Year: 1860

We publish day a number Of letters from


southern correspondents, and articles from


the Southern press, showing the alarming pro


gress OF revolution on the other side Of Mason


and Dixon's line. The revolutionary pro-


gramme ofthe Black Republicans at the North,


and the near prospect Of the election Of their


cniet are precipitating the secessionist and


even the conservative elements Of the South


into revolution and civil war.


Already are preparations for hostilities being


made in Virginia, and the arming and orcani-


zation are going forward with vigor, as de-


scribed by our interesting Richmond cor-s-


spondence. FIVE are to believe the staten. eot


Of another well written and eloquent lette-


from another Of the border States, Maryland


is also in the incpent stage Of revolution, ard


every border State will stand by the action of


any one or more Of the cotton States which


may secede, and will resist to the death any
attempt to coeTce them into subjection to he
federal power. The writer says that the at
tempt Of the Republican President to force his
Northern office holders on the South would
be sufficient to commence the bloody fray, but
that his election viii be regarded by the South
as Caesar crossing the Rubicon.


The people OF Mississippi and Alabama
speak, through their press, their discrimination
to right themselves outside Of the Un-gn, and
not within. The Charleston Mercury, which
expresses the sentiments Of tho citizens OF
South Carolina is equally bold, and prcclaims
that now or never is the time for actiCl,
for the emancipation Of the South from North
crn aggression, or the retiring Of the Southern
States from the Union. That old and respec-
table organ of the Palmetto State councils ths
people not to postpone their measures till after
the Inauguration Of Lincoln, and the armed
force of the North is at his disposal, as their
action may then he too late. The same senti-
ment is uttered in Virginia


A Georgia paper suggests the mode Of bring
Jog the revolution 10 q crises IL advises that
either South Carolina, Mississippi or AAbaoa
should secede, and then if the central gown
ment at Washington should attempt to coerce
them, every Southern State would rally around
them and the secession would become general,
and new Southern confederacy be formed m
mediately out of the broken Union. That
Georgia will 60 with the seceders we are fully
assured. That large majority Of the people
of South Carolina, Mississippi and Alabama
are prepared to take the decisive step of seses-
SION there is but too much reason to fear The
infammable materials are there, the train Of
gunpowder is laid, and it only requires that
the match of the incendiary, the torch Of t1e
Wide Awake, be applied, in order to set the
whole South in one blaze.


The air is rife with revolution and secession.
The partisans Of Breckenridge the partisans pf
Bell and the partissns Of Douglas at the South,
and they include nearly the whole population,
agree in one thing, however they may differ in
other matters. They all concur as to the GER
tainty ofrevolution if Lincoln should be elected,
while each party contends that the election Of
its own ticket alone can avert the calamity.
The Richmond Whig, and Mr.. Hill, of Geor-
gia, whose letter we publish, insist that only
the election of Bell can save the Union. The
Richmond Enquirer, on the contrary, declares
that if Virginia should 60 for Bell, and not COR
Breckenridge, the cotton States will regs-d
this as cdsus belli, and secession will be pre-
cipitated beyond the power of man to arrest
its course.


Without discussing the points op which the
Southern people more or less differ, we NAV
take that on which they seem to be agreed,
and that is, that the election of Lincoln willie
the signal for revolt, which nothing bat his
defeat can prevent As we are within fort
night of the time when that question is to Se
deSided at the ballot box, we think our readers
will admit that we are on the eve of by far the
greatest danger that ever threatened the cour-
try, and that every man who values the free
dom he enjoys, and knows how to appreciate
the greatness, the glory, the prosperity and
the strength of the United States, ought to
ponder well how he may best prevent tie i'm
pending ruin which will make these States
1isunited States, and inaugurate reign of ter
ror, anarchy and bloodshed without pre2e-
lent in the annals of civilized nations.


That Lincoln viii be elected, unless some
sudden change comes over the spirit Of our
Northern dream, can hardly admit Of doubt
n any unprejudiced mind which closely
watches passing political events and is capable
,f estimating their value. For the conse-
luences no wise man will be disposed To- an
Iwer. The unthinking multitude, as in all
past ages, are sleeping unconscionsly on vol
;ano, which is already uttering its low mur-
nurings, premonitsry of eruption, and may at
my moment send forth its irresistible fery
lood to oyerwhelm and desolate wherever it
,omes. Such is the terrible crisis to which
he abolition sentiment and the Black Repub-
lean party have brought the country at last