Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-11-15
The North and the South

note Of warning put down the schemes Of
a band OF reckless traitors In some res,
poets it IS different now. Instead Of an
iron wiled President who declared the
" C,tion mast and shall Be preSereed,' We
have weak aud yasciilating man at the
head of government. who keeps in
Office some Of the tory miscreants who
sympathize and perhaps aid and abet the
traitors who talk of dissoIying the Union
It is on this, no doubt, the Yancys Rhetts,
and their vile associates rely, believing that
they can carry out the scheme Of "precipi-
Eating the cotton States into a revolution"
without interference on the part Of james
Buchanan, and commit the people of the
South TO the folly of setting up govern
ment Of their own Were there a line
Of division by which these insane men
could be shut out from al! fraternity with
the middle and nearer Southern States,
We should heartily wish them out of the
Uaion, for without one-tenth cause of COM
plain. that Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky
and Tennessee have as to the loss Of slaves,
it is fact that South Carolina and Missis
sippi have done more TO cause disturbance
and reflect dishonor on the country and
is institutions than all the others eombin-
ci. And for what? The Philadelphia
Inquirer, q neutral paper, has aa article
which answers this query,
First, let US present the case Of the
North, as it should lie regarded by our fell
low countrymen at the South On Tues
day, 9th November, the Chief Executive
Magistrate to serve for tour years after the
4th Of March, 1861, was made BY ma
jority Of voters, and their choice is
\ braham Lincoln, of Illinois. This act Of
the people is looked upon by some of the
citizens Of minority Of the States as good
cause for scvcr.n2 their connection with
the Union, and thereupon declare their
purpose to Secede. II there IS anything
IN this act to justify secession, it mus. be
in the manner Of Mr. Lincoln's election
in his conduct and character as a public
man or in the authoritative declaration Of
principles Of the party by which he was
supported So far as the election is con-
cerned, it was conducted in perfect con
formity to the Constitution and laws. Just
as every other Presidential election has
been and therefore there can be no room
for complaint on that score. As to Mr.. |
Lincoio himself, he has served in Congress.
and has occupied conspicuous position in
the public eye, as the competitor Of Judge
Douglas fer seat in the Senate of the !
United States; and he has, therefore. !
record upon questions Of national politics |
upon which be can be Judged. When /
tested by this touchstonc, (and it is an or,
dea. from which not few ot our states
men sometimes shrink it viii be found .
that he has never east vote, nor express
sd sentiment as public man, in which !
ho has not the companionShip of Clay,
Webster, Fillmore, Everett, and their CON- I
peers-men whose patriotism is uudoubt- I.
ed. Mv.c than that, they are men to whom I
the people OF the South were perfectly
willing to entrust their political fate =
Hence, if the political record Of Abraham
Lincoln presents any act done by him, or
any principle of puillc policy that he en-
tertalus, which makes his election lust
cause Of secession to the people of the
Sou,h, the record Of Clay, Everett, Web
ster or Fillmore would have furnished the
same, if either had been elected to the
Presidency at this time; yet, who would be
insane cnough-to maintain such an absur-
dity Is TINS
The same course Of reasoning will lead
to a similar result as to the platform Of
principles upon which his party placed him
before the public There are, Of course,
vide differences Of opinion in regard to
the s,unduces oT the different matters of
poacy declared in the resolutions passed by
the A'cago Republican Goa, en5:on. This
has always been 50, and viii perhaps al
ways continue to he 50. But whatever
differences u opinion may exist. truth re-
quires the admission that there is neither
principle nor sentiment in those resolu-
tions that has not, at all periods of our his
tory, been held by statesmen who were hon