"The result is deeply to be regretted, not so much on party grounds, as for the continued peace and prosperity of the country. . . . The election of a sectional President-- against which WASHINGTON warned his countrymen in his farewell address-has now been tried, and we are to witness the result. We hope for the best, yet we are not without serious apprehensions. . . . The Union Klectoral ticket gets about thirteen hundred majority, but the State is black enough. New York City gives the Union Electoral Ticket 28,(iOO majority."

From this time forth the tone of the paper is morbidly mournful ; but few comments are made till the assembling of Congress, when President Buchanan's message is praised as being " an able, statesmanlike and patriotic production," and the rest of the paper, u]) to the 4tli of March, 1861, is occupied with copies of letters from prominent Southerners, in advocacy of secession, includingthe " farewell" of Howell Cobb, in which he alludes to Mr. Buchanan as the " last President of the United States." The points of Mr. Buchanan's message, briefly stated, were, -- that the Union was in peril ; that there was no similarity between the attitude of South Carolina in the nullification of 1832 and her secession of December 20, 18()0 ; because, in 1832 the sympathy of other States was against her; while, in 1860, that of the Gulf States was with her. That the trouble had arisen in consequence of the Northern States interfering with slavery -- a thing they had " no more right to meddle with, in other States, than in Ru-sia " That the question had arisen, what was to be done? That he was of opinion that secession was " unconstitutional," but also of opinion, " after much serious reflection "' that the United States " had no power to coerce a seceding State," closing this part of the argument with the remark : " The fact is, the Union rests on public oi)inion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war." A week after the secession of South Carolina the Eastern Stale Journal published a aermon, by Rev.