Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1860-12-28
The Election Of LinceIn i'm England.
Comments of The London Press.
[FrOm The London Times. Nop. 2s.I

From tie London Times, Nop. 29.l
The event which has occupied the atten ton
of the United States for the last four years
has at length come to pass, and virtually, al
though not as yet legally, Mr. Lincoln has
been elected the President, aud Mr.. Hamlin
the Vice President of the great American
Confederacy. The event has been long fore-
seen, and will surprise nobody who has paid
the least attention to American politics. Ii is
the natural reaction against the outrages and
exeesses Of 1855, and 1856, the protest of the
sreest and best educated part of the American
people against the acts of high handed vio-
lence and oppression which preceded the ad-
vent of Mr.. Buchanan to power. If the South
has al length found that it is not omnipotent
iu the councils of the country, that unpleasant
discovery Is owing to the foolish and intemper-
ate use which the SoBth has made of its pros
perity. While demanding the most implicit
respect for it's own opinions, the South has
been ever ostentatious in proclaiming bitter
and cynical contempt for tho opinions and the
feelings of others. Slavery has been defend
ed as the normal aud perfect State of human
society, and the North has been bitterly tsunt-
ed with its honest industry, and the eoarseness
OF manners which the fastidious Souther plants
er traces to tha4 cause. While claiming for
itself the monopoly of the government of the
United States the South has constantly held
she language of dsafeesion, and the United
States have been ruled by a party which was
perpctually talking of disuniiing them.
So far from wondering that these things
should have produced the result we have just
witnessed, it has leng appeared to be impossible
that they should not. Mankind, if ruled at all
must be ruled either by force or persussion.-
Ibe South could not employ the former, aud
have long substituted the language of provo
cation aud defiance for the latter. But these
and many other circumstances, while they full
ly account for the change which has taken
place, tend very considerably to diminish its
significance Had the South been always rea-
sonable aud coDciliatory, we must have regard
ed the election of Mr.. Lincoln as evidence of
an intolerance Ct the very institution of slave
ry which might portead results fatal to the
stability of the Uuion; but the South has
really taken 50 much pains to bring the present
result to pass that it has no right to be sur
prised al lis own success.
For ourselves, as far, as the immediate in-
ierest of this country ia concerned, we regard
'he accession to power of the Republican Pre-
'i"eht HitDOut any very stEoug LeeitEgs " III
amph. We have lived on good terms with bis
Democratic predecessor; we do not doubt that
We shall be able to maintain the same relations
With the new Chief of the State.
But, although this msy be all very plain
aad easy to Va, there is considerable number
ot persons in America to whom, apart from
mere political considerations, the change Of
Presidents is not matter of Indifference
FIRST, there are the employees, from the Sec
retaries of State down 20 she sorter of letters
ana tide walters. The vote that has substitu-
'ea Republican for Democrat at the White
AO0Se'ls TO them, and each of them, SEN