The Nevada journal., 1860-12-14
THE NEVADA JOURNAL
FRIDAY mcKyISes DEC. 81, 1850

~THE FACT that one cf tlsc- scretEing Cotton
States has been Obliged to- call 8 session Of
her Legislature to take measures to secure
her citizens against starvation, should not
Re spoken Of in terms of contempt in view
Of the hostile attitude she assumes toward
She Union, but rather to her honor, did any
sufficient cause exist for her present bellig-
srent position. But when no sufficient
cause can be given, the idea of the town
poor swearing they will leave if the over
seer of the poor-h ouse is changed, or they
are not furnished with better diet becomes
surremely ridienlous. And a ct subject for
fidicule is flris secession movement. What
are the alleged causes for the Southern
grannies TO put on their bounets and leave
the sisterhoed of States2 Why. there are
personal liberty acts in some OF the North
ern Statesf Lincoln is elected President
and the more moderate of the secessionists,
those who are willing to stay with us n
while longer, insist that these personal lib
erty acts shall be repealed, or, cut they go.
quicker than ycr can say Jack Robinson,
Strange rs Il may seem, these laws of some
Of the Northern States, have been in force
q number Of years, and noae of these fault
finders have attempted to make it obliga-
tory upon either Mr.. Pierce or Buchanan to
interfere for their repeal. Not word of it.
If these laws are really so bad as they are
represented, was it not the duty of these
watchfnI guardians Of Constitutional rights
to have ins:stcd upon their repeal long
since? Even time enough is still left du-
ring the Administration of Mr.. Buchanan
to insist upon and procure repeal of those
hated laws if the President has any author
ity in tic premises. But tie hot-bloods
make no such demand. They are willing
70 allow those laws to stand under Pierce
and Buchanan, but viii dissolve The Union,
furn the world upside down and break
things. if Lincoln does not procure the re-
peal of the hated enactments, without stop
ping to enquire whether he has any power
In the matter or not And then, again,
there is another attitude assumed by the
Cotton States, severely commented on by
the Louisville Jo9rnal-that of disintcrcst-
ed champions of the rights of others.
The Cotton States never lose slave, or
rarely so, by his escaping into the Free
States. Maryland, Virginia and Kentucky
are the losers by runaways. Yet these
States are conservative. They see no inst
cause for going out of the Union for mere
fear of the repeal of the Fugitive Slave
Law, and the depreciation of slave prop
erty in consequence But the Cotton States
insist upon redressing the imaginary wrongs
of Virginia whether she has any complaints
or not.
The fault-Gnding Inconsistency of South
Carolina and her sister furies is plain
They want the African slave trade reopeaed.
They want more labor. Such has been
their cry. 1t must be evident that any ac-
ton taken by the Republican party which
shall have tendency to make slave prop
crty in the border Slave States insecure
will force an exodus of negroes W on the
,noru southern, market, thereby supplying
these States clamOrous for more labor with
an abundance of it-just the article they
want. But they are, nevertheless, disSatis-
fed. Their negroes are perfectly safe
never coming within reach of personal lib
erty acts-and all they seem to fear is, that
the Republicans will do something for the
slave interest: and yet, when the States
that are to suffer most are quiet these cot
ton communities are cutting up their tant-
runs at 4 great rate.
One other view of the fre-eating States
is not uniatcresting; and that is the way
they treat their friends. New York city is
the great mar: where these States purchase
tlle bulk e.! ffcir goods. The debt due the
New York merchants from the Cotton States
IS several millions. New York struggled
fcree1y for the fusion ticket, and it carried.
The more than thirty thousand majority
which that ticket received the South pro-
poses to requite by passing laws repuda-
ting all debts due the North This is ac-
knowledging friendship and service in a
most gentlemanly way, it must be owned.
1t is like the boy smashing his fathers nose
to annihiate fly that had been so pre-
shmptuous as to incur the urchins dis
pleasure by lighting thereon, or the crazy
man burning a barn to destroy the rats
New York city left no stone unturned to
help the Southern interest. New York gets
paid for her devotion by not being paid her
honest dues.
THE ARcTIC EXPEDIrIoS.-IIenry Grinncll
has received letter from DR.. Hayes dated
at Upernayik Harbor, Nert1 Greenland,
Aug. I4th. The expedition had suffered no
accident of Importance. DR.. Hayes would
sail on the following day to bis winter har-
Bor which is designed to be at Cape Frazer
IN latitude I9o 42I If the ice will permit,
from that point he proposes TO push on as
far north as possible with the boat and pro-
visions designed for mex. summers labors
and leave them secured against bears
Early in the spring they will push on and
establish more advanced depots, and will
attempt to launch a boat upon and explore