The New York Herald Newspaper, October 30, 1860, Page 4

t TRE IMPENDING CRISIS, Preparations for Secession and for Civil War, Organization of Committees of Safety in the South. THE MINUTE MEN IN VIRGINIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA fhe Action of the Alabama and South Carolina Legislatures. PUBLIC MEETING DV VIRGINIA, Statement of the Case Between the North and the South. THE GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA ON SECESSION, | | oF if Lot, wit find a ready market claewhore, and must be Kiitiect of a Southern Confederacy at the North and in Kurope. Would the North be Abie to Invade the South | with its Parittanical Cromweilians? How a Southern Confederacy would Sus- tain Itself without Taxation. The Gouth will not Submit to the Inauguration of Lincoln Be, ta. Re, Our Washington Correspontence. Wa mycton, Oct 25, 1860 The Moet Alarming Sign of the Time:—The Incredutity a the North Alabama and One of the most alarming “signs of tho ti as re > ted by gontlemen who L orsed over !arg» tions of the Nortbe: 18 the obstinate und sto that the excite the talz Juring the past su North in tae # notbiag— 4 persistence of the bewit bat al belag rife ‘ The people of tha vermined to the last Feoraary, Logislatare, her ecoosston, as @ right f the United States, and made fa Coavention with rine of the cox tution scrangementa for the assem'Ning « ays after the ection of a repab 90! t be elect In respoowe to the regolutions mtb Carolina, ber wiature aley deciared that, in ib. abeen % of tog tor @ eystematic oo.0pere- of the satoB 1 Te#itting loo aggressions of \hoir cormies, Alabama, acting for hereelf, would under 20 Ciroumstacces submit te the domioation of a sectiveval Noriboru party, and lo waictain her posttioa thus deli ly eamomed ap var thoumand ¢ nich ber er Tals ought to be © the South is in earoes! pa aud Atal opriated the somef two handred for the military ©. e might involve eat to ratify the doubters that Other States will uv «ia @ common comm Logeucies alone va in. Wasmineto, Oct, 26, 1960, somnsion of te Richmond Enquirer and the Ser +e Of tha Herald (0 the South and the Union, &. * Enquirer of yesterday has the magna- simity to declare that “impartial justice demands the ved of Southern gratitude for ite (the New Youx Baxsio’*) manly and bold assaults upon the sectional esemer of the Colon, by whom the Hexaup is surround ad power to opeu the eyes of the North to the impending cr which now threatens alike the North and the As your cotempemporary at the metropalis of gala t@ Dy RO means ncoustomed to indulge in mere rases of boneyed commendation, but, oa the coutrary, * rather toa trenebaat style of eutttug up ta gene coo Hot a little seositive ia particular gently applied ite caustic to certain blotches on the body politic of the “Old Dominion,” this E arded ars peculiarly generous expression by « eadtog party jourbs. cs wecusimeat whioh, | am persuaded, a very generally entertained among gentiemea of all ariiee throngbout the slavebolding States. That man is aud elo ungrateful, who, pro- toe Unio, the constisntion and the coustaut ani se a ETeRt acd Kood cause, sits made upom its cond y receive bo sympathy derate aad right cadered equally il-timed, uo sod has the Hxat as rend ¢ added that toe aie ynanacemeat r ance eb $ snd unjust 4 which the love of fmir play im American Mind revolts agaiost. la what featu y cavum of extensive circulation, publimbed ia New York, nore eabstanvially deoerous thas the Hraamm) Waas Sly paper babituaily discusses the most important say ects Ubat oscupy the miade of men tn | more serious oF earnest tone, With equal falnees of information or power of argument, or macrierts a higher end r of |e reatouiugs and apposis ? co of course brug down upon ‘They are « They nave all tbat appearanss of « wad niributors tue attacks of the and the vervile, ant to them may be com the example of your Richmon tour y to tench them more crediabie behavior. hing to inuch I may Rave eatd ova vow disturhs ewer of the lesding 0 te soon daily in hos Merapuras ied, wae’ bere Gan ao wit um journal potstall BY per outstripping pe or America Gentiemen and © whe the Timer, +, oF the Work pres, weenie their tvastes and prox m 4 whiltugness to hear what . aaid on all sides, but toe mre or woman wh eac ibe F 5 a a fixed fact Wesaivoton, Or) 97, 1860. ® nthe Alaorbing Topic—The Mestenge a! the South Becalemant—Sontioonts of Distinguished m 4 Snth—The People Ahead of the Politi f Sewihorn Debts to the North, de. f ws from different parte of the relation to the absorbing te “pecesion."” g of the people are held to various places to tale to cousideration the danger to the slaveholding States vereous of all #bades of party fock to thom. The ob gathering at Borns Vista, in Ol Marion ken AS A spoeimen of the e & decided ebow for tacoma ia; rmly @ vigorour dim the part wity, from the idea that the more election of ght to constitute a easur sccentionit, For in while “Old Marion’? wnactmousiy recom the people of Georgia, in that erent, to meet veliately tp Convention to determine on the gua mets em and aleo urged that the Presidential elector sbould east the vote of Georgia for tne canditate who cad defeat Lincvin, there was & Strong protest oa the part of © mie miaet the rerolotion, which wae | 4 1.4 adopwd, Ceelaring the election of Lineoin would be “aa vert act of hoatiiliy upos the part of the Norte, aad declaration of war upon the ri nf the South.” The protesters amort that this cosaciation if ‘ae ther sound io law oor true in fect’ Hen yloact article in the Ken MP. Breckinridge lt ie 8 of Mr. Yanooy, re it BAYER etphationlly, “Ww t recession npon Lindoln'® electior did not ask Kentucky to cast ber lot From Nashville & voice founds ¢ * ridge and Lane organ, the Unin and Aw « Loese strik! important words — “a wolted South may save the Uo ahouit be elected “A caited South can constitutionally defea' tor nations of the abolitioniate, even with (ar alg Feromect in thelr posession “A onited Soath may fnduce our more Syatbor States to still longer risk their tate y ta 4 | Senator Iverson, of Georgia, at you t teed of refurtog 1 aarter, bot et by bit declarations of w m, ere i! Linnote South, soy of being Listeved to, and of feceral goveroment. | debts owed by the south wo the North—not a very ortabic Southers aerchaats most prompt, punctual and liberal, | li the South—Action of