The weekly Mississippian., 1860-10-24
Liaooln's Forthcoming proclamation

Recent telegraphc dispatches from Wash
ington state that Governor Seward had let out
the important fact that, should Mr.. Lincoln be
elected President Of the United States, ne IN
tended to put forth proclamation OF sucn
views as he deemed important, to allay all op-
position from the Southern States. Seward
and Lincoln obviously think that the Southern
people are very like captured elephant. m
Africa they dig hole for him; and when ne
has tumbled in, they beat him, and then bring
him some grass; and thus, by alternate beat
ing and feeding, they subdue his spirit, and he
follows his master. So these two polltIcal
charlatans suppose that, after years oil sec
tional organization in the North, on the ground
of hostility to African slavery in the South,
and its rghtful and necessary overthrow by
the General Government and they succeed in
gaining the mastery Of the Government to
carry out their policy, they have only to put
forth few hypocritical and lying phrases, and
the South will submit-a little green grass to
the elephant in the pit. Mr.. Lincoln or Mr.
Seward is nobody in this contest. They are
only the froth on the top OF the wave. The
wave ITSELF begins its heave from the depths of
the ocean. They have, by their demagoguical
and fanatical appeals to the people of the
North, divided the Union into two great an
tagonist sections. They have taught the peo-
pie of the North that it is their duty, and their
high and holy mission, to extinguish African
slavery in the South. That they should en-
deavor, when reaching the powers of the Gen.
eral Government, to keep the people Of the
South passive under their rule, is perfectly
natural. That they may even endeayor to get
their cohorts to pause, in view Of the separa-
ton of the indignant South from the North, is
also very natural. They know that the day
the Union is dissolved, is the day Of their
doom. But, if the South submits to their
rule. they cannot arrest the onward course Of
events. If they pause, they will be trampled
down, as the first originators Of this anti
slavery agitation in the North have been.
Where, now, are the BaInards, the Hunts, the
Cushings, the Winthrops the Van Burens
the Everetts of the North? And so il
will be with Messrs. Lincoln and Seward
if they attempt to arrest the tide of sec
tional fanaticism and ambition, short of its
great consummation-the abolition of African
slavery IN the South. If Mr. Lincoln was to
come out and declare that he held sacred every
right of the South, with respect to African
slavery, no one should believe himj and if he
was believed, his professions should have not
the least influence on the course of the South
The Northern people, by electing him, have
manifested their determination to set up sec.
tional and fanatical dominion over the South
totally inconsistent with the whole scope o.
the Constitution and the safety and self-g0v.
ernment of the South. They have established
despotism; and it matters not who WELD:
it. mildly or sternly, it should be thrown off
That our readers may judge how Mr.. Lincoln
will administer the sectional despotism his
election to the Presidency will set at Wash
ington, we give below an extract from aspeech
I
the contest for the Speakership in the House
of Representatives was going on. The impu-
dence Of comparing their anticipated admins
tration to that of Washington, is quite charac-
teristic. With Seward and Douglas to sup
port his policy, in case the Southern States
should presume to escape from their vulgar
tyranny, let all Southern men take warning
and tremble.
You Democrats greatly fear that the success
of the Republicans will destroy the Union
Why? Do the Republicans declare agains
the Union? Nothing like it. Your own state
ment of it is, that if the Black Republicans
elect President, you won't stand it. You
. will break up the Union That will be your
act not ours. To justify it, you must show
that our policy gives you just cause for such
desperate action. Can you do that? When
you attempt it you will find our policy is ex-
actly the policy of the men who made the
Union, nothing more nor nothing less. Dc
you think you are justified to break up the
Government rather than to have it admins
| tered by Washington, and other good and great
men who made it. and who first administered
it? II you do, you are very unreasonable, and
more reasonable meE cannot and will not, sub
} init to you While zoe elect President, IL aeil
; be our duty to see that you submit. Old John
Brown has been hung for treason against q
State. We cannot object, even though slave
ry is wrong. That cannot excuse violence
: bloodshed, and treason. 1t could avail him
nothing that he might think himself right So
If co,astitutiondHy tce elect President, and
therefore, you undertake to destroy the U1upn
Is soiH be our duty to deal mih you as Old
John BroWn has been dealt Nth. We car
only do our duty. We hope and believe that
in no section will majority so act as to ren.
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