The New York Herald Newspaper, October 23, 1860, Page 4

4 REVOLUTION AT THE SOUTH. ARMING IN VIRGINIA. The Crisis to Come Before the Inaugu- ration of President. What Maryland and the Other Border States Will Do. The Attitude of South Carclina and Georgia, of Mississippi and Alabama. Plan in Georgia for Dissolving the Union. rhe THE CA5US BELLI IN VIRGINIA. How the Cotton States are to Be Precipitated. Bell Regarded Both as the Canse and the Pre- ventive of the Revolution, Reo Our Richmond Correspondence. Bee ke. Ri p, Va., Oct 19, 1860. Virginia Ropidly Arming Herve f for the Coming Crisis— cetcher Determined to Adhere to his Policy of to Federal Aggrestion—The Great Crisis to to the Ce ge to Carry tae State—Senator James M. Mason on the de , de . ‘The frequent applications for arms to the Aujatant Gene ral of this State foreshadow @ crisis ip our political annals, compared with which the Joba Brown raid wasa mere bo liday ecene. So numerous and urgent are thoee appl that the State te unable to furnish she necessary s: nd the probability is that another large parcbase of arms must be mace at an early day to meet tho requtrementa | Of her increasiog military organizations. Tere are plen- ty of old murkets and other antique arms on hand, but our volunteers reject them as in 1, capecially incon trast with arms of modern lovention, Tae Jonn Brown raid baa bad one good effect in Virginia, It aroused the military spirit of the State, and led to the organization of volunteer companies, and their citiclont training just to time to make their geryizes available for any crisis that may come in the future. With the eubsidence of the exciie- ment coneeguent upon John Brown’s invasion, the milita ry ardor of Virginia suffered a temporary abatement; bat the prospect of Lincoln's election is again reanimating it | cb of enthusiasm far above what it attained at emorab'e epoch It is cetimated that by the time there shail their services—say about December or January next—not teas than from two to three bundred thousand mon will be fully armed and equipped, ready for any emergency, [a addition to this, we shall, no doabt, have a large auxilia- ry force from other Southern States to meet the enemy, should they attempt to euforce Douglas’ coercive policy upon any seceding Statce. Gov. Letober is determined to adhere to his policy of resistance to federal aggression, should auy each be at tempted. He wont into office pledged to maintain the so. vereignty of Virginia, and to preserve her soll sacred against thé tread of m federal army ; and he wil! faithfal ly redeem shat pledge, Those who woaid presume upon his forbearance wil! lod themselves sadly mistaken. is for peace, so long wf fitace offers any hope of redress for Southern grievance’ ; but he will not hesitate to resort to tho other alternative—the ultima rati> regum—as soon a8 the coercive policy of the black republicans ts attempt. ed to be enforced by the desecration of Virginia soil It seems to be generally understood here that the crisis coked for as a resul! of Lincola’s election will be precipt tated within Mr. Buchanan's term. The polley of such a course is evident, in view of the disadvantages under which the South would labor in any extreme resort, suck as she coptemplates, with the army aud uavy ander the con Grol of the very man whose election constitutes the prime eource of the diificatty. She will not give the eaemy euch an advantage. She will make the issue avd parsue it to the bitter end while there is sti!! left io power a man whore known fidelity to the South gives a guarantee that he will not at least mar by any exira official cet of bie the proper vindication of the legitimete rignte of povercign States By the time Lincoin shall have as. @umed the reins of government, the work will bave been done. Fvery plan and every arrangement for future in Tyee come say, for a great Southern con ding Mexico, will @ been il take a power far great pmand to undo them This is mo vague, un lation. I bave seen correspondences.from eutial sources referring to this subject, and founded spec high and int the feasibility wish which the detatis of future opera. tions are set forth in these corespondences would con vince apy ope but a black republican that ® terrible crisi# is inevitable, Thousands who are now incredu- NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, subject them to under the moet conservative and impar- | | Hal administration, ‘The frien Je of Breckinridge eem very confident of their ability to carry the Btate against the combined forces of Rell and Douglas. The latter is evidently losing at Uh ut! round id rate, eepecially since the Poonsylvania crenat of woieh convinces many of his friends of the ter impolicy of wasting votes upon him with such prorpects of Lincolp's election a8 were foreshadowed by th rt State in the Union. | be de: Be row (8 with & ratber ¢ large black republican gains {0 Pennsylvania. It is neruly believed bere that Louglas will not get a single He is ae dead as Julius Cesar, end atfured the Soath will shed no tears of sorrow for his mire. r James M Mason will speak in this city to mor- urday) night. His speech ia looked forward to some interest, though | imagine it will prove to be weak production. He seems very zealous in this campaign; but it must be remembered tat his geat tp tho Us | she ‘ted States Senate is in great jeopardy, and it reeds he uid look to bis interests ip that connection in time, His expu'sion, however, seews to be a foregone conciu- sion, for, ff popular sentiment be any criterion to jatge by , Governer Letcher {s deetived © supplant him in that very high office. Old fogyism is dying out even in Virginia. Oar Maryland Correspondence. CoMBERLAND, Md., Ost 18, 1860. What Maryland Will Do in the Orisis—The Border States Witt Stand by