Excerpt from The Election of Mr. Lincoln: A Narrative of the Contest in 1860 for the Presidency of the United States
The accompanying narrative by Mons. Clarigny appeared in the Revue des deux Mondes, for Dec. 1, 1860. It contains a concise and graphic account of all the varied phases of that great struggle which seems destined to result in a material increase or diminution of Negro slavery, and thereby to form an epoch in the social history of mankind. It will be seen that the author does not share the opinion entertained by many that the present crisis will be fatal to the American confederation, and that he anticipates for South Carolina a speedy submission after a short and noisy trial of quasi-independence. But allowing the soundness of his arguments; there yet remains one element of disorganization to which, perhaps, he has hardly given sufficient weight, it is the reign of terror of white sans-culottes in the Slave States. Already the ominous sound "forced loan" is making itself heard, and symptoms show themselves which seem to indicate the pressure on the body politic, of those who have all to gain and nothing to lose by a convulsion.
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