The North-Carolinian., 1861-02-16


Il has justified and exaled to the highest honors
+ admiration and respect the horrd murders, and
lrsons, and iapine OF the raid CT John Brown; and
*ias clnonize1 the feons themselves az saints Of
mart yrdom.
1t has burned the towns ard poisoned the cattle,
and forne the midnight conspiracy for the acpopu
lation of North Texas.
1t has proclaimed to The slaves the horrd motto:
Alarm to tilc sleep fire to the dwellings poison
the food and water" of stockholders.
It mas pu,lshoa It's plan for the Abolition of
slavery everywhere. To ':re~ecue slaves at all
9azards-forn as>ociations-to establish presses
to use the vote and batot-to raise money and
military eqaip'nents-to form al discipline armed
cornpanies--to appeal to non-slayeloilcrs and de-
tach from shareholders in slave Statesto
municate with the slaves-to encourage an-slayery
emirrants to the South and Nest-to seizo other
property of Shareholders to compensate for the cost
Of runDg off their slaveto force emancipation by
all means, especially by lin tin ilarrassiIg and fro
wning upon slavery in every mode and form, and
finally by the Executive by Congress, by the postal
service and in every way TO agitateWithout casing
until the Ssouthern States Shall be abanoned to their
fate and Worn d pyyr, shall be compelled to stlreG-
der and emancipate their slaves
It has repnliatel th- decisions of tue Supreme
Court
1t ass Ills Us from the pulpit the press. and in the
school 1t divides all sects and religions as
well as parties 1t denounces shareholders as de-rad
e. bv the orcst ignnoritcs insults them in everv
form and holds them up t. the of mankind
It has already a majority cf the States under its
dominaton tlas infected the Federal Well State
Judiciary has large naj ,rty ofthe House of Rep
r,sentatives of the Congress OF the United States
has minority of the Senate: and ccstlinlv
obtain the chief Executive power Of the United
States.
1t has announced lis purpose Of total abolition in
tle States and everywhere, will TERRITORIES and
districts. and othcr places edei And,
1t has pro- aimed rrepresshie conflict OF high
er law with the Federal Constitution itself,
How. then, IS the election Of its candilee for tha
rs and his rivals sentiment are both procialuad-
they are the salne--'the governmenS cannot endure
lisf slave and alflree-ts is 'irrepressible con-
hict' between opposing an enduring forces the
a sluveillding nation, entirely ffee-la5or nation
These are the sentiments OF the Black Republican
triumph have seen.
What then:
It, The election of Abraham Lincoln TO the Presi-
dency is at open and official avowal by a popular
majority of the North, and Of the nation that the
past aggresSlons OF the Bacz fsepubli cans are
right.
. That they are 10 be persisted IN via great az
gravaton. FIR the future
g. That the slave States shall not govern them
selves in respect Their property IN their own
limits; but that while Territories are 10 be allow
cd prohibit slavery ii their in.t> the states VIII
not be permitted to protect it in peace n theirs
T. That the slave States and tile!r citizens are to
be coerced to submission. And such aggression
/ this amounts TO actual war It i proclaimed al,
really and awaits only the action ior the power ana
the means to coerce submission. The election has
given it both And it the worse for coming IN al
the panoply of a mere form ef right. lhe form Is
the election, and the election Is constitutional mat
Is the pore out of which the courage OF resistance
! IS to ooZe. The form of the election may be con
stltuona but its intent ana purpose Is our iiiFa-
sIon and violent inlIartion of the Constitution
No matter mat may be the form the substances Is
! ageresslen-the aggression IS TO us--vltai
Ii we submit to it. we ct once subJ lgated ;