Year: 1860

and honestly secure the means Of subsistence,
would soon be deserted New York, in the
shrinkage of her real estate to one-half Of its
present value would feel it. Ought we to pro-
woke these consequencess / think not


am satisfied that If negro slavery be a sin
no honest man can sanction or tolerate it !
am satisfied that If ii be a sin, the republican
party is right. We ought to concur with them
and to extirpate it We ought not to wait for
the South to secede, II we cannot persuade them
to abandon it If negro slavery is the unmiti-
gated crime the republican party represent 1t to
be, we should purge our country of it either by
suppressing it or cutting off from our commu-
Mon, even though il be our right hand, the
member that adheres to It,


But am satisfied that the question whether
it be sin or not has newer been fairly consid-
cred by the people Of the North, or even argued
before them. They have never heard or delib-
Grated upon any argument concerning it; and
before finally deciding its character and proper
destiny, they ought in Common prudence, to
give this much censured practice fair hearing.


On the whole, therefore, am most anxious
that the question of negro slavery should not be
decided at this election-that respite Of four
years should be allowed to our Northern people,
during which the subject may be fairly discuss.
cd and deliberately determined.


If three years hence there should be found in
office single Senator who dare in his place as
sail the South, on moral grounds, as Mr.. Sumner
and many eminent and influential politicians are
constantly assailing that section, !, as North
ern man, would assent to peaceful dissolution.
Distinct States with conceptions of social NOR
atty so widely variant as those now existing
between the republicans of the North and the
people of the South, are unfit to associate under
a common government, if the moral odum in
which either holds the other is allowed any play
or operation in political affairs.


This is all ask of American conservatives at
the North, who conseientiously believe in re-
publican doctrines, or any portion of them--a
brief term of deliberation before striking the ir
rcvocable blow and bringing to its climax the
irrepressibe conflict If after such deliberaton
the sentiment of the North should be unchanged,
perceful separation by mutual assent would be
the duty of both sections. Such mode of sep
aration would greatly mitigate the evils result
prudence, every lover of his species, should pre-
fer peaceful dissolution to a violent and reyo-
lutionary disruption.


If the Southern States should secede, no overt
act Of treason will be committed by any person
during the official term of Mr.. Buchanan.
Constitution United States, Art 8, sec. g. subd y
Nor indeed will any crime whatever be CON-
mtted in violation of the laws of the Union Mr..
Duchauans administration VIII have no power
10 aid in suppressing ''thc wrath to come" The
coming evil will be announced by sovereign leg
slative acts to take effect on the Inauguration of
Lincoln and not before. Mr.. Buchanan can do
nothing in the premises except to issue his
proclamation summoning the new Congress to
on the 4th of March, 1861. This
would enable Mr.. Lincoln, after being elected
by section, and inducted into office as the
President CT a section, to demand Immediately
rom Congress of that section war measures and
war supplies for the purpose of reducing to
obedience or subection the revolted South, if
indeed as the foes of the South believe coercive
measures are adapted to such an exigency, or
1t all practicable.


pray that the impending evil may be averted;
NY faith in Divine Providence gives me conf
ience that it will be averted. On the vote of !
New York depends the result


am, dear sir,


Yours truly,


CHARLES O'CONOR.


GEORGE W. LoYD, Esq, Corresponding Sec'y.