Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1860-11-30

According 10 an ai4lCi6 III lHG A{cHLdOisu
Dispatch, Virginia can at the present
time arm efficiently ubout twenty-five
thousand men. She has sixty bronze and
rife feld-pieces and howitzers. A con-
tract has been made for three thousand
shells and shrapnell, in addition TO those
purchased with the Parrot guns. Five
hundred barrels of Dupont powder have,
been purchased and stored in magazines
built for the purpose. The model of 5 |
new Virginia musket is determined or.
Other warlIke preparations are also in
progress.
MISSISSIPPI.
The Nalchez (Miss.) Courier streap-
ously opposes disunion on the following
grounds:
We bring the Canadian line down TO
the Tennessee line, and throw away the
bonds, slight as they now are, which con-
meet Us with our Northern brethren.
We abandon every right and title to
the present Territories Of the United
States, for which we are now making an
internecine war. We go to war about
property, which We say is already lost,
and which las We have no hope of con-
quest We abandon at the outset. Like
the dog in the fable, growing at the
shadow, we drop the piece Of meat we
already hold and jump into the angry
water, without the first hope of altering
our condition except for the worse.
We fight for the existence of property
outside of the Union, when We can fight
for its protection { its existence being
GUARANTEED in the Union.
We give up every safeguard, every
guaranty, every constitutional right, now
vouchsafed TO US; to depend upon the
protection that war will give Us that Is,
We give mp an absolute certainty for a
miserable doubt
And now, what do WE conservative
men propose to do? We wait fo9 the
wagon! Abraham Lincoln is powerless
except to turn out Of Office Democrats st
the North, and put Republicans in and
at the South probably to keep disunion-
lists in. The Senate is against him the
House is against him the Supreme
Court is against bin; in all probability
the ultra men Of his oton party e0N be
against hsm! The constitutional cleo
/ ton Of no man is cause for disunion.
Those who think 50 degraded themselves
when they went into the Presidential
election.
The Mississippi Legislature viii doubt
less be called together for purposes Of
secession. Let it propose to the people
vote, markedly and distinctly, upon the
question of convention or no convention
"a question that can be taken apart
. from the mere cry Of Democracy OF tbs
t appeals of Democratic leaders. Let the
: simple issue of Union or Disunion b.
T put; and The vote Of 1851 viii be bu
e the whispering of the wind, as compared
-, with the gale that viii howl around The
r ears Of the Disunionists Of 1860"
TENNESSEE.
D The Memphis Tenn Enquirer. il
: discussing the RICH. of secession, make
: the following remarks. The Enquire
q is strong Union paper:
e "Here, then, enters expediency, whicl
+ has to be made out in order to place th
d right on any solid foundation and n
Union man need shun his part in the dc
$ bate, for having nothing more to do tha
l. to show the inexpediency of secession
Of he cannot but have an easy triumph
Is But who shall Judge OF the expediency
81 We answer, an intelligent people, a
e nearly unbiased by hot-headed orator
u and reckless newspapers. And We hav
c. a cheerful confidence that when tha
g question Of expediencey shall be submit
n ted to the people whether Of South Cal
T. DINA or Mississippi, they will decide
le as they did in 1851, notwithstanding th
al army Of agitators has increased sine
y thatslime both in numbers and abilii,
IS For the people are practical thinkers an
D. though they are not apt to be carrie
N away by logical distractions.
e! Like the old gentleman who had tw
is eggs upon his table, and giving one
a to bis wife cody took the other himse
leaving his theoretical young son, ia