Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1861-01-10
N. o. WALLACE, Editor .
OFrIoE-- Atths same Old Stand: Sign ojhs
ObservssP rinting Office"
FAYETTEVILLE, TENN:
Thursday Morning. Jan. 10, 1856
THE CRISIS.

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the crisis which all considerate.. men
have both anticipated and feared as
the result of the slavery agitation
at the North. The efforts Of the abo-
Ilitienists, aided by clerical mouate.
banks and political ismagoguss
are producing their natural results.
Gloom, panic, disaster, pervades the
the land. Disunion, civil war. an
archy, the disruption Of all the SO.
cial, political and legal ties that have
made US great, happy and prosper
Gus people are imminent, and the
end and measure of evil, the nissst
and most far.sseing cannot predict.
1t is not that the Black Republicans
have been successful in placing their
candidate in the chief executive chair
of the nation, merely; it is that the
majority. Of the people Of the free
Estates have declared a settled and
active hostility to the interests, the
labor system, the constitutional
rights, the equality, the safety Of the
slave States. Whether well or i'll
founded the opinion, the people Of
the South SO regard the late verdict
oil the ballot box, and with unex-
ampled unanimity are preparing TO
seek, as the only resort left to them,
that safety out Of the Union which
they believe is destroyed and strick-
en- down in it. AnS when We GEN.
silsr the agitation that has been
going on for more than a quarter of
century at the North on the SUBJ
jsct Of Southern slavery; each year
With increasing bitterness; the spirit
Of luminosity that has been thereby
engendered; the pulpit invictions
launched at the South; the disruption
and Generalization in consequence,
Of large and influential church OF.
CARNATIONS; the endorse ment Of the
Infamous Helper book by the leading
Black Republican politicians; the
John Brown raid and bis defence and
eanonization as saint at the North;
the declaration by Abraham Lincoln
that the systems Of slave labor and
free labor cannot exist under the
same government; the proclamation
Of the ''irrepressible conflict and
law higher than the Constitution, BY
Seward; the whole eliminating in
the creation and success of the
Black Republican party in the cleo
lion of the same Abraham Lincoln
to the Chief Magistracy, who can
say chat their fears are g,oundless
While they fear for their property,
their fresides, their rights, and pre-
pare to protect them by extreme
resorts,we fear for our glorious Union,
our national name and prosperity,
for the legacy Of civil and religious
liberty left US by patriot fathers, and
for the great experiment Of self
government before the world, about to
be sacrificed for the abstraction of
negro equality. We would be the
last to despair Of the Republic, but
that the danger is extreme and I'M
mlnent We cannot doubt. The Black
Republicans who have pushed the
fanatical ideas of abolitionism to
a party and sectional triumph, have
now the responsibility; but unless
their acts are different from the dec.
arations of maEy of their leaders /
lad organs. unless reason, fairness
md spirit Of coneiliatien speedily +
AXE the place of threats and AFRO
,ance, the revolution which has real. !
y commenced will sweep the entire /
'outh, and this Union Of States be &
It an end. It had nothing of the I
pirit Of force 10 its formation, and {
annot be maintained by force, and 6
it could, would not be worth spEs q
maintenance, it's essential prie ~
eng gone. !