The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1861-11-07
From the National Republican,
Thear Secret Councils.


In the clearing up of the rubbish O.
the room occupied last winter by the ia
nous committee Of thirty three, the fol
lowing letter, written by n southern mem
Der OF It, was found, and is now in ou,
possession. The writer evidently con.
templated the disruption of the L Union
with concern aud anxiety, hut he treats
1t as fixed and irrevocable fact. This
was in the early part of January, aud
while the pretence was still actively kept
up; that there was a possibility of pre-.
venting a conclusion really forcgone, by
"heaing measures Of compromise. All
that was matter of diplomacy, merely,
the object not being to restore the Ma.
tlonal Union, but SO to mauage the pend
ing Legislative issues as to produce per.
feet union Of the >ouM The National
Union was regarded as gone, by the fixed
policy of the Gulf States, and SO i, was
then, as it is now, unless sustained BY
military force. The end and aim Of the
maneuvering last winter, in committees,
in the "Pcace Copference.' at Willard $
Hall, and on the floors of the two Houses
OF Congress. was not to bring back vital.
ity to the dead body Of the National Tn.
ion, but to mass the South in favor Of
disunlon, by such presenta,iou of the
pending questions as would bring into
the measure the border States, which
were still reluctant to venture upon SO
hazardous step.
The subjoined letter, however, speaks
sufficiently for itself
WAsHINGroN, Jan. !, l>6l
DEAR SIR: | duly received your "a
vor, and will attend with pleasure your
request so soon as | can get an hours
leisure. My labors on the committee
consume nearly all my time, but | pre-
sumo they will finish their work in day
or two. Thus far their deliberations
have resulted in nothing of particular
importance, and fear they will accom-.
plish nothing calculated to quiet the dis
turbcd state Of the public mind. The
truth Is, the Union is alread dissolved,
and i. vii, require the same miraculous
interposition to restore its vitality as was
presented at the grave Of Lazarus Nor
tai man cannot do it, and | look upon it
that the whole matter is now resolved in.
to simple question of security or pres
ervation for the South. Yes, the Union
is dissolved The rcins Of government
have fallen from the nerveless grasp Of
the miserable old creature who now pre-
sides at the white house, and the next
scene in the drama (and the most awful
one too) will be the disruption Of the
bonds of society, when bad and deSpcr-
ate men will control the hour, and all will
be discord, rapine, crime, and chaos -
Dismal Night, with her ghosts, is now
lowering around in shades The cpidcm-
ic is progressing, and is now rapidly ex-
tending from North to South. 1t will
sion, and in accordance with the law of
gravitatiou, it will become more rapid as
it descends.
TO my mind this is no time for Grim
ination, or for the inquiry if there was
just cause for the country to be prccipi.
tated into it's present troubles the sole
inquiry is, the union Of tie South for the
SAFETY Of the South. There must be no
divisions at home lie who doubts, inn
porils the very security Of his hearth
and dearest domestic relations. Right
or wrong every patriot must now rally
in defence of his own home and people.
| think, if all the slave States, in the
dread alternative now forced upon US,
would simultaneous, y unite in separation
it would tend more to prevent civil war
between the two sections, and produce,
ultimately reconstruction Of the Union.