The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1860-11-29

is heard, there need b. no panic or special
excitement over these local troubles in
Kansas. Gin. Gdz.
TIL SECESSION MOVEMENT
Gov, Lptchers Latter The Hon. A. II
Stephens Speech, Secession Meetings
THE Southern Press on he Crisis-1He
Truth Of The Conspiracy.
From our own Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 81; 1860.
The revolutionary plot in South Caroli
ma and other States is by no means unex-
pected, and they who suppose it to be a
result of Mr. Lineoln's election, or Of the
Republican success, have either been very
indifferent observers of events, or are ca
silly DUBBED by superficial speculators- =
What was admitted the other day by u
leading member ofthe Legislature ofSonth
Carolina, is really true. This so.called
crisis is legitimate consequence OF TWEEN.
ty years education in hatred to the Fed.
eral Government. The present genera.
ton in that State have sucked in treason
with their mothers milk. and have only
waited favorable opportunity to make
good the threats of rebellion which Eaye
heretofore proved impotent, or have been
restrained by motives of policy. The
same feeling extends to portions Of Geor.
gia, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida.
whereto either South Carolinians have mi
grated. or the theories Of Mr. Calhoun
have been accepted as the law aud the
prophets,
Every calm aud intelligent observer of
the proceedings of the late Democratic
National Convention at Charleston who
was not engrossed with the partisanship
which ruled tho factions - strongly, must
have foreseen, as | did, the inevitable ex.
poson which occurred there, if lie had
auy knowledge Of the tempers Of the South.
ern delegations which seeded, because
they were not permitted TO dictate terms
Of submission TO the majority Of that body.
Many Of the rash and impetuous mana
gers, who are now figuring in the seces-
sion scheme, went there with the avowed
purpose, as was repeatedly declared in my
presence, Of breaking up that Convention,
rendering harmonious nomination i'm.
practicable, and. through divided party.
securing the success OF the Republican
candidate-who they desired should bo
Mr.. Scward-with the ultimate design Of
''precipitaling the Cotton States into rev.
olution. as Mr. Yancpy was candid enough
two years ago to declare to bo his most
cherished object. These motives are. how.
ever, subordinate to the grand inspiring
idea which anlmates the present oonspira-
cy. Long before this election, it was fore.
seen that the census OF 1860 would shift
the center Of political power, and oxlin.
guish the Influence which has controlled
the policy and dispensed the patronage Of
the Governmen from the adoption of the
Cons tuition in 1889 down to the end Of
Mr. Van Buren's Administration, with the
exception Of two terms filed by tho elder
and younger Adams. Since l94i, there
have been six Presidents, three of whom
were Sju,Lern mon. while Pierce and Bu
chanan have been even moro Southern
than tho South. 1t matcred no, how this
election terminated. the doom of tha, dom.
ination was sealed, and. though it might
possibly be postponed, il could not be real.
ly ayertcd.
Ambitious Gspiranls, who had been look.
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ing to tho While House for years, saw that
tho in4xorable logic of free population ex.
c'udod their last hopes in the Uoion as il
now stands, and hence they, and others
with different purposes, have been airing
their zeal IN All excess OF enthusiasm for
a Southern Confederacy. That is the in.
spration Of secession; II is the reason why
Mr.. Toombs nominated hlmsclras "can-
didate for the White House of Georgia"
and why others have sought notoriety, OK.
pecting honors and profits in the new po.
litica I'll Dorado. When Mr.. Calhoun
failed to attain tho Presidency and broke
with Gen. jackson, ho concoc.ed the
scheme Of nulliicatlon, aud pursued the
y1is Iaiuas of u Southern Government, to
the last days Of his life. The conspirators
who are now trying to put on his cas,,otT
g'rmenIs are checied by tho same ambi.
'ion. Aud il that contamination could be
achieved without involving serious pcrils,
the experiment would bo we'll worth try |
Ing, in order that tho world might see, in |
all their naked deformty, the struggles
and rlvalries Of those who sought IN dis.
union nothing but The qualification Of their
own PRIDE, prelerment, and vanity
South Carolina would not remain two years
in such Confederacy, and she would So.
crdc from the Cotton States, as she now
proposes to sccede from the North, when
over they refused to recognize the com.
pIacent pt-tonslohs TO superiority which
her leaders have always assumed.
whenever the point Of real danger
shall come, the Southern States themselves
will fui mode Of extrication for the 70.
boons member of''which, fU the third
time in a quarter of a century, has revolt.
ed against tho Constitatin aud threaten. |
ed defiance Of tie hws. The true policy |
for the North TO pursue OF this time, is to
lot her severely alone, Keitt u Co. would
die out in week. but for lho notoriety
they gain in the newspapers, by these
contrivedpToxysms.i in which they threat
on to stop the course of the planet and to
tilt over the earth off its axis Let them
rant, and fume, add fret TO their hearts
content. We, who have seen them do
40 halorn nrA not In .fha lnnui As.A..h.A