Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-10-29

The DIsuNIoS CLoup.-Each succeeding day
that has passed since the late Pennsylvania cleo
ton made the probability Of the success of the Re-
Publican party in the national election the 9th
pfoxmo apparent to all, has made IL more and more
clear that that event is to be speedily followed BY
very widespread and dangerous action through
oat the South, to sever the bonds now holding the
several States Of the Confederacy under q single
government. Notes Of preparation to such an end
come to US equally from South Caroiipa, Florida,
Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Mississi ppi,
and, we regret to have to add, Virginia and Ten,
nessee also. They come In the shape Of news
paper articles, embracing demonstrations the
part of leading individuals and public meetings,
and prove beyond all question that very consid.
cradle portion ofthe southern people are prepared
to risk the eventualties Of disunion In preference
to continuing under the Government of the United
states with the Republican party In power.
Nevertheless we sincerely believe that II Lin
coin be elected, he will have 1t In his power in
SANITY to check thisssouthern tendency towards
Immediate disunion. That Is to say: by causing
1t to be at once everywhere known and believed
that his purpose 10 not to make an abolition gov
eminent Of his charge, as his eastern supporters
Insist he designs doing; but, rather, the
tive Wing government, which his western sup
porters for the most part counsel The absolute
necessity for the PRONUNCIATION of some such dec
laration Of his purpose must already be apparent
to him, IL he has duly noted the current of affairs
throughout the South. II not, we fear that by the
4th Of March next joint action on the part Of four
or five States to Set up southern confedcracy
will have been matured, with all the solemnity
and prestige that 1t can acquire from State legis.
latiOn and legally authorized state-conventIou
action.
Hundred, of Thousands at the South will spring
forward to oppose the destruction Of the Govern
ment without overt acts against southern rights
by those intrusted with Its responsibilities II sat
isfactorily assured that the incoming Admnistra.
ton may be trusted not to perpetrate such Overt
acts-hundreds Of thousands who now believing
that the speeches of Messrs Sumner ct al, and the
newspaper articles of the New York Tribr.< o.
al, are likely to prove the embodiment Of it,
policy with reference to the South see less to b
dreaded under the dark future of dissolution thar
under the apparently still darker future to the
South Of an abolitionized General Government
BY this time Lincoln must surely comprehend the
force Of this fact and must realize that his oAly
hope of coming into the Presidency of the Con
federacy as 1t now exists: lies in the promptnesa
| and earnestness with whith II elected, he shall
create a powerful real Union party at the South
by dispelling southern apprehensions a. to hi
purposes az the head Of the Government
The current nominal southern Union party ID
almost as powerless at the South for guiding and
governing popular action, 10 its representative
Bell-ar d -Everett;sm--at the North. Well nigh
as few live men Of the times are identified with 4,
In the South, as in the North. Lincolnls ultra
abolition supporters are relying upon Its southern
power, in seif-deception. We trust that his well.
known sagscity prevents him from placing any
confidence whatever In It, We repeat, he and he
only may ward OF the threatening danger, a. ex.
planned above.