ttate ¢ prospects such as forbid any trifling oa theic part. that the\y honor i# at etake, and that eomething must be done to keep it vntarniehed and unsuilied. | termined that unless their righta are recognized tn the | aggreseton ow the part of the North | manner: aud that it will be the bounden duty of the Southern States to take their destinies under their owa control and organize withoat delay a separate and inde joan to the Pre- | | vbe duty nor the Interest of tne South to remain in the wanted them to orgenize aad be on the alert; he wanted appreciating the importance of the Unioa co Now York city, and telly aware bow destractive to ail cation greatness would be \te dirsolution, the Hanarp has © mouths devoted the beet energies of its talents, iniluence | the weapons that God Almighty gave us."’ thr ret word is Sonth Alone Should Govern the South. tion exprenely know, Union could not this Union the nematebed progress and tr | fortunate country could not have been Reh \oved prosperity will wither up dofure intolerent, fanatical army of 4» to follow where (he Btate of Virginia, ta ber capac resolve tp lead, ceciared, at Norfolk, that commena Ai Uuce, aod thoosands Of other similar signs indicate wost clearly that recession 18 by po mo leading mir ardeo as u Bot it weqvaly clear that the tufuence of the conserva- tive borver Slavaholeing States ta the Last hope of venting the cotton Staies from eeceowg. To make cfvctive the border States must vote for ‘ge sud Lane. They might then appeal to the Mon Sisks Contempiatiog aeocssion with some chance Subtauing the stabuity of the Lr contra, Were comes from South Carolina a regular C mmorcial view Of (he advantages of secession to that State, and a8 Georgia, Mississippt and Alabama seem to he setomted by the same feelings, bg Fag 5 Merchants and all the ib the caloulating, deliberate views of th COpseqnenoE® Of Recession. ederggecns hi. e business classes North to understand what are the cool, It is comtenced, then, that eeceasion will suspend all com. yroepect to the creditors, who have found But sucneoeion ta not the end—civil war will extinguish - ep that the worst. In cage of the succers of 4 sad tbe establighinent of a separate confederacy y tor the payment of debts could be negotiated | ther. | that would not provide for the eurreader of fugitive Slave®, or compensation for them. It ts further maintained that no bank in South Carolina ‘bas ever failed; that cotton must be wanted by tho North, paid for ja io; that cotton indeed {8 specie, and can De convert into gold iu the hands of the planter without | te utervention of the Norta; but aa, in case of secersion, bo coliections can be enforced, the barks will not be pressed for discounts. Men of New York! bow do you like this commercial view of the result of a repabiigaa triumph ? Mag it not something of the look of that romantic pro- | Cece #tigmatized by Burke within the wails of the Britigh | allies This w what | ab Pertament as “eheariog a woil.’’ Man hase right to do Certato things. The North bas a right to elect a sectional Presicent. But have you couridered the danger and mis chef of the attempt? May you safely exerciee a right which will thevitab!y arouse and exasperute the feelings of boetility that may, as in & time ef war between alien gov- rments, guspend and extinguish all debts from the South to be North, or at least render their remote colle dependant upon the siow and uncertain negotiation of treaty stipulations? Think of this, merchants. manufacturors, tradors, me ebunies, sod all working meu of New York, aa you go to the polls on the fires Tuceday in November | Our Norfolk Correspondence. Norross, Va , Ost 26, 1860 Eek of the Late Elections at the North—An Indepm rderacy for the Svuth--Organization of Men” in Virginia, dc jog of the people of thia section at the preseut y aroused, though not 8 much tn the cities as a the a joining counties. They belive that the preseat of the country, in relation to the fatare the South snd ber rights tn the Union, are Tuey believe They are de- | Union to apply somo active measure of remedy to resiet nu auy shape, form or | pendent confederacy. The recent elections at tue North have increasod this state of feeling to a higher piteb. Believing that there is While the present divisions exist among them to elect a Pregdent, they now ork the toa: “Shall | ey Wait until Mr Lincoln is imangurated before they | wake @ move’? The most tery believe that ii 1 neituor Union aeipgie day after the fact has beva ascertained twat Mr, Lincola haz beea elecved, but that they ehould imm@odyately proceed to organize @ separate government for Themecives, Aud withéravw fro cobection which thes interest of tue South. the state of aifeirs whica reaily existe, I cau ascertain, companive of Minute Men, pei composed of the most 1nfvential men of the re organizing ta every precinct At Nimmo’s, tn Princess Anne county ernor Wise addrereed a crowd of one of the greatest efforts of his live. Discarding rt¥ proslivities, be called on the meo of «| parties ite mmediately, to organize Winute Meu for the pro- b of their homes and section He said;—-He Miwute Ken—men who woul! stand by the’ oao; moa Who would fight for the South, who would die for the Sovto, men who would de ready at @ minute, in a mo ment, to protect the outh; men «who would meet the Wide Awakes of the North ‘when the time would come, | firet, with cannoos, loaded with shot, and rifles and nourkets anc guna, if we can get i . if mot, then wits swords and short swords, and bowie knives; and if wo cannot get them we will Gght them wits pick axes aud #0) thes, snd ehoveis and pike; aud if we oauno: get them then 1] shail send the van aod go in for Ngbting them with His remarks | were received with tremendous eleeriog and wpplausc. | A Voice from Mar, md. | ANNAPOLIS, Md, Oct. 27, 1860. | The Whole South One Workshop—Keerywhere the Clang of Arms—Oficers of the United States will Resign thar | Commissions f Lincoln is Fiected, be j Dean Jos—Letters from home give me information | If she cetermives to sn0m)t. 1 wil! pre: Paci te.” Were | to pass through | would bave either to wher my services are of aay value, ‘The Charleston, 5. Military. Chaxumeton, 8. C , Oct. 25, 1860, A Carclina United for the Coming Struggle—Tie Union Denounced as *Hellish.”” de nak Brovien—This U one, Lincoln i# as good and South Carolina is bo