The Shasta courier., 1860-02-04
SHASTA COURIER.
The south Firm for the Union.
The New Orleans Bee utters the subjOined

The New Orleans Bee utters the subjoined
sentiments touching the Union question;
We need hardly say that deeply as we should
regret the election of a Black Republican Presi-
dent, we should be very far from regarding such
an event as plea for dissolyiug the Union
While we hare a Constitution and laws, we OF
the South equally with those of the North are
bound TO acquiesce in the choice Of a Chief
Magistrate, legally and constitutionally effected.
As well might the North invoke disunion as the
sole remedy left in case Henry A Wise or any
other STAKEHOLDER should be elected to the Pre-
sidency. Whomsoever the people may elevate
to the highest Office in their gift, the South
should respect until through his own action or
that Of n hostile Congress some law should be
passed plainly aud palpably at war with the
guarantees ofthe Constitution and the rights and
liberties Of the savehoIding States.
The Savannah Republican expresses itself in
the following emphatic terms upon the PROPOSE
tion to call Southern Convention:
Our noble band Of sisters. all embarked in one
common bottom. need not be taught their duty
by a set of gassy, fre-eating politicians such as
are likely to constitute the staple of a Southern
Convention. Is there the most remote proba-
biliiy of another Abolition raid into Southern
State after the terrible lesson that has been
taught the transgressors2 We think there is
not, and that the present agitation for a South
ern Convention is either senseless cry from
timid, panic stricken, wouli-be leaders Of the
people, or a wel-planned scheme for an Interior
purpose which it is not prudent now to avow.-
If the former, we regard it as wild, visionary
and supremely ridiculous.
Upon disunion threats the Baltimore Patriot
says:
The declarations of Crawford, of Georgia,
yesterday, have no terrors for Maryland. Let
who may be elected President in 1850, accord
ing to the forms prescribed by the laws Of the
country, she for one will submit to the election
and stand by the Union, even though the Con-
gressional delegation from Georgia, as gravely
announced by Crawford, shall seek to prevent
the Inauguration of the new President. Nay,
even though every State in the Uuion-North,
South, East West-shali repudifte the election,
Maryland will insist on obediense to the Federal
Government, and rally to the iag OF the Union.
The Richmond (vaJ Nse, uttered the under
added sentiments;
Some men talk as fippsntly of dissolving this
Union of States as if Trey meditated crushing
an egg-shell. No doubt there are some wise
souls, confident in the,r own conceit, who are
ready to undertake the job by contract at IN
hours warning, and who are prepared TO furnish
promptly all the requisite suggestions of wisdom
and skill-of ways, means, men and money No
doubt oft. Horsce says; f." 1Na mortalibHs dr4a-
unl est, which beng modernly translated, means:
There are some fellows whose self-suffcency
is unbounded." Dissolviug this Unon we take
leave to say TO these gentry, is a serious thing
1t cost great deal of time lnbor, wisdom and
patriotism to form ito make it. 1t viii re-
quire something more than empty yaporing or
conceited predictions to undo it. Politicians
and demagogues may prate about it with per-
sonal importance and profit, but the people viii
ponder long before they lends their hands to an
act so pregnant Of results.
And by way of proper conclusion to these ex-
trtcts, we may add that Gov. Wise laughs and
SCOTS at a dissolution of this Union.