Newbern weekly progress., 1860-11-27
MONDAY MORNING, NOV. 90, 1860.
what viii be LincoIn's PoIicye

What Will be LincOIn's Policy.
Well really it is difficult to tell old Abe
himself don't seem to be very communicative,
and as to the platform of principles upon which
he was elected, it means eperything or nothing,
just as you please.
| All we have been able to gather from the
purposes of the President elect and those who
It is supposed will be his counsellors is embod-
led In the following extracts from the speeches
of Lincoln himself and Senator Trumbull, who.
it is supposed is in his confidence, from the
same State.
At the Republican jubilee at Springfield, Ill,
a few days ago, Lincoln made but a few re-
marks, but in them he is reported to have said:
''Let US at all times remember that all Amer
lean citizens are brothers of a common coun-
try, and should dwell together in the bonds of
fraternal feeling"
This is very good as far as it goes but We
would have been glad he had gone little far
ther, and declared that it was the duty of those
nine States which have nullified the laws by
their personal liberty bills, to repeal the same
and give assurances that fugitive slaves should
be delivered up in future
Senator Trumbull, who also spoke on the &C
cason referred to- and who it is thought is ful-
ly in the confidence of Lincoln and authorized
to speak for him, was little more full and ex-
plicit:
He says we are all interested alike in guild
ing the ship of state ''through the b0isterOus
acaces Of these tempestu0us times" Speaking,
then as the friend of the new President, and
in full view of the momentous eonuncture, he
declares that 1.-The Constitution in all its parts
fai fYoI
an ADLER defender than Mr.. Lincoln. In the
following passage he scarcely disguises that
he is speaking as the authorized representative
of the President elect: Mr.. Lincoln, al
though the candidate Of the republican party,
as chief aagistrate aciU neither belong to that
or aa1y other party. When inaugurated, he will
be the President of the country and the whole
country, and doubt not will be as ready to
defend and protect the state in which he has
not received sol tary vote against any en-
croachment upon its constitutional rights as
the one in which he has received the largest
majority; while they, by whose votes he has
been designated as chief magistrate of the re-
public, will expect him to maintain and carry
forward the principles on which he was elected
they know that in doing so no encroachment
eoiW be made Oh the reserued rights Of any Of
the states"
He again says, assuming TO speak for the Re
publican party, and, it is believed expressing
the sentiments of Lincoln, "When their po-
litical opponents" he syaS have charged
them with aboitionism, or attributed to them a
desire to interfere with slavery in the States or
some fanatic has insisted they ought TO do So
the reply has invariably been that the people
who made the Federal Government did not
think proper to confer on it such authority, and
1t has, therefore, no more right to meGldl6 acjth
sl0cery IN q State than 1t has to inteTere aojth
seyJaOHa IN Russia. Nor are the people of the
non-saveholding States in any way response
bic for slavery in the States which tolerate it.
because as to that question they are as foreign
to each other as independent g0rernnaents. ]
i have labored in and for the republican organi-
zation with entire confidence that whenever it
should be in power each and all of the States
! would be left in complete control of their
own affairs respectively, and at Us peycct A6er-
! ty to choose and employ their 0arH means otpro-
! fecting property, and DreSer0iRg peace and or
! der Dittin their rcspectiro ljmits as they h0oe
cr6r been under djlu adntn istratl0n. Those
! who have voted for Mr.. Lincoln have expected
and still expect this ana they would not have
voted Cor him had they expected otherwise
On the nther great question, in which the
the people of the North are 10 less interested than
these of the South, is practiced,
end grounds Of hope indicated that there
will be no collision between any of the states ard
the Federal Government. We quote:
- he CONSTITUTION lr0FtGeS no way DE winch
Il staff may withdraw from :hc Cnnn-nn way
for the ds>olutiu:: of the government it creates
The general government interiors but little with
the individual rights Of the citizen, except for
protection, 1t is chiefly felt in its benefits and
its bleSslngs-n in its eXactiOns !fcrcry Fcdrr-
al officer In South Carolina to resign 'hrir eff
racanf and its legislature deciGreS tie state
fine Union it ,c0uid all amount to little except
to inconreHeaee the citizens Of that state, long
the state did not interfere with the collectioA of
the revenue the srabOrd. The people in other
portions of the Union would not be in the least
recommended. What is the South Carolina army
to do when raised! Who is it to fight? Mani |
festy ifit commences on the United States
officers engaged in collecting the revenue. it be-
comes the aggressor. This would be revo-
lntion, and making without a cause for /
South Carolina makes complaint against the
present revenue laws"
But if secession should be attempted by meth
ods involving forcible resistance to the Federal
Government, significant ntimation is given of
what Mr.. LINCoLNs policy would be in that
event. Mr.. .TRUMBULL says:
"Should the conservative and Union men in |
any particular locality be unable to cope with |
their adversaries. and South Carolina, any 9TH |
er State under the lead of nulliiers and disunon-
lists, who have for years been seeking a pretext |
for breaking up the government plunge into re-
beon, and without cause assail by force of arms
the constituted authorities of the Union, there will
be but one sentiment among the great mass of the |
people of all parties, and in all parts of the coun-
try, and that will be that the CniOn-it must and
shall be preserred and to the traitors acho
,narshated against it,
So from the policy of Lincoln as foreshadow-
ed by Trumbull, South Carolina will be per-
mitted to do as she pleases so she does not at
tempt to interfere with the Government officers
whose duty it will be to collect the revenue on
the seaboard Should South Carolina deter
mine to go out alone, without asking or wait
ing fora conference whit he other slave States
we hope she will be left undisturbed, that
she may try the experiment of taking care of
herself If she scorns the counsel of her sister
States of the South, as the Charleston Mercury
in referring to a proposition of Virginia for
conference, intimates she will do, then we say
that other Southern States are under no obli-
cations to go out with her, or to stand by her
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