Red Wing sentinel., 1860-12-12
RED WING GooDHuE COUNTY MINI WEDNESDAY DECEMBER H. 1850

lever point tile assault may come. The
Itocsin has been sounded and more
than half a million Of Minute Men are
already organized TO meet the issue.
In less than two months one million Of
Minute Men will be ready to repel the
Wido Awake co-ercionists. Outrage,
insult and oppression may destroy the
Union, but all the military power of
the North could rot re.establish it,
Holly Spings Uerdla. -. -.. 7'-r
| ...~s .uNIoNIsM IN THE SOUTH.
The infatuation and ignorance ofthe
Northern press and people in regard to
Southern sentiment, in the present
political excitement, says the New
Orleans Evening Delta, Of Wednes.
day last, are beyond all parallel in the
record Of popular delusions. Kvery
Northern paper wercad assumes that
the secession movement at the South
is confined to small body of politi-
cians-ot those who have heretofore
been known as extremists-as South
ern and pro-slavery ultras. They will
speak Of a Union party in the South,
as ifthere really were such party ,and
stupidity include in that mythical or
ganization all the recent supporters OF
Mr.. Bell and of Mr.. Douglas. Even
journals on the borders, or in the
Northern Slave States, yield to this
delusion, or dishonesty seek to inn
pose it on their readers.
Thus we find in the Washington
States, a paper which, since the de-
feat of Douglas. appears to have sunk
to the position of organ to the property
holders Of Washington City; the fol
lowing statement:
"We judge from our Southern ex'
changes that the Union demonstra
tions which are going on in Alabama
aud Georgia are having good effect
and seem to dampen very much the
artlor of the scccssionists.'' ss.s.-,ss
Nothing could be more flagrantly
untrue than this assertion. There have
been no such meetings in either Of the
States mentioned. The vast majority
of the people of Georgia and Alabama
if not publicly for secession, woult
never sanction or permit such assem-
| blics at this juncture. They would re
gard meetings now to defend and eu
!ogize the Union, as highly unseason.
able if not positively reasonable. The
"Union." as the word is now used
is regarded throughout these States a,
a mere pretext and snare for the op
preston and subjunction of the South
1t is not the Union of the Constitution
the Union Of our fathers, but "A Unior
by which the rights, the equality the
policy, established by the founders OF
the Constitutional Union,-shall lie
destroyed. Hence, when our people
decline to be dcluded and beguilcd
by this word, they do not yield up
any Of their love, yeneration and re.
spect for the Union, which was ever
the theme of commendation, eulogy
and affection Of the people Of all the
States: But it is the Union with pro-
claimed and bitter enemies of our 20.
litical and social equality-..with those
who seek to degrade and disgrace us
under followed forms aud names--tha,
has no party, no advocates, no friends,
in the South, who are not traitors, en-:
emies of our social integrity, and con,
|spirators against our pcicc, liberty,
property and lives. sss r: 4a -.
I SP1R1r OF RESISTANCE.
We have never soen the people of
the South so determined on their indie.
pendence and equality. Military com.
panies are organizing in every direct.
ton. Although we now have a gallant
company in Holly Springs-The Home
Guards-yet our people seem deter.
mined to organize another company
Meetings have been held and the list
is already most completed. We wish
the new company good speed in their
patriotic designs. With such a spirit
of chivalry as is possessed by the peo.
pie of the South, they can withstand
the assaults of all the hostile foes tha,
could be arrayed against us.-Herald.