The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1860-10-16
THREATS WILL NEVER BRING PEACE

ssThe time was when $50 90 men rendered their SER
vices to the President to aid him. if necessary in exc
cutting the laws of the United States the time will be
when 100 900 will volunteer for like purpose, should
resistance be made his legitimate authority mat
ter by what party he may be elected
We clip the above from letter written by
Amos Kendall to the Hon. James L. Orr, Of South
Carolina, as we find it in the National Intelligen-
Ger. We have deprecated such language and such
discussion from the beg inning, and have endeav-
ored to show the National Intelligencer its i'm
proprety by pointing out its fruits, in greatly in
creasing the excitement now already threatening
the peace of the Republic. Whether the motive
for this illtimed discussion of the ght of seces
sion and the subsequent threats in advance be to
promote the interest of this that candidate it
can be of no possible advantage to the harmony
and quiet which every good man desires. The
persistent effort Of the National Intelligencer to
parade prominently every letter and speech favor
ing the subugatiOn of the South can be accounted
for in no other way than that the prudence that
once controlled its columns has departed. This
continual imprudence and the alarming irritation
consequent upon it, create part the necessl-
ty to place before our readers few considerations
and reflections by which they may be guided in
forming correct opinion as to the true state of
feeling in the country, and as to what probably,
will be the consequences if this revolution is rot
stayed.
According to the advice of Mr. Kendall, Mr. Doug
las, and the National Intelligencer it is commend
ed to force South Carolina to remain in Union
governed by party who Mr. Douglas himself
assured Them four years ago, held doctrines that
were sectional and would tend to arm father
against son, and brother against brother, and TO
subuert the Constitution" Before she is subjuga-
ted you will have to burn every town and destroy
every hamlet in the South, for there is more unity
in common cause of defence than even in COM
mon cause of aggression; and if you leave behind
your maraudng army men or money, 1t will be
used to destroy you in the The conse-
quences we need not discuss-they make the heart
sick to think of, even if they attend success
But We have no desire to portray faithfully, much
less color the picture which army invading the
Southern States for the purpose of subjugatiOn
would present. Every one knows the struggle
would be long and terrible, if it were possible to
cOnhne the revolution to that section How would
it be at the North? They would not be fighting
for their fresides or their honor No rights in
yaded or threatened-and hence the heart of their
people would not be in the contest. In less than
six months labor would want employment and cry
for bread? Is there any so ignorant as not to
know that there does not exist an earthly power
that could control them? Where is the necessity.
they would naturally reason, Of our perishing for
the want of employment, when 1t has been brought
about by no action of the laboring classes? Does
Mr. Kendall, or the National Intelligencer, or Mr.
Douglas, when they slaughtering women and
children in the South, in order that Lincoln may
be sustained, think that the same beloved objects
will not be subjected to a fury and phrensy at
the North illimitable and uncomfortable, until the
horrors of hunger are satisfied? The revolution
at the South will be for the purpose of sIbj ugat-
ing people guilty of no crime, but fighting for
their constitutional rights The revolution at the
North will be for bread and they will help them
selves from the abundance which New ork, BOs-
ton, Philadc phia and the other Northern prosper
Gus towns Indicate they have accumulated Do
they suppose that the cries of starvation can be
hushed by human law OF power especially when
their necessities have been created 10y those who
knew ought to have known better? 1t is, there
fore, folly for men to talk or write about coercing
this that State they have not weighed the con-
sequences at the end of success. If South
Carolina attempts to secede from this Union, the
consequences III every sense, and to both sections,
will be much worse if the foolish doctrine of the
National Intcgencer and Amos Kendall and
Stephen a. Douglas is attempted to be established
than if she DC permitted to go. But all may be
prevented if the North will act wisely. Let Lin
coin be defeated, and put confidence in the
councils of any or men who advise otherwise.
Scorn all the affiliations that oppose the concentra-
ton of that sentiment in New York and Pennsyl-
vania that and will defeat Lincoln in those
States. 1t is much easier to beat Lincoln for
President at the North in November next than
stand the consequences of his election, even if you
could raise army of 200 600 men officered by
the National Intelligencer, Amos Kendall, and
Stephen A Douglas - Washington Constitution.
STEAMER BURNT.
ProridentfaI Relief and AU .Sared!