The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1862-12-19
Where Will the West Go?
rom the Providence r. I. Post Dec, 1.

IkJHi Tue IfUEllEAce X. l. POST Dec, l.
Wendell Philips, in his recent polti
cal address here, admitted that the West
was even now preparing to 90 with the
South. One could hear talk Of it all
through the western country. The West
did not love the Last It did not love ne
groes 1t did not love high tariffs, If
disunion became fixed fact, the West
would follow tie South. New England
and New York would be left out IN the
cold.
Our belief is, that New Eagland alone
will be left out in the cold. We said,
years ago, that if separation came, new
Confederacy would follow. and that it
,CouLd not embrace New England We
have not changed our belief on this point
Indeed, it IS every day strengthened ; and
We entertain no doubt that tie Weyt Itself
would Object 70 our company if il should
be offered.
New York will belong TO the new Re,
public, if one is established Certainly it
will seek to; and we see no reason why
both South and West should not unite in
desiring her presence. Bnt New England
with her aboli:ionism and her political
priests-the hot~bed Of all the isms. and
the author of our great calamity-the
everlasting beggar for protective tariffs
will be objected to, and will be excluded.
The old Union once gone, it can never
belong to another, unless, perchance, it
finds for herself and is forced to accept
the samG condition Of dependency which
she is now preaching for the South No
other section viii want her on terms Of
equality.
And this is the fua1s to which this ad
ministratiyn IS now driving US. It is
every day rendering a restoration Of the
Union more and more difficult. Instead
Of acting upon the recent expressions of
sentiment by the people at the ballot box,
it is defying this great source of power,
and exhibiting the utmost contempt for
popular condemnation. Lincoln, the
President, is Represented AS saying that
he would sooner die thousand deaths
than Withdraw his abolition proclamation
and as attaching far more Importance to
the result Of the election in Missouri-a
result secured by his hrelings at the point
of the bayonet, and by terroism which
kept more than two fifhs of all the voters
from the polls-than to all the other
elections which had taken place during
the year. lie rejoices over a verdict,
thus shamefuliy obtained in a State where
he desires to Introduce in a practical
shape the fire brand Of emancipation, and
spurns with contempt the honest con
demnation Of his conduct which comes to
him with the Endorsement of fifteen mil
lions of northern people. He removes
the abIest Generals in the army, with no
other than a political motive, and declares
his determination to thrust out every off
Ger who dares criticise his conduct. He
empties Forts Warren and Lafayette Of
political prisoners, without a word of apo
iogv or explanation to their victims, and
without the moral courage to rescind the
unconstitutional order under which they
were and others probably will be arrested
He throws himself, body and soul, into
the embraces Of the Greeeys and Loves
joys Of tho party which elected him, and
dehes the honest men who have supported
the government to change bis policy, or
avert the final calamity to which radical,
ism is tending
This is our position. TIE hope Of the
Union is every hour growing fainter, until
a majority Of the people of the North at.
last look upon separation or revolution