Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1861-01-04
From the Louisville Journal, Dec 80
LET THE STATES OF THE BORDER STAND
FlRM-"DoN'T GIVE UP THE sHIPw

Less than two months ago, Virginia and Mary.
land, and Kentucky and Tennessee and Missouri.
the sayeholding States Of the Border, determined
solemnly at the polls, that, if Mr.. Lincoln should
be elected to the Presidency. they would not, in
anticipation OF aggressions, dissolve the Union
or resort to revolutionary resistance, but would
stand alert on the defensive, within the strong
lines Of the Union and behind the ramparts Of
the Constitution. These Eve great States of the
Border declared unequivocally at the ballot box
that whatever might be the immediate issue of
the election, they would remain in the Union,
and maintain the Constitution, peaoeably il nos.
sihle, forcibly il necessary. They pronounced
with equal voice for the Uniou, no matter which
OF the candidates should be elected South
Carolina declared Mt the same time, quite as I'M
eqnlvocally, that, in the event of Mr.. Lincoln's
election, she would at all hazards Immediately
cast Oft the Constitution ana secede from tle
Unioni and several of the remaining cotton
States united with more or less distinctness in
the declaration of South Carolina, They pro-
nounced with various emphasis against the
Union, if tue Republican candidate should be
elected.
Such was the issue raised in the slavcholiiuc
States by the Presidential election, and such the
decision of the issue.
The result thus far is known. The election of
4"is A'lHSNlh 'oph pluVui hllu Goutn Gaf0Inn has
in form at least cast off the Constitution and Sc.
ceded from the Union, leaving an indefinite mum.
Der of other Cotton States in train for the ike
rebellons and disorganizing step. Precisely
what every Southern man of foresight believed
and said would follow the election of Mr.. Lin.
coin has followed and is following the deplorable
event. Nothing unforeseen ty the men Of the
Border, nothing unprotected by them has vet
occurred, Nothing has occurred that men of
all parties in the South everywhere did not an
nounce confidently beforehand South Cnro-
lima and the States affiliated with her in the
deep-seated hostility to the Union are carrying
out the resolution they proclaimed at the polls
on the sixth of November The States that
pronounced against the Union, in the contingency
of Mr.. Linc0ln's election, are seeding from tho
Union. The Cotton States are executing their
rash and seditious purpose
Are the Border States prepared to finch from
the execution of their wise and loyal one? Are
the States of the South that pronounced for the
Union, in the contingency Of Mr. Lincoln's cleo
ton, about TO secede from the Union on account
of the happening of that contingency Do Ken
lucky and the States affiliated with her in deep
seated fidelity to The Taion shrink from CARRYING
out the resolution they proclaimed at the polls
on the sixth of November Are the brave and
enlightened people of these States ready TO
spurn blindly the ground on which they stood in
the Presidential election, to fling away in fit
of passion the victory they won in the name OF
the Union. No, let the border States remain
firm and stand by the Union.