New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-12-27
what HIr. Lincoln wlll Do.

The New York Herald publishes the following
dispatch:
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Dec. 20. The Springfield
Journal of day has startling leader on seees-
sion, which, from the peculiar relations of the
paper to the President elect, has great significance
1t says that South Carolina cannot dissolve the
Union by the simple passage of resolutions or other
passive demonstrations. Her Federal officers NAV
resign, and she may close her courts and post-ofi
ees, but she cannot go ont Of this Union until she
conquers this Government, While this Government
endures there can be no disunion.
II South Carolina does not obstructt the collection
of the revenues at her ports nor violate any other
Federal law, there will be no trouble and she will
not be out of the Union. If she violates the law,
then comes the tug of war.
The President of the United States, in such an
emergency, has plain duty to perform. Mr.. Bu-
chanan may shirk it., or the emergency may not
exist during his administration If not, then the
Union will last through his term of office.
Ii the overt act on the part of South Carolina
takes place on after the lst of March, 1861 then
the duty of executing the laws will deyolve upon
Mr.. Lincoln.
The laws of the United States must be executed.
The President has no discretionary power on the
subject. His duty is emphatically pronounced in
the Constitution. Mr.. Lincoln will perform that
duty.
Disunon by armed force is treason, and treason
must and will be put down ut all hazards
The Herald publishes also the following in let
ter from Springfield
mentioned in a former letter that among the
most noteworthy phenomena in the political spheres
of this latitude, at the present time, was the fact
that the Daily journal OF this city, the central or
gan of the Republicans of Illinois, had of late been
evidently made the authoritative vehicle of Mr..
Lincoln's views on current events. Since the pub
lication on Wednesday last of the paragraph bear
ing upon the proposed selection Of representatives
of the South of the John Bell school, hardly an
issue appears without containing some editorial
matter unmistakably stamped with a semioffical
rhnpn
some very significant articles, the most interesting
portions of which / embody in this letter. The
vigorous exhortation following Immediately after
this will attract special attention. 1t confirms
what said in my last of the "growing mettlei' In
Presidential circles:
STAND FIRM-BE TRuE,-We feel indignant some
times when we hear timid Republicans counselling
an abandonment, in part. of Republican ground.
We are asking for nothing that Is not clearly right.
We have done nothing wrong. We have nothing
TO apologize for, nothing to take back, as party
We have fought hard battle; we have come out
OF 1t victorious; aud shall We now call back the
routed, flying enemy, and basey surrender all that
we have gained? Never Let us stand hPm as
the eternal hills upon the Republican platform, and
turn this government back into the channel in
which the trainers of the Constitution originally
placed IT, Some there are who counsel mr. Lin
coin to take into his cabinet two three gentlemen
who do not agree with him politically. They do
not know the man. On the 18th of jane, 1858, in
speech delivered in this city, Mr.. Lincoln said;
10ur cause, then, must be entrusted to, and CON
Quoted by, its own undoubted friends-thoss whose
hands are free, whose hearts are in the work-who
do not care for the result. Two years ago the Re-
puhlieans of the nation mustered over thirteen
hundred thousand strong. We did this under the
single impulse of resistance to common danger,
with every external circumstance against us. OF
strange, discordant and even hostile elements, we
gathered from the four WINDS and formed and
fought the battle through under the constant hot
fire of disciplined, proud and pampered enemy,
Did We brave all then To falteT now now, when
that enemy is waveriDg discovered and belligerent?
The result is not doubtful. We shall not iail--f
we stand firm we shalt not fail. Wise counsels may
accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or
later, the victory Is sure to comet
The victory has cOme-brilliant, glorious, over
whelming. Mr.. Lincoln himself led the triumphant
host The people have entrusted their eanse 10
him, knowing his hands to be free !" his heart in