Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-11-14
The Signs of the Timesaa-Duty of the
South,
[Fron the NashriIle Patrint ]

4 Every sign of the times Indicates that great
| and radical change is soon to take place il the
/ financial and administrative policy, and in the
/ whole moral character Of our country. The
4 close of the present Administration, If not
sooner, will be marked epoch In American
history-one of those eras OF great events
which occasionally stand out with such starts
ling distinctness in the course of history
Whether this change will be quietly effected
by peaceful return Of the people in all the
States tosa better and purer order Of things, or
viii be attended by violent convnlson. up-
heaging and oyerturning the existing state Of
things at single three, it is not ours TO know.
But il is ours, and solemn duty too, to coma
slider earnestly the probable course of events,
and prepare ourselves BY every means in our
power for The result, whatever il may be. The
result must be one Of two things-a tirmer and
| more perfect social and political union with
more uniform and sounder financial basis, or
complete disunion Of the Northern and Sontha
ern sections Of the confederacy. To accom-
plish the former the Northern STATES must
cease To make war upon The social system of
the Souih--must cease to- oppose the legitimate
spread of African savery--must recognize
Southern equality and Southern rghts--must
cease 10 make opposition to slavery text Of
official capacity, and cease altogether TO inter~
NEEDLE with the domestic concerns of the
Southern States--fnust sustain and execute
the Constitution TO the letter, giving us, If not
indemnity for the past, ut least absolute se-
curity for the future--and must change and
| renoyate the whole system of their financial
policy; and the South must prepare herself by
standing as a anti, boidlyto assert her position
and demand her rights. To accomplish the
iatter--an entire separation Of lhe sections
no action is necessary, for, If let alone it will
accomplish itself; but in order TO change It's
nature from curse to d blessing on our part,
Iperfect unity Of The South isstill m0re impera-
lively necessary, that she may take possession
of the government the archives and the flag
which are hers, and may assist her rights in the
great division of Territorial property. The
signs Of tile times all seem to point to the last
as the true result There are nc two bodies
in nature which possess for each other the
mufnal principle OF repulson so powerfully as
the Northern and Southern sections Of the
United States No two nations on the globe
are more entirely hostile to each other in
thought. sentiment aHdaetion. Abolition YAM
KEGS hate as as they do his satanic majesty,
with all the added bitterness Of envy, and we
have less love, less affiIiation for them than we
have for Cossacks or forks. They have pracA
ticed upon our love ofcountry, our geBeralion
Cor the pu.pit-they have hunted aud goaded
us-iniuted aud insulled as. until every Tie Of
common origin and common blood has been
severed long ago-antil il has become doubtful
whether Is 4 could again live with them in peace
and harmony even Il they returned 10 their
duty and btsought Us 10 orestore perfect and
brolheriy union They have stolen or deeoyed
away our slaves, harbored them as fggitiyes,
and denied Us either return Or remuneration;
they have violated and trampled upon the sol>
eipn compact by which they entered into union
with rs, then violated and nuled the laws
made under II; they have refused to permit the
Federal Government III execute tile fugitive
slave law; they have boldly and insultlngly dee
clarei I'd us ihat We shall never carry slaves
into another territory, oradmit into the Union
--our Union, Union into which we admitted
tbeflS-anoiIlef slave State; that We shall never
have another Southern Executive: they denied
us The ordinary comfy due between nation and
nation; they have sentstheir paid niinions among
US to stir Up strife and sefyile insnrFectipns ii
tour midst, III solemn eonclape proclaiming (see