But will the election of Mr. Lincoln endanger the Union?  It is not a little remarkable, that, as the prospect of his success increases, the menaces of secession grow fainter and less frequent.  Mr. W.L.  Yancey, to be sure, threatens to secede; but the country can get along without him, and we wish him a prosperous career in foreign parts.  But Governor Wise no longer proposes to seize the Treasury at Washington,—­perhaps because Mr. Buchanan has left so little in it.  The old Mumbo-Jumbo is occasionally paraded at the North, but, however many old women may be frightened, the pulse of the stock-market remains provokingly calm.  General Cushing, infringing the patent-right of the late Mr. James the novelist, has seen a solitary horseman on the edge of the horizon.  The exegesis of the vision has been various, some thinking that it means a Military Despot—­though in that case the force of cavalry would seem to be inadequate,—­and others the Pony Express.  If it had been one rider on two horses, the application would have been more general and less obscure.  In fact, the old cry of Disunion has lost its terrors, if it ever had any, at the North.  The South itself seems to have become alarmed at its own scarecrow, and speakers there are beginning to assure their hearers that the election of Mr. Lincoln will do them no harm.  We entirely agree with them, for it will save them from themselves.

To believe any organized attempt by the Republican party to disturb the existing internal policy of the Southern States possible presupposes a manifest absurdity.  Before anything of the kind could take place, the country must be in a state of forcible revolution.  But there is no premonitory symptom of any such convulsion, unless we except Mr. Yancey, and that gentleman’s throwing a solitary somerset will hardly turn the continent head over heels.  The administration of Mr. Lincoln will be conservative, because no government is ever intentionally otherwise, and because power never knowingly undermines the foundation on which it rests.  All that the Free States demand is that influence in the councils of the nation to which they are justly entitled by their population, wealth, and intelligence.  That these elements of prosperity have increased more rapidly among them than in communities otherwise organized, with greater advantages of soil, climate, and mineral productions, is certainly no argument that they are incapable of the duties of efficient and prudent administration, however strong a one it may be for their endeavoring to secure for the Territories the single superiority that has made them what they are.  The object of the Republican party is not the abolition of African slavery, but the utter extirpation of dogmas which are the logical sequence of the attempts to establish its righteousness and wisdom, and which would serve equally well to justify the enslavement of every white man unable to protect himself.  They believe that slavery is a wrong morally, a mistake