necessary. ompacies are drilling eo muci the Military Hall lf (ull every night, aad @ometimes ae many a | four compaaiet are at work on the Citadel gresn | ue old PG." drill three times & week, and every one's | ives stance to a sectiousl party } [ bope you have read Mr. Townsead’s able piece, “ihe | 1 seat it to fa 2 elected ther, South Carolina bas sever been so united, Every owe + feel that. Tunak God, the time hae couse, | h must rise. If thie State saordes 1 be soucnerm State will follow, aud we will be : corrupt, disgusting aad now bellish Unive | ewe ‘hur @ politica, bat this muck | . © the Impulse «24 fire of youth who | <alieg anes to thn Sate must be « wee does Dot gow pray for separate Siate | Our Kaleigh Correspond> Raumou, N. C., hinvidge Men Not Disuniontete Unless Driven ( tly the Aggression of the Northern Republicans, Wh» Arve the Trut Disunioniaa—TPhe Southern Men Will Not | Welt for Lar Vbank you cf potié adairs which you are dat vin to Oppres Them, de or, for the jast and stateemaniike views paper In ordinary times they would be conviacing and fivential on the condvct of the peopic. As @ Southora | man | thank you for expowiog and jaying bare the gross, | intolerable wrougs » ready juflicted, aad still mediated, againat the weak {ion of the coantry to m1 be. | lore or, by the teewlar working of our free system and (be nataral ord:+ of cvewts, by the emigration of now settlers and the opening of new lands ia your region, } Where climate interposeR no barriers to the Iavor of the White rece in the open feld—no sooner ise majority ta our pational couneile th ared to Lae Northera jortioa confederacy than the mask i# thrown aaite, the boud Of brotherhood cast Wo the winds, aod a ferocious fa paticiom stanc® ready to trample om their former (riende over and in apite of the barriers of the coastite intendea for their protection! Yoo that without (hie coostituiion th® | have beea formed—that withou cnote of ou Thewe wir, buman recming, are avout to eer the goverament aad wave their sloudy flag above the cures of this ouce glo rows County Now, #ir, Ip reprenend:ng, a¢ you do, the disuaion seat) meet! so rife. present fo the Coentty, Fo" appear some Heet 10 inCtiow 1 the Opinion that Lhe South ts ae rowre beverote af tee Novia. Why earety Mey are not Gere tre eegressors, They repel ageression They ara nit aa sworable or bastion ing the present fearfal crisis, Tae dxueh feant on the const va ae it eh wil ite per ntios, sastatom the comet! 1: 1 limitatiow®, edomtroes i away cetent of verges unfortunate ov: can party of 1801, Preeicevoy Jefferson, under the constitution before amended, ral electing Burr instead of the choice of the is @ remarkobie fat, that io this Contest the leading mo- Live of Hamilton, oft repeated to bis party, was, though be latter on gra biew disclose the (sect that Barr a, in bolg the arch enemy of the * V, ‘Wat the biack clouds of the burrtcane are hurcyiog from | Sak bosons tonieen woe the olvve States, Virginia, the one end to the other of the political horizon of the South, | largert in the lead, and thus it tad tts double und that the storm of oii! war seems ready to bur t | upon the United States. The whole South seema to be ove workshop, and the clang of arms resoanda from the | Alloghanies of Maryland io the plaiasof Texas. I see | that the peopre of most of the States have called upon | thelr Seuators and representatives to exprese thelr | Madison and Monroe. opinion with respect to the true course of the South ta care of the election of Limsoln, and | alas perceive thet most of these advocate dissclution. Father says, ‘If the South shali call ber sons to arms, | wii be among the fret in the field. pare i the uext four years to remove to td ‘This looks like equalty times, does tt not? I think it most probable thet tm case of the election of Lineola I wil re wig. realgn of ele to be placed undor the government of a inan hostile to the Souta. This | can never consent to do, nor can! reconcile the ides of receiving ao ¢ tocation from the United States, aod thon deserting at the moment cracy in the Northern tigen \u the North to cruah democrutie repadiicaziam ta the whole country. came politieally allied to the em bDd tie Souldern States, Martin bim, comee down to thie day the descent of that wing of ly anuowacing to the | { thie country ig your admirably cooducted | bigher than the c | corrape cnr stares ane ae merty of the “irrepressible conflict,” the men ? BH power of int a ES é = 3 = 3 & Sewardites, these Lincolnites, are And it is they who deserve of an indigtant prees turned *catier and utterly confound them. It in this coptroversy which now convulses t! the people of the South stand as biameless as the down in the stream, while the ravening wolves ition disturb the waters from above. If the people of the South epeak of seceseioa or of disunion as the necessary end of these measures carried out, should it sarprise on? Is there @ man with a spark of manhood tn bi nature who would submitto the meditated, threatened outrage on his rights! Wil he consent to craw! to tho footstool of power, and eubmit himself te an insolent, irre- rpovaible despotism? The man who could think this ia but ove degree removed above an idiot. They will resiat, they must resist, aud they ought to resist, and the Union will be broken into fragmenta if these men seize the reins and march of to exooute their insane aud bloody purpose. Would you inquire of me what North Carolina will do in this controversy? Ican tell you what I woulddo. | would, op Liacol’s election, wait for ve further deciara ‘ton of war than that which he bus alroady promalged, and the State on her ty to determine whether the coptract of the constitution had not already been brokeo, and ebe free to adopt new and more reliabie id do; ahe wid wait and poo- mpathics and ber hoaor wee. # der, but when she acts ber will govern her course, as we Publie Meeting in Princess Anne County, a ADDRESS TO VIRGINTA—ORG ANIZATION OF COMMITTENS OF SAFETY AND MINUTE MEN—STATEMENT OF TOE CASK BETWEEN THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH. ‘The following acdreas has beea adopted by the eltizens of Princess apne county, to the people of the Old Dominion :— We, a portion of the peopie of Princess Aune county, here assembied, desiring to coafer with our fellow citizens of the CommonWealth of Virginia generally ,and to express to