Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1860-12-05

Gt OoDSresS met on hOnQay. w e nave /
not yet received the Presidents Message, but
will doubtless be able to publish a satisfacto-
" abstract of it next week. The alarming
state of affairs now existing in the Southern
from the President, & some plan be suggested
for restoring tranquility to the country, and
preventing the dissolution of the Union. The
q. S. Senators and members of Congress from
South Carolina will not probably take their seats
during the present session. This circum-
stance of itself, is sufficient to convince all in
telligent men in the Nation, that the people
of that State are determined not to recede
from their present position, and that the ut
most prudence aud caution on the part of the
President and Congress. will be necessary to
avert the storm now coming on. We hope
the united wisdom of our National Legisla-
tors and the President, will be able to devise
some plan for quieting the secession excite
the Union. We cannot bring ourselves, not
withstanding the alarming news from the
South, TO believe that the dissolution of the
Union is at hand. And We are certain that
it is thus. large majority of the American
people feel Bat still we must not shut our
eyes to the painful fact that our country is
now passing through fearful crisis, & that if
the Union is preserved, it will be through the
interpOsition of that God, who hath made &
preserved US Nation" and not through the
mere agency of man. Both North and South
feeling now exists to great extent, which sayors
but little of that which actuated the men of
| the Revolution, and the trainers of the Con-
stitution. The Slavery agitation frst inau-
gurated by Northern Abolitionists, has at
length had the effect of causing the Southern
people to regard large number of their
Northern fellow citizens, the enemies of
their Constitutional rights and domestic insti-
tutions This feeling of distEust and dislike,
(hatred perhaps would be the better word) is
cordially reciprocated by the ultra members
of the Black Republican Party. If South
Carolina and Massachusetts stood in the rcla-
ton oftwo foreign nations to each other, they
could scarcely hate each other more cordially
than they now do. And yet. according to
Daniel Webster, in early times, no States
cherished greater harmony both of principle
and feeling than they did Shoulder to
shoulder, they went through revolution; hand
in hand they stood round the administration
of Washington, and felt his own great arm
lean on them for support. With the same
illustrious Statesman, let US express the hope
that harmony between them may soon again
return. The South Carolina Legislature met
las: week. Governor Gist IN bis Message ad-
vocstes secession in strang and unmistakable
language, and expresses the hope that the
National Government will not attempt bv
force, to prevent the State from Withdrawing
from the Union. He entertains no reasona-
bic doubt, that Georgia, Alabama, Mississip-
pi, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas will soon
follow the example of South Carolina, and
that Southern confedeIacy will be formed
He says cit is gratifying to know, that if
resort to arms Is necessary, we have the ten
der Of volunteers from all Of the Southern and
some of the Northern States, to repair prompt
ly to cur standard, and share oar fortunes :"
Governor Gist is evidently determined that
the State shall not back down from her pres
eDt position.