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[[sticker at top of page, glued on upside down]] We have already notified you that your subscription is now due. We are much in need of the money, and hope you will remit. 39 [[obscured by sticker]] DOUGLASS' MONTHLY December, 1860. [[line]] [[3 columns]] [[column 1]] sionists of South Caroline, and other flaming Disunionists here and there in the Cotton States have solemnly declared their intention to resort to open resistance in to the inauguration of a President elected, at least, in accordance with the forms of the Constitution. It is from these, and these alone, that trouble is expected--but it is hardly possible that their disunion blustering will be approved or sanctioned by the masses of the Southern people. From the Baltimore Republican. The Black Republican fanatics have succeeded in electing a President holding their own sectional views--one whose great and only recommendations was, that he was bitterly hostile to a large portion of our countrymen, and insanely determined to trample upon their rights. For this reason, and for this purpose, Abraham Lincoln has been voted for by the North and West. But it is very doubtful, from present appearances, that he will ever be president of the United States. The probability is that before the time arrives for his inauguration, the Union will have been virtually dissolved, and a large portion of those States against which the Abolition war has been waged, will have determined not to submit to his sectional rule. From the Baltimore Sun, Nov. 9. The act of deliberate secession, and which has been ascribed to her as a thing of choice, will be, should the necessity ever occur, most repugnant to her. And it was to avert an apparent necessity which threatened her that the man, who of all others has been stigmatized as the embodiment of secession, [Yancey,] has within the past month or two, traversed the North, and made appeal after appeal to the reason, intelligence and patriotism of his fellow-citizens there; but, unfortunately, so far as the result is indicative, without avail. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. From the Washington Constitution. We may be very treasonable, or very foolish, because we cannot entertain the opinion that southern men are likely to accept Mr. Lincoln's election without murmur, complaint or remonstrance, yet, we confess that we cannot do so, and we believe, further, that we are not singular in our opinion. It will be terrible to receive the ignominious punishment of traitors with which one of our neighbors threatens us, and it is lamentable to feel that another pities our folly and want of common sense. Whoever charges us with recommending disunion states what he knows to be an infamous slander; and as we now solemnly assert that we shall never bid for Mr. Lincoln's patronage, there is no need for its repetition by those who seek to conciliate the President elect. From the National Intelligencer. AS in the light of party madness at the South no man has assumed to impugn the loyalty of the Federal Judiciary as now constituted, and as it is ascertained that both branches of the Federal Legislature will be hostile to the Administration of Mr. Lincoln, it follows that the question of disunion, as based on the simple fact of a Democratic defeat in one branch of the Government, would imply, if carried, a deep-seated hostility to the Government itself, since even on the ground assumed for its destruction, no such necessity can possible arise without involving the personal dishonor of men, whether in the halls of Congress or on the Judicial bench, are as far above reproach and fear in all that concerns the rights and welfare of their section as could be found in the most select confederation of 'Cotton States.' From the Washington Star, Nov. 8. Throughout the South the contest is to be clearly between revolution and anti-revolution; and in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky, if not Louisiana also, the revolutionists will not number one in five, even though it be attempted to aid their cause with the prestige of the Democratic party's name in those States.--North of Mason and Dixon's line there can be no such contest. In the cotton states the success of the revolutionists is not impossi- [[/column 1]] [[column 2]] ble; but their success in them will, necessarily, number the Democratic party everywhere else among things only to be remembered, if its name becomes identified seriously with the scheme of revolution now sought to be carried. DELAWARE. From the Wilmington Journal. Secession is not heart within the borders of this noble little State, or if it be spoken at all, it is only in connection with those feelings of scorn, derision and contumely, which it is sure to evoke from every manly and patriotic breast. No, no, Delaware will stand true to the Constitution at all hazards. Let South Carolina bluster. It is her nature to do so. In revolutionary times she was more tory than American; and the blood of insubordination seems to run through all her veins.--She is something like a pet child ; the more she is coaxed, the more she becomes unruly.--A good spanking would benefit her greatly. VIRGINIA. From the Richmond Enquirer, Nov.8. It will be seen that the South Carolina Legislature is now engaged in considering the question of calling a State Convention, with the view of adopting measures for seceding from the Union and arming the State.