Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-12-14
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Delaware Dec. Il, 1660.
DIsUNIoN MovEMENTs.
II is noa eonceGled sn all hands that what
has generally been regarded as impossible un-
Ger any conceivable state of affairs-a disrup-
tion of the American Uuion-is almost GER
tain TO occur, indeed is inevitable. That
South Carolinaa wil1 seeede within ten days
from this time, there is no room for doubt !;
and that Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, aud
Florida. and probably Louisiana aud Texas,
will soon follow her example, there is every
reason 70 believe In South Carolina the en-
tire population seems 70 have inbibcd the dis
union virus and they are, so far as outsiders
can judge. entirely unanimous for secession
and any treasonable measures necessary TO
carry it out In the other States named there
is union element, but it IS not demonstra>
tive, and The iisnnionists being blatant active
and aggressive, there is danger, and the indi-
cations are strong in that direction, TINT the
conservatives will be run over and overwhelm-
ed by their ciamorous opponents, and state
of affairs produced that win lead them to fol-
low in the wake of South Carolina, In the
border slave States the union sentiment largely
predominaies, bat in most of them, as alse in
North Carolina and Arkansas, The disunien4
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lists are active, and every possible effort is ma
king to induce them TO hitch on TO the
secession train and unite their fortunes with
the prospective Southern Confederacy, in
which, If once formed, South Carolina and
the other cotton States will hare the control
ling influence and cause the same troubles they
have produced in the present Union.
The result of secession it is impossible to
forcsee. Could the pestilent State Of South
Carolina be quietly disposed Of, it would be
universally regarded as happy riddance, and
it would matter little what became of her
But her going, establishes a presidents must
under any possible sinte of affairs be attended
with serious trouble; and may invulyelthe en-
lire coufiieracy in internal strife-while the
threatened extent Of the movement greatly
magni6es the difficulties to be encountered.
However much to be, deplored, the crisis ID
upon US and must be net--and that the con-
sequences may not be as serious as there is
reason to fear they viii be, must be the sin
ccre wish Of every lover of his country. That
it will affect the South far more, seriously than
! the North, whatever shape it. may assume
i there can be no doubt. That the North is
responsible for the existing state Of affairs, or
rather that it is the legitimate result of Lin
colB-s election, is gross and malignant slan-
der. The thing has been brewing for near
thirty years, and the. RepuhlieanEtriumph il
| merely seiztd upon as sprctext for carrying
outthe previously arranged programme, the
chief feature Of which looked to disseverance
Of the q MON, The Republicans have made
no war on the rights Of the j people of the
Southern States, and do not contemplate in-
reference with them; and whatever may be the
issue Of the present commotion, and whatever
the troubles in which the people of those
States may become involved in consequence
thereof, they can be truly attributed only to
their own madness and Jolly. ' $685. ---
We copy the following paragraph from the
Cincinnati Gazette of Wednesday
Never did events thicken upon the great
theater of public action with such startling
rapidity as now. We are in the midst Of one
Of the most thrilling dramas that The world
has seen, the shifting scenes crowding upon
each other in continuous succession each day
big with new Developments, aud the fearful. de-
nouement-which, however, is perhaps but
the beginning of the end-likely 10 burst up
on US within the brief space of thirty days.
But five days remain until South Carolina
meets in Convention, when she will undoubt-
cdly declare herself out of the Union. The
Conventions Of the other Cotton States follow
at brief intervals, and by the middle of JAM
uary all will probably have launched upon the
treacherous and unknown sea of secession
What will come after that, whether compro-
mise and reunion, final and peaeeable separa-
ton, anarchy and war, the wisest OF us can
not foresee. Without realizing it we are the
witnesses of, and actors in, events which fn-
ture historians and later generations may re-
gard as among the most momeutous and de-
eisive in ancient OF modern times.