Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1861-02-07

be that Lincoln, when lnauguFateu
Twill attempt a coercion OF the seee
ding States to return to their places
lin the Union. If he should, wha
Ishall be the probable consequences
and what shnll Tennessee do?
In my opinion the firing OF th'
first gun in the attempt to coerce
sovereign State, would enkIndle {
q me of revciotion. OF civil and oil ser
lv,Ie war throughout all The SouiheII
States. The attempt once made
State after State would drift UpoI
4!he current Of a common sympathy
Interest aud danger into the vortex
of revolutioD;7 until all the slavehol
ding States would be arrayed in con
1ic: of arms against the Federal
{ Government, and the brave and chiv-
alrous people of the South. hastened
down iuto an abyss of blood, une'
quallei in this or any other age or
country. Added TO this would be
tie horrors Of servile war.
The aboIilionist, in the fury oil
bis fanaticism, acting upon the minds
of free negroes Of the South and
North, and they upon The slaves,
would attempt 10 bring ,ais sery'le
race into the field of. conalet; aud The
0ames Of incendiary brands, the out
RACES of brutal lust and cruelty OF
barbaric ferocity to women and chill
dren, would in Ill probability, lend
the gloom of more awful horrors TO
the civil strife in which a brother may
she'd a brothers blood. here say
nothing about those social and domes-
tic revolutions, which bfeaking up the
great branches of the nationalindustry
shall crush the relations between Ca
pital and Labor, and fill the laud with
the cries of orphanage and the lamen-
ta,ions OF the breadless and home-
less poor! What are the causes
which are preeipitating this cisas-
tious state Of things upon the coun-
Try? They are to be found In the
organization. growth, and triumph OF
the Black Republican OF anti-slavery
party in the North. They are to be
found in the sectional locality, in the
moral dogmas. and fanatical sentl-
meat Of that party. They are to
be found in the avowed purpose of
Mr.. Lincoln. the chieiiain Of a mil
lion Of Black Republican vassals; TO
WELD the Federal powers to prohibit
slavery 10 the Territories. and place it
every where in the course OF ultimate
extinction. They are to be found
in the purpose Of that party, by
physical necessities, and moral and
mental influences to contine, impair,
and wound the institution within
the States. They are to be found in
the acts oi non-slavebohiing States,
nullif, ing the Fugitive Slave Law
in th @ anti.slayery sentiments
brought through the press, mails,
and partizan em'ssaries, to bear on the
minds and passions cf the slave
populsiion, ever, tending 10 incits
them to- arson, poison, murder. ant
.nsurrection. They y,are found 10 th'
widespread belief in the public min,
at The South. that the domestic tran
] guilty. the right of prop rty, an,
llf. itself are insecure, aud, indeed
lin constant peril. They are 10 b
! found 10 The attempt OF such me-
as Helper aud his endorsers aud s, m
patblzers to make spirit of antag
onism and hostility between tn
slaveholdiag and non-slaveholding eli
izeps of the Southern States, to b
aided by the influence of the patron
! age of an antl-slayeTy Execuilv'
upon the sp2etites Of hungry az
lrecreant placemen for plunder an
for power. These are some oil II
, causes of the evils which are upo
fus. And how are they to he aver
j, ed? l answer, alone by the rem
, val of the causes which / have poln
. ed out, and by which they have bee
krro,luced. Can this be done? l a
E irauk to ans wer that 1 do not belle
II cnn. 1t is in the power OF NJ
: lincoln and the party with whom
!. acts, alone to remove them. And
Y do not suppose they will, HapI
3 would it be for this nation it tn
e would. ~ c
Il is true, that Ishould have be-
= pleased to have seen conference
!. the Southern States, that tn
n should have specified the guarante
nj they requyed, and should bave
n ,heir united and aggregate capacl
y made their solemn demands OF