Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-11-29

IN state than 1t has to interfere With Scrf-
dom in Russia Nor arc the people Of the
non -siayeholding States many way responsi-
b:e for Slavery in the States which tolerate
It, because, as to that question, they are as
foreign to each other as independent gov
ernmantS | have labored in and for the
Republican organization with entire conf
dence that whenever it should be in power,
each and all of the States would be left in
as complete control Of their own affairs res
pectively, and at as perfect liberty to choose
and employ their own means of protecting
property, and preserving peace and order
with their respective limits, as they have
ever been under any Administration
Those who have voted for Mr. Lincoln have
expected, and still expect this, and they
would not have voted for him had they ex-
peQted otherwise, regard it as extreme
y fortunate for the peace of the whole
country that this point upon which the Re
publlcans have been so long and so rcrsis-
tently misreprescnted, isnow to be brought
to practical test, and placed beyond the
possibility Of doubt 1t shoud be mat
ter Of rejoicing TO all true Republicans
that they will now have an opportunity Of
demonstrating to their political adyersarics,
and to the world, that they are not for in
tertering with my Of the domestic institu-
tiens Of any of the States, nor the advo-
Gates Of negro equality OF amalgamation,
with which political demagoguas have so
often charged them When this is shown,
a reaction viii assurediy take place in fav-
or Of RoFubIicanism.
The mind, even, viii he satisfied the
rights Of Northern men will be respected;
and the fraternal feelings existing in olden
times, when men from all parts of the coun-
try went forth together to battle for a COM
mon cause against common enemy, will
be restored. Disunionists per Sc, Of whom,
unfortunately, there have been few in
the country for some years, understand this
and are now in hot haste to get out Of the
Union precisely because they perceive they
cannot much longer maintain an apprehen-
sion among the Southern people that their
homes and fresidcs and lives are to be en-
dangcred by the action of the Federal G ov-
arnment.
With such, now or never is the maxim.
Hence they seek to infame the public
miud by misrcpresenting the objects and
purposes of the Republican party, with the
hope of precipitating some Of the South
ern States into position from which they
cannot, without dishonor, afterward sccedc,
well knowing if they delay till after the
new Administration is inaugurated and tes-
ted, it will furnish no cause for their COM
plants. Secession is an impraetibility, or,
rather, an impossibility. The Constitution
provides no way by which State may
withdraw from the Union-no way for the
dissolution Of the Government 1t creates.
The General Government interferes but
little with the individual rights of the cit
izen, except for protection: 1t is chiefly
felt in its benefits and its blessings-not in
its exactions. II every Federal officer in
South Carolina were to resign, their Off
ces remain vacant, and its Legislature de
clare the State out Of the Union, it would
all amount to little except to inconveni-
ence the citizens of that State, so LONG as
the State did not interfere with the colec-
tion Of the revenue Of the seaboard, The
people in other portions of the Union
would not be in the least incommoded
What has the South Carolina army to do
when raised? Who is it to fight? Mani
festly, if it commences war on the Uni
ted States officers engaged in collecting
the revenue, it becomes the aggressor.-
This would be revolution, and making war
without cause, for South Carolina makes
no complaint against the present revenue
laws. Is she prepared for this-to become
the aggressor? The only use [ can see for
her minute men is that they will ena-
bic the people the more readily to suppress
any uprising in their midst, which their
misrepresentation Of purpose may have
encouraged. She complains that the Fu-
gative Slave law is not executed in some
States. This, if true, the whola country
knows to be sham. So far as South Car
olina is concerned, she is so situated that
no slave can escape from her into Free
States, however much cause the border
Slave States may have to complain of the
escape of their negroes into the Free States
1t is clear that South Carolina can have no
such complaint. In her resolves she pro-
fesses to be preparing to defend herself
against encroachments on her rights. Let
her adhere TO this policy, and not attempt
to dictate to other States what they shall
do, and no collision will occur, for no en-
croachments win be made. The disunion
feeling in the South is, doubtless, greatly
exaggerated. \ sort of terrorism seems to !
prevail In some places, which, for the time,
to have crushed out any manifesto
tion Of Union sentiment Bot as the caus-
cs for this excitement are al imaginary, !
the election Of Republican President, in
the constitutional mode, certainly afording
no excuse for it, it is reasonable to suppose !
that reaction will soon take place among /!
the Southern people themselves, which will
o,ertl1rop the disnnionists at hene II is /