, 1861-01-31

samo end, to deprive us outright Of what has
become mere cheat, shn1n, o delusfon ; md
to confer upon cur southern masters the right
to cnst, In our stead, the ballots which we.
eowardly Republicans have lacked thn spirit
to use nccordingto our ownjndgment.
elected : sectional President thcmsef7es-Mr.
Breckintidge for instanccf Surely not because
of lack Of Will or Of effort, but only Of q
sufficient number OF Votes II they had had
enough Of these, south of the Ohio River, to
answer their purpose, doubtless we should not
now hare been deafened with their clamor
The real trouble il not thnt a sectional Presl-
dent has been elected, but that the preponder-
anca Of sectional votes not being on their
side. they we're unable to elect sectional
President Of their own sectional stripe. In the
repeal Of the Missouri Compromise, Ii spite
OF the entreattes and rcmonstrauces 1of these
whom as91 they nov abuse, they forced seetional
question On the country, and now, Ikea spoil
60 child cry because what they term sec
tional President, has been elected. Having
soWed the wind, they object ttoutly to reap
ing their Legitimate harvest, tho whirlWind.
! But, substantially, their claim amounts to
this: Tint We ought to have cast enough Of
our yotes for one Of their candidates to have
elected him, in which case, having receiYed
votes from both sides Of till line, he could not
be said to ben sectional President. But why
D.. not cast portion Of their votes for our candl-
date: True, they werc not actually needed !;
nut Tor the same reason, they could have been
glsen at less cost, aud so Mr. Lincoln would
;haEe been relieved Of the lmputation Of being
sectional President, tile country ealmed, and
the Union not only: saved, but actually never
!! ! endangered. e, Seeing they could have prevented
az thls trouble 80 cheaply, why did they not
40 It! But II vas yonr bull gored my OK"
See Romans, L., l. -
The root Of I'll this strife is just here: The
shareholders Tor rather- those Of them who
the party feel that their hold upon their slayas
y not secure Is long as the whites arc free.
aaVing long since reduced the whites of the
South to snbjectiop, they are, now moving
Garth md he'll to place their feet on the necks
| Of the whites Of the North In this they have
glotlo9sly iailed. The nudaclty Of the Kepub.
hcans in refusing to fall prost1ate at their bid.
ding Inns maddened them beyond bounds, until,
hkc me cnraged viper, they hare at length
/. commenced to "sting themselves to deatb.h
Just here the query arises, Why did these
people go into m election at all! II thcy did
not mean honestly to abido the result, why did
( thcy not, at The outset, say to the North (as
| honor would have done ave tell ron plainly
| that We do not mean to submit to defeat
i and shall therefore decline 10 20 info On elec
ton for the chance of winning. Hence ws
shall secede t1on." Did they, like honorable
i men, do this ? No! they went in to win il
| put themselves below the leyel Of the gentle
man gambler, who ssorns to Eepudiate bis
| lost bets.
l. The only end that can come Of this strife
/ Will and must be found in alaEge abatement O
pro-sayesJ pretension, which in lofty eublimi
l. y OF tmPudence and tnsolence, remains uu
rivalled and unapproachable elsewhere upo1
For myself let me say, that whenever an
called upon to choose between disunion ant
my election is mnde. I welcome the fofmel
with open arms: In the meantime, In com
mon with the whole Republican party, sial
oppose any outside interference with :slayer1
in the States where # now exists, so long q.
those States remain true to those constitution
:al obligations which 1t behooyes them, equally
with ourselves, to respect
Very truly your friend. -