Year: 1860

ANp" 1oEhj anu uHtt ldtLefly " pet OlHce-nOiueF
under MIR. Bachanan two or three days before the
late election, published an address to the Black
Republicans Of that vicinity. The address is quite
well written, and some portions Of it are alike
sensible and interesting, as well as practical and
comprehensive. We propose quoting a few para
| graphs, and making such comments thereupon as
| we deem appropriate.


The subjoined paragraphs may be read with
profit South as well as North. We consider them
| emnently practical:


The Cotton States have, in every conceivable
form-by their Conventions, Legislatures, Cover
| nors and Congressmen-giv given us full and serious
notice that they would regard the election Of Lin
! coin sufficient cause for their withdrawal. / do
not agree with them, nor do any of yon, / suppose
4 But orr opinions are of no consequence if they
have the power and think themselves sufficiently
| aggrieved to use the power. Any serious refec-
tion must satisfy an unwarped mind that cannot
restrain them if they shall resolve to act-I mean
to say that we cannot use force with any possible
| success.


i Mastery inactivity will be their successful role.
| No need of single soldier against our million.
They have hut to set their negroes to raising sui
| cient corn and hogs for home consumption, and it
| would not be six months before we would be at
the feet of the South offering, through your Renub
lican President, Congress and State Legislatures,
/ more than she now asks, with the humiliation of
| receiving seornful refusal.


| The Southern people gave their whilom Northern
i brethren ample warning in ample time to enable
1 them to reflect, that they would regard the cleo
| ton Of Abraham Lincoln, by purely sectional
/ vote, as an indication of such inyeterate hostility
| on the part Of the Northern masses as would make
| it necessary for them to withdraw from a Union
| which afforded neither protectonnor anhonorable
1 equality, and which, in the future, only held out
promises of further debasement and augmented
spoliations. Our warnings were scoffed at, eur ad
| - 1-r41 -,
coin was consummated, and now the Union is virtu-
tually dissolved. Many who participated in the un-
patriotic work now regretit but their regrets come
too late Our grievances which were aggravated
before mountain high have been rendered intolera-
Bile by this last unfraterna act-ths atrocious cap
ping of monstrous pyramid Of bad faith and viola
ted laws at the recent election. The cup of our op-
presaions is full and running over our patience is
hausted with the loss of confidence which preced-
ed it, and if we resort to the last alternative we
| will stand justified before Cop and the nations of
the civilized earth.
| The second paragraph in the above quotation is
| literally true. The same idea was suggested and
illustrated in the Crescent, time and again, some
three years ago. Stop planting cotton single
year, but SOW and plant everything else that would
sustain life, and would not only have the North,
but England, begging for the privilege of guaran-
taeing every right and prerogatye we could
possibly desire. And outside Of political and legal
considerations, we believe the South would make
large amounts of money by the operation. During
the interregnum in the reign of King Cotton, their
hands could be proftably employed in making ar
rangements for the future, every lock Of the staple
good, bad and Indifferent, would be used up, and a
new season would open with such a demand and
such prices, as would remunerate the planter and
all the other classes dependent upon the use OF
the great product for success in business ayoca-
tions.


The following paragraphs are well worthy con-
sideration


know that scarcely Northern man believes
that the Cotton States can secede without Mary
land, Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri. There can
be no greater fallacy. 1t would be decidedly the
interest of the Cotton States to have those States
remain out of the Southern Gonfederaey. They
want no rival interests within their limits requiring
tariffs for protection, such as are now sprnglng Up
in the Southern border States. All they need is
monopoly of the cotton plant, to enable them to
dictate their relations with the rest of the world :
and the border States will serve as rampant
against Northern crusaders; for the Republicans
will be glad to let them alone, when they find that
their blind and stubborn adherence to party has
resulted in driving out the Gulf States. They will
then recollect and fear not until then, that the
Cotton States were part Of contederacy to whose
integrity every State, district, county and ward
was bound-every executive and legislator pledged
| by solemn oath to support.


We talk fippantly about blockading the cotton
| ports, Such "a blockade might last month or two,
but what is that to brave people, who feel that
they are outraged And however partial the Eng
lish and French Governments may now, for sinister
purposes, seem to be to the Republican party,
neither government could exist six months without
| forcing any blockade we might impose.


The cotton of our South has, for the last forty
years, preserved us from European aggression, and
enabled us to be the haughtiest and most defiant
natien in the world Cotton is next to bread, be-
cause it is the only means by which many millions
are fed; and a stoppage Of supply for lew
months would cause revolution in the most of our
Northern States, and in every border State of
Europe.


There is much good sense displayed in the fore
going. 1t is perfect fallacy to suppose that the
withdrawal or withdrawal of the cotton States
depends at all upon the action of the border slave
States. The cotton States contain within them
selves all the elements which go to make up a
great and independent empire. With monopoly
of the staple which is as necessary to the CONNER
cial world as food and water are to animal life
with soil of aboundng fertility. producing all the
cereals and growths of the temperate zone, with
many productions of the more warm regions; with
climate surprisingly salubrious and healthy
with ports and rivers of uneqnaled excellence
with advantages of inter and outer eommunca.
Wv
ton States could set up for themselves on scale
of prosperity and grandeur never equaled in any
age in any country in any of the four quarters OF
the globe. OF course, if the border slave States,
or any of them, should choose to make common
cause with us, we would gladly receive them as
brothers and equals, but if they should elect other
wise that fact ought not to influence our action in
. the smallest degree.


Indeed, to take another view of the question, il
permanent reconction between the North aud
the South iseyer to be effected, it would be better
if the border slave States stood aloef from the
cotton States remained in the Union in position
of armed neutrality, and offered their medatory
] services between the wholly discovered sections
The cotton States having gone out Of the Union
and the manufacturing, shipping, commercial an(
financial interests of the North being disastrously
damaged il not irreparably ruined, it is quite
likely the people of the nnllifying Northern State
would gladly obliterate certain infamous laws from
their statute books, return to their allegiance tt
the Constitution, observe faithfully the nationa
compact, and agree to such amendments to it a


would render future violations impossible. AL
this may be done by the cotton States moving e'
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