the Sowh in the Revolutionary Strug gle, dic 1k would be oxceedmagiy diificu’t to give you an ade quate idea of the excitement and appreheasi 2 aroused here since the avnouncement of tle unexpocied result of be elections in Pennsylyauia, Oslo and indiana It were mark of insincerity to deny that the indisatioas are growing both numerous and clear that the time has nearly arrived when it will behoove the South to stead firm and unlted, and either make one last ert to main tain its well dedned rights uader the constitution in the nion, OF else to imitate tle plor!ous example of Sparta, ad, with drume beating and banners fying, deliberately march out of the eonfederacy, snd, tructimg to God, leave tt the halls of Congress ft of trer volcanic temper of those of whom they write © consequences to be decided on some other Maid than And this, you may depend upon , is the deeply settled aud almost unanimous conviction people of the South. Those who assert the con deceive the country and kuow but Little of the 1 was u | Buppoeed that there yet remained. among the solid aad vin Mr Buchanan's Term—Position of the | 804 burl back cli moaning masses of the North cougervaslem enough to preeent a breakwater suffisieutiy strong to arrest the advansing surges of black d defeat Lincoln, and thus ofsetually ¢ Virginia—Hov the Old Dominion will be Forcea | Tepublicantem 4-The Travors (0 be Banished—~Breckin. | Pebuke Seward, Greeley, Weed, aud the other political incendiaries who are laboring | | « N ful a | ascendant, and m the ne vineyard with nem, ani doipg so mach to precipitate a conilict and ‘ace the last vestige of brotherly feeling between the ‘orth and South EB. the recoot elections bave forever ispeiled that at best but clouded hope, and exposed to view, in all the bi icons deformity of the anvotled ropbet of Khoraeien, the dread reslity that in the Nort ngervatism ie comparatively powerfess, while fanaticlsin od hostility to th band her lastitations are in the ifeutly rising otill bigher and higher | on the winge of the popular breeze. ‘The teachings of John Quincy Adams haye not en!m} nated in Jobo Brownism 80 as to produce @ reaction In be- |b } Th vated to the dignity ¢ bl | te | bes fectional party conceded to be certain t fof the South. Their mission 1s yet undischarged. hey have evidently been consecrated by time and ele. cardinal points of faith ta the ack republicaa creed, «ad the little nucleus of abdolt- pnigte Le gatuered around him on the floor of the House waved the formidable dimensions of a giguatic overshadowing the entire North, and get into its bands the reios of the federal government aud the control of the destiaics of | the nation. What was at frat foolishly regarded as con be need for | Mmptble and long despised by Southern statesmen as an Annoying Dut barmless spirit of agitation, characteristic of fu the restless, fermenting mature of the North, has #o r become a standing exdject of alarm and terror to the | people of one great portion of the Union, that even those iw not easily etartied ho were fondly cherishing anticipations of the bes:, and a premature exhivition of fear, are | now busy anxiously casting about in search of some | available means of escaping, if pot altogether arrosting, the impendirg dnngor. courte, proportionately infer.or in federal representation, th laferior in numbers, aad, of 6 South bas heretofore reposed ite reliance in the boaaté | od generoeity, good fajth and maguanimity of the North. | Bat that dey bas gone by, never to return; and these He | eonobling qualities ascribed to the North, and believed to be real, have, under the touch. stone of experience, resolved themselves into more ta tusions of the tmagivation, cr at most, the blind and crednlous confide.ce invariably placed by the tov servile el jent in bis too powerful patron, The South, reaping {ocreased wisdom from the bitter disappointments of the past, bas awakened to the momeptous truth, that here- a ter she must Iay aside such fragile reeds, and seek pro- | tection and safety in the determination to depend exclu- ively on herself, and the endeavor to make up in identity of w jntereets, unanimity of counse! aad concerted action, ast she must inevitably lose, and the North gain, through the destruction of the equilibrium between the Bect.ona. th The tmmortal Calhoun, who saw farther than @ fancy Dalgetty statesmen who have succeeded was right when he declared that while the most deapond- | tng could fod po just reason for giving up the hope of perpetuating the Union, while ever power was held ina tate of equipolse between the North aud South, the most Parguine would be coastrained to abate much of bis hope Perfected: | the moment that balance was disturbed and the prepon- than Linoolo with, derance incitned to the North. That event has virtually Aiaporition of the North to cripple taken place and to the avowed the industry of the ‘South, aod circumecribe within the narrowest bouade pos: bie all her meaas and opportunities of expansioa, by ro- Stricting the area of slavery within ite present limite, there is now, or at uo very distast date surely will bo, ‘the legislative and executive power to accom tons as to the troe parposes of the Southern people, and | plish all it desires. Could not the occurrence of thet who will, doubtiess, vate for “Old Abe,” will yet curse the day that be eball bave entered the White House, nay, that he was nominated. [t will be asad eveat, not for the South, for the opinion is now and is {ast gaicing ground, that she Prosperous, more independent and the Union, The very necessity her condition of estrangement from the manufacturing North would impel ber to add & maoufactaring phase to ber already innumerable sources of wealth, Thousan who are animated by an honest real for the weift the South, and who