Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1860-12-20
NEW. IDEA.

NEW IDEA. I
In an able article upon the "Cri.
is of the Republic" the New York
Herald advances Aome ideas which
sill certainly, appear quite novel to
many Southern readers. For in
stance, it says:
In The event o. accession, the
real battle Of the South would be
fought in the North, where there
are fifteen hundred thousand voters
array ed in opposition to the doctrines
Of the Republican party. The. gov
erBment would have its hands full in
endeavoring 10 suppress anarchy and
treason at the North. aud could not
carry cut Webb's idea and whip the
South into submission. We have also,
in ali our large cities, what are called
the dangerous classes thieyss, row.
dies and MISUNDERSTANDING and for
sign, who would seize upon the dis.
orders OF the State as pretext for
wholesale pluuder, an d would receive
large reiBforcsments oflsborers mads
reckless and desperate by hunger.
Thus We should find both the federal
AMI local governments altogether
inadequate to protect the life and
property Of the people, who would
proceed toresume the powers delegated
10 them; committees Of safety and
vigilance would be established, mill.
tary dietaters would arise, aud the
free States be separated into hall
a dozen pretty sevsreignties.
The South would suffer in a less
degrees as the people 10 that Sec
ton are united upon the principal
point in the controversy. There
il difference of opinion as TO the
question Of secession; but, once out
side Of the Union, the South would be
even more firmly united than we're the
| old Thirteen after the Declaration oil
Independence. Compared to ours,
their task is az easy one.
The Augusta ;Ga.) Constitution
alist was the ablest and BY far the most
Influential paper b supported
Douglas and johnson in the State
where the latter lives. Occupying
that position - the same position in
Georgia that the Louisville Demo-
erat did il Kentucky, the Mobile
Register in Alabama, the Memphis
Appeal in Tennessee : it was especial
ly commended and endorsed by the
Douglas organs during the canvass.
The following from its nnpbor for
the 10th inst, shows where it stands
now:
The most invsterats and sanguine
Unionist in Georgia, if he is an OBJ
servant man, must read in the signs
of the times, the hopelessness Of the
Unien cause, and the feebleness OF
the Union sentiment in this State.
The differences between the North
and South have been growing more
marked for years, aud the mutual
repulsion more radical, until not a
single sympathy is left between the
dominant influences in each section.
Not even the banner of stars and
stripes excites The same thrill Of
patriotic emotion, alike in the heart
of the Northern Republican and the
Southern Secessionist., The former
looks upon the flag as blurred with
African slavery, for which be feels
responsible as long as that flag waves
over it; and that it is his duty to hu-
manity and religion to obliterate the
stigma. The latter looks upon il as
the emblem Of gigantic power,
soon to pass into the hands OF that
sworn enemy, and knows that African
slavery, though panoplied by the
Federal Constitution, is doomed to a
war Of extermination. All the pow.
ers Of the Government which have
so long sheltered it will be turned to
its destruction. The only hope for
its preservation, therefore, is out of
the Union. A few more years of
upquiet peace may be spared to it,
because Black Republicanism cannot
gel full possession Of every depart.
ment of the Government. But this
affords to the South no reason for
moments delay 10 seeking new
guards for its future safety.
Such is the reasoning of the cool.
headed men Of Georgia, who we're a
few days ago among the most con-