Gazette and sentinel., 1860-11-10
We Fear the Die is Cast!

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caniSm is triumphant, and we doubtif further
3 news VIII IN any wise Tighten the dark picture.
A sectional vote has doubtless succeeded in
fostering upon the American people the rule
oi a rarty whose battle cry j. free territory
wherever the foot Of IA slave troads,' and
whose principles and actions have been mark
cd by TIE d.r.,, hatred to the institutions, the
character and the interests Of the Southern
people.
TINS party, through lis recognized orators
and presses, has declared and made public its
professions and determinations The stand
AID plank of is platform is to strike and
spare not"-with the strength of a corporai's
guard or with the strength of the Govern
~ment-whie tie footprint of a slave remains
upon the soil of the Union.
The madiened and fanatic adherents Of this
party have been our aggresSors for thirty years,
while each year our sugar and cotton p'anta-
tons are adding more and more to their wealth
and arrogance. In return they 'smite the
band that helps them" Each year but adds
10 the value Of slave property which they
steal from Us by means Of 'undergroud rail.
raadS,' at the very time perhaps that they are
sending millions worth Of shoes, &c, to the
South for the benefit Of that very species Of
prOperty-making them swindlers as well as
thieves. They boast Of being the "law and
order" party, while opposing the prosecution
of the Fugitive Slave Law and maltreating
those who seek their property among them
under that law-thus adding the title Of out
avs to their other well earned subriquets.-
Their morals are centred in their pockets, and
the spirit Of their christianity is the spirit of
gain, and their political integrity and rever.
ence for the Constitution, are embraced in a
higher law doctrine, which might naturally
be expected to emenate from a conglomeration
Of principles arising out Of their mercenary
instincts, their affected piety and puritan;cal
patriotlsm-a doctrine which, in their eyes.
is an Improvement upon the principles Of
cur forefathers-which places John Brown,
"the martyr" higher in human estimation
than George Washington, 'the patriot hero
a doctrine, to which the agrarianism Of Red
Rcpublicanism acts the ~scullion and the lackey
d doctrine of ethereal aud mental charac.
~teTstics, in The minds of its proselytes, 81 Di.
vine origin and power, whose motives and
whose aims are above and beyond human i'm
parchment or human questioning, and before
which all the institutions and compromises
Of men, dawn Up as the law and foundation
OF mans government and the guarantee Of
mans national rights and existence, must pale
As II" earth pales before the setting sum
Whist can be expected of such a party,
which, 50 injurious TO Southern interests and
Constitutional rights in the incipiency of its
organization, holds out no stronger reasons
for national affection in the hour of a~nticipa
ted vidoryl
Can it possibly he believed that a party
which, in the face of such ayowed principles
or ldio>yncTasies-in the face Of so much
persistency and enthusiasm from its beginning
to the moment Of its greatest ,~riumph-a par.
ty that has acted so untiringIy, so consis.
tent!y and un7eservediy, in antagonism to the
principles Of equity and integrity, will now,
with the barrier Of public ratification and re-
publican right thrown around it by means
Of the ballot box, be less bod, less violent
and less inscriptions in t.. determinations
and actors-te>s urgent aud energetic in It's
God sent higher law mission, now that
its leader (n name) has the army and navy
at mis- beck, and the power of appointing his
own MTshals, L. S. Dis,ric. Attorneys and
Pos'mastsrs throughout the country, for the
dissemination of his doctrines and the arrest
and punishment of bis enemiesl
1t this Interrogation is replied 10 in the a>
trmative, through the actions of the Black
Republicans wh'n in power, after a war Of
th'rq years upon he institution Of Slavery
a war Of ianaticism, regardless Of all truth.
all r'shN. all law-w' can then begin to be-
l'eve thatHumanity is slie, and that the avow.
ais and acions of men. are no criterions Inv
which to establish their principles and their
designs. Or if this can be believed by the
Southern peopF, after all te Black Republi.
cans have SAID md done, aid thus Law still
and unprepared, they will b. exhibiting a
reck less credulity inexcusable in a people
who have been fOresarned by 20 many acts
of fiendish hatred tothem and their institu-
tons.
In a position of this ~chracter then, in which
the Southern people find themselves. + &c MT