deplore this want io her inter oe velopement, would rejoice to see & confict precipitated | as practicable, under the provisions of the Acd inthis they are | promise mersuree of which would result in disanton. actuated by po political motive. The basis of (hia desire ie far above an} a ousideration It compre bends chiefly, if m ew er ent at ao early a period have been prevented by the e: © of & moderate amount of judicious statesmaaship | Most ondoubtediy it could. Had the South stood oa its force slavery into » the rig | ing lawe of nature must necessarily exch 7 geaeraily eld, | goard and acted With reasonable forecast, and, iastead of rou! vag A Quixottiehly wasting ite energies in the vain attempt to y out of than ia | Territory or Territories from which of climate and other co- tical and remunerative investment, quietly, but never. theless persistently and vigorously, directed ite at | of | ai of | tention and efforts to pushing ou the rapid settlement Texas, aod ite division and erection as speraiiy nm - 1850, into four separate Anc sovereign States, which would give the South six at. tional Setators, the South might have armet itself yy, the material advancement of | witha check in one branch of Congress which would in the South, and I know the same motive would operate | some degree compensate for the Ioas it had sustained, and with this class jn Debsif of @ coutiaaance of the Uatoa, were they couvinced that |} would better loure to the benedt of the Youth. With such a feeling no South, you must see tb: generally eatortaiae! in the the South dows aot place so was (i y that equilibrium between the seciione which has of tinuaere of the So sti! to sustain, through the annihilation of oon }d can be the only safeguard and guarantee of the con- in the Caton, In place, however, adopting that course, which was th> only one that ‘much value upon the Union as the reople of the North | sound policy and all the instincts of sel’ preservation in. au} riainly not 0 much as to cause her to adhere | dicated as rand expedient, the South, following in- to it under insult and aggression. The bond is fast cor | competent and unworthy leaders, allowed itself to be led roding. It is already reduced to a very attenusted stand ard, and needs bet ‘Woight of “ Honest Abe” to snap tt apunder In Virginia @ great impediment existe to her fraterniz- log with the other Southern States in the inevitable f rth coming covfiet, Tbe whige, or, a8 they are now called, of by useless discussions, adroitl upon it, from ine of ts the stency developement aad dlec\ own strength against the trial, while the sabtie and wary North was all the while employing the golden opportas tndostrious!y carrying out that very teal thander it bad stolen from tbe to ‘cy with the ideu ‘4B, and the Coase Che oppositioniats, are submissioniate, to 8 maa, and will | quence is that the South is dismayed, and, with the most | painful reluctance, compelled to confess how a1 is the | Rulstake she has committed, aud that the admismion of | Mirnesota, amd the aqmission, now to be horaldet to to the world, of Kaneas and Oregon as black republican States, boar witness to the terrible account t9 which the oot co operate tp any movement which contemplates re eistance to biack repabliean rale. There are many demo. Crate aicng she borer sections 0. the State who are simi larly disposed, and bence there te bot lithe bope of any movement the part of Virginia outeide of he weil defined, clearly understood, Prociaimed princ|; of constitutional law. Virginia ‘Will move, if at all, with a slow, cantiovs step, not ro Jy tpg upon mere coostractive consti vtional rights, bat pen the very words of the constitution jtself, 8be wi'l however, be inevitably dragg xt into the conflict, ww ll (ng, 08 I know sbe is, to engage in it. Soush Oarolias. Missiae ppt and Alabama will vod rabtedly secede before the middie of January next, and then a coufict with the federal government, be presumed, will follow Virginia cannot stand by in such a contingency with folded arma. She must go to the aid of her sister States aod reecue them the fangs of taeir tederal oppres wor What “Old Hickory” could do mpanity to South Carolipa—impunity eo (ar as the action of the other Southern States is concerned—would not for an inslant be tolerated from ‘(id Abe.” There is a rankllog, deep fon in the popalar bosom of , nay Jackson overawet South Carolina that The very attempt on hit part would dostroy the splendid fabric of the Voton, coercion in reference to any seceding State rests the danger of @ general revolution, which there is FRE i & FE i or traitors a maddening spectacie. I know many of Chis clues ta the State who are marked out for fatare no. tie they now bask in fancied security, and frot eat spect of immunity urder the Lineoin 108 ‘ able acte or aotimonts they t they « tetermined ta v 7 SMe ROOT WUAE GAGS AelE Pow, warmed resistan se, ant forever | In this attempt | distiectly | North bas turned that misiake against the South. Bat the error bas been Siscovered too late t) be remedied, an | that sow makes it desirable for the South to re: the Union? | toms t | goveroment’ | «q }d the effect of (tupon the South is apparent to Lue most al and saperfictal observer. question is asked 01 every side, what ie it in to ‘What i# there in unison betwoen the two sec tought to unite them aay longer under the samo le {t acommanity of iovercete’ Tae South agriculture) and the North manufacturing. is it the waiity of taxation? The South nceda a low tariff, aud the North ¢omands a high tard. Is ¢ the constant io | terchange of trade and toe friendly and refai of Ie intlaeace commerce’ The South exports and the Ni imports it the agreement in policy on the question of Territo | Pialextersion? The South is ia favor of the acquisition, by either