Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-11-30

that State, so long as the State did not in
tcrfere with the collection OF the revenue
on the seaboard. The people in other por-
tions of the Union would not be in the
lcast incommoded What is the South
Carolina army to do when raisedf who
is il to fight? Manifestly if it commences
n war on the United States officers enga-
ged in collecting the revenue, 1t becomes
the aggressor. This would be revolution,
and making war without cause, tor South
Carolina makes no complaint against the
present revenue laws. Is she prepared
for this-to become the aggressor. The
only use | can see for her Minute men is
that they will enable the people the more
readily to suppress any uprising in their
midst, which their misrepresentation OF
purposes may have encouraged. She COM
plains that the Fugitive Slave law IS not
executed in some of the States. Inns, II
true. the whole country konws to be a
sham. So far as South Carolina is con-
cerned, she is so situated that no slave can
escape from her limits into Free States
however much cause the border Slave
States NAV have to complain OF the es-
cape of their negroes into the Free States
II is clear South Carolina can have no
such complaint. In her resolves she pro-
fesses to be preparing to defend herself
AGAINST enroachments on her rights. Let
her adhere to this policy, and not attempt
to dictate to other States what they will
do, and no collision will occur, for no en-
croachments will be made. The disunion
feeling in the South is, doubtless, greatly
exaggerated. A sort of terrorism scenes
to prevail in some places, which, for the
time, appears to have crushed out any
manifestation of Union sentiment But as
the causes for this excitement are all I'M
aginary, the election of Republican Pres
| ident. in the constitutional mode, certainly
affording no excuse for it, it is reasonable
to suppose that reaction will soon take
place among the Southern people them
selves, which will overthrow the disunion-
lists at home.
1t is a great mistake to class the supper
tiers of Mr.. Breckenridge as disunionists.
Some few of them may be, but Mr.. Breck-
inridge himself, and his supporters, as a
class, are, / doubt not, as sincerely attached
to the Union as many of those who, for
political purposes, during the recent excited
contest sought to fasten on them the stigma
of disunion. Should the conservative and
Union men in any particular locality be
unable to cope with their adyersaries, and
South Carolina or any other State, under
the lead Of Nullifers and Disunionist:
who have for years been seeking pretext
for breaking up the Government, plunge
into rebellion, and without cause assail by
force of arms the constituted authorities o
the Union, there will be but one sentiment
among the great mass of the people of al
parties, and in all parts of the country, ant
that will be that the Union--it must anC
shall be preserved" and woe to the traitor
who are marshaled against it. Should am
Republican inquire what has been gaine'
by the triumph of Rupublcanism, | an
swer much. We have gained decision
of the people in favor of Pacific Rail
road-a Homestead policy--a judciou
Tariff the admission into the Union o
Kansas as free State--a reformation il
the Financial department of the Govern
ment--and more important than all, tn
Verdict of the People--the scource c
, power, and whose decision there is no an
peal that the Constitution is not Slavery
extending instrument. No more Dire
Scott decisions will now be made. Free
. men, both of the North and of the Soutl
will hereafter be protected in all their cor
) stitutional rights. The policy of the Gov
E eminent, as Of old, will now set in fave
< of Freedom, and not for the supremacy {
d Slavery, as has been the case for the la:
e six years. Freedom henceforth will be tn
: law of the Territories, because the people
e in their majesty, have so ordered, and ne
S Their Conrts nor Congress will be able
thwart their will. When full effect sha
t have been given to all these great measure
r of the Republican party, and the prejud
: ces engendered against it in the minds {
: many, by the artful appeals of demagogue'
r who have misrepresented its objects, sha
e have been removed by actual knowledg
] of its acts, we may expect the bitterness q
S party spirit to subside, the cry of diunio
r to be hushed and the principles of Repub
d licanism to become the permanent polio
r of the Government, under which it wi
n flourish and prosper as / trust forever.