Gazette and sentinel., 1860-10-27

Saturday, October AZ, 1860.
The Indie atoms of the Coming
Storm.

Without any desire to exile alarm,
says the Washington Constitution, we
nevertheless feel it a duty we owe the
public to present everything calculated
10 produce reflection and cause the ma
jority section to view with calmmcSs the
consequences they may bring about in
pushing an insultcd and ~aggricved
people to the last extremity Of human
forbearance Below we give an editor
ial article from the Georgia Chronicle
and Sentinel, the leading organ of Bell
and Everett in that State. This paper,
as is well known, has manifested a more
than prudent devotion to the Union Ill
der all the circumstances of its location.
We now read its articles, more as the
reflex of public opIi.A2g than as indicat-
ing any change OH its part or any gra-
LITIGATION in the course the paper is
now compelled to take. 1t is not 50
blind as not to see the storm that will
come if the North persist in elccting to
the two first offices in their gift section
al candidates, upon sectional principles
-avowing in advance irreconcilablc
hostility to the Institutions and threat
ening the peace Of the iircsides and the
homes of the South (:
Matching the Scorpions Egg.-Time
tries and proves all things. Causes
must eventually produce their natural
effects. The slavery agitation will soon
make the North and the South trO seper-
ate nations, unless it can cease, of which
we have little hope. What then? Sure
ly and steadily the North is warming
into life the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
shall destroy either her form of govern
ment or all her material prosperity
perhaps both. Within herself she con-
tains, deep and thick and strong, the
seeds of self-destruction. Even now
they are in the process of coming into
full life. Northern people fancy that
we have arumbling Volcano in our midst,
we feel secure, because we kaOar we can
control ourselves and govern ourselves.
But throughout the North lawlessncss
is rife. Mobs grow by a breath-the
rabble hold torchstaffs in one hand, a
ballot in the other. Men gaze upon and
enjoy the spectacle of the semi-military
organization, the marching Wide-A-
wakes. Ten thousand of them doubtless
do make a grand display.
But what are they? Rulers. Whom
do they rule? They rule the hour, and
passion rules them. A very little cir
cumstance might drive those ten thous-
and t~Orch-bearers to a general %cOnfa-
grafton. They are ripe for anything
self-government. With proper
appliances and a daring leader-some
spawn Of the Points-they might in
three days erect the barbados in Broad
way, tear stone from stone of every
prison house, unchain a monster more
than a thousand pestilences,
and in blood inaugurate revolt. Revolt
against what ? Against society, against I
against property, against all gov :
crnnent. What shall hinder them? =
Reason! Reason does not reign. The !
.aw! These make the law, elect the Ju- '
ilclary and Executive. The military? Z
They are the military. Public sentiment? U
These are the public sentiment. embod-
ed and incarnate. Let loose these 2
lends, and what can control them? Il
There is nothing to control them save |;
virtue and intelligence, and these "
are gone. What holds society together, t.
then! Nothing but the mere accident a
these men have not tasted blood, Il
have never tasted their powers. C;
fire and unchain this lawless rabble 81
nee, and who shall know the end? m
The demonstrative Wide-Awakes may c.
yet, should the signal be given, com a
nence a drunken bacchanel, to end in IL
'ne Wild orgies of blood, of carnage, lust I'll
ihu rapine. Let the North look well to ia
herself; Let her guard her own inter- of
1sts: ohe is only nursing wrath: and III
.ne N may come much sooner than pl
,APected that these semi-military organ. W
the sport of the hour. shall an
rect the guillotine, tear down tho tn