| Show s will the smith south Ee resist resia st I 1 1 11 1 N now that the election is over and the question 1 1 solved as to who will he be t ae constitutional tut ional president many are anxious to know what the south will mii do w whether ather they will tack back back lack down or carry their threats into execution by taking 0 measures to establish a southern confederacy racy what course will be pursued by the victors or the vanquished I 1 hereafter is hard bard to predict but bub buethe the tone odthe of the south seemed unchanged up to latest latest dates and the IMP impression seemed to prevail anion anlon among 0 the leaders tl that at t they t ey might as I 1 well come coma to the south gouth bouth first I 1 as last the follo following wIlin e written by a a georgian to tc the journal of commerce on the eve of the election is is expressive of the sentiments 6 entertained fertil ned by I 1 L many at that stige I 1 of f proceedings the result of the late elections in pennsylvania ohio and indiana have made a profound impression upon the southern mind whilst we generally believed that lincoln would be elected yet some som faint hope wak wai was indulged indulge dby by many that pennsylvania at least feast would come to the rescue of 0 the constitution and the union this hope has been dissipated and now lin coans election is universally conceded we have h ave ceased to discuss the relative merits of bell or breckinridge or douglas all feel and admit dmit that the success of either of these gentlemen would only postpone for a short time the great issue which the people of the sou son south th have to meet how llor should they meet it is now tha problem which mostly engrosses en grosses the public mind the only remedy we have eyer ever heard suggested is resistance at any and every hazzard those who oppose this suggest no other remedy for the evil the has been thrown out by 11 t some of our northern frien friends ds that linno 14 will probably be in a mi minority bority in the next cong congress resa ress and will therefore be power powerless less for harm but this suggestion makes little impression forwe well know that by the shenew new apportionment the republican party will gain largely whilst the south wll will become weaker we also know that the senate is rapidly becoming ugh ts sit Tit chand and lane must give p place I 1 ace 0 on it the ne next at ah aih march to four republicans in the meanwhile nean while all the free states through government patronage and the steady growth of antislavery ahti anti slavery sentiment fostered as it would be by southern submission will become mone more and more mort hostile to our institutions if it 1 is argued by our people that it would be the hight of mad maa maddess madness liess to delay action until lic ilc lican ism had absorbed all the powers of the 9 government grovern rovern ment and rendered all resistance to their destructive policy futile it is said generally at the north and by some come few of the south that resistance is 19 improper because lincoln will be elected under all the proper constitutional forms this fact seems to have very little weight with our people eople we know that the constitution provides for ita its own amendment when ahr three e fourths of the states shall concur the addition oa few more free states will constitute the majority necessary to abolish slavery throughout the land does any one but a demented abolitionist believe for a moment moments that such an amendment would not be utterly subversive of the constitution and justify resistance sowe bowe so we deem mr Lincol ns election though in accordance with constitutional forms a violation of the spir spirit it of the constitution because the party which he leads avows purposes which are utterly subversive of that sacred instrument suppose that the senate should refuse to ratify any nomination made by lincoln or the house of representatives refuse to vote any sup supplies plies piles would they not keep within the letter of the constitution yet what a howl would go up and justly too from the republican camp so then a compliance with tho the orma forms ot of law baay may be BO to managed As as to prove utterly subversive of all the ends fog which government is established it is a mistake quite common to the north to suppose that all the are for i breckinridge and the quite submission of the south ia is argued from this fact bell men douglas in men e n are equally hostile to Lincol ns election elect iori and in proportion to numbers are equally determined upon resistance what the state of georgia will do in the event of Lincol ns election we are not now cow prepared to say but men who are usually well posted in our state political matters say she will tili 1111 undoubtedly resist our legislature meets on the first monday in november and will doubtless call a convention to determine on her te ourse course alabama has already provided for such a contingency and will doubtless be followed by mississippi p ev texas florida and probably pother other stat states the north may rest assured that south carolina will promptly secede if one other state will join in all probability she will do so if necessary alone if she should secede not nothing bine bing short of or div alv divine ine lne i interposition can prevent and if any attempt is made to coerce coerce her all the cotton states lP will certainly follow it ia is a fact worth remembering 0 that no man in georgia would venture except in a private way to suggest coercion and ninety nin nine e of every hundred of our citizens whatever they might think of the policy of her course would not stand by and see her subdued by federal power dower the republican presses may hug the del dei delusion U sion slon to their souls that the south will submit I 1 to the establishment of their party and their principles but as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow kosure so sure will the election of lincoln be followed by consequences which will appal the hearts of those who have precipitated these disasters by their reckless attempt to destroy our property and subjugate z us to their will dir mr lincoln on his elect election i on 1 may issue issue his pr promised on is ed manifest oto the S south if he be pie pleases ase but the personal liberty bills standing in in the statute books of the states where hit his s party is in power and the pains of fine and penitentiary I 1 imprisonment held heid over oyer the southern man who shall endeavor nd eavor to capture recapture re his fa fugitive c etive slave in accordance with his constitutional tio al right are quite sufficient to show our people that no promises or oaths can edn bind the leaders leade rs of republicanism it may not be amiss to notice one grave error into which the republicans have fallen they wish to believe and possibly some bome of them do that in the event of an attempt to sie rie separate from the north they would find allies in our non slaveholding citizens never a wider mistake nor Nov nowhere kere here in the united State states swill will the republican attempts to establish negro equalia equa 6 allty lit meet with a more deadly hostila hostility ty zu than n in the south among our slaveholding non c citizens the ile idea is perfectly abhorrent in them and landmark mark the prediction in the struggle which will soon begin the men who falter will not be found among our poorer citizens whilst we believe here that the public sentiment of the north has been s so 0 thoroughly that it is vain longer to look ook even for justice ye yet tour our heart hearts overflow with love for those noble spirits who are striving vainly we fear to breast the storm 0 of northern fanaticism should the bonds ii now binding us be severed among the regrets which antis must t follow not the least will be oe that we are separated sepe rated from them tham |