--Other States will, doubtless, pursue a similar course. What will be the final result none but he who watches over the destinies of the world, and thus far has vouchsafed to us peace, prosperity, and happiness, can fortell. Let us hope for the best--'Sufficient for the day is the veil thereof.' From the same, Nov. 19. The Northern States which have declared war against us, and committed acts of war against us--they alone are competent to shield us from revolution. Let each Northern State, through her Legislature, or in Convention assembled, promptly repeal all nullifying laws passed for the injury of the constitutional rights of the South ; pass laws to secure the easy and prompt execution of the Fugitive Slave Law; pass other laws imposing adequate penalties on all malefactors who shall hereafter assist or encourage the escape of fugitive slaves ; pass other laws declaring and protecting the right of slaveholders to travel and sojourn in Northern States accompanied by their slaves ; instruct their Senators and Representatives in Congress to repeal the law prohibiting the sale of slaves in the District of Columbia, and to pass laws sufficient for the full protection of slave property in all the Territories of the Union ; and let those Senators and Representatives promptly obey such instructions. From the Richmond Whig. To suppose that a single State could withdraw at will, is to brand the statesmen of the Revolution, convinced of the weakness and certain destruction of the old confederation of the States, of laboring to perpetuate the evil they attempted to remedy. Their work, which has been the marvel of the world, would be no government at all ; the oaths taken to support and maintain it would be bitter mockery of serious obligations, and nothing would exist to invite the confidence of citizens of strangers in its protection. From the Norfolk Herald. Any one in the least acquainted with human nature must see that those who have raised the whirlwind, the Northern States must themselves calm its violence--and allow them the opportunity, and, our word for it, they will do it. If they refuse, then it will be time enough for us at the South to do it, in our own way. From the Richmond Dispatch. Whatever is done, ought to be done without delay. Demagogues and parsons have widened the breach between two sections of the Union until it presents an awful chasm. The election of Lincoln, by such immense popular majorities, has diminished most painfully the hope of a revolution in public sentiment in the North. Yet the darkest hour is that just before the dawn of day, and it is [[/column 2]] [[column 3]] possible that the crisis now upon us is a precursor to a brighter day in the history of the Confederacy. Either such a day must soon shine upon the country, or the Union must be broken up into two or more Republics.--It cannot long survive the sectional partizanry and hate that has raged so violently for the last few years. From the Alexandria Gazette. It turns out that a part of the present programme is separate State action, for the purpose of forcing or hitching other States to the tail of their kite. Their whole course is considered by many as dictatorial, arrogant, and insulting to the conservative Southern States, whose feelings and interests, we are afraid, they utterly disregard. Their conduct has already created a reaction in Virginia, even among citizens who formerly sympathized with them, or palliated or excused their disunion proclivities. Their rash and ill-considered proceedings are injuring the cause of the South in the eyes of the world abroad as well as at home. The more we reflect upon the subject, the more do we rejoice at the action of the Virginia Legislature, at its last session, in refusing their invitation, made upon the occasion of an invasion, by a band of murderers and fanatics, of our State. NORTH CAROLINA. From the Newborn Progress. We say now, as we have said before, that the simple election of an objectionable man to the Presidency by a majority of the voters of the Republic, is no cause for breaking up the Government. Let us remain in the Union, and if we have to fight, fight for our rights under the same stars and stripes which have hitherto sheltered and protected us. From the Raleigh Standard. North Carolina will never permit Mr. Lincoln or his party to touch the institution of domestic slavery. Her people are at least a unit on this point. They may not advise or approve of secession, but they will not submit to the slightest indignity or the slightest encroachment at the hands of the Black Republican party. Slavery in the States is in no danger. Slavery can no more be limited by act of Congress than the Mississippi can be arrested in its course. It WILL spread to take root in all new regions where the climate and soil demand it. From the Wilmington Journal. The election of Lincoln is a serious thing. It means all the insult for the present, and all the injury for the future, that such an act can do. We doubt if too gloomy or too serious a view can be taken of this event. SOUTH CAROLINA. From the Charleston Courier. 'It is time for action, not for words,' was the remark in relation to the memorable event of the 6th November, 1860, which determined the failure of the great American experiment of self-government, and compelled South Carolina to consider and arrange a new political relationship. The action has commenced, and some of its significant beginnings are now recorded in another place. They who have ignorantly or wantonly charged South Carolina with a vain desire for the place and post of leader in the great work of reconstruction and readjustment of Federal relations, or external relations, have erred as widely from the truth as those who derisively proclaimed that she could and would undertake or dare no resistance of any kind to any aggressions or under any provocations. If the index of the dial-plate of Providence points to South Carolina as the leader selected by the natural course and issue of events, she cannot and will not shrink that position, be it one of honor, or only of inevitable danger. It is enough for her that it is one of duty. From the Charleston News. The South Carolina Flag.--This glorious flag now flies from many windows of buildings in our city, and we hope in a few days to see hundreds of them unfolding themselves over our heads. No one at the present time can gaze on the standard of our State with- [[/column 3]]