irrevocably againat {t » The South nurtures slevery and bas Tt does not | bill npon tte absolute, Gempoil the South, by atyetem every dollar of that proport And cementially inconsisten' Soeent mive coareatech oom e Virginia, North Caro | detriment of the South, what is there, it cause the South \o heritate aa to ve line of ite duty to pursue? | Braced 7 th the the Or conquest, of Cabs, and the fort) i Is 10 the similarity of iomtitay coe upwards of © ton of dollars invested in it, while the North jus. bed (eb aad aod _— re : Wetter the two =, are oy is every day Spon by the North, to the fem of Ostriemigns hie wow, Caar creased the Ravicon, and his 2 oa. of jt mam frightfal pages, relates ho soon reafier Lie libertion of Rome were tramplet under heavy tread of hie Gallic lagion®, and extinguiehed in borrora of civil war, Who will ast, after calm aad | art cary ™ the bepes ex-itemen’ of the eonstry A Mamemuusnis 4 eek Bul growls of the menaces of the North and the tbreata of the » shat the election of Lincoln to the Pree! bot prove ‘idepcy may ico that will divide the Onion an4 run dein tee beter Contending [roo- men. Throwing out of covsideration the are thousands upon thousands of Southern State who would esteem the Lincoln, per se, « cause of dissolation of the Uaion, how it he, in the more thap probable event of his election, to fil the oflices and adminiswer the government at the South! Take for instance, the ports of Norfolk, Caarieston, Mo bile, New Orleans and Gaiveston. Would any Southero man be found to accept au appointment in the Cust m Bouse of either of these places? I veature the assertion that ip the present exasperated state of feeling no suck person could be found with temerity enough to {acur the risk of running @uch a tilt agsinst public opiotoa. Aad it must never be forgotten that, if it is trae that revolu- tions descend from the scaffold, it ts equally trae tnat the yower o! public opinion ia sack that It holds goverumouts in check a8 well as men, and tha; there are but fow, io deed pond, who would not take much more trouble and submit to many more sacrifices to avoid its deadly tras ‘tbap to gain ite gilded favors, It is aot to by presumed that under any circumstances Liacola woul! leave thes? porte upprovided fur; and if he can ferret out no persa in the South willing to accept them, tho officials must come from the North. Is it to be oredited that tho South would apply the aep to ite owa breast and suffer 4 Lincolpite propagandist of black repub!icasiam to occupy such @ position, when it would not allow one of its owa sons to do ro? Not while it is recorded that tt was emis- farles insidiously introduced by @ neighboring State wo instigated sbe helots to @ revolt whick shook the republic of Atbens to ite lowest foundations, and Involved all Groove ip an intern cipe aod fratrioidal war, And if the South would pot submit, as assaredly it would not, to have such ao imperium in imperio planted ta ite midst, even on the plea of executing the law aad administeriag the goverament, would Linco! invoke the issue and send a tect and army to induct bis appointees tnto otfloe wut then protect tbem in it? Ab! then would be the rehearsal of a grand tragedy, aod the world would ring for ogee with the struggles of, if not another actium, at \ if the modern Cwear of black republicanism did not bite the dust and find a bloody grave, it would be because the recollvctions of Marion had been forgotten to the South, and tho me. mory of Brutus ceased to nerve the arm and fire tus heart of the patriot. Beyoad thie effect of black republicanism on the Caton all is conjecture, upon which I do not’ now choose to enter. Let it not be supposed that this language becomes only the meridian of Abbeville, and is not at all suited to \ne latitude of & border State hke thw For, a'though the proslavery proclivities of the people of thie Stave may Lot be quite so lively as they are farther South, their pro Southern sentimeot is every bit as touchy and strong hs it 18 in the most seusitive parts of Alabama, Georgia or Lonisiana, and whatever fortune, be tt for weal or tor woe, the future may reserve in étore for the South, Mary land wili ebare in it. Instructions of the Present and Past. {From the Charleston Mercury, Jut. 17 J It te bigh time forall thinkiog mea of the South to pause in the ardent pursuit of money, and direct their Atteation to the future of their country, in which not only rights, iiberlies aud honor are tavolved, but their very pence and safety, and the vaiue of the property | which they possess for taemscives and their chilirea. The period tk past when ia « seldsh and short sighted devotion to pecuaiary gains, they could ard to neg ect the great matter between the sections. The time of de: hiveragce can no looger be postponed, in order that men ay lemporarily thrive Toe Caager {6 imminent, 1p poiut of view aad to every interest. The mer od pisviers city mea and country mea, caunot ‘wait until slavery is reduced to the malarial region of the cotton States, and, surrounded with @ cordoa of fire, their civilization, rights aod interests parch beneath the coucentrated biszes of an overwheiming and aggressive | public opinion. shorn of their defen strength, their country will then become uninhabitable, themselves beg gars and fugitives It takes no prophet to foretell the rise of anxiety and despair under ® passive policy of submission Panic of a hopeless, downward kind will seize upon people, aad men of money, with their boasted gains, must go down, never to rige again, in w declining avd doomed country. Negroes, lands, houses, lots, stocks and beads must all depreciate ani become valueless; for on our social basis rest ail va- ues, and when thet is sapped and shaken property of every description goes with i for the thinking mes