Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-04-23

From thc Daily Herald st April go.
The Election of Lincoln - Providen.
Iiat Event.

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The Election Of Lincoln u Providen.
tiat Event.
To those malignants in the North who still
insist that il Abraham Lincoln had not
been elected President, there would have
been no disunion, no demonstration of the
utter falsity of the assertion would be of
any avail. The fact that the disunion
scheme has been in process of incubation
for more than thirty years; that It's first
pretext was the, tariff policy of the gov
ernment that jackson solemnly warned
his countrymen that the monster of Dis
union was not dead but only sleeping, and
that 1t would make the slavery question
the next pretext for dissolution, and final
ly. that the rebel commissioners TO Eng
land. in grave communication TO the
British Government, in the very outset of
the rebellion, solemnly declared that it was
not the attitude of the Republican Party
towards Slavery, bur simple desire for
Independence and commercial freedom,
that led TO the secession of the Southern
States all these facts 60 for nothing with
such eopperheads as Seymour of Connec-
nectlcut, Fernando Wood, Cox and Val
landigham. We do not propose TO discuss
polut o plaln'to The apprehension OF all
intelligent, thinking men, with those sho
sci4 rot see.
But let us inquire, for moment, hat
Ia all human probability, would have been
the iate OF the Union, ere this, bad Abra-
ham Lincoln not been elected President
lis compel tors were Stel hen A Douglas,
John Bell, am the traitor john 4. brecS-
inrIdge. Every dlsun.Onist per Sc IN the
South, who, after the election Of Mir Lin
coln, made that e> ent preteXL 10 hre
the Southern heart" and vino "pre sipitalod
the Cotton Z tates itto rebellion" d" we're the
hearty, earnest supporters Of BrecK-
lnndge. The unlonists in the South dl-
yided their votes between Douglas and
Bell. Now, suppose the disunIonists had
succeeded IN electIng the man of their
choloe2 Would there have been any less
number of Abolltlonists ~ in the North 2
Would not New England have been haze
as intensely as eve, 2 Would not the
South have regarded the free schools and
the free speech of the North just as mimi
cal 10 their peculiar institution 2 Would
not their desire for independence, cherish
cd and nurtured for thirty years, until 1t
it had grown into the vision of grand
Southern Empire, embracing all of Mex-
co, Central America, and the Island of
Cuba, been just as strong No candid
person will deny this. Now, then, what
could have been more fortunate result.
to enable the traitors to carry out their
darling scheme of disunion than the cleo
ton of theinrebel chief to the Presidency2
breckenridge was known to be inspired
with the " States' Rights" doctrines of
John q. Calhoun, which jackson, and the
Democratic Party of his day, condemned
he was known as an advocate of the doc
trine and right Of peaceable secession, by
State action; and TO hold all coersive
measures to keep State in the Union to
be unconstitutional. Had Breckenridge,
then, been elected, the secessionists would |
have said sour hour has come p' The
Cotton States would have led off in the |
scheme OF secession, precisely as they did |
after the election of MIR. Lincoln. Other
States would have been forced to follow
the lead. All our forts, arsenals, AMI
magazines of arms would have been cap
tured and held by the seeding States
Meantime Breckenridge, the aroh-leader
IN the conspiracy, would have sat idly IN
his Presidential Chair, and as commander
In-ehief OF the national armies. would
have done nothing to arrest the fell work
OF destruction. He would have said, ave
have no right to coerce a State but
p'a!s has the rish.. .is.. to secede!" Without |
any army and without arms, how easy for
tae rebels have to by coup do etat, taken
Washington, dragooned Maryland and
kentucky aud Missouri into the Southern
Confederacy, proclaimed Breckenridge the
president thereof, and left the Northern
States, or such OF them as they might
e"'0' oo' ~ 'io ooio 18th
PRESIDENT fully in sympathy W III tho
uisnnlon scheme, as Breckinridc a has;
shown himself to ave beer. Who ;na,oa
't using the constitutio anal nouer or tho
government to crust ;ba .ah..ll;o,, III |