Year: 1862

Wendell Phillips in his recent political address
here, admitted that the West was even now pre-
pairing to 90 with the South One could hear
talk of il all through the western country The
w est did not love the East 1t did not love ne
groes. 1t did not love high tariffs If disunion
became a fixed fact, the West would follow the
South. New England and New York would be
left out in the cold


Our belief is, that Netp England alone will be
left out in the cold We said wears ago. that if
separation came, new COnfederacy would fol-
low, and that 1t would not embrace New Eng
land. We have not changed our belief on this
point. Indeed, il is every day strengthened; and
entertain no doubt that the West itself would
object to our company if it should be offered.


New York will belong to the new Republic, If
one is established Certainly il will seek to; and
we see no reason why both South and West
should not unite in desiring her presence But
New England. with her Abolitionism and her DO
liteal prests-the hot-hed OF all the isms, and
the author of our great calamity-the everlast
ing beggar for protective ariffs-wilI he objected
to, and will be excluded. The old Union once
gone, it can never belong TO another unless, per-
chance, it finds for herself and is forced to ac q
cept the same condition of dependency which she
is now preaching for the South. No other sec
ton will want her on terms of equality


And this is the finale TO which this Admins
tration is now driving II is every day render
ing a restoration of the Union more and more
difficult. Instead of acting upon the recent ex-
pressiOns of sentiment by the people at the ballot
box, it is defyng this great source of power, and
exhibing the utmost contempt for popular con-
demnation.


Lincoln, the President, is represented as saying
that he would sooner die thousand deaths than
withdraw his Abolition proclamation, and as at
taching far more importance to the result of the
election in Missouri result secured by his hire
lings at the point of the bayonet. and by terror
ism which kept more than two 6fths of all the vo-
ters from the polls-than all the other elections
which had taken place during the year He re-
joces over verdict thus shamefully obtained.
in State where he desires to introduce, in a
practical shape the 6rebrand of emancipation,
and spurns with contempt the honest condemna-
ton OF his conduct which comes to him with the
indorsement of fifteen millions of Northern peo-
ple He removes the ablest General in the army
with no other than political motive and declares
his intention to thrust out every officer who dares
c,iticise his conduct. He empties Forts Warren
and lafayette of political prisoners, without
word of apology or explanation to their victims.
and without the moral courage to rescind the un
constitutional order under which they were, and
others probably will be, arrested. He throws
himself, body and soul, into the embraces of the
Greeleys and Loveioys of the party which elect
ed him, and de6es the honest men who have sup
ported the Government TO change his policy, or
avert the final calamity to which radicalism is
tending.


This is our position The hope Of the Union
is every hour growing fainter, until majority of
the people of the North mt last look upon separa-
ton or revolution as a certainty. We have al
lowed personal rights and State rights TO be
trampled upon-we have allowed the country to
be flooded with currency which, FIVE years
hence, will not be worth the paper upon which il
is printed-we have submitted to taxation such
as Americans before never dreamed of--we have
offered up hundreds of thousands of valuable
lives. And what have we gained2 Why, so
hopeless is our cause to-day. that the people of
the West, as Wendell Phillips truly said, are
making their arrangem. nts to follow the SOUTH
They will follow the South, and so will the mid
die States, If the Union is sundered; and that it
will be sundered If the President adheres to his
determination to make this an Abolition war after
the first OF January, is as certain as that the sun
shines in the heavens.