Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-11-24
The News Of the Day


How sadly the times are out Ct joint IL most
forcibly illustrated indeed, by circumstances in
volyed In the events which are just now occupy
ing the largest share Of the public's attention.
In Kansas, the late followers Of John Brown
or Onawatamie Brown-banded together to the
number Of from three to Eve hundred, under the
command Of the miscreant Montgomery, scarcely
less notorious for his crimes perpetrated in the
Territory than John Brown himself. armed with
Shapes rifles and revolvers but Just brought to
Kansas by him, in person, from Boston, 10 muir
dering and plundering right and left, having
dispersed an United States Court, seized Govern
mentfort, &c. The purpose they are said to avow
10 10 march to Arkansas and Texas and there to set
up the standard Of insurrection among the slaves
The uPshot Of their erploits-however soon Gen.
ersl Harvey may exterminate them, one and all
Will be the generation Of belief throughout the
South that this Boston work Is but the frat prac-
teal fruit Of the election Of Lincoln.
From tie South, we have Senator Toombs
svowing lin his Interruptions Of Mr.. Alexander
Stephens while delivering the speech Of which
we published an abstract on Thursday that It is
the purpose of those who would precipitate all
the slaveholding States into revolution, not to
permit the Southern people to act deliberately
upon their plot. He proclaims that they want no
Convention; but rather that the decision shall be
made upon the naked question whether the South
shall fold Its hands and take no measures what.
ever for the maintenance Of its rights, or shall
plunge At once into revolution. Or, n other
words, he avows the determination Of the dis
union leaders TO be to usurp the government Of
the Southi scouting the idea Of permitting the
people there to have equal voice, with them, In
determining what IL cir course shall be.
We have also before us the last received num-
Der Of the Richmond Enqxi,sr, once 20 wisely,
nationally, and periodically conducted, apollo
giving for and justifying this position of Toombs,
keitt, the Charleston Mercury, &c. in It's answer
to the declaration Of a conservative Virgil Ia pa
per, that Virginia, refusing to be dragged into
revolution without her consent, will stand, a
power for peace, between the extreme North and
South
From Illinois, too, we have reports Of recent
speeches of Mr.. Lincoln, which show that he Is
either wholly Ignorant Of the state Of things ex-
listing throughout the South, or has permitted
himself to be persuaded by those around him that
he has no duty to do In the crisis His speeches,
IL accurately reported, are but such as one would
look for from the captain Of some visiting military
or fire company; utterly unworthy OF man In his
position His mouth-piece, Senator Trumbull, is,
however, making speeches upon the state Of the
times, wherein he proclaims for the President
elect the laters determination to carry out to the
letter the purpose Of excluding slavery from u
:. Territories, and to suppress secession In the
South by force Of arms II Mr.. Trumbull is au-
thorized to speak thus for Mr.. Lincoln the fact
only proves that the latter is utterly incompetent
to graPple successfully with the difficulties that
are to surround his Official position Nothing has
occurred SO likely to convince all well-informed
and sensible persons that Mr.. Lincoln il not the
man for the crisis, this threat, In advance. TO
use hre and the sword upon the South
In the first place, he will not have at his abso-
lutte command a thousand troops that can be used
against seeding States. II he would employ
more, he must 60 to Congress for authority and
means to do so; and both branches of Congre..
are opposed to any such work, as being sure to
drive the whole South, in their present temper.
into revolution. He will receive no encourage
ment there In purpose Of forcing Maryland,
virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky,
ana missouri into the position Of unwilling allies
OF the South Carolina revolutionists. There does
not live within their borders a single man, to the
manor born, who, II compelled to take up arm,
on one side or the other of such a contest will
hesitate to take them up in resistance of the an.
plication OF force by the Federal Government
against the extreme Southern States It's amazing
and one OF the very worst signs of the times. that
MI Lincoln falls to appreciate that palpable fact
which all but those who Immediately surround
MIN now SO clearly comprehend. Unless very soon
opening his eyes to that truth, he will but take
the reins Of the government in hand to dash Il to
pieces In six months beyond the bility Of its
eventual reconstruction upon Its existing basis.
Surely 1t is time for conservative people North
and South to move. In our own section there
exists but a single remsdy-legally authorized
conventions Of the people Of every slaveholding
State, which shall adopt ordinances to be enacted
by their several Legislatures, compelling the
Legislatures OF non-slaveholding States that have
nullined their constitutional obligations In con.
nection with the question.
to repeal their obnoxious laws, under penalty of
the loss Of all their Southern trade.
Throughout the North the remedyis in popular
action making IL plain to those who now AZ
evidently control Mr.. Lincoln, tina, they NAV not
dare to assume positions that bid fair to drive the
whole South out Of the Union In six months from
the 9Th Of March next.