The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1860-11-14
LINCOLN AND THE SOUTH.


/. Now that the contest is over and LIN
coin elected, the Responsibility of the
whole government and the management
of the country passes into the hands of
the black republicans. If everything
goes well they win have the credit, and
if trouble arises and the nation isdistracted
Or brought TO the verge Of ruin they must
shoulder the load. The democracy, who
have battled for Doughs, have done their
whole duty in endeayoripg to avert this
result, but have not succeeded ;.they now
wash their hands IF all responsibility for
whatever may happens The sceptcr
has passed over TO the black republicans,
and they must use itas best they may.
At the very outset a difficulty is encoiu-
tered, however, which rises in stupendous
proportions, aud threatens TO overwhelm
the party in ruin and endanger The peace
of the country. Lincoln as President
elect is like The man who drew the ele-
plant. 1t will be absolutely necessary
for him and his party to conciliate the
South and allay the fears that are so
generally entertained by men of all par
ties in that section, and most Justly, too.
The question with the black republicans
now must be the Cancellation of the South
and how il can be done.
The South have fears of the black
republican party, and Of tho Inauguration
of its administration, for The simple rca-
son that the party has been built up up
on the one idea Of opposition to the
South and to its domestic institutions.
The party came into existence in the
northern States by reason Of hatred and
enmity to slavery, and it has gone on
increasing in power by continually fan
ming the flames of sectionalsm, until it
has now arrived at the goal toward which
it has been continually aiming This
party has taken occasion to express not
only its hatred to slavery, but its oppo-
sition to the constitutional rights of the
South, wherever it has been in power
This party, in Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts,, Connecticut,
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Michigan, and Wisconsin has enacted
laws relative to the enforcement of the
fugitive SLAVE law which directly and
designedly nullify the constitution of the
United States, and has thus taken the
first practical step in disunion; and not
only that, but several of the States, and
among them Michigan, make tia peniten-
tiary offence for southern citizens. to come
within their borders with their servants.
In all manner of ways have the black
] republicans shown their contempt for the
rights of the South, aud have allowed no
occasion to pass unimproved without
Offering either an insult or an injury
!
This has been the constant policy of the
party from its inception to the present
lime. 1t has sought constantly to annoy
and vex the South, and not only that,
but to the extent Of its power has refused
to obey and carry into effect the provisions
Of the constitution. Lincoln is the cho,
sen representative of this party, and a;
such il is expected that bis policy viii
harmonic with their policy, his views
agree with their views, and his actor
on the broader field Of national affair.
accord with their action on the moro
limited sphere to which their authority
has heretofore been restricted, l.
! l., With these incontroyertible facts be
fore them it can be no source of surpris,
that all Southern men should view will
apprehension aud alarm the election 0
such man by such party; they can
not do otherwise than expect that tn