The literature of the time, carefully perused, now that the film of pa.ssion has cleared from the mental sight, will show that there was not an actual "Secessionist" to be found in the county. Even the Democrats disapproved of secession, though they held to Buchanan's doctrine that the Union "rested on public opinion," and "could never be cemented by the blood of its citizens." Their real hatred of the Republicans was owing to a fear of centralization and military despotism, which after-facts showed to be unjustified by the -designs of Mr. Lincoln's adminstration.

The Eastern State Journal, from which we continue to quote, as being published at White Plains, the county-seat, and as the otiicial county paper, will show the state of feeling of eight thousand voters of the county better than anything else.

The Journal, on the 17th of May, 18t>l, put at the head of its columns the following card, which it kept up till the November of the following year, as an explicit statement of its position in the contest. It was as follows :

"the trie sentiment.

Mr. Lincoln is nnt the I'nUed Staleit govemnwnt. The government WOVHS and tt'fi Off allegiance In it. Mr. Lincoln is not ours, and we dt) not owe allegiance to hint. Mr. Lincoln^s term of office is brit'f and fieeting : the government, we hojw, will last forever.

The leader, in the first paper in which this " true sentiment " is put forth, is an argument to prove that, when the war is over, the Fugitive Slave Law should at once be enforced. On the 21st of May, the editor, iu answer to a Republican paperj ust started -- the MorrUania Journal -- explains the "true sentiment " at length ; accuses the Republicans of carrying on the war for party purposes, simply, and ends with the assertion : " the Republicans stand by their administration ; the Democrats by our government." From this time to the battle of Bull Run, the fight is carried on with the Morrisania Journal.