Year: 1861

ment of our present miserable sectional diiferen
ces shall be made. The political leaders in the
United States Senate, such as Hale and Wade,
Iverson and Wigfsll, totally ignore the fact that
they are Senators of mighty and independent
Republic, sinking themselves into mere represen-
tatves of prejudice aud sectional feeling. We
care not how much these gentlemen may adorn
and beautify by figures of speech, and all the
flowers of rhetoric and eloquenee, their present
demagogical efforts to preeipitate, by ultra abb
stractions, this now prosperous and happy con-
federacy into anarchy and ruin, future history
will point to them with well-merited contempt,
as the political fratrcides, who would, rather
than sacrifice a selfish ambition for personal no.
torety, light the torch of sectional prejudice and
hatred, fire the popular passions, and reduce to
ashes the n0blest governmental structure ever
built by men-a government founded upon all
that is good, wise, and just, and cemented by the
blood of common people in common cause.


In late speech in the U, S. Senate, Mr.. Wade,
of Ohio, used the following language:


al know not what others may do, but | tell
! you that, with that verdict of the people in my
pocket. and standing on the platform on which
these candidates were elected, ] would suffer
any thing before | would compromise in any way.
! | deem it in no case where we have right to
extend courtesy or generosity"


The Senator, just previous, said that the people
had rendered their verdict at the polls in favor
of Mr. Lincoln, upon plain and palpabe issue.
Suppose Mr.. Lincoln has been elected upon a
plain and palpable issue, and that issue involved
a constitutional principle, the negative of which
was espoused by Mr.. Lincoln and his supporters,
through either zeal, prejudice, or an honest be-
lief in right, aud the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States should solemnly affirm the principle,
and in effect say that Mr.. Lincoln and his sup
porters were wrong, though a majority of the
people Of abe Union differed with the Judges of
the Supreme Court would it annu or make void
the law of The land If not, is there no reason
why compromise should be attempted between
the highest power known in our government, and
its rebelious subjects? Why every sane man
will answer, yes, certainly, if the judgments of
the Court cannot be executed we have no law
no government" Well, that is just the state of
affairs existing at the present moment in the Uni
ted States, in the opinion Of the South. The
people South generally believe that Abraham
Lincoln held the Fugitive Slave Law uncoDsttu-
tional, and voted against him; hundreds of thou
sands in the Northern and Western States be.
lieved precisely the same thing, and voted for
him. Whatever Lincoln's opinion of the Fugi-
tive Slave Law may be, matters not. The known
and expressed opinions and sentiments of the
large majority of bis supporters, the anti-savery
articles in the leading Republican papers, the
Personal Liberty Bills adopted by many of the
Northern States, all served to alarm and arouse
the South TO a sense of imaginary, if not real
danger. Having the Supreme Court to back
them in what they deemed as their just demands,
they come forward and ask that, before Mr. Lin
coin shall take bis seat, some guarantee shall be
given them that they shall in the future be Sc
cured in their constitutional rights, as defined by
the Supreme Court-that some clear, defined,
unmistakable agreement may be entered into
that shall forever put to rest the eternal nigger
question" Whether there be any real danger in
the incoming administration of Mr.. Lincoln or
not, to the institution of slavery, and to the con-
sttutional rights Of shareholders, we will not saw
although we honestly believe to the contrary it
is sufficient to know that one third of the Amer
ican Confcderacy is earnest in the belief of dan
ger and wrong, and ask definite understanding
for the future Then is there no reason for a
calm, fair, statesmanlike discussion OF the whole
subject-ro0m for some species of just compro-
mise, which may again give confidence to our
Southern sister States, and fix more firmly the
basis of our young but unparalleled Republic
Or shall the North by her numerical strength say
h. 60 ino ooiu
none OF yonr rights have been outraged-we are
satisfied with the Constitution as ii is, and the
laws under il, as en(orced-being in the minority
you must submit it-there is nothing to compro-
mise" This would he the language of superb
or to an inferior ; the States are, in degree, all
sOvereign-certanly all equal. You may reason
or persuade free people into certain course of
action, but can never coerce or drive them. The
right of revolution is coeval with the foundation
of our government


Yet, Mr.. Wade, preferring the plaudts of his
party to the good of his country, in his capacity
as Senator boldly dcfes the South, and says
she would do anything before he would compr0-
mise in any way that he deemed it no case
where we have right to extend even courtesy
or generosity"


The South has her mad enthusiasts as we'll as
the North-quite as unfit to represent free and
magnanmous people. Mr. Wigfall Senator from
Texas, lately expressed himself as follows


I" A great deal is said about this being the land
OF liberty, and of people who boast that they
have right to govern themselves. Well, you
will have an opportunity to make the experiment
For myself, don't believe that | owe allegiance
to the United States. | believe | owe allegiance
to my State and TO that State allegiance shall
be given"


Did Mr.. Wigfall, when he took his seat in The
Senate of the United States, swear allegiance to
Texas or to the Federal Government But what
use in criticising the mad Incorporate effort of
this Southern Don Quixote. So far as words may
60, he is declared traitor TO the Union, and is
doing more injury to the State he represents than
may be repaired in many years, by the wiser
heads and better hearts, who may fill his place
hereafter in the Senate


We sincerely hope that the general reprimand
given these Northern madmen and Southern fa-
natics, by the entire conservative mass through
out the Union, through the medium of the press.
may take effect in time TO save us from the inev-
able results of their ruinous policy.


- Geo Rr has