Year: 1860

What friend of tho Union Will not re-
ioice to hear words like the following come
from the home of the man on whose patri-
otism, prudence and decision, the hopes of
this country and of Freedom throughout
the world now so much depends Who
does not pray that that man may have tho
ability successfully to carry out the noble
purpose here attributed to biml And
where is the heart that has not hand if
need be, to sustain him in the glorious
works Oh, for such spirit to animate and
direct the recreant functionary who now dis
graces the Executive office of the Govern
ment How much of present danger and
future difficulties would be saved, if but a
moiety of the spirit of Old Hickory could
be evinced at the national capital


The article we copy below may not be an
authorized expression of Mr.. LINcoLN's s
feelings and purposes, but the relations of
the paper in which it appears and of its
editor to the President elect, forbid the sup
position that such articles would appear day
after day, if they were repugnant to him.
We feel, then, that we are almost authorized
to assume that ABRAHAM LINCOLN endorses
and makes his the expressions of the fol.
lowing editorial from the Springfield (Ill.)


Journal of the goth inst:


The Union, IL Must be Preserved.


There are not few who seem to think that


the Union will be dissolved whenever the Soutl
Carolina Secession Convention passes a resolu


ton to that effect The Union cannot be dissol.


we'd by the passage of resolutions. South Car.


olna may resolve that she is no longer part o


this Union. She may hold secession meetings


mount disunion cockades, plant palmetto trees
make palmetto flags trample under foot the glo


rious flag of our country, and proclaim from tht


housetops her treason and her shame, but al
this will not dissolve the Union. She may com
pei her citizens to resign official place held un
der the Federal Government-she may close he


courts and post offices, and put her own people
to great deal of Inconvenience and trouble, bu
she will still be in the Union unmolested. Sh,
cannot get out of this Union until she conquer


this Government The revenues must and viii


be collected at her ports, and any resistance OF


her part will lead to war. AT the close of tha


war we can tell with certainty whether she is il
or out of the Union. While this GOvernmen
endures there can be no disunon. If Soutl


Carolina does not obstruct the collection of tho
revenue at her ports nor violate any other Fed
eral law, there will be no trouble and she vii
not be out of the Union. If she violates tn,
laws, then comes the tug of war.


The President of the United States, in sucl
an emergency, has a plain duty to perform. Blu
chanan may shirk it, or the emergency may no
exist during his administration If not, the


the Union will last through his term of Office
If the overt act, on the part of South Carolini


takes place on or after the 4th of March, 1866
then the duty of executing the laws will devolv
, upon Mr. Lincoln. The laws of the Unite
, must be executed-the President has no discre
tionary power on the subiect-his duty is EN-


phatically pronounced in the Constitution. Nj
/. LINCOLN will perform that duty. Disunion, b
armed force, is TREASON, and treason must an
will be put down at all hazards. This Union
not will not and cannot be dissolved until thi
! Government is overthrown by the traitors VIII
have raised the disunion flag. Can they over
throw it? We think not. They may distur
its peace-they may interrupt the course of il
. prosperity-they may cloud its reputation fc
e stability-but its tranquility will be restored
its prosperity will return, and the stain upon il
. National character will be transferred and re
. main an eternal blot on the memory of thos
! who caused the disorder Let the secessionis
/ understand it-let the press proclaim it-let
q fly on the wings of the lightning, and fall like
o thunder bolt among those now plotting treaso
in Convention, that the Republican party, thI
the great North, aided by hundreds of thousanC
h of patriotic men in the Slave States, have dete
a mined to preserve the Union-peaceably if the
d can forcibly if they must.