Year: 1861

| It is constantly assumed, by the Abolition
! press of the North, that the election of last
| November was fair and constitutional, and
| the South voted down. They now, In imitation
| Of fMexican generals, rebel against the decision
| Of he majority ndattempt to destroy the gov
| ernment If this were so-if the minority, af-
ter fair defeat at the polls, had refused to
submit to the freely expressed will of the ma
! jority, then the Lincoln administration would
be perfectly right in its attempts at enforcing the
| laws The absolute submission Ofthe minority
to the constitutional and legitimately expressed
will of the majority, IS lot only tile vital princi
pie of Republics, as declared by jefferson, but it
is the only principle that save society itself
from universal anarchy. But what are the facts
party springs up in the North based on the as
SUMPTION that negroes are naturally entitled to
the rights ofwhite men, and avows its desi ign to
use the common government of the States to
pen up the negro population where they now
exist, in order to force the white people of these
States into 60 impartial freedom " with their
negroesi OF course such issue as that
was admissible in aSouthern State and, there
fore, they neither expected n.r asked for sin
gle vote in the States where this negro ele-
ment exists If combination of States were
formed to use the common government for
preventing any further expansions of e1nigra-
tons from New York, would the people Of this
State teie1a ate such issue that to be made





would not be q thousandth part as wrong
insulting to the sovereign people of New York
that made to the people OF the South on the
fatal 9Th of November last. Virginia has now
about as many negroes or so-caIled slaves as
all the States had when the government
formed, and the same ratio of increase, eighty
years hencr, would be betwean four and five
millions of negroes. If therefore the great
principle' of the Lincoln or Abolition party
cd ont rhot ha fatp of
the white people Of Virginia, with four millions
of negroes confronting them in that State some
eighty years hence? To state the case is suffi
cient to show that no such issue as that pre-
sented at the North could be tolerated at the
South for, leaving out of view the insuffera-
BILE insult involved in it, it involved their So
cial safety, indeed absolute social existence;
and the citizens of Virginia, SC, who should
vote against slavery extension" or any
future expansion Of the negro element Of their
population, would simply vote to destroy his
State, and to bring a doom upon his people
more horrible than if the earth should open
and swallow them up. The people Of the
South, therefore, had no voice nor share what
ever in the election Of last November, indeed,
were as utterly disregarded and ignored as
those of Canada or any foreign country


Nor is this the worst feature of the strange
and anomalous condition Of things now exist
ing. After Lincoln's election by a northern
vote, the people of the South, as the lesser
evil, would doubtless have recognized his cleo
ton if he had then dlsavowed hostility to
them. But he stands by the Chicago Platform,
by his pledges to the blind and besotted fa-
natcs who supported him, to WELL the gov
ernment- the common government-tor pen
ming up the negro population of the South in
order TO force impartial freedom" on them
in short, to force fate on them or on their
children more terrible than death itself What
should the South do ? First of all, it must
save itself from the wild and monstrous delu-
sion that is sweeping over the reason, and
trampling down the sense of justice in the
North. 1t had no voice in the election Lin
coin now stands pledged to "principle'' that
involves its destruction. He gives office to
social outlaws, those who have conspired
against its peace and prosperity, and to those
in the North who arc known to the public for
their hostility to the Southland yet some pre-
tended Democrats think the South should sut-
mit!-N !. BcoG.