The Oxford intelligencer., 1860-12-05

! Leaving out Of view allpreyious aggrc.sions
and violations-pf law By the Nprthern States,
We think that it is, notwithstanding, for the
honor and safety Of the South and her cherished
Institutions to sever all political conneeton With
those States. We believe that there mud be,
sooner orlaier, SEPARATION. and all tho Dictates
fprudcnee teach US that it Is safer to with
draw, nos, while our sword-arm is still free,
and Strengths left US to WELD the bright blade
IL need be, for tho protection OF our rights, our
property, and the dear household deities that
are shrined in our hearts. Every impulse of
honorable feeling warns Us that the execratioRs
of an outraged posterity VIII be heapcd upon
our memories il, cowardly and slavishly, We
bend ''the pregnant hinges ofthc knee in sub
missiye expectation ofsueh further wrongs and
indignties as may be imposed upon us. Histo-
~ is eloquent in warnings as to the wretched
fate of nations that have bought peace at the
price of national dignity or national honor, and
unhappy Ireland is living monument of the
degradation to which people sink who tamely
submit to be enslaved under the forms Of the
law. rl
Ne propose, in this connection, to give some
oftbe reasons which influence us 70 believe that
the southern States, by prompt secession from
the Union, and by such course only, can free
themselves of their intolerablc burdens, and
H;Rg alof their banner nntarnished by dis
honor.
l.. Ncmay rest assured that Mr.. Lincoln
Ill IA ~ h. .,la,
rcnlgc, for the purpose of weakening the insti-
tuition Of Slavery. His anteccdcnts, and those
of his party, teach us to expect this lie is too
willy to commit any overt act and his advisers
are long headed and foxy, and win never permit
him to do anything to wake up the wrath Of the
South. But quietly and warily, yet nevertheless
persi,ently, he will seek to corrupt public opin-
r ion and build up party of defenders amongst
u.s. In the Cotton and Sugar States, he will APP
point none to Office but such as have the conf
dence of the community, and are superlatiycly
sound on the Slavery question. If such men
will not hold Office at his hands, Mr.. Lincoln
may leave the offices untitled and attempt to
force us into soliciting him to make appoint
mcnts. Such may tie his policy in the extreme
South. But, in the border Slave States, he will
act on different principle. Wherever the SEN
tiucnt Of the community will tolerate it, Mr..
Lincoln will appoint TO Office those of his own
creed and party. The result of this policy will
be most disastrous to us. A large anti-slaycry
element will be infused into the States named
An anti-s!avery party would be formed, and
having the prestige of power and the bait of
spols to assist t il would soon corrupt what is
called ''thc floating vote" of those States, and,
coming thus into possession of the balance OF
power as between other parties, would be
courtcd, and nattered, and tempered with, until,
as elsewhere, il had been foistcd into importance
as leading party. Then, too the impunity
aud rapidity with which the operations of the
sun 'crground railroad were carried on, would
make negro property insecure. Owners would
sell or remove; and gradually, but sure as the
T day, the border States would become abolition
lied Thus the Gordon of Stree" States would
be drawn about us more closely and fatally, I'M
i'll, like the noble eagle, AROUND whose body is
cocd the dreadful snake with It's clasp ofdeath,
and whose eye grows dim and whose wings flap
+ YEARLY, til they are folded, and the proud bird
falls hcadlong from its sunward ilight-we
would he cuibcd in our high career aud fall
helpless in the dust at the feet Of this mad party
in power.
.. Our only object in clinging still TO tlie
{ Union, would be the hope that the people of the
free States may yet he brought to their senses,
and that they may, after ALL agree to reseind
the obnoxious laws upon their Statute books,
and give us, in addition, further and more rs
surcd guarantees Of protection to our negro
propert, and all our interests The unrcasona-
blcncss Of indugng in such a hope seems to US
too apparent for demonstration. In all the
free Saei excepting insignificant California,
New Jersey and Oregon, the Black Republican
party has been overwhelmingly triumphant In
the language oil the Chicago Democrat, "they
have done the work so cffcctually, that they
cannot be misunderstood This complete sue
cess has been obtained with seemingly insupcr-
able obstacles to contend against. They
fought against the conservative element Of the
whole country, North and South. They fought
against the love Of the Union as our fathers
made iI-a love existing wherever the fell spirit
or abolitonism had not tuned the Ia a Is Of the
people TO rerolution for the radical change in
our system of government required by the arti-
cles of faith of the Republican party, amounts TO
absolute resolution Then; also they had no
government patronage to assist them, and the
commercial and monetary interests Of the whole
country were arrayed almost solidly against
them. Spite Of all these difficulties, they have
obtained triumph whose completeness Is only
surpassed by their exultant determination to re,
tain its advantages. That they can and will re-
tain them VIC are confident. They wiz have the
Immense patronage of the government under
their control; and no one can doubt that they
will use il to inflse the doctrines Of Black Re
pubiicanism into the public mind In addition,
il viii be their policy to do nothing that will ex
asperate the South and, short Of that, to do all
which may win the North. They viii weaken
US by slow-fever process, until, too much
eInaciatcd to resist them, We will fall an easy
prev. and be crushed at leisure.