The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1860., [Electronic resource]

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Coercion of the South.

The conservative journals of the North remind those Black Republican sheets which glibly threaten the South with coercion, that a million majority of the American people have declared their opposition to the Coercion Candidate, and that therefore the silly threats of coercion are more easily uttered than executed. There was an anti-Lincoln vote in the whole country, at the Presidential election, of two millions, six hundred and one thousand, seven hundred and eighty-three, who are more likely to coerce the 1,704,946, who voted for Lincoln, than to be coerced by them. To say nothing of the Southern States, which, however attached to the Union, will resist coercion as one man, the anti-Lincoln vote in the free States alone amounted to one million three hundred thousand, showing a close approximation even in numbers to the Republican vote — whilst in money, talent, and interests in the preservation of peace and union, it has the immense preponderance. A New York journal asks the coercionists, when they threaten war so loudly, what they expect all these people to be about? Commodore Stockton, and the ablest public men of the North, warn their countrymen that, whilst they have no sympathy with Disunionists, they will not permit Coercionists to involve the country in a civil war; and that, if civil war does come, it will rage at their own doors.