Daily national Democrat., 1861-04-25
The Union Men of Alabama.

North Alabama Is us sounu Ior the = nloh
os is the glorious old State of Tennessee.
This is beginning to be felt by the Secession
journals TheI Columbus (Ga.) Inquirer, a
Secession organ, in its issue of March 29th,
COMPLAINS of the "factious opposition" to the
Secession authorities, manifested in the DEM
ocratic region of North Alabama. The In
onirer was formerly Wing. 1t says;
.The telegraph advised us on Wednesday
that President Lincoln had appointed George
W. Lane, Judge of the Federal District Court
of Alabama. We are not advised whether
Judge Lane was an applicant for heappoint-
ment, or whether he will accept it now, that
it has been conferred upon him. But we
know that he lives in North Alabama, and
that in that overwhelming Democratic region
there is still strong manifestation not only
of repugnance but of factious opposition to
the Government of the Confederated States,
and it is for the purpose of recognizing and
fostering that feeling that this appointment
has been made. We have heretofore endeav-
ored to ignore this disaffection i'll North Ala
bama. but it seems to have taken such det-
mite form as to require notice. We therefore
note the daimuS of two recent popular meet
ings in that section AT Athens, Limestone
county, on the 18th inst, an adjourned meet
ing recently reassemblcd, at which resolu-
tions sustaining secession and the Govern
snent of the Confederated States were offered
and rejected, and in their stead the meeting,
by vote of 139 to 90, passed resolutions de-
manding that the Constitution of the Con-
federated States (then ratified by the Conven
.ion of Alabama) should be submitted to the
people and declaring in fador of reconstruc-
ton whenever the non-slaveh olding States
give suitable guarantees, etc. There may
not be anything factious in this, but the
Athens Banner of the 2Oth, reporting the ac-
ton of the meeting, adds that "the people
of Limestone have no idea of being deprived
Of the privilege of reconstruction, whenever
suitable occasion arrives, any more than
they have of surreudering their rights as free
men TO the fifty-four Secession delegates Of
the Convention who assume to be the State
of Alabama" This looks like rebellous op-
position, and a reputation of the authority
of the Convention.
"Stll more revolutionary were the proceed
lngs Of public meeting held in Frankfort,
Franklin county, on the 22d inst, and re-
ported in the Tuseunbia North Alabamian.
The resolutions adopted by this meeting APP
prove the course of their delegates in reius-
ing to sign the secession ordinance, denounce
the refusal to submit the ordinance to pop
nlar vote, deny the right of secession, declare
the Union perpetual, and announce that they
will not willingly give their support to the
State of Alabama in her present stand, but
will do all that we can to the contrary;
also, THAT our Congressional nominee, if
elected, is to represent us in the United States
Congress, and not in this so.caled Southern
Confederacy." There can be no question
that this is faction and revolution-it is re-
fusing to submit to law and authority, and
recognizing allegiance to a foreign power"
North Alabama will probably send a sound
Union nan, like George S. Houston or ex-
Gov. Winston, te the Congress at Washing
ton. The other seeding States may follow
suit This looks as though there were two
sides to the secession question even in the
cotton States. The people have not agreed
10 remain forever silent. They have only
been temporarily bewildered by the audacity
of those whom they have formerly trusted
with power. Even the States Rights ultra
Lsts Of South Carolina dare not claim that
State sovereignty rests elsewhere than with
the people of the State. The people can
make and unmake. New conventions can
undo.the mischief that old ones have DONE