Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1860-11-29

might have been alarmed. 1t was an eX-
ceedingly conservative proposition, which
Virginia was unable to appreciate. The
time has now passed beyond it. Virginia
may now call, but the South will not an
swer. She is completely demoralized in
the estimation of the South j; and no South
ern State, intent on vindicating her rights
and preserving her institutions, would 90
into conference with her. She has placed
the Union above the rights and institutions
of the South, and will only seek confer
ence with the Southern States in order to
bring them down to the level Of her fatal
Union policy.
Virginia and the other frQptiaS States
may as well at once understand tHeir posi-
ton with the Cotton States. They are not
expected to aid the Cotton States in protect
ing themselves and redoeming their liberties.
They will practically aid the Northern States
in attempting to obtain in the South an ac-
quiescence in the rule of Abolitionists at
Washington. The Southern States, how
ever will disregard their counsels They
want no -senference but IN the Contention
whichso sosN assemble to frame the Constitu-
tion and complete the organization of a
'Sout1esn Comjezerocy. They intend to Sc
cede from the Union and construct Union
among themselves, and will be glad to find
Virginia and the other border States in coun-
sci with them after this great revolution.
But if these value their own dignity, or re-
spect our wishes, let them keep aloof from
us ntil.they arc prepared to dissolve their
connection with the present Union and to
unite their destinies with that of the other
Southern States. If they will not be our
friends, let them not be our enemies, by
unsolicited and undersigned efforts under
understandable pretext-of preserving an
abolished Union, to subject us to the Sec
tional Aespotism of consolidated govern
ment under the control of Abolitionists at
Washington. The day for new guarantees
is gone. Henceforth are we too people.
PUBLIC SENTIMENT IN VIRGINIA.
Thes Alexandria Gazette, in noticing the
declaration that separate State action by
South Carolina will ''force other States to
join in the effort to establish a Southern
Confederacy." says:
We take occasion to add, that for one
State, Virginia will resist this forcing pro-
cess. She will not be sthitched on" or
dragged in If it comes to that, and
there is no other alternative, she will take
her destinies in her own hands, under Pro-
vidence, and establish separate and indie
pendent Government of her own. If it be
.degredaSpp to remain in the Union, it will
be double degradation to be made the tool
and victim of one of the Cotton States,
which has shown no regard for her interest,
and does not care fig for her counsels, at
this time, when it does not suits Disunion
purposes,
The Norfolk Herald, in qnaahs to the
disunion sentiment prevailing ia q Southern
States, says: -
So let them 60, if such is thHs aElefmina-
ton. The supposition that Mas ineoming
President will trample on thdsraghts Of the
South as matter of course, is hardly pre-
text enough to justify their leaving the
Union, which the South has every guaranty
but one, which it can desire, for their pro-
tection-an anti-Republican majority in the
House of Representatives. majority in the
Senate friendly to the South, and AZ inde-
pendent judiciary which has ever Strictly
guarded the rights of the South and
the conservative feeling and sentiment of
the North, which is daily increasing and
strengthening fall this is not ample to
protect the South in her constitutional rights,
in vain may we expect to stay the mad ca
reer of our extreme Southern sisters. AL
though VIC cannot consent to sectional
division of our Union, not seeing the least
necessity for it at present, we are clear for
leaving those States which seem to be bent
on secession to work out their own favorite
theory without molestation.
The Fredericksburg Herald says of the
position of Virginia:
Under existing circumstances, it is her
manifest duty to adhere to the Union Of the
States to claim her rights with determined
courage and steadiness upon the guarantees
of the Constitution and to demand from
the States of the North an acknowledge
ment Of her rights. That this may at no
distant period. be obtained, we think likely,
notwithstanding tie result of the recent cleo.
ton. Though precise returns have not
reached us, it is stated with confidence that
the aggregate Union vote. of the North
against Lincoln is larger than the combined
vote of the South for Bell, Breckenridge
and Douglas!
MIR. YANcEY's s DECLARATION.
Mr.. Yancey, in his recent speech at
Montgomery, Ala. said in substance that
he was unqualifedly in favor Of secession.
as the only practicable remedy. We could
not contend for our rights in the Union !;
that would be folly and madness, and trea-
son; we must 60 out of the Union, then we
would not be amenable to the laws of the
Union. If we staid in the Union, and did
any unconstitutional thing, we would deserve
to be tried and condemned as traitors He
believed we could secede peaccably. He
had the best assurances for saying SO, and
he gave it as his settled conviction that the
government Of Mr.. Buchanan would not at
tempt to coerce single State into submis-
sion, which would steadily and resnlutalv