Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-11-29
Cessespondence of the Press
Letter from professionally

While there is no real difficulty in the
Cabinet of Mr. Buchanan, there is mani
fest uneasiness. Mr. Cobb, two days ago,
had not begun to write his annual report
as Secretary Of the Treasury. He seems
10 be fully convinced that the crisis is at
band, and argues on this anticipation with
Characteristic ability and earnesness.-
When ] remembe. his able letter against
secession, in 1851, and his fearless deter
nination to make sacrifice of himself
rather than allow the thought of secession
to control the people of Georgia, because
of the passage of the Compromise Meas
ures, find it no easy matter 10 believe that
he can be sincere in his present opinions.
There is less cause for secessation now than
there was in 1850. The opposition to the
admission of California on tie part Of Mr..
Hunter, Mr.. Mason, and others, because of
its alleged extravagant boundaries, had
something practical in it; but l would like
Mr.. Cobb to tell me what reason he has for
asking Georgia TO follow South Carolina
into the wilderness of dissolution and of
anarchy? There is but one; and will he
admit that? He cannot make the election
Of Mr. Lincoln the pretext, because be was
constitutionally chosen, and Mr.. Cobb,
constitutional statesman and an experienced
lawyer, is bound, not only to wait for the
overt acts, but to regard him as innocent
until proved guilty. Will he, then, throw
himself upon, and 90 before his people
with, the idea that Georgia shall trail her
proud empire banner in the dust as the alb
ject inferior of South Carolina, only because
the South has become minority in the
Unione This is the pretext offered by
the reasonable fanatics of South Carolina.
They propose to leave the Union with
hurrah, and say that they do so because
they find themselves losing their influence
inside of our family of Republics. They
do not regard the election of Mr.. Lincoln
as the chief cause of their movement. 1t
comes 10 them simply as a provocative,
an appetizer, and stimulant, but they go
behind present or even recent events, and
declare that the safety of slavery in the
South is TO live outside of the American
Union. Now will Mr.. Cobb accept this
theory as his own? If he does, can he
Justify it TO himself as an honorable man?
With Mr. Cobb's opinions, he cannot re-
main in the Cabinet, should the President
take the Jackson, and, heretofore the Cobb,
idea, and hence it may be that be has a
reason for delaying the preparation of his
annual report. Should he 90, he will leave
in good humor, and will, of course, take
with him Mr.. Secretary Thompson of Mis-
sissippi.
The New York Herald has been trying
to create the impression that Governor
Floyd sympathises with Mr.. Cobb. If he
does, then there is no faith in man. l
know that within the last ten days he has
made the most positive declarations that
in no event would he consent TO seces-
sion or dissolution, simply on account of
the election of Mr.. Lincoln.
Mr.. Buchanan's message was not COM
pleted until Wednesday, and he is still pol
fishing it into shape. The ground he may
take have not been made acquainted with,
although sec that the New York Herald,
his personal organ, insists that he will
squarely reiterate and enforce the old Jack
son platform against Dullitication and Sc
cession. If he does, of course Messrs.
Cobb and Thompson will retire.
South Carolina has gone too far to Sc
cede. She will secede, and she will 90 it
alone, if the cannot get companions. Her
fire eaters have succeeded in firing the
hearts of the whole people with but one
idea, and that is of revolutionary independ-
ence. A gentleman present at Charleston
a few days ago, informs me that he never
saw anything TO equal the delirium of all
classes in that city. They are making flags
brilliant with lone stars, and heavy with
palmetto trees, which are hung out from
railroad depets and storehouses, hotels,
hose houses, and theatres. Ladies are
making cockades and banners, painters are
painting, poets are poetizing, musicians are
serenading, orators are speaking, and min
ute men are Organizing, and there seems
to be a general saturanalia. In truth, the
only thing that convinced him that South
Carolina was not so much in earnest as she
desired TO appear IN the newspapers, was
the fact that her people seemed to be
on grand frolic-a Grecian symposium,
where, for the time being, all thought and
all discretion are lost in the exhleration of
the moment. If General Washington were
to appear among these jewellers arranging
to destroy their country, and repeat his
Farewell Address, they might not burn
him in effigy, but they would order him
beyond their domains. But woe upon Old
Hickory! If he, like the ancient Cid,
could come forth from his charnel house,
and repeat bis proclamation, there would
be no respect, no refuge, no rescae for him.
Can it be possible that the border States
are ready to follow these frantic men? l
do not believe it, and therefore am not
sorry that South Carolina has put her foot
down, and has determined 10 lead in the
crusade upon the Constitution and the Un.
ion. With such a pioneer, Georgia, Ala
bama, Mississippi, and Louisiana may well
hesitate. OCCASIONAL.
iia The Vote of Georgia.
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