Nebraska advertiser., 1861-03-14

not vacillate. Ii now only remains for
the people to sustain him in doing right,
and all win be safe+ no doubt about that.
OF the Inaugural he St. Louis RePub-
iiean [Dem, says:
SO far as Missouri and the Border
States are concerned, we have to say, that
the positions assumed in the Inaugural as
those which VIII be maintained and act
ed on by the Administration, remove to
a great extent, she .ca6ses Of the anxiety
which has been felt by them, and do not
furnish IN any sense. a justification for
secession from the Union, Under the
~solemnity Of an oath to observe the Con-
stitution, and faithfully to execute all its
provisions and the laws enacted under It;
with a pledge that the Fugitive Slave
Law shall be executed in all the States,
SO far as he can give it efficiency, with
alt fdelity-and this Is the only real
ground Of complaint which we have ever
lad against the General Government, in
this State with the full and explicit ac-
acknowledgements of the President, that be
does not desire and will not make wal on
any one of the seeding States, unless for
causes wholly beyond his control, every
man who loves his Country, and is anx-
ions that the Union should be preserved,
will at least give him a fair trial-giye
him time to satisfy the world that he IS
honest in his declarations, and that he
means to avoid any act liable to bring
with it civil war, and all its brood of evils.
In every part of bis address, this idea
seems to be uppermost in his mind and
we, as public journalists, accustomed to
try Public men by the standard which
they may set up for themselves, are will
ling 10 accord 10 the President this privi-
lege. He is entitled to it as an act of
Justice.
The whole address, we are bound to
say, (with a full reccoilection of the zeal
with which we opposed his election,) is
conceived in excellent temper, is intended
to conciliate the people of the States in
which his election was most violently OPP
posed, and 10 assure them hat their rights
will be strictly protected and Observed
Let us receive it in,the same temper.
7oata Another "Sesesh."s
Look out for South Carolina she'll
soon be on another seeding expedition.
The Washington Star EDem. says:
1.-THE Charleston Mercury has given US in
a letter from the noteds ecessionist, L.W.
Spratt, an insight into the motives from
which secession originated and the kind
Of security which it was intended to in
augurate.
Mr.. Spratt complains Of the insertion
in the Constitution Of the Southern Con.
federacy of the provision prohibiting the
African Slave trade. He says in SO ma
ny words: "If the clause be carried into
the permanent Government our whoIe
Increment IS defeated"
This is a direct admission, that the re-
newal of the African slave-trade was
the first object of secession, on which de-
pended all subsequent advantages which
were expected @ flow from it. And
what were these anticipated advantages )?
Mr.. Spratt tells US: They were to intro
duce slaves enough to perform all the la
Dor Of society, mechanical as well as ag-
ricultural, and produce a community COM
posed ~entireLI of masters and SIdUes. All
free labor was to be driven out of the
confederacy, and negro slaves were to
take the place of white mechanics and
laborers now so extensively employed in
the slaveholding States.
So intent is Mr.. Spratt on carrying
out the South Carolina theory Of a com
munity composed only of masters and
slaves, that he distinctly threatens San
other revolution" in case the prohibition
shall be made permanent. which be says
"may be painful, but we must make it."
So we are to be dragged into a round of
revolutions by this little State, to last un-
i'll she has opened the African slave
trade, driven free labor from her Dor
ders, and exhibited to the world a CON-
munity composed wholly of masters and
slaves!.
Men of common sense are beginning
to think that a lHtle "coercion" applied
TO this refractory State may after all pc
of use in preserving the future peace Of
the country"