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les, and Lincoln's supporters clamored for


war and ood-letting."
The South was taunted; the great com.
promise man and Border State Union lead
er. Crtteuden. wos treated by Lincoln as
cypher. he being a Stakeholder. Lincoln wa
busy making his appointm ents; the inter-
ests of the country were left to take care o
themselves; the Abolition party, was to be
braced; and who were h is appointees? Lei
Helper answer. Every one was an Aboli-
tionists; cabinet officers, custom house Off
GERS. post-masters, clerks, foreign appoint
ments, ALL all, Aboli tionists, and many ot
them endorsers of Helpers atrocious plans
Though Lincoln boasted that he was
President of the whole people, not slave
holder was placed in office; and yet, not
withstandiDg this assault on slavery, and
Notwithstanding this arrogant assum ption of
dom inion by the North over the South,
Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas and North
Carolina drew back from the ceceders; they
aited for the proffers of compromise.
Forty days elapsed from the date of Lin
coins Inauguration to the attack on Sumter.
Seward has since boasted, that in order to
unite the North, he managed to draw the
first shot from the South. During these
forty days, Lincoln was so engaged in icok-
ing over the party plans sand dividing the
spoils, that the secessionists seemed to have
been forgotten. But the shot from Sumter
brought out the proclamation calling for
Is 900 men; coercion was determined on,
and Virginia seeded two DAYS after. follow
ed by Arkansas, May 9Th, North Carolina,
May 21st, and Tennessee, all nearly in 1861.
And here we are, after nearly three years of
war, and these eleven States still unsubdu-
ed. still unoccupied, still not starved out
and no servile war Surely, the expert
ment of coercion has failed
Mr.. Buchanan, was assalled by the Abo-
iition coerconists, because in the last days
of his administration, he aimed at concilia-
tion aud compromise. With ferority un-
exampled, the most atrocious charges were
made against him. But in the mad excite
ment of the hour we had forgotten history.
South Carolina has seeded on the goth
of December, 1860, seventy-four days be-
fore the expiration of Mr.. Buchenan' IS term
of office; during which time the sentiment
of the country was divided. The fore
most statesmee of the day strenuously op-
posed coercion, as tending to everlasting dis
union and ruin, and promise was advo-
Gated as the only way of salvation. The
Virginia Convention then in session, exhib
tied an overwhelming Union majority, and
the Union men of that State and the Bor-
der State conservatives implored for con-
ciliation, the business men of the North, as
a class, advocated compromise by petitions
to Congress; Mr.. Seward publicly declared
that in the space of sixty days a settlement
would be made. What maddess, then,
what wickedness on the part of Mr. Buch-
anan administration to have dispelled these
hopes by the use of coercion. Had his
compromise policy been offered. the war
would have been averted and we should
now be united people.
Are we not realizing the truth of the
view expressed by Alexander Hamilton,
one of the wisest of the founders of our Un
ion, showing that he regarded the coercion
of States as tone of the maddest projects
thas was ever devised?"
The following extract from a speech de-
livered by him in 1888 in the New York
State Convention for ratifying the Consttu-
ton of the United States, should be kept be
fore the people. "The States can never
lose their power, till the whole people of
America are robbed of their liberties.-
These must go together. They must sup
port each other or share common fate. 1
wish the Com mttee to remember that the
Constitution under examination is framed
upon truly Repu blican principles, and that
as it is expressly designed for common
protection and the general welfare of the
United States, it must be utterly repugnant
Governments or Cypress the people. The
coercion of States is one of the maddest pro-
jects that ever was devised. A failure of
compliance will never be confined to a sin
gle State. This being the case can we sup
pose it wise to hazard civil war? 1t
would be a nation at war with itself. Can
any roasona ole man be we'll disposed toward
a Government that makes war and carnage
the only means of supporting itself. Gov
ernment that can only exist by the sword?
Every such war must involve the innocent
with the guilty. This single conside ration
should not be inefficient to dispose any
peaceable citizsn against such Govern
ment."
1t is not to be expected that the party in
power, who have long repudated the Con-
stitution. and who have long exhibited
con tempt for the opinions of its fathers
should be Influenced by what Ham ilton
has said, they are the undisguised enemies
of the Constitution; but the Democrats
should support this party with the know
ledge of their designs, is indeed difficult to
explain.
Lurel on by blind belief in the success
of coercion to restore the Union, the honest
supporters of the war seem to be regardless
of the fact that. if we have a coerced Un-
ion, 1t can only be under a consolidated
government. monarchial in form, with the
States overthrown and the people shorn of
their sovereignty and liberty.
Is any one mad enough to believe that
the party now in power. tyrannicaf aud in
solent as its leaders have shown themselves
to be, the party whose ranks are filled with
a m uchroon aristecracy, with people who
despised the honest m echanic and laboring
man aud who hate Democrats and Democ.
racy, will yield the power they now eootroi
without a struggle? They have INVOKED
the use of the 6ayonst to abolish slavery,
and subiugated our countrymen ofthe South
and dreading the ballot, they will invoke
49, e fba havonet at the North, and