Year: 1860




To the Republicans of New York


Who are for the Republic:


On the 9th of November, this great ma
tion, in her never-equalied majesty, utters
the decree of her fate.


Until the nomination of Mr.. Fremont,
four years since, the Presidential election,
however excited, had never been diseased.
The disease has intensified in viruence du-
ring the present canvass. We are now in
the throes of dissolution. Union states
men from the South have come North,
risking position and popularity at home, to
awaken you to sense Of our common dan
ger, and have returned, feeling that they
have made but little, if any, impression
upon you. They have made their last ap
peal If you heed them not, they will no
longer oppose the disunionists of the South.
Indeed, some of the Union speakers that
have been among US have gone home in
despair to take their part with the seceders.
The patriots of the South have done their





The practical question for your conside.
ration is, whether the Cotton States can
secede without the consent of the Federal
Government Few of your party are, be-
lieve, disuuionistS in theory; many of you
would not continue line OF policy iuteu-
tionally driving off the Cotton States, if in
the abandonment of such policy you sur
rendered nothing which you possessed, nor
compromised your honor. All that the
Union men of the South ask of you, is to
let the South alone. Why then drive her
to desperate acts, making her feel her iude-
pendent power, and then retorting to her
just complaints, that this over-shadowiug
North will not be 'sbullied"?


1.-THE ultra sections of your party are
actuated only by humanitarian motives, why
not bravely begin the war on Cuba, where
neither constitutional pledges, nor halow-
ed memories of patriotic ancestors forbid,
and where the condition of the Ethiopian
is so much below that of the ''persons held
to service" in our country? If with their
orator, Redpath, they are Indifferent to the
shedding of white blood, so that the negro
is made his own master, why not begin
with the blood of the foreigner, and gal
lantly throw themselves under the guns of
Moro Castle Why must our fellow. citi-
zens' blood be poured out to appease the
Congo fetch? Moral responsibility is the
only excuse given for this internecine cru
sade, where not only not the slightest res
possibility exists, but where the invaders
are actually under the most sacred compact
not to meddle.


Mr.. Lincoln, possibly, may not commit
any aggressive act upon the South if he
shall be elected. He may even disappoint
his party, and form conservative Cabinet,
with such men as VIM c. Rives atits head
But the Gulf States will have acted long
before Mr.. Lincoln's Inauguration, and
they could not, ought not, to be influenced
by the appointment of a more conservative
class than the fair representative men of
the successful party. The South looks to
your military and militant Wide Awakes,
to your banners, your speeches, your press,
and your votes, and not to what Mr.. Lin
coin may say or do after his election. The
South would feel no security in Mr.. Lin
colu's betrayal of his party were that prob
able. The only voice that can or ought to
have weight with the South is the vote of
the North.


The Cotton States have in every concei-
vable form-by their Conventions, Leglsa-
lures, Governors, and Congressman, given
us full and serious notice that they would
regard the election of Lincoln sufficient
cause for their withdrawal do not agree
with them, nor do any of you, l suppose.
But our opinions are of no consequence if
they have the power, and think themselves
sufficiently aggrieved to use the power
Any serious reflection must satisfy an un-
warped mind that we cannot restrain them
if they shall resolve to act. I mean to say
that we cannot use force with any possible
success. Amos Kendall's two hundred
thousand men-nay, million-could not
bring back the seeding States by force,
without leaving them valueless.