The Oxford intelligencer. (Oxford, Miss.) 1860-18??, 1860-12-19
fis-s From the Southern Guardian.
An Appeal 10 the south.

IHAvE shown you, people Of the South, wha
you have TO expect from the Union in the future
Let me now inquire Of you, why you desire
longer continuance in itl Do you deem it an,
4 honor to be associated with people whs hav
no respect for you--nay, who hold. you in soy
ercign contempti They have pushed aside you
Gospel ministers 70 make way for negroes. They
have twitted ipsulted, and bulled your member,
| Of Congress. They have abused every Presiden
who respected your rights, and every court tha
does not acknowledge the negro to be the equa
of the white man. They have done everythin,
/ that detestation and disdain could suggest L
humble you IN the eyes Of tile world BY YOU
'sslkrsspeet by yourpride, by your honor, then
l ask you, why do you desire to fasten your
selves to this body Of death any longerf d.
you say, for reverence of our fathers legacy
for the glory Of our great and widely extended
country; and for the perpetuity of our admira
bic form Of goyenmentr Ifyou mean by ''our
fathers legacy" the Constitution, they have de.
nounced that with baptized lips, in terms too pro-
fame to be repeated, and they have thrown its
tattered fragments in y,ur teeth.
1 Who gave your country its vast extent vir-
ginia, virginian, and Southern arms. How
much do you own Of it? You tried to plant your
feet upon strip Of it and you were driven from
it by arms subscribed for in the house of God,
by women, preachers, professors, and students.
And when the high-captain of this new-fangled
coinmissarat TUNED his bloody arms from the
land Of purchase to the land of the purchaser
they gloried at the alarms he spread among wo-
men and children-dd all they could to save his
neck, placed his name in the role of martyrs,
and eonsecrated the day of his execution. How
much Of the glory of the country do you
sharc' Most oft belongs to you and your sres
by rights, but you get none of All that the
world knows Of you is from the reports of your
enemies, and they debase you. If you would
throw off your servity, and assume national
character, the world would know you, court you,
fear you, respect you; but you have clung to the
rotten Union until you have almost become a
stencil in the nostrils of the world. Do YOU
know the true secret Of I.incoln's overwhelming
majorities? l can tell it to you Your speakers
went to the North, and set up the old yell, that
the Union was in danger. Itnauscated the Dem
ocrats, and inspired the Republicans. None of
them believed that there was either truth or
courage in you, and they determined to prove
it, They meant to hold you up to the eyes of
the world as specimens of slave-holding verify
and valor
The Democrats who had always stood by Won,
knew that they would keep down the Abolition
lists If the South would prove to them, by some
unequivocal act her determination to dissolve
the Union, or 10 maintain her rights. With
every threatened aggression they warned the
people of its danger to the Union-said it was
grossly unjust, or unconstitutional, and that the
South could not and would not submit to it. 1t
came, and the South clustered little, and did
submit to it. They thc Dcmocrats) became
ridiculous to their opponents, and lost confidence
with the people. OF course they waned with
every recurrence OF these circumstances, until
they expired to rise no more. They regard you
Rs the authors of their overthrow, and they fell
towards you accordingly. You have, then, no
friends at the North and millions Of bitter ene-
mics. Why do you wish to continue the con- |
nectien9 Your enemies will soon have every
thing their own way. You cannot reach them
through the ballot box, or in any other way
but they can and will reach you with whip of
scorpions. -aI
You have them for once under alan ms, (thanks |
be to much-abused Little South Carolina for IT'D |
but you will never alarm th,an again. For sew
eral years to come their whole aim will be to |
place you where you dare not dissolve the Union |
When they have yol hampered securely, then |
comes the long-promsed visitation. with horrors |
unknown this side Of pcrdition. Let me not be |
I cannot promise you an easy,
quiet, retreat from the Union. This breaking |
up Of governments is critical thing: II is apt |
10 be attended with much trouble But can |
promise you much less trouble than you will |
endure by remaining in the Union. This tronble
IS ccrtain-it is foreorlainel The other is con-
ingent So far as I can sec, il the Southern |
States viii move off in body, with one heart |
md one mind there would be no trouble at all. |
Il would be the most peaceful, quiet, bloodless |
evolution that ever was wrought but the his
ory Of revolutions leads me to distrust my own
here As to the.whipping threatened,
,nly keep Sumner of, that's all we ask.
s b B. LONGSTREET