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The daily true Democrat., 1861-03-12
Fort Sumter and Pickens.

The news has reached us that these two forts are to be evacuated by orders from Lincoln.
 With us, this intelligence creates no sur prise. There are motives at the bottom which portend more of evil than good.
 In the first place, MT. Lincoln was aware that he could not hold them against the forces now investing them. He preferred evacuation to defeat Had he possessed the power to reinforce and sustain and hold them, he never would have abandoned them.
 In the next place, it is bait thrown out to the conventions now assembled in the Southern States. It is cloak to blind and deceive them.
 Ex-Att'y Gen. Black and Mir. Stanton have both given their opinion that duties can be collected on shipboard. This opin- ion will govern Lincoln. When attempted, this will involve the country in war. Per haps Mr. Lincoln will not attempt it until the conventions of Virginia, Arkansas and North Carolina have adjourned with hopes of adjustment.
 But the policy for him to pursue for many months, provided he seeks to subju- gate and destroy the South, should be emi- nently pacific and conciliaty. He should make friends South He should build up a black republican party South. This he knows he can do. When done our insti- tuition of slavery will be put in 4 course of ultimate extinction"
 Under that policy, fsnr years hence there will be in every slave State in the Union,
The daily true Democrat., 1861-03-12
The Line of Discussion Yesterday.

Quite an animated discussion sprung up vesterday between the two sections of the convention on the resolution offered by l)r. Echols recognizing the independence of the Confederate States of America. Judge Adams opened the discussion by clear, bold and manly statement of the loglc ot the proposition. He took the firm and tenable position that the convention had power, and was clothed with full authority to make such recognition; and secondly that it must make this recognition or aid and abet Lincoln in his attempt to coerce the seeded States. His arguments were pointed and incontrovertible, nevertheless Mir. Jesse Turner imaginel himself equal to the task, and contended in reply that the seeded States were still in the Union, that they had no right to secede, and other prop ositions equally absurd, which if carried out to their logical sequence would justify Lin coln in coercing by force of arms the gal lant States of the South which have de- clared themselves out of the Union. Of course. if the Confederate States are not out of the Union, if, as MT. Turner con- tended, they have not seeded, and have not the right so to do, then Lincoln IS right in coercing them into submission to Il | of tho hloalv taNu h.. lican majority in Congress. We feel ashamed of Arkansas if Mir. Turner eX- presses the sentiments of any considerable portion of her people. This position is far worse than that of Missouri, which has just instructed her Congressmen to vote against coercion, and to withdraw If Lin coin attempts it. We see now how sincere those are who pretend to want cooperation with the border States. They are willing to cooperate in abject submission, but when manly position is taken by a border State, we hear nothing of the cooperation of Arkansas from the glib lips that talk so fippantly on the subject.
 Judge Adams response was complete and unanswerable, upsetting every position which Mir. Turner had taken, and demol- ishing the sophistry and special pleading of the apologist for coercion.
 This demolition did not however deter MT. Stillwell from entering the list in SUD- port of Mr. Turner. Taking rp the argu- ments of the latter, and diluting them with
The daily true Democrat., 1861-03-12

ARKANSAS IS OUT OF THRUNIoN-As- suming the ground that cdract broken by one party absolves the oer from its obligations, and in view of thsepeated and fragrant violations by the nortrn States of the letter, the spirit and nlning of the constitutional compact, whicl alone con. stitutes us government, we lNlly take the position that Arkansas is out tthe Union. The position practically and kically that we now occupy is that of an anadependent State. We are a separatckpvernment without an ordinance of session. It devolves on the convention nonssembled to say whether, and on what editions we shall return to the copartnershlt present dissolved, or whether, by an oinance of secession, we will publish to thsorld our intention to return no more to alffiliation which has ceased to be desirabler agree able to us. This is then thtquestion before the convention-we are it of the old Union and shall we make new one with the northern CT southern spublics? This is the only question of Dortance before the convention-all otherare sec ondary.
The daily true Democrat., 1861-03-12

