disunfonists carty the
cotton States by large majority at the bal
Ioi-bON, there Will b. an effort made 10 dis
Tapt the government, a part of which effort
will be resistance to his inauguration rs Chief
Magistrate of the United States. The South
ern Convention is to meet at Atlanta. Ga.
on the first Monday after the election TO re-
ceive the returns, and to devise the most suit
able means to effectuate the plan of secession
and disunion. Upon the happening of the
two contingencies named-the success of LIZ
CoLS and a large majority vote for BREckIx-
ridge in the cotton Staies-we will have stir
ring times between this and the 4th of next
March All the principal steps to carry out
TIE plan of resistance and to make il success
ful, will be taken before the day set apart for
the Inauguration. All this will have to b..
done during Mr.. BUCBASAN's term of Office.
And the question very naturally arises. that
will he do? Will he stand by silently sed let
the preparations for dissolution AID reFOIu-
sion go on? So soon the movement Is
made in the South towards organized resist
anee, We may expect the North TO enter upon
counter movement, probably on the iOunda- |
ton already laid By the Wide-AwakeS While
the latter could reach the Federal city with |
out difficulty, the marches of the Southern |
army would be attended with embarrassment, /
because they would not meet with sympathy /
or encouragement in going through North /
Carolina, Tennessee or Virginia But what
ever may be the comparative faciIi les OF the
two, the same grave and pOrtenlauS question
still stands oEt, what viii Mr.. BUCHANAN do?
1t may be that the cotton States will not
deem it indispensable TO go to Washington
bot content themselves by declaring, by
Conventions or through their Legislatures
she Union at an end-withdraw their dele
cations from the Federal Congress. ard refuse I
to have any part or lot in the further admin, /
istratiOn. They would thus give up the Fed
eral Capital, with all its archives and public |
property to the enemy. and lose al. he want
age ground of appearing to sisad on Union /
Foil and of lighting within Ia Euiun JSut |
they may consider it pzuGeRt to do sIi this |
rather than encOunteE iae hazard of 4 march |
W "N1H5NN-- - MY pursue tiiS COaE>e, Ii
they will proceed, of course, to assemble a |
Southern Congress at some other point. and |
initiate measures to set in motion the ma |
ehineFy of a new government. In either |
event the question still recurs. what will Mr.. |
BUCHANAN do? Can any body answer the
question for him If the fanaticaI madness |
OF the sections shall continue, aud the greaf /
cause of the Union shall be swallowed up in /
this wicked and seDeseless strife, the question /
will have 10 be answered. 1t will he one of
the most serious import ever presented 20 a
President of the Union, in its relations both
to himself and his country. Mr.. BUCHANAN
had as well now begin to contemplate it in
all its awful magnitude, that he nay be ready
to act when the hour for action shall arrive.
We still have the hope that the sound sober
thought of the masses Of The people every
where will rise mp to prevent the happening
of either Of the contingencies above suggest |
ed but if the people should fail to come to
the rescue of the country in the omniDotent
of the ballot box. then all
must look eEents squarely in The face, as they
arise.