The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-11-09
Tn. Preside n,ial Election.


we locked to the North we found a, party or
raniaed upon a senti nent of hostility TO the
social system of the South, and sustaining a
nom noe for the first Office in the Union upon
the one idea Of Incorporating war upon
Southern rights. Among the partisans of that
nominee was an immense body Of men who
were disciplined and drilled as soldiers and
bore the name of JoHS BROWNS Kansas band
OF fanatics, cut-throats and horse-steaiers--
viz: wide Awakes." Every incident OF the
campaign of this furious and fanaticai party,
led on by the arbitrator SEWARD ana ms
confederate was indicative OF hatred an"
viudicuveness towards the South. All sense
of obligation TO the Constitution ana 'he
laws-ail the feelings OF reciprocal anee'o"
between the people II the Nortn ana me So"'",
as descendants alike Of ancestors VINO pefiiieo
their blood and treasure for the rights and
Ilherties we enloy--all regard for the ties OF
xympa,hy and interest, the policy OF the COM
mon defence and general welfare on which the
Union itself was founded Under AN agreement
of the sovereign States-were utterly ignored
and the wild fury OF party and determination
to seize power and the perquisites Of office by
banding together every element of hostility TO
the South, ruled the hour, and reason and
right gave way to the mere will of numerical
power. =
When we turned to the South we beheld a
scene of discord without precedent in its his
tory. The several parties arrayed there
assins, one another were bitter In their de-
nunciations of each other, and active In the
raising and pressing of issues that were I'M
timely and Injurious in their effects. Alter
cation of the most Improbable character was
freely INDUCED and never before was there in
the South so much public speaking in Presi-
DENTAL canvass, and never 10 so little profit
and benefit. We may say never so much 20
the general injury and disadvantage of the
Southern people. Nothing could be more CRATE
fuI to the common enemy, whose drilled CO.
horts were steadily marching 10 victory. The
arch fisnd of the Internal regions could not
sloat with more pleasurable emotions over a
feud in Paradise, than did the partisans OF
LINCOLN over the idle internal war among
Southern politicians and their passionate fol-
lowers.
These scenes and this Improbable struggle
have come 10 an end. LanS dec! We have in
exchange for The dread of an event, the event
itself LINCOLN IS ELECTED. 1t is much
more grateful to a manly sensiblity to be
striving with foTiftude to repair the inju.
ries OF a calamity than 10 be tearfully con.
templaling one that we know not how &c
avert.
We can now take time to consider. Iuex-
perienced and hot-headed young gentlemen
who have in emperately and recklessly pressed
impracticable issues may now have leisure te
reflect and draw lessons of wisdom, we hope
from the errors which they have commit
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exasperated, whose lives have brought then
more grey hairs than discretion, may, fol
awhile, occupy themselves in the same pro
ftatle determination, though we fear not
with the same chances of benefit that are en-
joyed ny their younger contemporaries.
The election of ABRAHAM LINCOLN has in
deed pat this country in peril. With hin
comes that calamity which WASHINGTON
dreaded as wedge that would assuredly spill
the Union in twair, viz a sectional party il
one diyi.ion Of the Uaion founded on issue.
hostile to the people of the other, seiZing the
reins OF government and debating rulers te
the nation. He saw in this an outrage, ar
alienation OF the affection and sympathes
of the States, which, sooner or later
would dissolve the Union. He was right
1t can only be a question of time. Two
people who are thus led to hate on,
another, and struggle against each other, can
not long continue TO live together under tn,
same Government. Mr.. FILLMORE, who has
filed the seat first occupied by WASHINGTON
pronounced the triumph OF the sectional par ty
at the North a sufficient cause for the seces.
sion of the S3utherG States from the Union
and when he carried the argument home tC
his fellow. citizens of New York by asking
them whether they would submit if the
South, having the power, were to say thai
none but shareholders should hold the offic.
OF President and should proceed TO I'LL The
Presidential chair alone with such men-th,
unanimous response was" - And rightly
for that would be an exercise Of tyranny tina
make So omission n state of vassalage
Yet while we consider the continuation O.
the Black Republican crusade against tn,
South as Incompatible with the existence O
The Union, we trust that the South will for
bear at this time TO take any ex IRENE meas ure
Not that We wait for an "overt act" We d.
not "wait for a sign" The outrage perpe
rrated is great and cannot be wiped out by III
failure OF LINCOLN to commit an overt act
But there are reasons why we should wal
and try TO preserve this powerful union o
States. Ia spite of fanaticism and the unchival
rous and INSCRIPTIONS, and the low and de
PRAYED instincts watch govern the great bod,
of the leaders of the Black Republican part,
At the North.
1t is at least a reasonable conjecture tina
LINCOLN owes his elevation to the Presidenc,
to the divisions and discords OF those who ar
opposed 10 him and his party. Those who's
delinquency we may thus nationally conclud
3a;s a.
10 break up the Union for their own fault
Besides, we of the South see at the North al
immense body Of faithful citizens, who consti
tute large minorities in every Black Republi
can State, who have struggled with unfal ter
ing cons fancy against the baleful power of tn
party which hangs like black cloud over tn
fate OF the nation. They have been true t
the Constitution and to their felio W. citizen
of the South. Ought we not, for their sakes-
who have been true where it costs somethin
10 be true-to wait and struggle with then
a while longer, trusting that they ma,
yet rule the North through accessions I,
their ranks from the sober second thong h
of masses of misled honest meE, who hay
followed the deiusivs lights of the fanatic
and the unprincipled demagogues who di
rect the fell agitation in the free States p
May we not argue that this would be wise a NJ
considerable, and that the South may with Jus
tice TO herself pursue this course? MAY w
not hope that in four years, by calmly await
ing events, great revolution may take plac
in public sentiment at the North, and we shall
again have national parties predominatin
there which shall be in correspondence an,
sympathy with the same parties at the South
ard that the harmony and fraternal regard O
1he two divisions of the Union will be happil,
restored Let us at least hope that it will
aud that this Union is destined, lin spite of tn
gross alteration of the public mind at tn