The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-11-23
All about Secession.

The Athens (GeorgIa) Waterman pays It's
respects to that noisy disunionist, Mr..
Toombs, as follows:
"Mr. Toombs and other fat and oily Office
holders are telling the people daily that any
man who will accept office under Lincoln
ought to be stoned to death
The people. however,understand this thing.
They see that Toombs 4 Go. are only at
tempting to secure all the federal offices at
the south in the hands of their party friends
the present incumbents
If they are in earnest about this thing,
why don't they say stone to death all who
fail to resign as soon as Lincoln is elected
This is gray horse of another color and
they will advise nothing of the sort. Not a
bit of it."
A Coop IDEA. "Obadiah," in his last let
ter to the Concord Statesman, makes the
following cool suggestion, which We commend
to the attention of the q. z. F., as well as
of the hot heads at the South:
1.-The attitude Of South Carolina is alarm
ing. Should she secede from the Union of
States, she resolves herself into her original
condition of Territory and We must govern
her accordingly, appoint governor, Judges
and marshal over her, and under a deep
sense of duty to God,' endeavor to enforce
popular sovereignty where none has ever ex-
listed before, the people not even being per-
mitted to vote for President"
COOP NATURE FOR THE CRIsIs.-The n
Y. Evening Post says:
"a friend who lived many years in slave
State south Of Virginia, who once owned a
plantation and negroes there, and whose chill
dren were all born there, said to US Il know
the South well. have been citizen of the
South and Shareholder, and am sure that il
nothing is done to increase their Irritation,
while they are chatting under defeat, this ex
element will soon subside. | have Just writ
ten to a distinguished friend of mine in thai
part of the country, whose name must moi
give, to inquire what, in his opinion, will bt
the end of all this. His answer was, lit vii
end as all such things at the South have en-
ded; but you must let us down easy Pa
tience and good nature are all that are re
quired to make the conclusion speedy ant
sure"
Clapp, Fuller & Browne of Boston, VIII,
are in the southern trade, say liz a communi
cation the Transcript: I'VE take up on
morning papers, filled with secession tut,
from the South, and go down to our otfic
afterwards, and are surprised every day t,
find remttances from Charleston, Savannah
Mobile, Nalchez, New Orleans and from al
parts of the South, US usuul. The facts ar
worth more than the telegraphic reports
which come from no one knoUS Where Gu
letters also say that those persons who max
their living out Of politics, and have every
thing to gain and nothing to lose, are thos
who talk the loudest, and are in favor of i'm
mediate secession. Merchants and all pra(
teal men discountenance it,"
Besides the commercial embarrassment
growing out of the disunion furry, the ne,
Developments are few. The determinatio
of the South Carolina politicians to go GU
of the Union and put themselves at the hea
of little nation of their own is further sic
nifed by the resignation of MIR. Bonhan
one Of their members of Congress. Bu
keitt and four other members still holl or
although pretending that South Carolina
already out of the Union. Ex-Governo
AIKEN, the largest Shareholder in South Ca]
DINA, and probably the largest in the Who'll
South, opposes secession. At a secessio
meeting at Charleston, few nights sine,
naval officer Laurens excused himself for nc
shutting up the custom house by saving thu
the act would have the effect of a blockad
of the port. and that South Carolina canne
) close the United States custom house till sh
has one of her own.
The law requiring people from the Mort
arriving in South Carolina, to 90 before
magistrate and state their business. it is n
ported, will soon be put in force Gov. CT.
has appointed a fast, on the 2lst, instead of
thanksgiving.
Senator Toombs of Georgia has not resign
eG, but says he will do so on the Sd of Ma
unless Georgia secedes. The bill appropri;
ting million dollars to arm and equip tn
state has passed the Georgia Legislature an
become law. The bill tor convention ha
passed the Senate. A despatch from Mi
ledgeviie says: affairs are much quiete
since Wednesday night, when Mr.. Stephen
made great speech, taking strong conserv;
tive ground. The effect subsequently, show
that it proved as oil upon the troubled W;
tiers, ard all parties are now disposed to az
coolly and considerably"
The Mobile, (Ala.) Register, a Dougla
/. paper, declares for secession. 1t saws til
, late sectional vote North aud South proves
common government impossible, and all e
forts to save the Union fruitless 1t appea
| -ativ 10 %ol. u
into their own hands, as the only means {
avoiding the worst consequences of an inc,
table revolution. Senator Fitzpatrick ha
written letter in response to committe
of citizens Of Wetumpka; he recommend
resistance to Lincolns administration, b,
desires consultation between the fiftee
southern States.
The southern secessionists of the othe
states distrust South Carolina, and in o:dt
$ to make sure against her secession from til
grand southern confederacy, MIR. Barstow ,
Georgia proposes that it shall be consolid;
! ted republic, all state lines to be obliterate
and all sovereignty to reside in the centr
t government.
A kink some of the South Caroliniar
have got into their heads is that the ne,
Congress cannot organize if any state is u,
represented in it, and that if their member
all stay at home, the Union will of necessi,
dissolve into its original elements. l, woul
be capital thing if they would general!
adopt that theory, and try the experiment.
The Louisville Journal asserts that the di
patches sent from the South to the norther
journals are gross exaggerations. All Mort
Alabama, it states, from direct informatio,
is strongly opposed to disunon, and men
that sentiment will control the state CONVEX
ton. 1t thinks that the same is true ,
Georgia.
The Vicksburgh (Miss.l Wing continue