SrcrssIoS A NE5EssITY.-We will not for a moment entertain the idea that any considerable portion of the people of Ar kansas seriously contemplate continuance in the northern confederacy, any longer than to become convinced that the Union is hopelessly gone, and that there Is no possible chance of reconstruction. A sen sible view of the situation of affairs will, it appears to us, force conviction on the mind of every sincere seeker after the truth, that all prospect of preserving the Union is gone forever. Seven States have seeded. If Lincoln attempts to carry out the doe trines of his inaugural, and to coerce the seeded States, that forces us at once to take our position by their side, to fight for them, and to go with them. It will not be safe for any man. even in Arkansas, to adyo- cate any other policy. But if Lincoln se- cedes from his present policy, absurd as such d supposition is, the Confederate States will remain an independent and distinct na tionality, that must eventually absorb every other slave State, which does not look to ultimate emancipation, or which is not already undergoing an abolitionizing pro- cess. Does not this view-the only one that can be taken by sensible men-impress conviction on every mind that secession IS aecessityS
The daily true Democrat., 1861-03-12

a little school-boy Reclamation, he wound up in an eloquent appeal to "wrap him up in the stars and stripes and bury him with the American Eagle" Judge Floyd re- piled to MT. Stillwell forcibly and pertin- ently. The applause that he elicited from the gallery showed plainly that MT. Still we'll was not speaking the sentiments of Pulaski. We protest against his speech, going out to the world as the reflex of the sentiments of this county.
 Our people sympathize with the Confede- rate States. They are true to tho South, and never will they sanction coercion or submit to the domination of black republi- can fanatics. Their delegates may mis- represent them, but the day of retribution will come, when they will see the decep- tion that has been practiced upon them by those who have told them that all would yet be well in the Union.
 When Judge Floyd concluded, MT. Jesse Cypert arose and delivered himself His speech was decided improvement on MT. Turner's and Mr. Stillwell's. He was not prepared to vote for the resolution, but was unwilling to sanction coercion. Mir. Cy- pert said his county was largely for con- vention, but was opposed to immediate se- cession. The inference is that they are conditional sionists-secessionists we would suppose on the ground that Lincoln attempts coercion, as he $ doing. We have 10 doubt from Mr. Cypert's own evidence, that his county, under existing circumstan- ees, is in favor of secession, though at the time of his election it was opposed to lm- mediate secession. MT. Cypert showed some disposition to enter into an honest inquiry of what was best to be done for the State, and expressed himself in favor of secession if it could be shown in what way this would remedy existing evils.
 Mr. Grace undertook to show in what
 
 way and to what extent secession would be a remedy, and we will venture the assertion that no candid man who heard him thought his arguments controvertible. He gave the reasons why Arkansas should secede clearly, forcibly and exclusively; so much so that we do not believe an attempt will be made to answer them. From the discussion several points were elicited-frst, that in argu- ments and facts the secession wing has a decided advantage--secondly, that the feeling in the gallery is entirely in favor of the secession side, and thirdly, that Dr. Echols' resolution is well-timed, and one that no intelligent man, who is true to the South, and does not desire to raisrepresent Arkansas, will vote against.
The daily true Democrat., 1861-03-12

DR. EcnoLs' REsoLUnoN.-Ihe reSo- lution, now pending before the conventlon' to acknowledge the independence of the Confederate States of America, strikes us as eminently conservative and proper. Let the blach republicans see that we will not sustain Lincoln in refusing to acknowledge their independence, and in the mad attempt to coerce them, and no other good is effect ed. it will have potent influence in stay iny the hand of civil war. The Missouri legislature has adopted resolutions against coercion, and it would be an everlasting disgrace if we would refuse to do so much. Virginia, and even Maryland, have done SO. Shall we now hesitate?
 The logical sequence of voting down Dr. Echols' resolution is to sustain Lincoln Tn refusing to acknowledge the independence of the Confederate States, to invite coer- cion, and to pledge Arkansas to assist him in the subjugation of the gallant seeded States Is there one craven and spiritless white man in the State who will sanction such vote? We hope not.
The daily true Democrat., 1861-03-12

black republican party, q he will have accomplished our ruin al degradation Already he and his partyave defenders here, and by the effects of lat policy, the day is not distant when u1pr the name of "conseruatisn,'' and "unioa the name of Lincoln and negro-equalit will be the watchzword and signal cry.
The daily true Democrat., 1861-03-12

OUAcHIrA PREsBYTERY, stands adjourned to meet at Mt. Holly, Union county, on the 4th April, at 10 o'clock A. M.
 A. R. BANKS, Clerk. March 4, 1861.
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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-05-24
Major aaRaraI pize.

