The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-07-27
FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS FOR THE STATE At LARGE
FREDERICK CKHASSAURECK. Of Hamilton.
What the Southern Leaders Now
Anticipate.

The prospect that Abraham Lincoln will
be the mex, President of the United States,
while it is hailed with joy ut tho North, is
not without its salutary influence upon the
South. Some menaces of resistance and So
cession, it is true, havo been heard; but
they havo proceeded from comparatively
unmportant sources, and are evidently not
expressive of tho general feeling of South
orn men. The change in this respect since
1856. is marked and significant. Menacos
were abundant in the campaign of that year.
from Southern sources high and low, and
had oil duo effect. Fremont was defeated,
but tho overwhelming support ho received
at tho North. was proof sufficient that over
tho people of that section at least, such
monacos had lost thoir power and, had he
been elected and inaugurated, their impo.
tency would soon have boon apparent to all.
What could be moro natural than that
tho Southern leaders, with tho prospect of
Mr. Lincoln's election before them, and
knowing that he medltates no aggression
upon their Constitutional rights. should
modify the tone Of their opposition ? When
tho issue is met, and, being no longer able
to rotain their power by the aid of Northern
doughfaces, they are fairly beaten, they will
not bo SO mad us to voluntarily incur the
doom Of traitors. Even if secession were
possible. which wo seriously doubt. they
would still prefer to remain in tho Union
which guarantees to them all tho rights ant
privileges they now enjoy and without which
they would have no security against insur
roction or invasion.
Tho Richmond Enquirer. the organ o.
Gov. Wso, aud one of tho ablcst of South
orn journals, in recent article uses the
following language, which, as an indication
of the change above noticed, is very signif
cant:
Upon tho accession OF Lincoln to powe,
wo would apprehond no direct act of vio
lence against negro property, but by the us
=, of federal Office, contracts and patronage
tho building up in every Southern State o
Black Republican party, tho ally and sti
pondiaiy of Northern fanatclsm, to becom
in II few short years the open advocates O
abolition, tho contiscation of negro proport
by emancipation sudden or gradual, mn
o eventually tho ruin of every Southern Stat
BY tho destruction Of negro labor. q
gradual and insidious approach. under tn
fostering hand of federal power, Abolitionisr
will grow up in every border Southor
State, converting thom into FREQ states, the
into ''ctios of rofugo" for runaway negro,
from the gulf States No act OF violonc
may ever DO committed, no servilo wd
wagrd, and yot tho ruin and degradation
Virginia will 10 as fully and fatally accom-
"a plished as though blood shed and rapr
\ ravishcd tho land. There AFRO no cors
a quoncos that can follow. even forciblo di
union, moro disastrous to tho future pro
pority OF tho people of Virginia. than wi
be this sowing tho seeds of discord ar
y division, of emancipation and abolitionis
hi by Northern hands, to be cultivated al
'G harvested by the people OF Virginia"
n n These words, written "moro In sorro
q than in anger" arc full of meaning. tt
Of Enquirer sees in the election of Ropub
can President. and tho consequent impartl
70 administration of the Federal Governmer
70 tho doom Of Slavery, Well, if tho end c,
y DO effected without bloodshcd, or any n
e gresson upon State rights, and through Il
10 instrumentality of the baIlot.bOx, vi
- would not welcome it with joy? vi
r. would not hail il as the dawn of new orr
IN II tho people of the South arc immovat
10 in tho conviction that Slavery is both rig
Or and expodiont. why need they fear ITS d
~ structioh3 If they feel that il is wrong
80 ineEpedicnt, why should they seek to pc
20 Epetgate a syism which mast end 10 iiiT
and can never begin to die out moro peaC
70 fully than now The conflict botwo
is Freedom and Slavery, If thus decided, "
Y end as the Fathers of the Republic design
il should, and as the Republican party no
it may, In the peaceful triumph Of Freodo
nt And, whatever may be tho present Iceli
% ns Of the South, the future results Of that
on umph will prove so benehoeni that no
'd. can be found to regret IL.
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