Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-11-21
THE pIsUNIoN MOVEMENT.

The tldlngS from the South are OF more
harmonious and peaceful character. While
we admit the existence of great popular ex-
/ citement, the most conservative indications
| present themselves. In Baltimore there is q
| better feeling among commercial circles, and
the former activity in trade is about to be re-
newed. In Georgia the members of the Le-
gislature, forgetful of the danger hanging over
our late lamentcd and beloved country, are
dividing themselves off into Cobb and Iverson
factions, the object of each cabal being to
elevate their favorite into the Senate of the
United States of North America. This is an
agreeable sign among the tumult of disunion.
| Florida has intimated an intention of joining
South Carolina, while through Virginia, Ten
nessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina conser-
vative counsels are rapidly increasing. In or
der that our readers may judge for themselves
as to the character and extent of the secession
movement, we append few extracts from
Southern papers.
From the Baltimore, Maryland, Clipper
| The fact is, the politicians but not the peo-
pie of South Carolinia, Georgia and Alabama,
| have for months past made so many threats as
to what they would do in the event of the cleo
|
or, to do something. The occasion they con-
templated has happened and they cannot let
| it pass without some action. They are doing
| as little as they can. They are making dis
union speeches and propose to call conventions
to deliberate aud determine what should be
done. They don't intend to do anything seri-
| Gus. They will content themselves with pass
ing resolutions if they only let alone.
When the secret is told, it will be ascertained
that few interested Southern politicians and
a few interested Northern merchants are at thtl
bottom Of all these SO called diSunion novel
ments. The great conservative sentiment Oh
| the country is silent. The masses who ard
opposed to disunion have not hing to say. They
make no demonstrations. They are waiting q
quietly for necessity for action. They ard
not to be victmized 10y silly fevers or by hot
headed speeches. When the time comes folt
action, if it ever should come, which God irl
his infinite mercy forbid, they will be found
ready and willing to act and to take the leaCt
where the noisy disunionsts will be afraid toI
| follow; but that time is not yet. If thesel
people in the cotton States are only let alonel
severely they will soon froth out their rage and
settle down to equanmity Of temper and con-
clude to wait patiently to see what they shall
see. They will discover that under existing'
circumstances they canrot present to the coun-
| try sufficient justification Tor secession or
revolution, and they will resolve to wait for
an occasion, for some overt act of aggression.
From the Louisville. Kentucky Courier
| Kentucky will not go out of the Union in
| consequence of the election of Lincoln. We
| do not suppose there is man in it who
thinks she will take such step. She will wait!
| and hope, until there is room for hope !
| But she will not aid Lincoln or Gen. Douglass
! in hanging the citizens of any State for obedi-
| ence to the constitutional authorities of SUCH
| State. She will not become the hangman of
| the Federal Government in such case. She
will never permit an army of Northern merce-
| naries to be marched across her territory to
| force one of her Southern sisters to remain in
| U Mon from which, in proper manner, she
| has determined to withdraw. She will advise
| moderation, counsel prudence, urge forbear-
| ance, use all her influence TO induce the South
| ern States to remain in the Union until there
is no hope for peace or justice, safety, in it !;
! she will, and can, and ought, to do no more.
| From the Raleigh, North Carolina Register.
| If Lincoln has been fairly elected according
| to the provisions of the Constitution and the
| laws. then we, for one, are willing to give his
| administration fair trial. Now, if this frank
and honest avowal on our part subjects US to
| the serious charge of being either sssubms-
! sionst' to the North sEtraitor' to the
| South, then let it be written down against us ;
| yea, let it be also engraved upon our tomb
stone after we shall have been hanged for our
:streason,'' that we loved not wisely but too
I .
| and of all those Revolutionary heroes and sages
| who were the achieyerS of our liberties, the
! trainers of our Union, and who transmitted
| that Union to us cemented with their blood
From the Petersburg, Va, Intelligencer.
The returns in have shown beyond doubt
| that Lincoln is our next President. We fear no
evil from his administration. We do not be-
| lieve that he will tramplc on our rights, but
| will pursue vastly more conservative course
| pnnpaVOrpl tO m
press upon the Southern mind he would pur-
sue. Apart from this, for submitting
| to the Constitutional expression of the opinion
| of the majority. We shall (shonld the Union
! be preserved) support him in his constitution
al action, and oppose him when he pursues
| the opposite course.
| The Nashville, Tennessee, Patriot, after an
nouncing the election of Mr.. Lincoln, ridi-
cules the position of South Carolina, and
| adds -
eve entertain the loftiest respect for Gov
| Gist; we greatly admire his remark able
| strength of character, as well as his scholarly
! mind, as exhibited in his mastery State paper
labeled 'sNo. l,' and we have always been of
the opinion that South Carolina is about the
| only State in the Union that is entitled to any
constitutional rights or worth continental
| cuss; but notwithstanding that respect, that
| admiration and that opinion, we would advise
| him and South Carolina to adjourn their Le-
| gslature as soon as it fixes up its electoral
business, and then go home, strap down their
pantaloons. and hire somebody to hold them
until old Abe gets to meddling with matters
that don't concern him, and then feather in
upon him and wear him out.''
The people of South Carolina and some of
the following despatch, are getting tired of
|