The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-12-04
Correspondence Of lie Guardian.

The Presidential election has
come and gone with scarcely a ripple up
on the surface of things in Massachu-
sets. Whatever may have been the case
elsewhere-and we know very well that
IN many parts of the country no previ-
Gus campaign has been attended by
greater excitement or conducted with
more enthusiasm-there was no excite
ment, no display Of enthusiasm, here
The great under-current of Republican
sentiment is so deep, SO full, 50 engross-
ing, that like great ocean current
it noiselessly bears every thing along with
it. To one looking upon the surface OF
society here, and taking no observations
of the latitude and longitude ofthe times,
it would seem like floating on a quiet
sea. And it aCas a laboress floating to
sure port. The only manifested in
terest was in observation of various sig
nails displayed from other and distant
craft-sometimes Of distress, but oftener
of hope, now of struggle and now of sue
cess. A majority of 46,5 over all
others, in total vote of 10000 is
ground for an assurance in which one
may repose very comfortably.
Since the election is an accomplished
fact, source of almost as great interest,
perhaps greater, certainly gilmore amuse-
ment, is found in the reports Of the way
in which that fact is received by the
I" fre-eaters what they say and (pro-
pose to do about it-and, most amusing
OF all, what panic the cold publ c
functionary, and few other grannies
in breaches, and dry-goods -fusionists,
are thrown into, If we did not know
how much more Of buster than any
thing else there is in Gen. Quattle-
bum" and how careful the g Palmetto -
agitators are to keep at safe distance
from Federal powder and ball, our Wide
Awakes would look for fun ahead. -
But the aiders and abettors of construc.
tive treason will Wise " refrain from overt
acts, and keep themselves safe under the
shield of a Constitution which they as.
sail
What programme is this The
banks of S. G. are authorized by Legis-
lative Act TO suspend the redemption o.
their votes, (but not till they had al
ready been thrown out as far South as
Baltimore.) Private debts are to be re-
pudiated-the claims of Northern mer-
chants sent for collection are to be re-
turned dshonored, Yet in the face OF
this achieved bankruptcy, the State pro-
poses to contract debt Of four hundred
thousand dollars Who will take the
stock of such State at any price ?
Who is to suffer from all this secess-
ion agitation With the exception o
the comparatively few Northern Mer.
chants who have uacolected claims al
;he South, none but the secessionist;
themselves and their own section Of the
country, The federal government will
survive the panic its stocks are still
held at par-the only stocks SO quotel
on the list of the stock exchange. Tn,
value ST slave property has deprecated
thirty per cent. while the revolution j:
yet but week old and actual secession
only remote contingency.
Some days since w. L. Yancy was res
pectfully heard in Faneuil Hall by an au
dience that were ten to one opposed to him
in sentiment, and took that occasion ex-
pressly and most emphatically to deny
that any Northern man would be NAL
treated at the South who minded hi.
own business and let the niggers alone,
and that any such might express his
sentiments as freely, and be listened IL
as respectfully, as himself was doing and
being on that occasion. Yet in the very
home of that Yancy, the leader of q
great political party which (and who
has always done and suffered for Sla-
very, simply because his latest views do
not quite come up TO the extreme pro-
slavery standard, at the closing speech
into which he was betrayed during
that protracted pilgrimage Of flial piety,
was ANONYMOUSLY egged Certainly
the paulo-g gigantic champion of Squauer
Sovereignty was never suspected OF anti
slavery sympathies. or oftamperng with
the slaves. VIII the Douglas wing OF
the Democracy swallow the sulphuret-
ted hydrogen, and meekly kiss the hands
that administer the nauseous dose Or
will it cure them Of their worship of the
chiyalry
The times are out Of joint " a little.
But in about four months they will come
into the hands Of new surgeon and a