Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1860-11-14
$. n, ROW. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
CLEARFIELD, Pa, NOV. IA, 1860.
THE GREAT RESULT.

The Presidential contest is over. Right and
Truth have prevailed; Error and Falsehood
have been overthrown Disunionism and Trea-
son have been rebuked and Abraham Lincoln
has been elected President of the United States
by the votes of the people. This is the result
beyond the possibility OF doubt, it being re-
duced to certainty that Mr.. Lincoln has car
ried at least Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts,, Rhode Island, Connecticut,
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, 1lli-
nois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Minneso-
ta-which have 169 electoral votes, IL moro
than are necessary to a choice. The Southern
States will be divided between Breckenridge
and Bell, with the exception OF Missouri, which
has probably gone for Douglas. Had either OF
the last named candidates been elected, the
Republicans would have quietly submitted.
Having been defeated by Mr.. Lincoln, will a
like submission be exercised by the Democrat
ic party? We hope so. 1t may be that South
Carolina will create some fuss but this is not
likely to be more than ten days wonder, un-
less the Secessionists are encouraged by the DEM
ocratic politicians at the North TO such an ertent
that they may be iaduced TO take steps torards
withdrawing from The Union. The incessant
babble of the leading spirits of the Northern
Democracy about Disunion, ssthe invasion of
Southern Rights" and that Mr.. Lincoln's cleo
tion should be regarded as sufficient cause for
secession, may possibly induce State like
South Carolina, which has at least once before
proved disloyal, to move seriously in that di-
rection. But, suppose she does-what then
Why not concede to her the right to walk out
peaceably and try the experiment of :sgoing it
on her own hook?'' If any of the Cotton
States feel the present form of government op-
1pressive, and think they can do better out of
the Union than in it, if they insist on going,
let them go in peace. 1t is not necessary to
create any disturbance about ito raise a civil
war or shed fraternal blood. The right to Sc
cede may be revolutionary one, but it exists
nevertheless, and we do not see how one party
can have right to do what another party has
right to prevent. We will ever resist the as
serted right of any State to remain in the u
MON and nullify or defy the laws thereof to
withdraw from the Union is quite another mat
ter, and If any considerable section shall de-
iiberately resolve to 60 out, we, for one, shall
not counsel the adoption of coercive measures
to prevent it. Our Southern brethren should
not, however, act rashly in this matter-let
ample time be given for reflection let the
subject be fully canrassed before the people;
let them have both sides of the question fully
presented let them reflect, deliberate, then
vote, and we doubt if there will be majority
favorable to secession in any one State. 1t is a
fact worthy of special note, that there are but
few Secessionists' in the border Slave States
in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky
and Missouri-in fact, leaving out Eastern Vir-
ginia, we doubt whether there are any it is
in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and 9TH
er States lying at great distance from the
Free States that the greatest ado is made about
the non-enforcement of the fugitive slave act,
unless, perhaps, we except Clearfeld borough;
for we doubt, as Hudibras said of the advo-
Gates of New Light doctrines in his day,
whether the Man in the Moon
''Shows in his gait and face more tricks,
Than do our native lunatics y!