of the South to bappen, and to gain future That past teaches Ts te high time realize.tbe events es the: ‘wisdom from tbe record of the past the folly of our hitherto wind: resistanoe—the vanity of gressional deciamation, empty resolutions and poiotiess ordinances, It ehould recall what we have lost by timidity, sentimentality apd {naction; the millions of mopey paid to Northern moaopolista; the noble army of political martyrs, sacrificed at the North for the want of practical Southero support; the maguificent empires of Cowain bought by Southern golt and Southera biood, which have been yielded up in the “watch-and-wait,’ “pest-we can get” policy of tubmission It should shame us with the thought that, like the tnriftiess ton of Isaac, we bave ‘soid our birthright for a mess of ,"" for eveu the poor luxury of « brief and uncertain respite from the troubles and dangers of this sectional war—a little more elamber, a littie more folding of the hands in the eweet dream of pecuniary prosperity. Let as be now warned, leet while we “praise the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood and of stone,’ ths dager come forth with the sopouncement made to the Chaldean By Darite, “mene mene tekel ” Now or Never. n —— ‘tho nay i ae ae pt dot on ‘or thirty years past, the ons great lea ting 0 rt endeavor of the Charieston has been to hold up wv bea don mg this State and of the South, the portsa- tous fact the government set up by them, and the compact entered into by them separately in 1787 1733, 1789 and 1700. under the styie and title of the ‘'Consilta- tion of the United States of America,”’ from its original limited ageacy, bas gradually been drittiog toto & congo. ligated, centralized, irresponsible, absolute, sovereign ernment, adveording al) the States into it and merg- all powers in its supreme authority. Step by step, an it haa marched ou to ite gupremacy, bas the Me called out tte unrighteous advance to the would deagressble to the people of ©O Operation, wili not influcnce ber termined to secede, or coutrol them if tbat point. My opinion is, that {f South Caroiins ¢ people of Georgia will defend her tn cise of that right to the last extremity. If South Carolina or any other Southern State determines to should be done by a State Convention; the tion should tak« their sovereignty thes do tion 1s sufficient, but will 90 operate they are not acting from that moti revolution and rest oppresmon at aay Bevides, 1 consider separate State action renu the powers delegated to the federal government which they have abandoned, essentiai to omarnane of leash, before they enter into any alliance, league, con! 10a Or compact with sny other power whatever. if, there fore, South Caroling cousldere A ber remaining confederates time {t is her determination it ehall take it uaelets to argne the question of the propriety solving the Uvion If the black repablicané are success ‘They bave made the issue, that it i# the last battle wi siavery, and the election of Lincoln is the downfall slavery; if tho South hesitates upon his election, ‘will falter when bie pariy carry out their threats, election of Lincoln 18 acquiesced in by the South, Se i right thas the election of Lincoln is the down J e222 a 5s 3 & fa ‘v no fears that the roparation of ooe, mach ball dowen Southera States, would use dioMehed to ny very great oxtent—and even if {t did, It ought not to deter men and States in their action—based, as it should be, on the deepest convictions, that they are con- tending for their honor and their rights. A Pie for Disanton, Sone, published at Colum out, Ga., submits for disunion. It says — We have time had little hope that the South would over free herse!f from the domination of the ; but within the fow Whe Irrepresaibie Confitct in Ainbamea, [from the Mostgomery Advertiser | Those who sh nid infer the predominant pablie gentt. mont of the dyath from cringing submissioniau of the preee and the bustings would greatly ander rai the star. dy tuteltigence and patekatism of out people The parti S00 politicians of this gestion are far behind tne great controlling masres of the country in the spirit of reatat- ance to Northern segreesion. The profereed Uatontat At the Sonth aro g sading the N “ns mind OCTOBER 23 1860 avd defend their so be, to the last extremity, for the Union only #0 long as it shall preserve the: ties; when it ceases to do this, and becomes an oppression, they will secede from aod for the maintenance of their iy seem determined to blind the people at the North, as wed es at the douth. to the true state of things. Such men are either too reckless, too ignorant or too cowardly to coun vel a brave and houorable peopl id should nut receive any countepauce or eupport from true mon, The Attitude ig a {from the Vicksburg Sup LET US RALLY FOR THE SOUTH. Should the friends of the noble Brecktariige aad the patriotic Lane be defeated in the South, representing as they do the true principles of the constitution, justice aod equality, it will be deemed by the abolitionists of the North a# ap indication that her people are williag to sub mit to aby Outrags, now matier how grievous or bur densome, which they may choose to inflict upon them. Such ap event would strengthen their assertions that the Union ts in Po danger from thetr aggression, aad that the South will always threaten, but never put ner threats into execution. We repeat (what we have #0 often prociaimad as our conclusion) greater aid aod comfort | will be given to Seward and his agitators by the hap pening of the contingency spoken of—a more stag- gering blow to the perpetuity of tnis Ualoo—than avy otber event that could transpire as surely as the thermometer rises and falle with tne chaages of tem sera ure, €0 surely has the abolition aggression ad vanced or re- ceeded us it was yielded to