Mr. Lincoln An "original" Disunionist

On the 12th day of January, 1848, Abraham Lincoln, thou a Represeuta. tive in Congress from the Stato of Illiuois, made a speech in the House, from which we quote tli6 followiüg pertinent senteuces: Any people anywhere, being iiicliaed and haviug the power, have a riyht to rise up and shake olt' the eiisting "ovemment, and fortri a ncw one that Buits them better. ïhis is a most valnabie, a most sacred-right - a light which, W hape and believe, is to libérate the world." I3ut this was not düfinite euough, it recognizud only national revolutióu, and iutiinated ouly that the poople oí the United States might iebel as an entiroty. And so Mr. Lincoln proeeeded : "Nor is this right confinad to casfes in which tho whple poople of an exUtisg governineut may chonse to exercise it. Any portion ol such people tliat can, may revolutionize, and maktlieir owu so mucli of the territoiy as ihi'V iulierit." This direotly avowed the right of the States to sooedo or revolutionizo, and make their territory their " own," throwiug oiï all allegiancu to the general governtnent. The right eould not have been declarnd in plainer hinguage. But it was not enough for Mr. Lincoln, and he proeeeded : "More than this, a majority of any portion of such people may revolutionize, putting down a minority, intermingled with or near aboiit them, who may opposo their niovemetltB." Thisdistinotly declares the right of a majority in any State of this Union to rise up againsi the general government, and to put down by force any minority which may still prefor the old Union. Applyiny; liis doctrino to a seceded, rebelled, or revolutionized State, ha proeeeded : 'In niy view. just so far as she carried her revolution, by obtaining the actual willing or miuilling subniission of the people, o Jar the country was liers." Can Dot the Southern States successfully bhtltor themselvcs under the triue here distincily aunounced ? becussion is but peaoeful tevolution, and resi.-tance on the part of Ma. Linooln's admiuistration to the exercise of tliis "sacrcd right" üf rovolution, has piuuged the country itito a horrihlo civil war, which niight aud would havo been uvoided had the chair of State been occupied by i President who was uot soleinuly pledged in favor of the right o' gecessiuu or revolutiou. Tho South kucw of these dcclarations of Ms. Lincoln, they knew, too, that the men likely to sbape and control his policy, fuily endorscd that othcr declaratiou of his, that "tuis Union oauDOt exNt half freo and huif slave, it must be all one or all the other," and had pronounced ngainst a Union with slaveholders, henee they naturally conspired to defeat Mu. Douglas in 1860, and elect Mr. Lincoln, expectiug to be perinitted to depart iu peace. That the paragraphs we have quoted were and ae the delibérate convictions of Mu. Lincoln, there is abundan t proof ; and of this assertion we cao not be aoked to furnioh more direot or positivo evidence than is found in the followitig paragraph, quoted from his Inaugural Address, delivered March 4th, 18G1. Discussing the socession of the several States, just budding iuto armed rcbellion or revolutiou, Mr. Lincoln said : "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing goverument, they can exei'cise their constitutional right of amending, or their rmolutionary right to digmember or overthrow it." ïhis paragraph, read in the light of our former quotation, can leave no doubt in any mind that Mr. Lincoln not only maintains the right of tho several States oí tliis Union to seceae, reuoi, or revomtionize, but that any Stato having ob tained "the actual, willing or unwilling submission of its people" to its new governnient, the revolution is an aooamplished faot. This afí'ord.s, too, the reasoo wby tho seceded States are treated by the Adminislratiou as already out of the Union, and having no right under the Constitutiou. We may, thorcfore, expect that soonor or later Mr. Lincoln will aekuowledgo tho Southern Confed eraoy, and this he will do rather than leave a single slave iu existence to disprove bis favorito tbeory. Report eftys that the Republicana are so confident tbat the State ÍS safo for Li.xcoln and tbeir Si ato ticket, that thtir energies aro all to be devoted to the County and Legislative ticketB, and that to secure the success oí certain candidates thoy are offering to swap ofí' others. Let no Democrat be caugbt in tho trap. or even listen to any propoeitiona to trade. líopublicane who will proposo to " sell out" their own oandidates will ebeat any Democrat who may bo induced to bargain with them. Throw aside personal jealousies and prejudices and stand by the wholo ticket.