The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1860-11-29
The Cause and the Remedy.

The Cotton States are IN turmoil
Their Immediate neighbors partially SYM
| pathize in the excitement. What Is the
| cause of this uproar below the Potomac
We pass over the prime source OF all this
confusion-the irrepressiblc conflict" be
tween radically hostile social, industrial,
and political systens-and notice only two
OF the more recent and obvious causes.
!. The wantou Misrepresentation 81 the
principles and objects Of the Republican
party. The political organization which
has just elected Mr. Lincoln arose out Of
the repeal Of the Missouri Compromise,
and the consequent conspiracy to plant
slavery in Kansas by fraud and force. Its
clearly defined purpose from the outset
was simply to right the wrongs of Kansas
aud prevent the extension OF slavery into
Free Territories Ii Is stated, over and
over again, and in the most authoritative
form, that it does not propose to interfere
with Slavery an any State where it now
exists. These articles of its creed were
known and read OF all men who could read
at all. And yet the credulouS and ill-In-
formed classes of the South have for years
past, and especially during the Presiden-
tial contest which has just closed, been
assured, in the most solemn manner, by
leading statesmen and journals OF the
North, that the Republican party was bent
on oyerthrowlng Slavery in the States
through the action of the Federal Govern
ment, and that ali It's prOtestatlons to the
contrary We're sheer hypocracy. This
wanton falsehood, reiterated and persisted
in for years, has doubtless contributed
largely 10 the excitement which now per-
vadcs the States bordering upon the Gulf
Of Mexico
H. But this alone would not have been
sufficient to drive those States to the cx-
treme length to which they seem teuding
For twenty-five years past, a band Of con
spirators have existed III the extreme
South, whose ultimate object has been the
dissolution Of the Union, and the estab-
lishment Of a slavcholding Coniederacv,
to be composed of the cotton ard sugar
raising States. The central point of this
conspiracy was South Carolina; the chief
conspirator, Ohm c. Calhoun. Dying, the
great nullifcr left his mantle to Rhctt
Hancey, JEFF. Davis, keitt, Boyce aad the
like. who have worn it with such dignity
rs they were able. With them, the eiec-
ton OF Lincoln is not the cause, but the
occasion, for trying, in the language Of
lancey, to 'precipitate the Cotton States
into a revolution.
Each Of the classes we have named
have combined to produce the commissions
now agitating 50 large a portion Of the
South. The leaders in the secession con
spiracy know that the Republican party
does not mediate any assault upon Slavery
in the States. With them, the dissolution
Of the Union Is toregone conciusion-
They only seize upon the election Of Lin
colE as a preteNt for consummating pre-
meditated treason. But, influential tho
they are. they have been able to lure 50
large a proportion Of the masses of their
people into this conspiracy only by means
Of the falSehoods in regard to the Repub-
lican party which Northern politicians and
Journals have coined and circulated among
them. IN accomplishing this netarious
work, each Of these classes IS essential 70
the other. IN breaking up the Union, the
Northern lihoier and the Southern nuIlii-
cr are cooperating, each in his appropri-
ate sphere.
hat can be done to dispel the lurid
cloud which skirts the Southern horizon?
Let two classes Of citizens act promptly,
and all will be we'll:
]. Let those who have libeled the Re
publican party, come out and confess that
they have told falsehoods about it, Let
them depute their chief men, their Ever
etts, their CushiHgs, their DougIasses,
their Seymours, their Woods, to 20 70 the
Cotton States and assure our Southern
brethren that they and their followers
have slandered Us. This will accomplish
a thousand fold more to quiet their appre-
tensions and s0othe their nerves. than a
letter or speech from Mr.. Lincoln, whom
they have been taught TO regard as IA
matte and an incendiary.
H. Let the President and his Cabinet
do their duty. Let Mr. Buchanan at once
deny the grave charge OF Keitt, that he
was pledged to secession in advance In
his annual message, let him assure the
country that he has no doubt that the Ad-
miuistration of his successor will wage no
unconstitutional war upon Slavery IN the
States. but viii seek to protect the rights
and promote the interests of all classes in
all sections Of the Union.
Thus may groundless prejudices be dis
PEELED, grave apprehcnsions quieted, and
the South persuaded to calmly await and
candidiy judge the policy of the incoming
Administration.-N. J. TtTJaute
STATES TO ELECT TCoNGREssM MEN.-The I
following States, which have not yet cho-
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