or reaiged. It would be madness to imagine that jon would cease upon the dofeat of the frienos of the Scuth; for, as Joba Raudolph traly said, ‘ Favaticiam bas no stopping place short of beaven or hel); {8 maw is ag insatiable as the grave.” If Lin- coln is elected and the South submits, proudly will nis friends point, first to the threats aad waraiag of the South, and them to thie lame and impoteat couclusion, as proofs of the safety with which further aggressions c be perpetrated to overwhelm aud coufound the friends of the South among themselves, who have proclaimed that they would drive the South into resistance, Higher aod stronger still will the crested wave rol! down upon us until secession will be left the only ark of safety. If the cause which finds in the friends of Breckinridge and Lane such ardent advocates be defeated, the emaukment which alone can etay the waters of this flood of faomti cism, will have been swept away, forviddiag the sa that ite breacues can ever be repaired ja the Union. Lat us put our shoulders to the wheel, and prevent aay South- ern State from goipg against the gallant candidates of oar party, and thus show the North toat we of the South are “one a& the sea,’’ in deferoe of our rights, Let us pe ac tive A cousciousness that we have douse our whole daly, will take away the ating of defeat, if defeated we be. To thoee who fight the good Ogbt and are defeated, the tn epiring words of Milton must need be an encouragement © them:— “What though the day be lost, All is not lost, Tne unconquerable will and spirit Never to submit or yield "' These will be still left them, to say nothing of tho certain and speedy triumph awaiting them, whoa the voices of p aroused and awakened people shall bieod wita theirs in the great rally cry of the South for equality or inde: peudeace. In the aggressions of the North we have a gloomy future. Those lines of Moore, applicd to hia native Erin, may £090 Rerve a& & picture to our destiay, should we negiect at the proper time to vindicate our rights:— But, alas for bis country, ber pride is gone by, and tbat heart is broken which never would bend; O’er the rutn her children in secret may sigh, For "tis treason to love her, and death to defend! Unprized are her sons till they've learned to betray, Undyetinguished they live, if they shame not their sires, And the torch that would light them through dignity’s way Must versa from the pile where their country ex- res. Watlting for the “Overt Act.” {From the Richmond Enquirer, Uct. 19 } The “special attention” of the Whig having “been called” to our article in last Monday's issue, we shall give vory “speci vention” to the remarks and reason ing of the Whig's reply. Premising that the disunion hubbab of the opposition party is played out, aad, betore ‘the practical resulta that must very svn develope them ecives, is utterly hopeless, even for the exigencies of this canvass, we shall examine candidly tbe opinions atvaaced by the Whig as to tae course of Virgiais should Liacola be elected. In our article of Mc met we said:s— Virginia can no more prevent the dissoluiion of this Union after Liacola’s election than she cac prevent that election. She wiil be powerless to prevent civi! war, with all ite attendant Any one of the Southern States can, and some of them will, involve the whole rginia, ft hit ij i Pg! ph or the A aad we ror aio the ave See 26h to hesitate to ott xe ‘an carly blow from Virgin! itete im her duty to the South.” rie! Such are the reasons for the faith that is in os, and if such be “treason, make the most of it" From all which the Whig “ differs in toto,” and says We differ in toto from the opinioa e: Sore im the ig exiract. Virginie is the slave of the G made the eiave of those States, under We believe abe & mind and Spee cet eet ee jutre, ction of the cotton States. If the mere aatomaton, without intelli ‘and without feeling, she Galt Sates to decide ton, a ett bat to'be dragged and will submi Serva oa igeraisie sien ’ 4 mi ty State, with capacity and discretion enough ner own affairs in her own way, and cbalk out: her destinies, she will repel Prompt tn: tion the humiliating idea that she will be obliged to submit to the | bay dictation of the whimsical and arrogaat cot- | This all very well to tickle State Bat ts it ‘true? Can Virginia take gach an Eas courses, ent er" phe can, aa Toe Wha latin te ne intimates, the cotton States i, We may fairly couetide het the Ball and Everott men will vote for her to make the separa. | ‘ti, What then will be her condition—remaining in the federal Union with the present border siave her ‘Against the wild Her ovndition woul table than that of St. Domingo. Staten having dies sived their connection with five veare rear The “Gulf be more * Virginia would nov resis nal = Hae vit Li i i tion and the Calon ty the inst, aod demand itutional rights in the Union, no matter who ident.” 3 of Virginia Is, that she mesos to stand by if = ge a Fi i tional % for the wan at the out * gion” f trom obtaining thom nae cy r UDG Apaes 6 me ee punlind bie Suds, Sue drutmere peuple | aed Bub WVH Wi ke quivild Lok didiend whee 1Bd 1, 088 ood and duiiclent | 8 no longer over * Hieve @ lve that they may be damned.” Dor! | questions which friende and fore bh | me to deen OGY PRB) Sh GUN ree Guus we as Quod ot wag ad “Fi i i , i fh contemporary could not examine so im bjecs without endeavoring to make party it, Our cotemporary says:— conclusion, we invoke the serious # 3 pee ia to the from the editorial in ay’s Enquirer, J,ot them admonished in time, the si HH carry the tate, aud Lincoln should be elected, immediate dieunion wil) be upon them with all ite errors and hor- rors, if the Breckio leaders in Virginia can possibly E if Lincola should pot be elected, it is portant that Virginia snould cast her