Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-10-06
THE ATTEMPTED TREASON WILL NOT
WORK.

Ex-Speaker Orr, of South Carolina, ha
Z addressed letter to Hon. Amos Kendall
who was Gen. Iachsons Postmaster Gen
: eral, Southerner by birth and denocra
I always. Col. Orr rather fstvors disuniol
: i'll the event OF Lincoln's election. To thu.
!, suggestion Mr. Kendall thus eloquently and
scathingly replies. The faulty and mad
ness of the secession movement in ligh
9 50 clear that the most prejudiced southern
er can understand it,
shudder at such sentiments coming
from one whose sincerity cannot doubt
: The time was when $50, 900 men rendered
their services to the President to aid him il
necessary in executing the laws of the u.
Estates; the time will be when 100000 will
volunteer for a like purpose, should resis-
Itance be made TO his legitimate authority,
NC matter by what party be may be elect
ed.
There seems to Inc to be in the course
recommended to the South, in the event of
Mr.. Lincoln's election to the Presidency, a
Ifatuity, little short Of madness. Would you
pull Gown the canopy Of heaven because
wrong and crime exist beneath it? Would
lycu break up the earth on which we tread
because earthquakes sometimes heave it and
lpestienee walks the surfacle? This Union,
sir, is too precious TO the people it protects
North and South, East and West, to be
ibroken up, even shoulda black Republican
be elected President next Noyember.--
Should the attempt be made, an united
North and three fourths of divided South
would spring to the rescue. No, no, the
remedy for the evils Of which you Justly
complain are to be found within the Union
and not among its bloody ruins.
4 admit that the greviences which you
enumerate are hard to be borne. but few
Southern men are not without responsible
.Ity for their existence The general senti-
ment Of the country, North and South, at
the close Of the Revolutionary war, was an
Iti-slayery. 1t has changed in the South,
but remains unchanged in the North.
You have long had in the South small
'Iparty Of able bodied men whose aim has
been to destroy the Union; that, as a pre-
Iliminary to their main design, they have
sought to brake up the Democratic party !;
that their means for accomplishing this end
were to act with it, and force upon it every
possible issue obnoxious to the general sem
Itiment Of the North; that they have drag
ged after them the true Union men of the
{ South, partly through their fears Of being.
considered laggard in their devotion to
Southern interests, and partly through ann
bition for political distinction; to make the
4 Democratic party as odious as possible at
the North, they became the advocates Of
slavery on principle, justified the African
slave trade, and denounced the laws pro-
hibiting it.
How DO you purpose to prevent the In
lauguration Of a black republican President,
should such an one be unfortunately elect
ed VIII you come to this city with an
armed force, and attempi to prevent an In
auguration by violence! In that event,
force would be met by force, and there
would be instant civil war, in which the
country and the world would declare the
South to be the aggressor.
He would be inaugurated here or els
where in spite of you. Well, suppose you
then attempt to secede from the Unon, and
resist the execution Of the laws? Every
lawyer in the South Knows that every citi-
Zen OF every State IS as much bound BY the
laws ofthe United States constitutionally
enacted as by the laws of his own State,
and that it is as impossible for the State to
relieve It's citizens from allegiance to the
4 United States as it is forthelatter TO relieve
them from allegiance to their own State
And it is the sworn duty Of the President
to take care that the laws of the United
States shall be faithfully executed upon
every citizen Of every State, and as long as
we have faithful President, they viii be
so executed if the courts, the marshaIs, the
army and the navy remain faithful to their
respective trusts.
IhTe is enc notable feature in ths att
tudc Of the South. The cry Of dsunon
comes mot those who suffer most from
Northern outrage but from those who suffer
least. 1t comes from South Carolina, and
Georgia, and Alabama, and Mississippi,
whose slave property is rendered compara-
lively secure by the intervention OF other
slaveholding states between them and the
free states, and not from Delaware, and
Maryland, and Virginia, and Kentucky,
and Tennesse, and Missouri, which lose q
hundred slaves BY abolition thieves where
the first nancd states lose one. Why are
not the states that suffer most loudest in
their cry for disunion?
They prefer to fight the AboIitionists, if
4 fight they must, aOittout the Union, where
their adversaries are somewhat restrained
by constitutional and legal obligations
No, sir; Delaware, Maryland and Virginia
do not intend to become the theatre Of des
olating wars between the North and fine
South; Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri
do moi intend that their peaceful channels
lof commerce shall become rivers Of blood to-
crafty the ambition Of South Carolina and
Alabama. who at a remote distance from
present danger CRY out disunion.
ANOTHER PEAKER Graham, a
former Dunleither, an old Californian, and
a man Of energy and industry. passed thro'
lDunleilh on Monday, on his way home to