The Courant published an editorial on possible secession by the Southern states

The editorial’s general argument:

1. “Some of these violent speeches and violent acts are sincere for the time being, but are rather the ebullitions of an over heated temper, than the dictates of sober judgment, but, although uttered in a moment of excitement, must be adhered to as a matter of political consistency.”
2. “But after all these reservations, and others of a personal or party character, it must be confessed that there is a growing feeling, in the extreme South, of hostility to the Union, a growing desire of trying the experiment of a separate confederacy.”
3. “Notwithstanding the many declarations made by a large majority at the North, that Constitutional compromises are not to be touched; that every thing which that revered instrument has guarantied to the South will be preserved to them; notwithstanding it has been repeatedly shown to them that the present plans of the North do not directly or indirectly compete with their rights or their interests, there is still such a hostility excited by the very discussion of these measures, that secession seems now not to be a mere bug-bear to frighten the North into propriety, but a settled, firm determination of the leaders, and of a large mass of the voters.”
4. “The North ought not to be blind to this state of things; and though they should, for the sake of justice and humanity, for the credit of the country abroad, and for the benefit of the new states at home, persevere in their efforts to exclude slavery where it now does not exist, yet they should do it in a manner the least calculated to interfere with the actual rights of the South, or with the privileges secured to her by the constitution.”
5. “Let whatever is done by the North be plainly seen by the world to have been the result of the calm, passionless consideration of a love of justice, virtue, and right; and not the offspring of political excitement, sprung from the parentage of sectional prejudice, fostered by the heat of personal aggrandizement, and pushed out on the arena of national strife under the false name of public principle.”
6. “Can there be hearts, in either section of our Union, so infatuated by the bigotry of political plans, so inflamed by the unholy passions of political prejudice, as to desire the termination of even the present blessings, the present influence, the existing power, that arise from our confederacy? Forbid it, every sound dictate of rational freedom! forbid it, every soul-felt aspirations for the glory and the good of our common country!”