them our views upon the impending daugers threaten ing Our property, our lives, our eocial safety, our poiitical equality, our character a# » peopir, ul! the securities of our peace, and the means of our common defeace, do ear- pestly appeal to their solemn consideration of pass, pres- ent and coming events, touching these dangers, aad the protection of these dearest rights of a free poople A large body of fanatics has loag beeo formed tn the United Stator, with the siogie tntent of abobsbing pro- porty in plaves. {t is needless to trace thelr origia, Lie tory ane progr Iu the beginning they were, profes sedly at least, of a religions and philaathropie order, and theu were bat *, not distur ging the pubdhe peace. They Koon Chmuged IDLO & political ele. ment, and at on grees! vo aad vectioaal. Tals was casy and patoral as well irom the caaw of climate as from the politioal étate of the two great seetious of ihe country, lished B'arery im ail the Northern States, ee wade it anproMtable, Tt was avoitshed in ibe North by being transiorred to the Soutoera States, whose glare labor 1s protitabie. The people of thy North ern States were not only the common carriers from Africa to the Southern States, bat when their las ado- lusbed slavery im their own limits, it was by & process #0 timely that the awners coud voll and read to tne south the mostof thelr slaves Al aout the fame time that the slaves were thus seat from the North and cougregated tm the Soutt, the great pouiticat Civisions became distinctly defieed. "Phe xo0it lion, cartioularly the etx New Bogland States, adoptea the febeme of federal policy, beaded by alexander Hawiiton, of New York, and contended for large and coneolidaling powers in tbe foderal government a national aod supreme government. The slave Statce, alinost voitedly, particularly Virgiola, Kentucky, fon: nessee aad North Carolina, headed by Thomna Jeferson, of Virginia, edopsed the democratic republican creed ot the rightw of the sovereign States, of a more agency for the States. in A federal goveroment of limived puwers under @ strict Coustruction of the gonstilution as w compact be tween covereigus ‘This was t tate of politics! parties when the first uu occurred in tho democratic repabli- Aaron Burr, ag caodidate for the Vice even ou 't icket with Mr. for the Presidency, and, the fedd- its’ defeat by domocracy. it rau ae candidate party attempted to repair bimecif was opposed to Hurr, to defeat and destroy the “Virg jypasty,”” whom he deaouveed as * Jacobins,”? Thus rhowing bis jcalousy of the Southern democracy. ‘The democracy thea succeded, but then was sown the Vempt 10 aefrand the real popular will. ginia aypasty,” fo the admin sirations of Jefferson, Madison aod Movroe, ip succession, insted for twenty toar years, from 1800 to 1825, and ai) aspirants became jealous and eutago- nibiio to its imfuence. Aud it ig etl more siagular that, \bough Hamilton, the leader of the federal party, was op ed to Burr, the first great traitor to his party be- ‘ore be wae tries for treasom to his couutey, and though the furmer becaine the victim of’ she the fied of bonor, yot now their bio “ed with Mamiltoa a dywasty," ay- democracy. Thus democracy firet in Harmiltou and the feders:*\s, ad second in Barr ‘and & Northern democratic wing composed of his myr. midons, the two united in nothing hat hostility, to whet they both called the “ Virginia dynerty.”” jp fact of federaliste with cisaifec'oo Borrites and free soil States to crush the democracy erming Cy RI slave Staten, led for a quarter of m by 4 the Aad in 1824, what before hat beea denounce’ 98 the slaveccracy of (ue © uth. Thus federe antecouism and “urrite treason to demo- ‘States te'zed OM aati-einvery faca- And thus stun of slavery be es alike of democracy arobtratwor to democracy was a popii of Burr, Boren, of New York rT. throagh ‘Toe p: Cemocracy whieh is a otng the great fanatical move men: Whech HAS succeeded tm bresking down botm the old federa! and democratic partice, aud which will ine few days probedly elect the Cbief Kaseutive of the United Slater, (o destroy property ja slaves everywoors, fret in Dietricts apd Territories, and soon tn the States v or Adams revieed {ederalem juren revived Barriem io 1836. Tae ocak 8 aud CoMpromises made by ana Onkers, #8 Ubey were calied, of his adimia- m 1836 & 1840, 08 the ery question, aid which bas rewalted im 860 Ven Burea partienur remained in the dere party Pvocerced 1n Be wielding minorities in aati democratic ot #AVETY States, a8 to claim the power of contral ling the majorities in the democratic and slavebolding | States, and oc dictating to the party ite nominees ead a chatge in ite prineipies in the ferm of wha; ts called “aquatior sovereignty.” ‘owe federaliem soa the bunkeriem of Burr aud Van Buren, really co «peratiog politically, have seized fanati com op their embrace t) make democratic republicsniaa ogtoos in the North on account of protection to slave property and Ite defence of the equality of the slave States ia the federal Union, It if not because slavery is odious | wany but the res! fanatics, Dut because coestitutional democracy 8 Cd) 08 to the teceraiiete and Borris, that the fanatic are miced by them in thelr cromaie aguinet | elavery; and the fanatice ate incited against democracy too, because they see it has ile abiding place ebielly im the siave States, and jt bolde up the coustitation as a shield me w.? may be, the fact mew ex- mm sod hupkerien are com. mOCTReY and giavery—dumocracy on very un wecount of detooracy uot what in cailed Black 1 Fe Senter or 49 the coatederacy of all the Staves. Tt obtained 1 own comoromite in the const sowtinue the importation oF at which it sold to us ie ih 1519-20 {t deprives us of equal gettlement in more ‘han ball the verr Tt petsed upon carved ost of exe 44 000 square miles 0! slave ter @oath of 26 ¢eg 30 min. It selzed vpon all the territory acquired by common Conquest (rom Mexico, and deprived siave Inbor of the Priviuege of operatiog | the Wealcbieet mines of ario— the gold teines of Cal fore. le has Oridbed & Slave Slate WIth too millions of com oo funds, © sanctioa a prohibition of sietury ia all New Mexion. Tt claims to aboleh slavery im the ¢irtricte, forte, arterals, dock yards and other places ceded te tov Uaited Stater. “To anoliah tbe foter State slave tra te, wud thus cut ef the Northern slave Staves from taeir pr: Produc