Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-12-08
rUBLIsHEE BY REQUEST. To Men of Calm Reflection I Speak

10 men or Cdlm hcucctloH opedh'
 As the brave Lawrence said, when weltcr
 ing in his blood of death-don'i give up the ship-so would l say, when standing on the margin of my grave-don't give up the Union. Forif you don't give it up, nothing worse will befall us than a fight for the Union; very likely not win that. But If we were to- come to fight for the Union, while we are in it and for it, there could be no danger. In this position, the purse, the sword. the power, the prestige, and the mighty people, are with us. Yes, and if l am not much mistaken, the mighty God will be with us. Why then dissolve this glorious Union? Does any one desire to make up a southern confederacy, more de- m ocratic than the present great confedera- cy is? Surely not, for if there Is any de- feet in the government now, 1t IS, that It IS little too democratic. Does any one de- string southern confederacy, wish to make it stronger than the present federal govern ment? 1 answer for myself, and for my self will forewarn southern fire eaters, that | if these disunionists succeed in breaking up this government, they will try for one of more strength. pray daily that God may preserve this Union. Old as 1 am, if its fate depended on battle field, I would
 fight; but if it is ever remodeled, l hope it will be made as strong as republican government can be. Let us, my fellow citizens, look calmly at the desired issue If | Lincoln is elected President-I mead desir- ed by few, which is the secession of the southern States from the Union-1all the | Al. af how. Now let us suppose him elected, and
 inaugurated, but consttutionally elected and inaugurated, and few States firt out of the Union, with powerful minority of their citizens opposed to the seee Rh on
 the ground that no such violatiofS6 6 the
 constitution has arisen as either to demand
 or justify dissolution of the Union. A
 number of States also, properly within the
 southern range of States, denying that any
 such has been perpetrated against the con-
 stitutional rights of the South, as to de-
 mand dissolution, as the least evil compati-
 be with our honor and safety, and that
 therefore they will remain in the Union
 and fight for it's perpetuation, intact, until
 its dissolution becomes moral necessity
 and then, as the brave colonists did, set out
 declaration of facts, and appeal to heaver
 and earth for sympathy and justification
 and every man and boy in the South will
 be in the company of secessionists.
 But if any State or States shall, in ad vance of the general opinion in favor,o ex'
 pediency and necessity, secede, l predic, great mischief, and a disgraceful failure
 will not surprise me. In the Union. with
 fho T hoo tad
 friends, we can take care of ourselves and our slaves. Will any man of brains say that our guaranty out of the Union would be half as good as it is in the Union, we
 lying along line of free soil demagogues fifteen hundred miles long, and most of il only land marked line? we too, in fool sh and nasty manner, having voluntarily divested ourselves of all right to plead tht protection of constitutional law and really for what? Why, because the constitution we have lauded and magniied so much
 has enabled the North to put President
 on us that we don't want, instead of oul putting one on them that they did not want
 Look at it; look it right in the face; is there anything in the election of Lincoln, ever before his inaugural programme is before
 us, to induce revolutionary foment ln the
 South? l am mortified that the Soutl should have man in it, ranting uponevery } stake he can get on, and trying to excie tho people of the South to foolish premature } committal of themselves to a revolt iron | the Union, on an insufficient plea, by half way swearing treason against the South Committed by q new President weeks in 3 advance of his election. Why, gentlemen we old Washing patriots can't endur such brainless rawlings; it is the cant 0 partyism not the light of patri4e, states T man.likeA wisdom. 1 say now, in my humble corner of life, that if Georgia. wa
 tp declare in favoprof 1Rsion, gyhpl, e upon the elevation of LinconTo the Presi dency, by a constitutional majority of th
 people, I would protest against it, as al T ungodlyaet. No, fellow-citizens, if tn, Union is to be broken up, let the Nortl do it. The constitution, in its saver, , phase, is in their way, not in ours.
 Let us fight for it in the Union, anc more than half of the voters for Lincoll will fight with us. But dissolve the Union f and you bar off from every one of thes conservative minds and hearts. Pause ant think, and look upon every man in favo of nasty dissolution, as politically mad
 to be followed by other vices.