The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1860-11-10

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lring n falIlpocksts We ars for paying
them every ceut thht the South owes
them. but IL the contingency contemplated
he south wit owe dpties 10 itself which
/, Gnu not neglect. III the event hIdica
aed our merchants must have an extension
of one full year a hast" 1s
The Memphis Enquirer says;--"It l.
useless TO attempt 10 disguise from our
selves or our readers the fact that, 10 the
states south ofthe Tennessee line, there
Eis daily on the increase spirit which
regards with utter ind ference al the con
sequences that may flow from q separation
OF those states from the eonfederacy IL
il openIy aud freely ayowed by many that
the election Of Lincoln will be y signal
for the disunion movement. IL is not ~
ali improbable that tie governors Of Mis-
sissippi, Alabama, Georgia aud South ca
rolida will call special sessions Of their
legislatures. the moment itshaH be ascer..
tained that Lincoln is elected. These
legislatures win call conventions Of tile
people OF these states, us SOON as y can
possibly be done; and il Is easy to con-
Ieeiye that such conventions, chosen SO
soon after the election OF so sectional q
candidate is Lincoln, will be composed Of
l men Of ultra views on the political issues
.Eof the day. II Lincoln Is elected, II would
II be folly to doubt that each Of these states
Iljast named will, through their conventions,
proclaim disunion at once. The delegates
would come together burning with indig-
nation at the idea Of being governed by
such a man; and there would be no time
lfor thought or delibeTation. They would
Il 'precipitate areyolntion' before the cooler
heads OF the country could counsel with
each other; and all wiz be lost.
The Nashville Patriot INDUCES itself, As
follows: I'll Is now certain that should
Lincoln be successful IN the pending race
|, for the presidency. and should the
7 disunionists carry the cotton states by
4 large majority at the ballot-box, there
will be an effort made to disrupt the gov
/, ernment,a part Of which effort will be resis-
lance to his inauguration as chief magis-
trate Of the United States The southern
stconyention Is to meet at Atlanta. Ga, on
!. the first Monday after the election to re-
= tceiye the returns, and to devise the most
I suitable means 10 sffectuate the plan Of
i secession and disunion Upon the hap
tpening of the two contingencies named
! the success Of Lincoln and large Haiori-
! ~ vote for breckenridge In the cotton
j states I'VE will have STIRRING times
! between this and the ,4th of next March.
{ All the principal steps TO carry out the
+ plan Of resistance and to make il success.
I ful, will be taken, before the day set apart
! for the Inauguration All this will have
d 10 be done during Mr.. Bachanans term
! of office. Aud the question very hatur.
/ taliy arises, what will he do? Will@he
! stand by silently and let the preparations
I for dissolution and revolution 20 oill So
H soon Us the movement is made in tie
South towards organized resistance, VIC
may expect the North TO enter upon .
coGaier movement, probably on the found
lation already laid by the wiae-awakes
4 While the latter could reach tile federal
lefty without difficulty, the marches Of the
fsonthcrn army would be attended with
Embarrassment, because they would not
meet with sympathy or encouragement Ia
,tgoing through North Carolina, Tennessee,
Ior Virginia, Bat whatever may lie the
'fcomparutiSe facilities Of the two, tie same
\ grave and portenioIIs question still stands
out, what will Mr. Bachanan dog III may
bc that the cotton states will rot deem il
Indispensable to go TO Washington; but
content themselves by declaring, by con,
yention or through their legislatures, the
Union al On end-witlidraw their delega
tions from the Federal Congress. aud
refuse TO have nly part or lotin tne fur,
Their administration They would thus
tgiYe up the Federal capital, with oil lis
Earchiyes and public property to the cue.
, my, and loss all the vantage ground u
, appearing to stand on Union soil aud
!. lighting within the Union. But they may
, Econsider it prudent to do all this rather
than encounter the hazird Of u march to
n Washington. II they pursue this course
they will proceed, OF course; to- assemble
a southern congress mt some other point
and initiate measures TO set in motion the
machinery Of q new government. In either
event the question still recurS, what will
Mr.. buchanan do? Can anybody answer the
question for himI IL the fanatical mad
ness Of the sections shall continue, and the
/, great cause of the Union shall be swal
lowed up in this wicked and seuseless
strife, the question will have to be answer.
: ed, 1t will be QUE Of the most serious
import ever presented to President 81
i the U nion, in its relations both TO himself
: aud his country Mr. Buchanan had as
well now begin TO contemplate it in oil its
j awful magnitude, that he may be ready
! to act when the hour for action shall
! arrive. We still have the hope that the
J sound sober thought Of the masses OF the
people every where will rise up, to prevent
the happening Of either OF the coutingen-
cies above suggested; but il the people
] SHOULD fail to come to the rescue Of the
country in the omnipotent instrumentality
I Of the ballot box, then all must look
{ IeyentS sauarely in the face as they arise.n