jot, and tbe Soulnern from their eoute 4 of ply 0! lavor It claims to forbid al! equality and competition of set Hement oe Territories by the citizeus of jm the com: Tt hat caured aod plieiied the murder of masters or owners in poreud of Togitive tlaves i by State authority oa the coatrary, it bee mace ita crim: he Citeent oO! Revere Sates to obey be lawe of tbe Cuion for the provestioa of Slave property Tt bas advocated regroequality, and made it t round of poettive legiletion hostile to the Southern stew. Tt opposes protection to slave property oo the bigh seas, and bas juttitied piracy \mel! te the exe of the amie Tt haa Rept In one midet cries eri Of woes siarvem t nem wo ree them to resellion nod lee It bas rom ¢ ‘ r what is called air Henvre 86 pretarioak > tae bord to have abolition ted two of ther <Wary aot wnt Mose ri, apd it is It bas invaded a Territory by arms furnished by Bai by it A'd Societies, under State and by fuais foraaec by foreign enemies qn as bad Is has invaded Virginia and shed the blood of her citi- zens on her Own 801 It bas justifid aud exalted to the bi honors of admiration and respect the horr! and ersons and rapine of the raid of Joba Brown; aud bas canvnized the felous themselves 68 saints of martyrdom. It hes burnt the towve and poisoaed the cattle, and formed the midnight conspiracy of the depopulation of North Texas, It bat proclaimed to the slaves the horrid motto— “Alarm to the , fire to the dwellings, poisun to tae food and water’ of slavcholders. it bas published ita plan for the abolition of sievery everywhere, To ‘‘ rescue slaves at ail hazaris—to form uesoclations—to establish 0 uae the vote pn holders and detach them from slavebolders in slave States —to communicate with the sleves—to euoourage anti- siavery emigrants to the South and West—to eoize other property of slayeholdere to compeutate for cost of run- ning off their slaves—to force emancipation by all means, copecially by limiting, harrassing and frowning upon slavery in evory mode and form; and, finally,by the Exe- cative, by —, by tho service, ard in every way without until tbe Seutbern States be abandoned to their faie, and, worn down, ebell be compelled to surrea T hope | you fully through the papers. Yours, reeprsttully, | j [From the Richmone Kequirer, Oct 23) lated the decisions of the Supreme Court. It assaile us trom the pulpit, the press, in the school room. It divides ai! secs and religions as well as parties. It denounces slaveholders as degraded by the lowest im- pote BC vie Bad the States under iis _dom- the federal as well as State judiciary ; of the House of Representatives 0} ‘ited States wii! oon bave by the ew census @ majority of the Sepate, anc before it obtains ‘will obsain the ohief exesutive power it bas announced its purpose of total abolition in the States and everywhere, as weil as in territorics and dis- tricta and other piaces ‘ceded. And it has prociatrued aa “irrepressible copfict” of higher law with the federal conetitction itself |’? low, then, is the clection of its candidate for that chief executive power to be viewed by us and by all? His aod bis rival's eentiments are both proclaimed—they are the same—"“tbe government cannot eodure half siave and balf free” it ie an ‘4 bie conflict between op- posirg and enduring forces; the United States roust and wil, sooner or later, become a slavebolding nation or en tirely a free isbor nation’ These are the sentiments of the coming black republicar triumph—a triumph by such means as we have seca. What then? 1. The election of Abraham Lin2oln to the Presidency will be an open and official avowal by a popular majority of the North and of the nation that the past aggressions of biack republicantam are right. 2. That they are to be persisted la with great aggrava- tion for the future 3. That the siave Staies shal aot reepect to their owa property ia their owa limits; 1, whilet Torritories are to be allowed to proaibit in their owo limita, the States will not be per- protect it in peaoe tn theirs 4. That the slave States aud their citizens are to be coerced to submivsion. Acd puch aggression as this amounta to actual war. It is proclaimed already, and awaits only the election for the power and the means coerce euvmission. The election will give it both, Aud | it the worse for coming in all the panoply of amore form of right The form is the election; aud the election wil) be covetitotional. That is to be the pore out of whieh the courage of resistence im to ooze, ‘the form of the election may be constitutional, but its intent and par- pore is our ip vasion and a violent infraction of the corst! wotion ~=No matter what may be the form, the eudstance is aggression; the aggreteion {s to ns vital It we submit to it we are at once subjugate, and i’ wo intend to reeiat it i@ time we were prepared jor the con- filet, which we cannot repress but may repel. In view of ibere issuer, we deliberately rerolve:— 1 To appoint “committees of rafety,” ag in Revolu- tionary times, to comaist of six persons for each magiste- rial district, a mojority of whom for each district may act. They sball devze ond control moxaures of police for our rafety, avd for enrolling and organiziug ® ody of “minute men,” for whom tn all respects they shall pro- vide. And quarterly, or oltener, at such timer as they may appoint, the reepecti ve coamtcteer of the districts, or their represeatatives, sbail assembie, iu whole er part, ea they may cirect, af @ general council for the county, which shall sit uncer 4 chief of minute men, to be elected by the fevers! conncits, and removabie at their pleasure. Tbe minute wen eball execute ths orders of the district commitveee, and of the geoeral council, and eball, when eceerary, be provided with proper means, 2. That it be recommended to every coanty tn the Commonwealth to orgunize in the same or a similar man- ber, sod to poblish the same a8 we Low order for notice to our friends and co operators. 5. That the moment the election returns are made known and it is aacertained that Abrabaim Lincoln is elected President of t'.c United States, the geacra) coun cil of this county shail select one delegate trom each dis trict to meet wuch delegates a8 may be. oy other counties to aseembie ia conveution at Richmond, to do- termine upon measures for provecting our own #accty and bovor a8 a poopie, for defending the constitution of the Unite States, for saving our rights in the Union, and for obtaining the sanction of the suvere ga State of Virginia. ‘4. That these proceedings be publisbed at Norfolk and Richmond, and copies be sent to ench county in tue Com monwealth ; snd that the President and Secretary of the meeting be ordered tu eee this duly execated. 