New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-23
TIE SECEssIcN MOVEMENT.
GOV. IETOHER's LETTER.
TEE HON. A. II. STEPHENS SPEECH
SECESSION MEETINGS.
YIN. southern Press on the Crisis.
THE TRUTH OF THE CONSPIRACY


usher States is by no means unexpected, and |
Rey who suppose it to be result of Mr.. Lin |
soln's election, or Of the Republican success,
have either been very indifferent observers of |
events, or are easily duped by superficial specu-
lators. What was admitted the other day by a
leading member of the Legislature of South
Carolina, is really true This so-called crisis is
a legitimate consequence Of twenty years educa-
sion in hatred of the Federal Government. The
present generation in that State have sucked in
treason with their mothers milk, and have
only waited favorable opportunity to make
good the threats of rebellion which have hereto
fore proved impotent, or have been restrained
by motives of policy. The same feeling extends
20 portions of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and
Florida. whereto either South Carolinians have
migrated. or the theories Of Mr.. Calhoun have
esen accepted as the law and the prophets.
Every calm and intelligent observer of the
nroeeedings of the bate Democratic National
Convention at Charleston, who was not en-.
crossed with the partsanshp which ruled
ibe factions 50 strongly, must have foreseen,
a. / did, the inevitable explosion which
occurred there, if he had any knowledge Of the
tempers Of the Southern delegations which &C.
esded, because they were not permitted TO die
aate terms Of submission 10 the majority of that
body Many of the rash and impetuous mana
gers, who are now figuring in the secession
scheme. went there with the ayOwed purpose, as
was repeatedly declared in my presence, of
breaking up that Convention rendering harmo'
nious nomination impracticable, and, through
divided party, securing the success Of the Re.
publican candidate-wbo they desired should be
Mr.. Seward-with the ultimate design of "pre-
"eiptatng the Cotton States into revolution, as
Mr.. Yancey was candid enough two years
Ego to declare to be his most cherished object.
These motives are, however subordinate to the
grand inspiring idea which animstes the present
conspiracy. Long before this election it was
toreseen that the census Of 1860 would shift the
center of political power, and extinguish the
influence which has controlled the policy and
dispensed the patronage of the Government from
the adoption of the Constitution in 1889 down
b. the end of Mr.. Van Buren's Administration,
with the exception Of two terms filed 10y the
elder and younger Adams. Since 184l, there
have been six Presidents, three Of whom were
SOuthern men, while Pierce and Buchanan have
been even more Southern than the South. 1t
mattered not how this election terminated, the
doom of that domination was sealed, and, though
Il might possibly be postponed, it could not be
really averted.
Ambitious sspirants who had been looking TO
f6e White House for years. saw that the mex
srable logic Of free population excluded their
hast hopes in the Union as it now stands and
hence they, and others with different purposes,
have been airing their zeal in an excess of en-
thusiasm for a Southern COnfederacy. That is
The inspiration of secessiOn it is the reason why
Mr.. ToOmbs nominated himself as " candidate
"for the White House of Georgia" and why
others have sought notOriety, expecting honOrs
and profits in the new political FL Dorado.
When Mr.. Calhoun failed to attain the Presi-
sency and broke with Gen. Jackson, he con-
soeted the scheme of notification, aud pursued
She igmis fatuus Of a Southern Government to
The last days Of his life. The conspratOrs who
are now trying to put on bis cast-of garments
are cheered by the same ambition. And if that
contamination could be achieved without involv-
ing serious perils the experiment would be well
Rorth trying, in order that the world might See
10 al their naked deiormity, the struggles and
xivalres Of those who sought in dsuniOn nothing
out the qualification Of their own pride, prefer
sfent, and vanity South Carolina would not
remain two years in such Confederacy and
abe would secede from the Cotton States as she
now proposes to secede from the North, when
ever they refused to recognize the complacent
preteDsions to superiority which her leaders
have always assumed
Whenever the point Of real danger shall come,
the Southern States themselves will find o mode
of eItrcatiOn for the rebellious member, which,
Tor the third time in quarter of a century, has
Fcv0lted against the Constitution and threatened
defiance Of the laws. The true policy for the
North 10 pursue at this time is TO let her Sc
rerely alone. Keitt & Co. would die out in
week, but for the notOriety they gain in the
kswspapers, by these contriyed paroxysms, in
which they threaten to stop the course of the
planets and 10 tilt over The earth of it's axis.
Let them rant, aud fuHe, and fret TO their
hearts content. We who have seen them do so
before, are not in the least disturbed and sleep
quite az Well as Nr Webster did after Gen.
Hayne had discharged his battery, and knocked
him, ss he and all Carolina supposed into flinders.
Since Kett has been left cut Of Congress, he
thinks the Government ought to be torn asunder
from "turret TO foundation" and believes him.
self the ordained Samson who is TO pull down
the pillars OF the Capitol. Other excited patriots
have thought 40 before and yet two additional
wings have been built, and magnificent dome