Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-08-25
The Charga of Secession.

ing been nauseated by the Old Line Demo crt with od coptandum stuf during the last canvass. We are glad, however, that | it will be on our side this time, as we ts not think the Gazette or National Demo- crat are so skilled at what, for the want of a more classical term, we will call the art of JanaJoozling.
 At the outset of the canvass, we desire | to put forever at rest, the charge of disun- ion, preferred against the supporters of John c. Breckinridge. We take occasion to say that-if this charge can justly be pre- ferred against any party, it is the Bell and Everett men and the Douglas men at the | South. who are amenable to the ''soft i'm peachment." The party that threatens aggressions on southern rights is the black republican, This is confessedly section al party. It embraces already decided majority of the free States. It professes to obey the constitution, while it is seeking to distort and to pervert it. Any party that successful y resists the black repub- licans must rely principally on southern support
 Parties are controlled by great philoso- phical principles. The idea, an ''irrepres- entire programme of black republication. To meet this desolating idea, the Douglas ties propose "do- nothing policy. They ask us to do and say nothing till the ''irre- pressible conflict" has terminated against us in the territories, and when 1t invades our household, as it is now doing in Texas, we suppose the same doctrine will still act as specific.
 On the other hand, the Bell men, formed principally of the de5ris of the know mo- thing organization, and with very few respectable whigs as kind of nucleus, are posted at the street corners in every town and village, crying out diswnion, not know ing, poor simpletons! that their own party is very little better than the black repub licans at the North, and that one portion has already sold out to Lincoln and ano- ther to Douglas. They cannot perceive that the senseless cry of disunion against the best and purest patriots of the South, is virtually an inpitot'on for fresh aggres- sions on the part of the abolitionists. We have seen that they are urged on by the one desolating idea-opposition to slave labor. In this programme of an ''lrre- pressible conflict" the antagonlsm of free and slave labor is the true basis of the platform. It is selfish idea that has ta- ken hold of the popular mind, inaamed and instigated as it is by demagogues and politicians. It can only be met by appeals to the same feeling-selfinterest The New York Herald, which knows well the prompting motives of the northern people, tells them that the South is "terribly in earnest" It holds up to the North ruin ed commerce, shivered household gods, and the scattered fragments of glorious Union. The great manufacturing and con- mercial interests of the North will feel this appeal It will go home to the pockets of merchant princes and Wall street brokers If they believed we were terribly in ear nest," it would produce sanitary re-ac- tion, and the internecine flag of Lincoln would go down forever.
 In the face of this fact, we have, evena here at the South, set of Union croakers who are taking the short cut to disunion. They invite aggression by seeking to de- stroy the only conservative and resistive element at the South, which would leave black republicanism triumphant and ram pant. Such appeals are unworthy of pat riots and freemen. Let the abolitionists know and feel that we gre 'terribly in ear nest" and they will think like the Herald, that it is better to pause on the brink of the precipice, before they dare the awful cbasm. One such article as the following from this leading and influential New York paper, will do more to restore conservatism and healthy feeling in that region than all the pulling and cowardly sentimentality of the Southern Union crookers, who are too obtuse to see, or too unpatriotic to ac- knowledge that they are only inviting renewed aggressions. The Herald says:
 "It is time now, our people should look at this matter as it stands We feel bound, therefore, to lay before the country, this morning, the evidence that the South has already made arrangements to secede peaceaby from the Union in the event of the election of Lincoln, who seems morally certain to obtain majority of votes in the electoral college
 (" It is not alone the evidence of Messrs Keitt and Yancey which we have upon this subject. The influential southern presses declare that the issue is between the North and South, as represented by Lincoln and Brecknridge; that the South will be defeated, and that the State Legislatures must be prepared for the worst. In the Gulf States the feeling in favor of secession seems quite unanimous, the border States are undecided, and there is dark cloud which means mischief hanging over Virginia The great landed proprietors of the South believe that in the event of Lncolns election, there would be adequate security for their property, and they arc, therefore, preparing to fe-aSsuine tne powers delegated to the general government. Wecannot resist the conviction that they are terribly tn ear nest.
 "That the South can secede, if united in the movement, there is no reasonable doubt ' ?
 "In view of this state of things, we deem it to be our duty to parties interested of the dan ger that threatens them. The con fusion into which our commercial and monetary affairs will be thrown cannot be described. Trade will receive blow compared to which the storm of 1857 was mere furry; stocks will go down within a mere fraction of nothing; all kinds of property will depreciate in value, and the fortunes accumu- lated by years of toll will be swept away in mo- ment''
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