vote against inridge and the disunionists. But if Lincoln sbould, unfortunately, be elected, how transcen- rm a inflaitely im it, how tial it is that Virginia should against Breck- inridge, and in favor of the Uaion candidate, Jonn Bell, res tremendous majority. If Virginia’ votes agaicst okinridge, the advocates of ‘“resistance’’ will sbandon their preseat purpose of precipitating revolution ‘and disunion. But should Virginia unfortunately vote for Breckinridge, look out for disunion, revolution and civil war in eixty days thereafter—for such ts the ramme of the reckiess Breckinridge leaders at the present writ- tng People of Virginia, do you not perceive that your hts, your interests, your very safety call upon you to the State from Brecktaridge, aud carry it for Boll and Everett? The idea that dividing the Sonth between besten, of ‘and Bell will contribute to preserve the Caion, could only have reaulied from that jaundiced view which party passion always takes, Will not biack republicagism be encouraged to harten the “overt act,'’ when a divided South so temptingly tavites to its easy and speedy con- quest? Will not the black republicans believe that the men who now advocate a delay for the ‘overt act,’ will be the very men who, whoa the “overt act’ comes, will queetion its sufficiency, and use the same arguments against resistance to the drat “overt act” that they now Advance against immediate resistance? But should the whole South in the approaching election present a solid front, will not black republicanism recoil at ach evi: cence of determined resistance, and thus the “overt act be delayed, if not sbandoued! So that sound policy, whether Liocoln be elected or defeated, dictates that unity upon Breckinridge is the ouly bope for the pre- servation of the Unjon. The united vote of the South for Breckinridge would be au argument with the cotton states to delay action; they would see in such united vote ‘& great moral as well as physical power for their protec- tion against black repobiicanism, which might induce them to remain in the Union and await the revival of conservatism at the North But should Virginia loosen from her moorings, and by votiag for Joba Belicreate immediate alarm throughout the Southern States, every consideration of safety would demand of those States the epecdy diasolution of a confecerscy fh which their anvieat ally, Virginia, had become a neutral in the war that is waged against them. ‘ To vote for Breckinridge is the duty of every Union map, whether be deems a common fate with the Soath to be the best policy for the State, or whevher be would wait for the “overt act’ before resistance. Voting for Breckinridge may defeat Liocola, while support for Joha Boll, if it te not neutrality, # aid’ for Lincola, Voting for Breckinridge may postpooe the ‘‘evert act,” waile voting for Joho Bell invites 1t Voting for Breckinridge, b; uniting the South, may defeat Lin2oln; bat if not, tt will be regarded as the last aci of « brave and determined people to preserve the constitution, and will be looked upon by bla the “overt act,’ while voting for John Bell divides the South, encourages her enemies, invites the ‘overt act,” demoralizes the South, precipitates disunion, aud may produce civil war. Hard Ti Food for tbe Richmond bard times comes from Money matters are tight, and the wealthiest of people fog it difficult, and in many cases impossible, to procure means necessary to meet their obligati their current expenres. to are suffering in the feah from ao inability to get the real necessaries of life Many who, in Jast year's pleaty, en- joyed the comforts and luxuries of the land, are denied the least as well as the greatest of their eartniy wants, Nor is it because the hand of Providence, bouatiful in tte dispensations the year before, i# now closed against them, for provisions are as abundant and not higher priced than theo. The Western States are sendivg to our markets their increased sarpius of grain aud produce, fore, to obtain visions in any quantity, but the money is not to be het. Why is this? Because the banks refase to discount. No matter how good the pa; offered, they close their drawers agaivst it. And why ia this? Not far in bebeld Of a dissolution of would be unsafe tend credits and Es i peas ERR iltee Fa i PY § bs raz of apother Dut just that a set the pecuniar: union » by ite i = H < = &. 33. FA 5 S ! ; g 3 Hy Hy ® fi Hl i =g if 4 Fi 5 3 i 53? i fs in | E Fi A : il i i i iF it oe 27 fi it ft i 4 2 Ey 8s. 2 [ j 4 5 g & i 3 : i How the Cottom States a: tated [From the Richmond Enq sirer, October 20.) ‘ Precipitate the cotton States into revolution” oie tateemere bev have been Renter eneaane ‘opporition im this canvass, That pot the sagacity tomes toes every rote giver tn the South to Jobo Bell or Stephen A. Dougias bass prositont ten . can be impoeaibilit not desired by facte are understood by know the great interest Virginia, proving the high position abe canvass, vote Betl, will immediately besome alarmed for their en eee eee fe th LETTER es . % mit. GRaxon, Oot. 18, 1 received ir. Jetter this morning. : ie it may in oor wickedness, and has given tbe perpie vo ing this canvass | have declined to discuss Ave eymeti mas T bave basa There done en baw of republicavism as a’ waraing to abandon | | very purpose of the constitution the | common equality, the uniform paune Gall ? wc bik Laid weryned wh gid, of i i i i i eka elt i i ik E i Hi é £ t z E f Ll 1 id . i 8 Pe 2. Thus feelings are epgendered ta hostile to Lincoip, but hostile to i i Be | in extremes—the extremes meet; and pmryed who fra ortmay Noel election of Linedla on Glent cause to destroy the government, are yet strangely uing policy which must inevitably contribute CI bat ery enias. refused to act wiih those who admire, love and praise the