Year: 1861




The New York Tribune, in October last before
Tho Presidential election took place. urged the
election Of Lincoln, on the ground that it would
give peace and quiet to the country. at will be
pleasant and instructive" said that paper "to see
what quieting effect, like that of oil poured upon
tho waters the election Of Lincoln will have upon
the agitation just now Of the political elements.n


This only shows how far from being practical
Statesman is one Of your political philosophers
Hike the editor Of the Tribune. We take it for
4 granted that Horace Greeley was honest in the
Neiief thai the election of Lincoln would have
quietug effect" upon the people; but the result,
as has turned out, only proves that Horace was
as widely mistaken in this as he has been in every
otheropinion he ever entertained.


Instead Of +" oil upon the waters " the election
Of Lincoln has been simply an addition Of fuel to
the fire. Instead Of calming the agitation Of the
elements, it has made those elements only the more
fafians. Instead Of the soothing note Of peace we
now have the bugle blast Of war. It cannot be
objected that the present state Of things was not
foretnia. Over and over again. in the halls Of Con
gFesa through the press, and in the public forums
of the country, the North was warned that the
election Of q sectional President, on a sectional
PLATFORM by sectional party, and party pledged
70 use all its powers to deprive the South of those
Individual and Constitutional rights which they
claim would be sufficient cause for dissolution of
The Federal compact. The North, instead of heed
ag the warning, laughed at it. Misaking the long
1cfbearance of the South for cowardice they went
ahead as ii no danger oomed up in the future, and
sdfaye the Ship of State recklessyupon the break
ers which had been SO often pointed out.


Now when has occurred precisely what was
$ioretOd, and when the South is executing her
ayoRed purpose and determination, these Northern
fanatics raise their hands in the heliest horror !
Worse than ALL they as steadily close their eyes to
the present attitude of the South as they did to the
position Of our section before the election of Lin
coin. They then refused to believe that such a
circumstance would provoke any demonstration of
Southern resistance, and they now refuse to be-
heye that the dissolution Of the Union is posi-
PIE occurrence, although it is already in TRUTH an
accomplished fact. A large meeting was held the
ether day at Chicago, at which verbose resolutions
were passed that the Union must be preserved,
Chose people apparently forgetting that The Union
was dissolved the very day that Lincoln WAS
etteeted, and that to preserve - Union already
n Hteted into fragments is something which moth
slls short Of 0mnipoepce itself can do. And, all
over the North, similar meetings are held, and
roWn men are found to indulge in the puerile and
Ridiculous folly OF asserting their loyalty to Union
which for over two months, has been only thing
Bof the past.


This, then, isthe effect" which Lineoln's elec-
ton has caused. The Union dissolyed-4our States
formally out of it, and eleven more soon to be


e prospect Of civil war, and the loss not alone OF
millions Of money but Of human life these are the
"gpieting effects y Of which the Tribune prophe-
5ciel. The poor fools who were guIled by its de-
sclafations will perhaps know what an estimate to
spatnpon such things in the future.