Year: 1860

] The nearest approach to any exposition OF
the Presidents views upon the momentous
questions which now agitate the country, mas
lust been vouchsafed by the Springfield (lll)
Repu61jcaaa, which is considered the home Or
gan OF the President elect. According to that
journal, of the 18th inst, the business OF Mr..
Lincoln will be to see that the Union Is pre-
served at all hazards, and from all assaults,
and that those who would destroy the law
would be dealt with by the strong arm OF the
law" That journal does not state whether
this applies to notification at the North, as well
as secession at the South. 1t refers to MIR. Lin
coins Leavenworth speech, in which he said


O. You Democrats greatly fear that the success
of the Republicans will destroy the Union Why
Do the Republicans declare against the Union
Nothing like it. Your own statement OF it is,
that if the Black Republicans elect President,
you won't stand it. You will break up the Union.
That ~ilI be your act, not To justify it,
Won must show that our policy gives you just
cause for such desperate action. Can you deny
that When you attempt it, you will find our
policy is exactly the policy of the men who made
the Union-nothing more, nor nothing less. do
YOU think you are justified to break up the gov
ernment rather than have it administered by
Washington, and other great and good men who
made it and administered it If you do, you are
very unreasonable and more reasonable men can
not, and will lot sub bmit to you. While we elect
a President it will be our duty to see that you
submit Old John Brown has been hung for
treason against State. We cannot object, even
though slavery is wrong. That cannot excuse
violence, bloodshed and treason. it could avail
him nothing that he might think himself right.
So, if constitutionally elect President. and
therefore you undertake to destroy the Union it
will be our duty to deal with you as old John
Brown was dealt with. We can only do our
duty We hope and believe that in section
will majority so act as to render such extreme
measures necessary.


According to a Springfield telegraphic dis
patch of Nov. II, published III the New York
Herald, Mr. Lincoln remarked on that day to
visitor, in regard to an expected public defni-
ton of his policy in advance Of his inaugural
as follows:


During the last six years I have placed my
views on all public questions SO fully and frequent
ly on record, that all those desiring may learn
sertions obtain no credit present ones will be
treated no better"


Whatever may be the variety of opinions in
the South upon the right of secession, there
is no interruption Of the mutual regards and
affections of the people of the Southern States.
If it is the calculation in any quarter that nine
of the Northern States shall be permitted to
nulify the laws with impunity, but that if
single Southern State initiates their bad exam
pie she is to be visited with the pains and pen
alties of treason, and that the South itself, as
ntimated by the Republican, is to perform that
duty, we imagine they are calculating without
their host.


The subioined table shows the penalties i'm
posed in the several Northern disunion States
on those officers citizens who may aid in
preserving the Constitution intact by enforcing
the Fugitiye Slave Law viz: