The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-12-05
Head What the Organ of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South Says:


The following article in the New Orlean
Christian Advocate is so full of patriotic spiri
and IS so entirely adapted to the exigencies o
the times, that we rejoics to spread it befor,
our readers. 1t is a spark Of the same feeling
that firedsthe hearts of patriots and Christian:
IN the days of the Revolution when oul
fathers achived the liberties which it is the
Outs, Of their descendants to project:
Fem the N O. Christian advocate.
THE SOUTHERN MOVEMENT.
We liveain sorroWfui times. Not a century
fias saaltified the great Republic Of the West
ern World, and yet it j. apparently, we think
certainly. to be dissolved.
me change which PAS come over the spirit
OF the Southssince the news of Mr. Lincoln's
election, sErely surpass anything of the kind,
for su.llepnesS, unanimity and power, known
to i';Story. Up to that time all parties were
Ii oring, though in d ifarent ways, TO save the
L nioH. - soon al the SUCCESS of the sec
Il mai nominee was announced, all hope IN
that direction, seems to have deprrted. all
msla, of all parties, ii fsle cotton States, as
r.'Ie,l fslaounced themselves for resistance.
the secession movement in the South has no
retitlap Whatever to old party lines. The
P."sptct Of gFaaimtty is, at least encouraging.
W. hId i.at hoped to see the day when the
South should be deIisszed from the STRIFE of
factltsis. and united as one man.
sunni Carolina has well nigh committed
herself, II she has not done so, 70 secession.
We think it almost -certai~ty that she will
go out. Georgia, Florida, Alebama, Missis-
spfa. Log isiaDe,. Texas md Arkansas will
follow. <Testhnk, with equal certainty. The
res Of the slave States t0iH ultimately 90
: nth ftem- Then tie United States will be
divided into two Republics. Yes three for,
in that event, the Pacifs States will set up
for themselves, and form an independent
Western Republic.
The Southern movement reveals clearly
some important truths, some of them Very
gratifying. One is, she real devotion of all
p .rtI-s. however varIfnt in policy, to the Con-
st'tuton doomed by our f-tbsrs, and to the
Union founded upon it. The proof is, that
wher the salvation of tie Constitution became
a. they thought impossible, the hope Of tie
UHisn aiei natural de7tl- Whatever may
I've the future course and destiny of the South,
she has, and will always have, the comforta-
be consciousness that she has not violated the
Consti utior. herself and that she has not
asked more tbA j It's faithful observance on
the part Of her sister States of the North.
The value of the principle ssnd virtue of f.
deity 10 Law, espe iallt in the form of consti-
tutiOnal eompacts, thus receives a new Illus
traitor It is the very religion of politics.
Another truth revealed by this movement |
is, that hcweves mush the South has endured, |
for the sake o. peace and Union, and for the |
glory OF our common country, S1o truly |
tie mech y submission to Tie tanatacal majority
in its ruthless disregard of all constitutional
fidelity. Southern men have differed as to
the precise tine snd provocation of resistance,
but they have ali been tr1e Southern rights |
meiu al heart. $50
In two articles il our issue of October 81, |
we elaborated The question, whether it was !
prc51le that the South could better resist the |
establishment Of permanent Black Republican |
control by organization Of all the Clements of |
North and South, in the Union. |
-dN f.ope IN this direction, sens to hare heen |
Li,rsfeI By tie breeze that bore the ne1cs If Ism
colH's election. The South really seemslhot |
to have known her own temper in this re |
gard. That temper, after what has past, will |
M, allow her to make any mSfe Syer.lres to |
the North we verify believe thatno overture |
from the North would b listened to for a |
moment. As TO our friends at the North, |
Their very existence, in any organized strength,
seems to depend upon the resistance Of the |
S1uth. in the battle they made 81. US, they |
coutsBiel that the Seuth would never submit !
to abolition rulel This position was rdi- |
culed bs their enemies as an electioneering |
trick. The application is easy.
We have said that we think the secession
Of tue SIu.hern States certainty. We may
be mistaken. We think MT however: Let I
Us pay that God may guide Us and bless US
in this most trying md troublous time.