Nebraska advertiser., 1861-01-17
TIE Causes OF Existing National
: Difficulties.

To assert, as many Democratic papers
IN The NOrth persist in doing, that the
present national crisis has been brought
sbOu, 5y, and IS the legitimate result Of,
the Republican party, is simply ridiculous
e IN the extreme, and exhibits, onthe part
Of he or they who so utter, an unpar-
dOnable degree Of either ignorance or
wilfdl Misrepresentation. Suppose it was
the object Of Mr.. Lincoln. and the entire
Republican party, TO interfere with
Southern rights? What under highheaven
could they dol Never was a President
OF. party so perfectly hand-tied! Mr.
Lincoln cannot to-day form his Cabinet
without the consent Of the Democratic
-pafwjopr make a single appointment re-
hquirisg confirmation by the Senate. IT'S
Hall nonsense, and we are surprised to
hear men claiming ordinary intelligence,
sOaalk The fact is, all who knoU any
thing Of the history or Lincoln, and are
ssoqpainied With his political sentiments,
must admit him to be one of the most
conservative and liberal-minded men in
Che party; it was by an exercise of poll
ey-to. s~elect-a conservative man-that
Mr.. Lincoln was nominated al Chicago,
and elected by the people by such an
overwhelming vote. Senator Benjamin,
a fre-eating Southerner, in the United
States Senate, not twelve months ago
.sqnoted Lincoln in reply to Douglas on
nshe slavery question, and pronounced him
far more conservative than even Mr..
Douglas But we are DEPRESSING.
There is now a combination of what
was formerly three distinct elements,
which the lovers of the Union every
where have 10 contend with 1t is the
combiaation which renders it fearful and
dangerous. The frst is imaginary in its
characters the second reasonable and
the third both REASONABLE and traitOroas.
The imaginary element consists Of a,
ssslassof people al the South, who, we are
boehariiable enough to believe, honestly
s1hlnk thatitis not only the objeetOf If The
Republican party, but the entire North.
70 directly wage war upon their peculiar.
institution where il already exists; to
e fOrcibly free their blacks and set them
5 loose, with ~incerdiary torch in hand, and
with the bloOd.thirsiness of very demons,
murder and destroy throughout The
length and breadth Of their land. They
have been taught thus to believe and
are prevented learning to better under
-Astand the North, by the enactment of
: Iaws-by those composing the second and
third elements-forbidding the free cir
c%uiaiion Of northern newspapers reflect
ing. northern sentiments upon the slavery
question. Such a sentiment or feeling
has been created among this class, that
the manufacturers of it could not now
control it if they were so disposed.
The reasonable class consists of South
ern men who have made the project of a
Southern COntsderaey their lifelong study.
shAaron Burr originated the plan. and
q these worthless have long sought an oppor-
tunlty to make a "secOnd attempt, The
real objects Of this Southern C~onfederacy
movement are various; principally how.
ever to secure there-opening of the Afri-
can Slave trade, and also to provide fat
and prominent Offices for a set of addle-
Drained, ~pampered, incompetent, hot
headed, One-horse politicians, who could
neyerb be promoted in the United States; at
d leas. in any degree corresponding with
3 their exhalted aspirations.
The reasonable and traitorous class Is
composed Of a horde Of political YAM
.nspires, whOare the legitimate fruits of the
damhable doctrine that ito the victOrs be-
Tong the spoils.' They are found in both
the South and North; principally in the
South, however. They have long been
4 sucking the. country's life-blood; flching
from the national treasury by the mil
lions, and engaging in cOrruptiOns of the
most astounding character. A change of
adminlstration will "show up" these high
handed desperadoes. Hence the efforts.
and great anxiety on their part, to bring
about a direct, open. and bloody conflict,
in hopes that ii viii end in the total de-
strucuOn Of all government buildingsan6
records at the national capital, and thus
all evidences Of, their base villainy be to-
tslly destroyed, This is the dangerous
element, and which, when cOmbiaed with
bsl;he others. then renders the whole Far
.o- f1ydangerous. e E1a ae1J O.
! Andrew Johnson.