Year: 1860

We give this week some passages from Buchan-
ans recent message, and have go divided 1T that
the topics upon which it treats can. be seen at
glance.


THE PEsKY ABOLITIoNIsTs.


The Il ng continued and intemperato interference
of the Northern people with the question OF slave
ry in the Southern States, has at length produced
its natural effects. The different sections OF the
Union are now arrayed against each other. and
the time has arrived so much dreaded by the Faith
sr of His Country, when hostile geographical par
ties have been formed. | have long foreseeb, and
often forewarned my countrymen Of the now i'm
pending danger. This does not proceed solely
from the claim the pars OF Congress or the Ter
ritorial Legislatures to exclude slavery from the
Territories nor from the efforts Of different States
to defeat the execution of the Fugitive Slave Law.
all or any of these evils might have been endured
by the South, without danger to the Union, as
others have been, in the hope that time and retec-
tion might apely the remedy. The immediate peril
arises not SO much from these causes, as irom the
fact taat the violent agitation of the slavery ques-
tion throu shout the North for the last quarter of
c century, has at length produced its malign in
fuence on the slaves, and inspired them with



tv no longer exists around the family altar This
feeling of peace at home has given place to appre-
hensons of servie insurrection.


PICTURE OF THE SOUTH.


Many matron throughout the South, retires at
night, in dread of what may beal herself and her
children before the morning Should this appre-
hension of domestic danger, whether real or ina
Rinary, extend and intensity itself, until it should
pervade the masses of the Southern people, then
disunion will be inevitable. Self preservation is
the fret law of nature. and has been implanted in
the heart of man by his Creator for the wsest pur-
poses, and no political union, however fraught
with blessings and benefits, in all other respects
can long continue, if the necessary consequences
be to render the homes and fresdes of nearly half
the parties to it shabitualy and hopeessly insecure
Sooner or later tho bonds of such union must be
severed 1t is my conviction that this fatal period
has not yet arrived, and my prayer to God is that
he would preserve the Constitution and the Union
throughout oil generations. But let us take warn
ing in time, and remove the cause of danger.


THE MEDDLEsoME NORTH.


Ii cannot be denied that for five and twenty
wears, the agitation at the North against Slavery





rial hand-bills, and inAamatory appeals were Cir
culated extensively throughout the South, of
character to excite the passions of the slaves-and
in the language of Gen. jackson, to stimulate them
to insurrection, and produce all the horrors Of a
servie war. This agitation has ever since been
continued by the public pvess, by the proceedings
of State and County Conventions and by abolition
sermons and lectures. The time Of Congress has
been occupied in violent speeches on the never
ending subject, and appeals in pamphlet, and 9TH
or forms, endorsed by distinguished names, have
been sent forth from this central point and spread
broadcast over the Union. How easy would it be
for the American people to settle the slavery ques
iion forever, and to restore peace and harmony to
this dish acted country. They alone can do it,
All that is necessary to accomplish this object, and
all which the slave States have ever contended for
is to be let alone, and permitted to manage their
domestic institutions in their own way, as sover-
eign States. They. and they alone, are response
bic before God and the world for the slavery exist
ing among them. For this the people of the North
are not more responsible and have no more right
to interfere than with similar institutions in Rus
sia and Brazil.


LINooLN's ELECTION NO CAUSE FOR SECESSION.


Upon their good sense and patriotic foTbearance
] confess still greatly rely. Without their aid
il is beyond the power of any President no matter
what may be his own political proclivities to re-
store peace and harmony among the States. Wise
ly limited aud restrained is his power under our
Constitution and laws, he alone can accomplish
but little for good or evil, on such a momentous