5. TLat acommitice of five be appointed by the Chair to eorduct correspondence in this and other States, and © commitwo of five in each district be also appointed to raise fonds to oefray any expense of printing aad distri- bution and correspon dcbee Rewolved, Toat meetings be held ia each magisterial district, within a week, for the purpose of organizing, ac- cording to the first resolution. ‘The Sentiment of Virginia. ‘orn thomacives {a h abolidonista, or their pimps and spies, aod the whole South bag Deoome @ bed of Conovaled aad treacher- oor tres’ Or shall we imitate the example of our fore- faibers, and, protiting by their wise foresight, most com bica) ich by concert aad Courage, And in peace prepare for the war to come, if come tt most? aball the myrmi- dons 0! power oaly bo “ wide awake,” wotle tue defenders of Liberty #nore ih ignominioos 8 ee pf In wy bembie opinion there i pot ground for doubt or time to bemtiate. im for the South, free and bowored, With a repoblican goveroment aud cquai ans, ber fiside unstained with biood and unpoiiuted Oy the foot of the opprestor, And I will not coout the cost of them. How can these things be acoompiisbed? Only by concerted Action by the Southern States, aserting their so ¥cre\cu tnd unalienable to form for themseivos sack govera- tment ae is best aoaptedto them Government, as our bill of rights deolares, being ‘instituted for tue common benedt, protection aud security of the poopie, nation or | community.” By much coveert we shail anlictpate the foo, preserve our Nberty and oar laws, protect our homes trom outrage and cur land from dessvlation, and avoid the effusion of Diood. For who will care ty attack Aftera, or thirtesa, of ten, oF eigat Southera States, netted, armed and de termined to be free? None. But | am extending tois note too far. 1 il pursue the eubjcct when we mevt, as s900 shall; and if disappointed in that, | will address JAMES LYONS 18 THERE ANY LONGER A UNION? The coumitution of the Uniuet States ie s written ments recorded fundamen al lew: it is the bud aod the ouly Dood of tbe Union of theas Stwtes; tie all hat gives uaa catoeal character —Daniel Weiser le this bone—sbie only bord—oow practically tn exis. tenes! Let the eleven non slavenolding States which oo. | stioutey refose to execute the followiag provision con ened int apawer — No held to service or labor in one Slate ander the Ia®® tbereot, escaping Into agother, hail, in conse voce of any law or therein, be, rom sueb eervios or labor, Dat shall be Geiivered up on claws of the party to whom ruch service or labor may be | due. Is there any “Bond of the Union of these States,” while the above “fandamental ta te daily shamelessly vio- lated by the traitorous advocates of toe “Higher law?” Bas the “written instrament,” as far as concerns the Tighte and interests of the ciiizens of the slaveholding ‘States, more strength for their protection, than if it was & mere rope of and © Mr, Webster alse asserted that, “a contract broken on one side is 4 contract broxen on all sides” Waat obliga- Hon i# tinvosed the south t observe a comtract Will any frieod of Judge Dougias—the ebampien of coercion, of employ- foroe againet sovereign Statoe—in Virginia explain” eurtmice of the — may ery Union | Cao! ae which has wantonly, tantalizingly spores wita the of these tates Are other ‘overt aete’’ to cot rince Southern citizens that sel! preservation imperatively commends item to aotounce to the world their purpose to resist ea- Groschinen te! No petr jot, south of Mason and Dixon's line, mast bold an office wader the adavivintration 1b cow, aay more poteoreate who thea how nether tudor a ty te ur chertahen over at case, 1 tien Ihe gurated Hoa a be ke the fousth, nor w tae # ecpport. the Nora © 8 foliar to ti NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1860.—TRIPLE SHEET. Birabie or not. In the event of her deciding afMfirmatt juesticnable ara? “base Judean,” he can employ in the public — 4 Bpectable failen that it matters not at what time they uoresistingly Soutbera citizens, then Isy thetr heads upon the executioner’s block Lincoln 2 bl eee See eee vate sgeut is alrea D arrangiog ci The post of Seeretary,of Stale, according (0 one @ Virginian, Cabinet. Sor eten ae is tage vee whose acce, has been tmplicul not positively re Hance v ceived; while (he Attorney Generatshap will be bestowed upon South Carolini ig arranged 1D a ian. This, if it be true, the spirit of a peace offering, as the most effective ing 5 Mr. Botts, or Rives, or Mr, Ethe- ridge, or Mr. Apybody cise, the merest of po- Utical aventurers, accept? Will elther consent to so Outrege the pubiic opinion of their dishonor ‘the four ‘wealths ! fame of their reepective commoa- PREPARATION IN VIRGINIA—GOVERNOR LETCHER ON SOUTHERN ACTION. pressible, and that one or the mast go down. Now, then, if Lipeoln be elected upon deetin) Samoel Dart, F. E. Foltz, M. T. Purroll, J. Z R.L Bingbam, F W. Key F. Liddell, G. ¥, Neill, RB. W, Wiitiamson, WB Heim, Dan. R |. 8. son, W. M. Stanebury, W. Ray, W. W Liadeil, Thomas 3. Joues, P. A. Peepies, ?. W Hemphill and others. CaxnoLroy, Migs , Oct. 17, 1860, Pablic Sentiment of South Carolina, SECESSION JUSTIFIED SY A NORTURRN MAN. ‘The Charleston Mercury ter of W. H Lawre @ Northern man:— of why throngh missiovaries of abolition and incendiary pub. Tieatious (10 mane man, however ardeatiy sttached to the U could onject to their anticipating che fatal bio by refusing obedience to the federal authorities, but by even invoking, a# did our apccetors of the Revolution, foreign aid. MINUTE MEN IN SOUTH GAROLINA, The organizauon of “Minuie Men,’’ whica started a few week* ago in Columbiats extending throughout the ‘This ofse: to the “Wide Awnkes"’ will soon om- brace al the true bearted msp of every district in Soata Curolina; w: hope, eays the Georget ‘wn Fimes, it will pumber tens of thouragds in every Southern State. Tas State. “Mints Men” are led on by the most influential citizens aod will be ready at ® moment's warning for any cmer- gency. The oldan spirit i moviag the