Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1860-11-30
State Of the Nation.

that of which this nation has recently
been the troubled field, have in consid.
cradle degree subsidized, and the novelty Of
success and defeat has measurably worn
off, both for the victors and the vanquished
it becomes all men, of whatever party,
section or temper, to consider calmly and
nationally the state of the Nation; to dc
nothing rashly or passionately, lest it may
result in some incurable evil.
1t is time when the victorious Repub.
licans, especially, can well afford to be
calm and conciliatory in all they say Oh
do.
Retaliation has for years been the poi.
soncd arrow that has been hurled back
and forth between the North and South,
until the blood and ranking of many
wounds have corroded all mutual sympa-
thy, and well nigh dried up the sources
patriotism and national glory.
The desire for the perpetuation of the
Union, which once was looked upon as
a sacred necessity, has, both in the
North and in the South, gradually been
growing less and less. Disunion SEN
timents, that few years ago would
have smitten upon the ear like the
i" crack of DOOM" now meet with no posi-
tive rebukc, but with much direct encour-
agemcnt.
1t is true that all active measures of
secession originate at the South but there
is at the North a growing feeling of apa-
thy and Indifference upon this subject,
which really adds greatly to the power
and vigor of the secession sentiment.
This calmness on the part of the North,
begets course of action in the highest
degree exasperating; nay, which amounts
almost to an absolute challenge, a species
of proposition which Southern blood is
not apt to reject, even though danger and
death lie in the way ....
Whatever other causes may have been
at work in the Southern mind, to bring
about the present crisis in our national af-
fairs without doubt the ultimate cause is
the election of the man Abraham Lincoln
to the head of the Federal Government.
That his election gives no :hadow of a
right or excuse for secession on the part OF
any State, it is needless to assert. 1t was
carried strictly in accordance with the
constitutional provisions in such case
made and provided. This being the case,
Secession Is Int another and milder name
for treason.
AS to the expediency of secession on
the part of the South, it is evident, and
enough, to say that however great the in
jury resulting to Northern interests there
by would be, Southern interests, in all re-
spccts, would, beyond doubt, suffer inf
nitcly more.
The truth is, the South have tempered
with the imp, Secession, little too long.
1t has grown to strong for their control.
What at first was intended only as bug
bear, to use for political ends, has grown
to be frightful living presence which
even its sponsors cannot look upon with
out trembling. They have been led by
their hot-headcdness, 50 deeply into the
game that they are both ashamed to back
out, and call it farce, as they intended,
and afraid to 60 ahead, and become re-
sponsiblc for its results.
We believe, we are confident, that
Northern men, and the Republican party
especially, have it in their power, by talk
ing one course to give them an opportu-
nifty to retreat from their unpleasant po-
sition, with grace and ease without
which opportunity perhaps they never
will; or by taking another course, to cx-
asperate them to precipitate themselves
and the country into inextricable misfor-
tunes.
The feeling of the South is such that
only little oil would soothe the troubled
waters; and that oil the Republicans in
this hour of victory and triumph, can well
afford to give. a381 hao b
Instead of rccrimination and retaliation,
let all such unconstitutional and really
idle laws as our Personal Liberty bill, be