Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1860-11-23
The Disunion Movement.

A Washington dispatch to the n. \.
Times says:
"The Secretary of War has received
intelligence to-day that the troops held
the Charleston arsenal at the request of
the United States Naval Storekeeper,
who unprecedented possible attack from
a mob.
The sensation dispatches sent north
ward are evidently designed to affect
Wall street The whole difficulty seems
to be turned into stock -jobbing machine.
A distinguished Virginia statesman
arrived here this evening, and announces
that the disunioH sentiment is apparently
spreading in his State. Gov. Letcher
has been appealed to, to call together
the Legislature without delay, but no
response has yet been made.
Gov. Wise is pronounced to be de-
ranged"
A dispatch from Baltimore TO the same
paper says:
An intelligent citizen of Mobile ex-
presses his opinion that Alabama will
join the seeding States, though the wri-
ter deprecates such action, and is deter
| mined tn rote AGAINST If
A prominent merchant of, and just
from Georgia, told me to-day that Geor-
gia will most probably secede.
A Baltimore merchant, just returned
from a Southern tour, says that South
Carolina will undoubtedly secede, but
that the general sentiment of North Car
olinia is decidedly in favor of the Union.
The Breckenridge politicians are the
chief Disunionists. Prentice, the editor
of the Louisville Journal, is now in Bal
timore, en.route to the North. He says
that Kentucky spurns secession and dis
union.
A dispatch from Columbia, S. c., says
that Northern drummers and agents So
Letting custom in the South, are viewed
with great scrutiny, and some of them
register themselves at the hotels as hail
ing from Baltimore"
a Charleston correspondent of the
World sends the following, with half a
dozen other reservations of a similar
character
There is not now single prominent
man in the State but favors secession.
If anybody asks you whether South Car
olinia will secede, answer emphatically
Yes"
A dispatch from MiIledgeville, Ga, to
the World says:
But one feeling, one sentiment is ex-
pressed, and that is for secession. States
men and editors say that argument is
now exhausted, and that South Carolina
must stand to her arms no earthly pow
er can pervent her from going out Of
the Union. She has drawn her sword
and thrown away the scabbard."
From another Correspondence
South Carolina is decidedly in ear.
nest. There is but one voice here now
it is for secession. Union and conserva.
tive parties are dead. Visible excite
ment has abated, but resolves are more
intense than ever. South Carolinians
are done arguing; they act now"
w. R. B. Cobb of Georgia, and Gen
f Millson of Virginia, both Representative:
, in Congress, are strongly opposed to Sc
cessiOn.
i His ExcelIency Gov. Gist of Soutl
Carolina, is said to be most affable an,
D amiable gentleman. A correspondent
+ says of him.
e " He says that offers of volunteers are
f coming in from all quarters of the Soutl
E and that a distinguished officer of New
: York city has volunteered his comman,
:, to assist in fighting the battles of Soutl
Carolina. As the State does not at pres
: ent happen to be at war, the gallant vol
unteers will be duly informed when thei
services are needed. The Governor doe
not look like a man who would seek
n fight, but when once in for it his friends
: say he is one of the very last men VIII
Z, will yield. He is one of the pillars 0
2 the Methodist Episcopal Church in tn,
State, immensely wealthy, and is repre-
e sented as not caring a fig for anythin
4 but the welfare Of his people and the hon
y or and integrity of the Palmetto State.
y Hon. James L. Orr, formerly Speake
c of the House Of Representatives, ad
dressed torch-light procession of fiv
!, thousand persons few nights since a
b Columbia. He said that ten years az
he could not believe in the doctrine Z
4 State secession, but now he bad becom
a convert to that very prineinle. II