The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-11-21
What Lincoln Will Not DO:

! A stor. has been in circulation for q week past
that Lincoln intended, after HE election, to write
letter promising TO be very conservative -
"a little Republican as possible The \. Y. Iri-
5nne makes the following sensible remarks On
the subject:
The rumoI atioat OF letter TO be written
10y the President elect, intending to soothe the
nerves Of those who have per.stently denounc-
ed him foe Of the Constitution and the South,
seems 10 Us as devoid OF intrinsic probability as
of positive support. II those who have hitherto
insisted on believing Mr. Lincoln all that he is
not and should not be viii tanldy read his dis
cussions with Douglas III 1858, with which We
shall lie happy to supply them they cannot tail
To see that their fears are fallacious and their i'm
putations groundess. II they will lot regard
what be so plainly declared long before he was
| thought Of for President and when he was ap-
peang for support TO the citizens Of Free State
only, they surely cannot be expected TO place
confidence in professions made under the imme.
date impetus Of the threats Of the FIRE eaters
that they are about to dissolve the Union where
OF be has been chosen President? If they be-
ljeve not Moses and the Prophets, neither would
they be persuaded though one rose from the
dead"
The y. Y. Times, commenting OF Mr. Lincoln's
position, says:
Something more serious than the existing
state Of afiirs will be required 10 elicit from Mr.
Lincoln at present any further declaration OF his
principles, or an assurance that the South need
fear nothing from his policy. He will deal out
equal ard exact justice TO all sections of the
country, and il would be admitting just cause for
suspee,ing his honesty, il he should Reuter- at
this time any expression of loyalty to the I'm
ion, or disavow any design Of infringing upon the
rights OF the South Il is regarded as a matter
of course that he believes what he has said !:
therefore il would be superfuous for him after
his conservative record as a member o: Congress
his frequently expressed belief in the States
rights doctrine, and above all, his strictly const.
tutional elevation TO Office, to put himself out Of
the way to allsy the grouudless fears Of his bit.
ter opponents, at the risk of being deemed a
coward BIZ his friends.
There can be no doubt whateverin the mind
of any man that Mr. Lincoln regards slavery a
moral, social and political evil, and that it
should be dealt with as such by the Federal
Government in every instance where il is called
upon to deal with it at ALL On this point there
is no room for question, and there need be no
misconception as to his official action. The
| whole influence of the Executive Department. Of
the Government while in his hands, will be
thrown against the extension Of slavery into the
Territories of the Union and the re-opening of
| the African slave trade .
On these points be viii make no compromise,
nor yield one hairs breadth 70 coercion from any
quarter or in any shape. He does not accede to
the alleged decision Of the Supreme Court, that
the Constitution placesslaves upon the footing of
other property, and protects them as such where
ever its jurisdiction extends; nor will he be in
the least degree governed or controlled by il in
t. H. l. = L
er, personally and officially, by the direct eyer.
else of his oisce and the indirect influence in
separable from IL 10 arrest the tendency to make
slavery national and perpetual, and to place it in
precisely the came position which it held in the
early days Of the republic, and in the view Of
the founders of the Government. On this point
We take it for granted be will be firm and i'm.
movable, 30 as to put it beyond the hope of any
class or any section to change his purpose.