descendants of thore, by whose labors, sacrifices and dlood, our jadepen- conge wae scoured, io the ees, arm for the dofence of their righie, the provec- ion of their homes, and the overthrow of teetr enemies. If they are 0 +: willing to be trampled upon by the foot of Northern power, if they value property, thelr prow perity, their honor, ict them arm, drill aad ‘prepare for vio ud & Soutasrn confederacy. THE WORK GORS BRAVELY ON. We are gratified to learn, rays the Camden (8. C.) Journal, that ap auxiliary Astociation of Minute Men bas been formed at Beaverdam Church, in the restora part of our district. Compeny war organized Colonel W. 7. Leiner, of this piace, whose speech on Loe cocoa. sion, we have been credibly informed, was « masterly effort, clear and lesion, Coan, — and to the point, men, pledged to fenoe of “Southern constitutional equality ta the Uns'on, or failing that, to establish our inde eodence out of it" Dr. James G. Jones was elected captain; Dr. Jamer A. Glenn, first lieutensut; J. L Hogea, second, and Captain F Parker, ensign. ‘We jcarn that the asgociation wil! likely soon number ove bandres mes Other associations will certainly soon be formed in the different neighborhoods of our district, aud we trust very the fact that over Ove hundred good end true mon in Kershaw are pledged, armed and ready k00n to chroal as Minute Men” for the defence of our constitutional rights THR MINUTE MEN OF ORANGEBURG. ‘The Minute Men of Oracgeburg, S$ C., now number wards of one huvdred. On Saturday uight last they & torcblight parade, The Southron saye:—Hofore they disbe weikin ring with three loud and hearty cheors for to State action. officers of the company are:—T. J. Glover, Cactain; JH. Felder, First Lieutevaos; J. oud Hut I do not advise, or bind myself persoually or officially, to thi partiouiar TtDink Ube Southors States ehould mset in coo. be cevieed t» save ua from couree. ferevee, a# tome Meas may the divunion that all deproeate, ond moce weald lament Although sorrounded »y more sincerely than myreif gloom apd danger! am Lot without boge that we sball yet weather the storm. Reared tn a political school, one of whose fundamental maximus fe not to despai the repubiie, Trees, ff a0% ‘With Contidcuce, yet bopefal i the belief that the good tense of the people will yet be made to rebuite the ind - ‘tty and fapatiowm of those who are striving to obtain possession of the government in order to promote their evil detign# Abd more thaw #h/#, | feel that the outa is ewekeping to the magnitnu. of the dangers that en compers her, and that our people, by an overwuelmiog majority, composed of whigs, democrate ana Americans, ‘will show (at if we caucot win the Pree dential victory, that we can at least present to the enemy an unbroken colume and a united cetiance I have endeavored to 1 to yonr note with frankness nd with fairness to all. [consider the condition of pub- Nie affaire Po aufortunate thet it becomes Cog citi. zen to forego former party dissersions. |t is, dountiess, knows to you all that | am s democrat, bot | beg you to believe that this reply to your uote is not written Ina partignn epirit, Ali my interests arc in Louisiane, and wilt pardon me for eaying that they are large. | we tried to answer you with moderation, and to rinte nothing but what | am convinced ts etrictly true. Onr strongest reliance for the preservation of the Calon te upon a united south, and thatcan be manifested only by Supporting Mr. Breckinriage. Respectfully, Gee” ‘Cox, and dieat rervant, THO. 0 Te Mosare. RW. Eatlin, Joba C. Ricks, W. Cox, others. The Republicans Rampant and insolent lowa—The Conservatives About to Emigrate. Extract of a letter from Keokuk, lowa:—There is no thing pew here, everything is quite dail, politics Is the Oaly exciting topic. We are looking wit a great dost of anxiety to the result of the election in November. The chances ere very much against us oF, but we atiil Lope. You have po idea how violent and provcriptive the re. podlicans are getting to be, and since their victories in Pennsylvania and Obio it i* wore, them withoot being inmultet, and since they feel conti dent of victory, they exproms the most violent sentiments Ogsinet the South and avow tbomeci\es abolitionist. Lol , ite sor'ety bas been invaded and divided by the “irrepressible conflict" —the churcnes the same Vou caano! realize what the re: oolican party ie, uriers you lire with itael do, the day are found in ite ranks Aghting with them ta thetr inet the Soutn, president of an tnfidel sectety tn Mints wrote a letter to their Osnvention ta New in which be #ayr—"Toore wil! be Whether oar hanks surpend prete payments or not. the ast pecrenion of this State from the Northern evsne pot them into a position of great power At the Gopstitution of the Uoited Stales, the citiy Northern States can enforce the coliect . Sy ae citar of the Sm here Scat y justice, Bet the corp th y She cit oy oho of the Nortuera Stator are alioute Lishee (he following extract | be it from me to aggravate the complaints on the uth; bat, if & President is elected with the pi | the natural remedy for bank panice In Bvowed Object of creating w servile war, exposiag, Aho distribution of which the Post Offices fare to be wade subservient), the property of the piant- ters to confagration and ruin, aod their wives end daughters to horrors infinitely worse than death, no hu- | North or from Bui Let tae people, from the mountains were drawn up in line, and made the You cannot talk to the £ § iterated forever. 