Daily national Democrat., 1860-11-24
The News.

The news by the last pony is a little omin.
Gus Certain parties in the South are really
pretending to. get ready for secession. 1t
seems that U. S. Senator Chesnut Ia regular
horse Chesnut he is) has rendered his resig-
nation to the Legislature of South Carolina,
and it has been accepted. Senator Toombs,
of Georgia, has also rendered his, and mo-
tion to fill his place by new election was
laid upon the table. The Committee on Fed
eral Relations in the South Carolina Legisla-
ture reported in favor OF calling Secession
Convention, and fixing plan Of action IN
December 1t was adopted unanimously 10y
both houses. South Carolina, then. is fairly
on the road for secession. The Legislature
of Georgia has done nothing as yet, except
to refuse to fill Toombs' place, and receive a
message from Gov, Brown, advising retalia-
tory laws against the free States, who have
passed laws initiating against Southern inter-
ests also recommending the seizure of prop
erty belonging to citizens Of those States by
way of compensation for property lost by
citizens of Georgia-run- -a-way slaves and
the like-also recommending the exercise of
the sovereign net of taxation upon goods i'm
ported from the free States and in case
these acts fail to bring the North to terms,
recommending, as the next move, the repeal
of all the laws protecting the lives CD liber-
ty o and property () of citizens from the
northern States; and finally advising the
appropriation of one million of dollars us a
military fund for the execution of the indi-
vdual authority Of the State. AS for Ten
nessee it is reported that the Governor, the
Judiciary. both Senators and all the Con-
gressmen but one, are for disunion. They
have determined, it seems, for an immediate
Convention.
The sum and substance of the news is that
the present leading officials of the States of
South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee, have
resolved upon secession, peaceably if they
can, forcibly if they must. So far as they
are concerned the thing is settled. But the
people are the sovereign power, and it re-
mains to be seen whether they will endorse
the acts of those whom they have placed in
position. Those men were elected upon no
such issue as that of the dissolution of the
Union, and it is not at all improbable that
they will find themselves leading charge
far, far in advance of the masses Of their con-
constituents.
We are not yet ready to believe that the
people of the Southern States have made up
their minds to attempt the dissolution of this
glorious Confederacy Yet, we are bound to
acknowledge that the signs of the times are
of fearful import. The crisis may come, and
that soon. What Buchanan will do, is just
what such a man might be expected to do.-
simply nothing, Ors Orsomething infinitely worse
than nothing. What Lincoln will do, Heav-
en- only knows, for he is a man untried. He
will do one of two things Either enforce
the Federal authority in the seeding States,
Vi ct armis, oil suffer them TO take their own
course, without let or hindrance choosing to
preside over those States which ackno wledge
his authority. If he have any of the old
warrior spirit of a jackson, he will not suffer
the authority of the Federal Government to
be disputed. But if he be more peaceably
inclined, he will be apt to say, "Well if they
are tired of the Union, let them go, and
will be President of such States as choose to
hold their allegiance to the Union
In such case, where would California 90
1t is time enough to answer that question
when the crisis arrives California, we be-
lieve would inquire, where is the Union
and take her position wherever the legiti-
mate flag of the Union waved.