We copy the following merited compliment
from the New York World:
Rarely DO the office and the man confer
such fitting honor upon each other as in the
case of the Maior-Generalship of the New
York forces which has been proffered to and
accepted by the late Secretary of the Treas
ury. Known to the public by the military
title which he Bore so creditabiy years ago,
and which he now officially resumes accom-
piisfred in letters as well as arms, prominent
tor some time past among the highest class of
politicians in the great unbruken Frraocratic
party; abandoning a vigorous administration
of the involved affairs of the New FORK post
office, at the call OF the country that he
should suve its expiring credit, he is row
thought of by his fellow citizens not OILY as
the man who accomplished this task with a
success which iii itself would have won dis
tirction, but as the public officer who first
gave an order to protect the honor of that
flag which is tie symbol Of the nationality
that we have all sprang up in arms to defend.
His words "If ang ran =ttenfpts to haul
foTFtt' tie american flag, shoot him on the
spot" first made public in these cUlCrfns, few
rom lip to lip, and flashing along the wires,
first woke the spark Of that patriotic fire that
now flames through the land. 1t is we'll it
is becoming decus ct dec6rum est, he who is
sued that order should receive the highest
command which his State has to bestow
among the defenders of that flag, the sacred
inviolability of which he was so prompt and
so determined to maintsin. Fhe moves with
equal grace and promptness from the study
to the exchequcr and from the exchecquer to
the field. Tam Marie guam MercMrious.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-05-24
Panic in Missouri.

The secessionists at Jefferson City, the cap
ital Of Missouri, were thrown into consterna
! ton by the news of the capture of their troops
at ST. Louis. A rumor was circulated thai
| Frank Blair was marching with three thou
sand men upon the State Capital. The fright
| vas Intense, and a squad was despatched tc
/ destroy the railroad bridge over the Usage
river. The panic in St. Louis on Sunday
when it was rumored without any founda-
tion) that Ger. Harvey could not control the
3etn1tn troops, was something dwful. The
! Den1vcrlit of Monday gives the following ac-
count ofthis insane frighti
Gen. Rarneyj it was cried, had lost control
of the Dutch and Frank Blair had superseded
him in command of the troops, and now
Frank Blair and DoersteiR G0dld not mana re
them. The Dutch awere coming to burn the
city. Persons actually few along the streets,
ringing the deor-bells. and crying in to the oc-
cupants to save themselves from the Dutch.
The CONSERVATION was terrible. Carriages
and vehicles of all descriptions were frantical-
ly sought after, into which the women and
children were placed and driven out of the
cityf The hacknten took advantage Of the fear
ftl circumstances, and demanded the most ex-
horbitant prices-twenty-fve dollars was
asked and freely given in several cases that
came to our knowledge. Hundreds of flmi-
lies were rushed down to the steamboats,.
Cap. Dan. Able and CTbef owners freely
tehtFcted their boats to the afFrighted people
and as soon as steam could be raised pushed
away from the whTrf, and conveyed them to
points up and down the river as fat as Widow
Waters landing, and staid there all last night.
The sccAes along Pine and Olive streets were
particularly agonizing. 1t was reported that
the Butch were to visit their especial rage mp
on the Southern families, and the consterna-
tion among them was fearful. Women and
children, with small packages of clothing and
valuables, were hastily sent off in carriages,
the men remaining behind to brave the worst,
Prominent Republicans. were everywhere
sought for protection, the feeling seeming TO
be that their houses would not he mo!cs:cd by
the Dutch.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-05-24
Condition sf Fort Fickeps.

+ = correspondent of the n. Y Commercial
Advertiser says that Fort Pickens is now pro
visioned for a six month, seige, and that the
health of its inmates is good, though they
have had to work very bard Ill Repairing its de
fenses- Bragg is very angry about the block
ade, but canrot Help flh.self. A spy, profess
ing TO be newspaper reporter, paid visit to
Fort PickeDs, but was arrested
The fort has been strengthened tc point o.
perfection. At the time of the arrival of the
Atlantic it Wis in IL sad state for defense An
entire change has taken place. Guns, which
in time of peace, had reference only to q for
eign foe, are now directed toward the main
lard. The officers quarters, which previously
were exposed to any shell which Barancas
might see fit to discharge, are now protected
by heavy sand traverses. The barbette guns,
designed TO drop a card of introduction along
the line of the shore batteries, are absolutely
gulPfied in travcrses of sand. Still, while
Pickens is alive, the seeessicnists are not idle
Six barbette guns hive lately bccn mounted on
McCrea; guns have been taken FROM the water
battery just south of McCrea, ard transported
up the main land 4 new battery has just been
DISCOVERED at Deer Point, designed to annoy
the shipping, should the feet attempt to enter
The people of the navy yard have commenced
the process of unroofIng the houses of the na-
w yard. As far as appearance go, the secess-
ionists are evidently determined on an attack.
1t is supposed they are waiting for some heavy
peiceS of ordnance. Having missed the OPP
pOrtunity when the fort was weak, it Is point
of policy to wait now until they are perfectly
prepared to make most terrific onset.