'War between two ations males ency mab, Weman and child inbabiti them enemies to other; and to take, desiroy or the of en enemy is the right of all boliigerents. thing, therofore, in case South Carolina secedes from the Union, which could occur for those in South Carolina who owe : i ; i Secessiou, therefore, ida all Northern debts, aad war ar op oabnare Us suppore them sus dea: merchante—the debtors of the are See eran cn Teomenre Se weir may mem. Tt ia they, driven us out of @ unton with them. Jet them bear the reeoutions. It thay who bave brokea up our sual channels of trade sea may arise im the collection of debts, and, perhaps, ial speculations. be fairy on reat the payment th whoge claims bave wot been met'at tue Nora lepend on the make a satiatnotory suppoee is certain. aurrender or for ~ or pay iimita, Some tins this. But they wilt \tercourse with us. With i ‘ ments by the banks. ie first expedients to spread confusion and di the State, undoubt specie by Northern italisis. would be guilty of unpatriotic conduct. At the exchanges between the North and South upon goods on the one side, and cotton But let the goods the South be not paicggfor, and no mor. be required for Southern ‘> consequence of the European iberatea from the tariff! and the cotton must be jo epecic. Of course our banks can bavo no diff obtaining specie. Our banks are sound. No b South Carolina bas ever failed. Yet no banks abie to stand a panic, Suspension of specie pay ‘the action the State comp to relieve and protect them those who are inimical, by axtborizing « 61 Specie payments. Noone, in or out of South cirtrusts their integrity, or their ability to redeem notes. With or without « suspension of apecie pay: our agricultural productions will enabie them to realize apy amount of specie they may need, either from the rope. Cotton isspecte. It comes from the earth hike gold, and is convertable into gold wholly indepencent of the North. So much for the future, Bat whilat the State ought to protect the beaks from any financial duce, there is a Cuty also from the banks to the Bake were not established with a view only to the benefit of the individuals omni es They sre public institutions, created by the public, and jor mutual besefit. They create and control the car- repey oy which ail property is measured. We do not expect our bankersto be Robert Morrises; but wo do ex- ct them ve regard to of their ci tion. Instead of seeking abroad Ore ther bosiness in the State, shaving obtain— profi ‘and cities on the capital of this State, aud at the inconve- nience of our citizens at home—icatead of seeking now extra profits out of the distresses which they um apy bart bave produced, they ought to discount as iy as they can to relieve that preesure which exists future change of government, and the temporary distrust and fears it inspires are concerned, the stockholders are citizens of South Carolina, like the rest of us, and to bear their part of any deprivations, troubles or which may be necessary to save our li! g d glydtagt TA a He i z iy gain, with the liberty and tn: a Southern confederacy, end to no Charleston. Let as, then, act with dence, for there is really and stringency. Slavery and the Cincinnat! Platform, TO THE BDITOR OF THE HERALD, Acorrespondent of your paper, writing from Spring- field, Illinois, under date of Ustober 1 (published ia the Hina of the 19th), baa the following paragraph:— cona- Bo good cause for apprebeasion vention, wrote and reported lowed whole by that body, and became the avowed policy mint ee reads as a o ~ |v we are opposed wery in every form and color, ani in favor of freedom aad {ree wherever man lives throughout God's heritage. 8 series of sequent resolutions, om iting ra. ig sentence ** but,” &c , which is as mach a part of resolution quoted as “ The fool hath said ip bis heart” te ‘® part of the sentence in the Bible ‘ there is no God " 2 resolutions, at reported in the Convention of 1349, read thus — Resolved, That we ure apposed to slavery in form and color, and in favor of freedom pes | free wherever maa lives thiougbout God's heritage. Resolved, That we are opposed to the extension of ela. very to tree Territories, and in favor of the exorcise of af Copstitational means to restrict it to the limita within — {t does or may exist by toe local laws of the States; i) Resolved, That there sentiments are so universal at the North as to belong to no party, being beld in common by nearly al) men north of a sectional line, while they repediated aaa of that line, aad cannot De made a natioua. party teat. While the resolutions xpress the sentiments of oppost- tion to slavery a the universal opinions of the North, peculiar to wm . expressly declare ag cratic party. If your correspordent, who dowbties did pot meas to make an uofeir quotation, could find any such doctrine aa this avowed by Mr. J.incoln, be would country from any danger of his election by the sectional anti slavery party of the North who support nim for tae Preeidency Son tm the spirit of your usual fairners iv like cases. Bostox, Oct. 22, 1860 News from Jamaica. COTTON CULTIVATION—TUB LENCE OF INFLUENA. We are in posscetion of news from Jameiwa, Wart Indies, to the Oth instant. The Faimouth Pos, the lead- ing provincial paper, my* thers is a movement on foot im Havover jarisb, among the small settiors, to cogage im the cultivation of cotton, in whieh they will be encom raged by the Aavover Sootety of Intustry, The Post Speaks in the following bopofo! straiu of the preject.— The respected President of loon Campbe or the growtn copecially in Jamaion furnish ® large euppry of weeds of tbe best description, with gins and o.her machines for the eon Of the pods in euch a masver as to render ae for exportation and rales families tn anmblo Cironmstances will thos he enables, by creditable indus. Ary, to support themselves Cecaptiy and comfortably and it 8 Pot at All improbable hat in the course of a fow years cotten will become once more & staple product of the colony. Mr. Arnaboldi, an Italaa gentleman, who bas resided in Kingstoo for several yrart, bar succeed | in obtaining liberal eubreriptions in sid of the patriotic movement made by “the Brave and gallant General Garinald! tor throwing off the yoke which bas ensiaved [taly for many years.” The movement i¢ general tiroughout the island, and Mr. Arnabolt, who ie ao ardent Milacens, has ee tablished agenci¢# all ¢ rer Lue ivian | for the collection of Morey Im iM Of the Garibaldi fund Mesars, Wm. Wright & Co., of Kingston, the agents of Holt, of Liverpool, who bas the contrast for carrying the it inducementa Sore and freight should offer ot the northers. faves ot Pal- Tonth or Mortego the mati steamers and stop from etm pours, asicing no farther sub- tidy from goveretvent Dut simply an exteaston of time auto “valu@ in Corawat county hare bee biabiy fav for next year's crop. The Canes in the ground are Feported to be ja fret rua order, with every Prospect of an shancant yield. The @upar estates io the pariebes of Trelawny, St James and Hanover, ars exis lent condition, aad @ hope is exprersed t the pricey of eoger aad fam wilt Keep oe ia fod (ther orarkete = Taliverzs we raont bot no Ceatne bad Heenered, and «eae hopes © Bill of heath would be Soon rep ried