The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-01-30
LinColn's Speaking Out.

1t Is now given out that, 'soon after the
electoral vote shall be counted on the second
Wednesday in February, Mr.. LINCOLN will
acquaint the public with his views on the
pending crisis. Heretofore, he has not felt
that ii was proper tor him, in advance Of the
official declaration of his election, to take
prominent part in the direction of political
affairs"
There have been various statements of LIN
COINS views on slave institutions-some re-
porting him as conservative, some as radical
Both true, we have no doubt, for he has
spoken on both sides of the question But if
he had never uttered an anti-slavery senti-
ment in his life, the fact that, from the 9Th day
of November last, when he was elevated to
the Presidency, up to this hour, he has re-
manned silent amid a sectional, political, and
financial storm, which has shaken the country
TO pieces, made every man in II poorer, brought
the demon of strife and discord to every neigh
borhood, lighted up the heavens with the
red glare OF civil war, filled the streets and
alleys OF every city with crowds of hungry,
starving, and freezing men and women, rohen
one ,oord from him light hare saced the Union
and the aoorld the achoie Of this protracted
and infinite agony, proves him to be the most
obstinate and heartless despot, crowned or I'M
There is no sovereign of Europe who would
dare refuse TO rescue his subjects from such
state OF things as exists in this country, even
II II cost him the most painful sacrifices; or,
If there be, there are no subjects on the face
Of the earth, who would not rise in their
majesty, AS one man. and hurl such a tyrant
from his throne And the excuse for all
this-the hollow and hypocritical pretext, is,
that the Western Flatboatman and Rail
splitter did not consider 1t agreeable TO ETH
quette to announce his sentiments in advance
OF the "oEcidl declaration of his election"
The official declaration of his election -
why, the country did not need the official de-
claration, TO be bankrupted and DIES troyed.-
lhe TACT was certain enough, without count
ing the votes, to divide the Union, and vet this
formal and ceremonious BgAu BKuMaEL of H.
Hhois eouia not really consider 1t consistent
Win proprtety TO utter n single word based
npon che existence Of that fact, even though
that one word might save the United States
from political perdition We have he ard an
anecdote Of an Englishman who declined To
save drowning man because he had Fever
been introduced to him; butt If he had been able
10 save thirty millions Of people by simply
reaching out his hand and had refused to do it,
we should then have an unexaggerated idea
Of the Inereiless ccremoniousness of "Uncle
AsE." Now, appalled, by the whirlwind that
he has reused, he will youchsafe to speak.
he speaks too late, 80 far as the Garden Spot
Of the Union 10 concerned. King Cotton, who
npholds the commerce Of the United States,
keeps In motion all It's factories, pays the taxes
and supports the Government, has renounced
his allegiance TO King LncoLs, and henceforth
IL - sovereign and as independent Of that
1Onndbsad tyrant a. 10 the Emperor Of the
French or the Queen Of England.