Union, notwithstanding those fame men who love the Union also oppose Lincoln In- deed, the first class, Josing sight of the fact thet the pre- servation of the Union and of the rights of the douth are tibly to om oar acs ‘us it is we often men who are Southern raised, siaveboiders—men ae end ‘este \¢ aro slavery—whose every hope is identified with be South, roundly deoounced as ‘unsound, as free sollere And often by men whose sntocedents and position show even & icss interest in the South and ius destiny. Surely, ‘& mode of and speaking which These same, men, looking ton Teeeeble.pooese 088 men, looking to @ pro! rome of the States, and desiring tren ‘he on pleapan < consequences of @ wrong position, are in alkiog much about = ‘Thus we ae accuntomed to bene ing speeches oo a question which in its very state nent ‘an absurdity. Constitutional secession! will avy poy pretend that such an act is provided for in the constite- tion, or that the framers of the coustitation contemplated, Buch a thing? And, what is remarkabie, those who com- tend for it most loudly, boast of being strict constree- Tionists. Ali thoae who do not subscribe to sun statesmanship are hastily denounced as untrue and as submissionisis, althongh they might aot differ as toe Tight of resistence to the grievances complaine1 of whoa those grievances be me inevitable. Avother class, I submit, with all due reapest, aro im error, apd are doing serious damage in this canvass. This Clase 18 Composed of mea who declare the Gret raentioned indiscrimjastely to be traitors, aud give notice iu advance that the election of DO man Ought to be resisied who is elected according to the forms of the constitution. Whieh tg most to be reepected—the forms of the constitution, or its epirit, purpose and meauing ? If @ man were elected President according to the form, but with tl ‘owed intent to subvert the government and create 8 monarchy, would we submit to his tion? Well, is not the avowed intent to administer the government to the detriment—to the denial of equality— Wo one section ip soy part cular, just as much against the spirit aad mean! of the coustitution? Was not the FWatan is the worse, to violate the meaning aad the forms, or to observe the meaning and violate the forms of the constitution? Yet, who would submit to the rule of a man, however good and pa- ‘riotic, who should seek to sieze the Presidency without the ‘orm prescribed for his election? if it be conceded ‘hat to exclude the South from the common enjoyment of the Territories is contrary to the true meaning of the constitution, it ts difficult to percetve bow it would be wrong to prevent one from seizing the coveromeat whe favow 5 that exclusion to be bis purpose. The right is ua- questionable, and onght not to be conied, The expedi- ency of resistance is quite another question, This quos- tion must be determined by those interested when the time shall come, and the circumstances are before us. There will be many things to consider in that day. The ram always br: to light many facts which the ‘uture hides, and, in correct principles, let us de Tight ourselves, and wait tor events, What we ought te do then, we will determine according to our then coavic- tioas of our duty aod icterest. I have never ti a that the doctrine of overt acta had aoything to do with this question. We live in ® State whose laws justify. us in the killing of one who ‘‘manifestly intends’’ to com- mit a felony oo our persous, our habitations, on our perty, and the circnmstances from which euch tntea! is declared as manifest, are auch as would “exciic the fears of @ reasonable man.”’ What principle would oug- Gosh 5 Sithrent rele Solwann Bishan ant goverumeniey 5 to the absurd ides of ‘constitutional secession,” combat! ‘that often run into the other extreme of denying she to secede at all. Extremes not only meet cach other, one extreme begets anotber, The States felt the necessity of @ common bond te secure anc ‘their interest and eafety. To ths end formed tution. It was their right to form it—a rigt in constitutions or ul : i ig? “litte Het 14 g afl Hl e] Fi & s & i a : a3 t is the duty of every Prevent thy necessity Since nO power can ever recover a seceding Cnion ouce destroyed—even broken—can formed. Let every Mea ‘mea farther asan- f. Abgry strifes and divisions mast be the sure resulta, Let vs cease all thw wrangling as to what ought to be dove in a given contingency Let us adopt measures to avert that contingency. Upon one point we can ali agree: the election of Lincoln will ea- @anger the Uaion ‘Tren this bothing is more certain. Som, Wee at, Sie Gate So peeaeeaae olon direct thetr yameats and their to defeat Lincoln, We may differ a8 to the besi method to accomplish this. But one 3 oan never Arcomplish bad better unite on any man than be di- vi lam ready any pian that will harme- Py ee f ragh nding Union. Lot all minor tasuen yg th mah to yield to any better suggestion. We of the are eg py Teo t to be withdrawe ws caee, to determine which two—let us reason @ What makes Lincoln 80 objectionable? First, be i# s.ctional. Secondly, he ie thie ata very question. Thirdly, by this sectional agitation he peeks bo oblain the to une It to restrict ela- How does Mr. Dovgiaa stand? He all Com ATeeMODAL rettriction on slay He ws aod emi. ently devoted to the Union. it baa he not agitated? ‘that policy now? Does he pot advocate a theory of restriction objes- (yonable to > His best friends must say yer to we py Pt) ont is. Deegan Forcin yeute be baa un} 4 ro ty aod ic there- ‘oM@ which makes Lin- six years reoneaed the sisrory poly oertaer 2 demande a oa g fa the peopis on another sectional to Northern ‘vote for our this point, the Dever was see. ational. He 1852, and re not 4 Coa. make ‘ele one a 2 $ h V4, but Goa bimesif, will smile We Tepeal bag lam