Year: 1860

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and the navy of the country. Concede, fol
arguments sake, that for polite reasons
they will not deem it fit to inaugurate the
bloody aud mighty issue at once, what will
be the course they will pursue? Here we
have the admitted facts of their intended
action, and in them We may see reflected in
the mirror of truth the consequences Of
Abraham Lincoln's election as President


The first step will be the appointment to
every post Of executive or administrative
power within the gift Of the President of
men who believe that slavery is an evil and
sin; that it is their moral and social, as
well as political duty, to make war upon it
in every way; that "this Union cannot stand
half slave and half free" and that William
Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips and John
Brown are right in the theories they have
proclaimed and the policy they have advo-
Gated. With men holding these views as
judges and officers of the federal courts, as
postmasters and collectors of customs, as
district attorneys and marshals of the Uni
ted States, there will commence an agita-
tion of the slavery question such as the
world has never witnessed. Federal OIL
GERS may refrain from immediate participa-
tion in criminal acts, but the abductors of
slaves, the fOmentors of Servile' incendiar-
ism, and the coming John Browns, will pur-
sue their iniquitous labors, in the full conf
dence that, if arrested and brought to trial,
it will be by marshals, prosecuting attor-
neys, jurieS and judges that sympathze
with them, and who believe that the cause
in which they are engaged is the cause of
righteousness.


The effect Of this fact alone upon the
spirit of fanatic abolitionsm in the country
will produce the most disastrous results
Give the criminal but the confidence that
men Of his stamp will sit as judges over
him, if arrested, and crime will at once be-
come the audacious ruler of society. So
will it be with the "irrepressible conflict"
The underground railroad will be brought
to the light of day, the stealing Of slaves
will become a trade of which thousands
will be openly vain, heroism in the act will
be worshipped, and not alone Virginia, but
every Southern State, will have to record
its John Brown raids, and the abolition
promptings to incendiarism now seen in
Texas will be witnessed in every slave State
from the Delaware to the Rio Grande, and
from the Ohio to the Gulf of Mexico. In
such state Of things there will be nc need
to use the army and navy Of the United
States to suppress or extinguish slavery; it
will only be necessary to defeat its employ
ment to suppress faction and incendarism.
In. such state of things parties will be
driven to the highest pitch of excitement,
acts of fury will be perpetratedon on all sides,
and day by day the whole country will re-
cede farther and farther from the rule of
reason.


With the Inauguration Of such state Of
things, we would ask the merchants of New
York, Philadelphia and Boston, what would
be the value of the Southern notes you
hold? If the reply would not bankrupt
you, it would cause you to cut off all your
Southern trade to avoid bankruptcy, In
such q state Of things, we would ask the
manufacturers of Pennsylvania, New Jer-
sey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island
and Massachusetts, what would be the
value to you Of the note Of merchant in
New York, Philadelphia or Boston, if the
Southern trade were bankrupt You
would not sell single package Of goods on
Southern credit, and would have to dimin-
ish production, or overstock other avenues
to consumption. And, in this case, we
would ask the capitalist, the farmer, the
mechanic and the laborer of those States,
what will become Of your rents, your mar
kets and your wages, if the manufacturers
have to diminish production? They must
and would decline, and all the combinations
of intellect, farmers unions and trade pro-
tections in the world could not sustain
prices and wages, even if they could pre-
vent universal bankruptcy Our whole in
dustrial and commercial fabric is built on
the broad basis Of credit, and the fbres,
veins and arteries of this are so intertwined
and connected through the whole body pol.
lic that a vital blow at the credit system
in one section will bring the whole edlice
crumbling to the ground. That blow will
be struck at Southern credit by the election
Of Lincoln, and the installation of "the
Massachusetts SCHOOL, of aboltionists in
our national administration.