The Oxford intelligencer. (Oxford, Miss.) 1860-18??, 1861-04-10
Encouragement for the Border Slave

ton, the Southern mind has been gradually
settling down Into the belief that separation
from the North was unavoidable. AN, OF
nearly all, concurred In the opinion that dis
union, in the end, was certain. Sagacious
men have long comprehended the fact that
the Union could not survive the success Of
those fanatics who now control public opin-
ion in the free States. In November last,
sectional and anti-slasery party elected
Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency Of the
United States, aud already seven of the ex-
IRENE Southern States, guided BY the In
stinct Of selfpreservation, have united In
the declaration:---We win not have this
man to reign over US" while the remaining
slave States, anxious and alarmed, are dis
cussing the question whether Il viii be safe
for them longer to continue their political
connection with the avowed enemies Of their
cherished Institutions; and this discussion
turns chiefly upon the amount Of credit due
to those declarations in which the Black Re
publicans affect TO disclose their future policy.
The vulgar crew, whose representative Mr..
Lincoln is, are not less greedy than fanatical.
They intended to rule the South, and, at the
same time, to make it 'pay." Such having
been their purpose, they are inexpressibly
disturbed in view of the dangers threatened
by secession; aud, in order to retain the
slave States of the border in the Union, they
are ready to asseverate any thing that may
be required at their hands, touching the in
nocency of their purposes. They will readi-
ly promise all that the South may choose to
ask; only, they prefer not to put any new
promises into the Constitution. The party
now in power in the United States, from the
pot-house politicians down TO the miserable
creature who sits in the Presidential chair,
aver that they have no design, and never did
design, to interfere with the rights Of the
Southern people, or to administer the federal
government upon anti-slavery principles
This averment is so constantly repeated, too,
that it is manifest that those who make it
do not despair of finding those who will re-
ceive it as true; and it is quite apparent, also,
from the frantic efforts of certain Southern
men to check and clog the secession move
ment in the border slave States, either that
those men put implicit faith in Black Repub-
lican sincerity, or that they are Indifferent to
Black Republican success, so that they can
but secure their own personal and private
ends. Occasionally, in the journals con-
trolled by this class Of men, we see it an
nounced, with oracuar gravity, that ''there is
every encouragement for the border States
to cling to the Union" The people of those
States are assured, in the most positive man
ner, that great reaction has taken place in
the Northern mind, and that the South, hav-
ing 20 longer aught to fear in the Union,
should exhibit fratcrnal confidence in the
true-hcarted North
Recent events are appealed to as furnish
ing evidence Of the fact that returning
sense of justice has taken possession of the
Northern heart. Local elections, largely con-
trolled by local elements, have resulted, it
seems, in the election of one or two city
mayors at the North who are not Black Re
publicans; and this is made the text of such
rejoicings, in Southern newspapers, as would
scarcely be more than justified if Old Nick
had flown away with the Illinois rail-spltter
and all his followers. In the populous cities
Of the free States it was to be expected that
a kind Of reaction would take place in the
minds of those traders and manufacturers
who have severely felt the consequences re-
sulting from Lincoln's election; but it is idle
to look to the cities for the political regcner-
alton Of the North, while the sentiment Of
the rural population remains unchanged. An
anti-Republican majority Of a few meagre
hundreds of votes, in a populous city, af
fords small ground of encouragement to a
Southerner who is cool enough to look over
the entire field, and who pcrcieves that Black
Republicanism is waxing in strength in the
Northern States
When the ass had robed himself in the
lions skin, he was unable to conceal his own
long ears, and thereby his attempt TO impose
himself upon other animals as the king of
the forest was rendered futile. Just such
another ass is Abraham Lincoln. He swears,
with might and main, that the South may
safely trust him upon the subject of slavery
and yet, when he makes appointments to
Federal Offices, his appOintees are selected
from the ranks Of those whose violence as
Abolitionists, or whose treason as Southern
ers, has rendered them specially odious to
the Southern people. Old Giddings, Henry
Winter Davis, Cassius N. Clay, Carl schuz-I
a quartctte Of infamy which has, probably,
no parallel in this world-such are the men
whom Lincoln delights to honor. Doubt
less, if John Brown, instead Of being IN IN
fsrso, had been in Washington city on the
4th of last month, he would have been Of
fered his choice of all the Offices at the dis
posal of Lincoln, whose abolition sympathies
are so irrepressible that they 'stick out" and