Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-04-18

| l and the swell sentences of the Spanish cor tes about our affairs and institutions. The extremest appointments of Mir. Lincoln are coolly commented on" No concern of ours.'
 2 They are not only quiet, but deter mined. Those people are gone, and gone for good. The child is not born that will see them return. We do not believe one man in thousand entertains the idea of reconstruction. If ever reconstruction takes place, 1t must proceed from the other side.
 They never will come back on any terms. Any one who talks with shareholders and non-slavehodcrs. large planters and small planters, merchants and mechanics, will be obliged to yield the cherished idea of re- construction. Their State governments never were in better action, and never be- fore did the people so highly prize them. With their Federal Government they are pleased, its officers, Congress, and constitu- tion. Whatever may be said in Wall street of their want of resources for sustain
 ing government. they feel no nneasness ou that score The difference between their commercial system and that of the northern States, under the present and future pos sible tariffs, opens to their view as all Tn their favor. With trihing State debts, and ample resources. they feel safe on the financial question: We actually heard such an expression as this-.smile at 1t as you may-' the fact is, those poor fellows at the North, don't see how they are to get along Southern custom lost; the difference between the tariffs turning everything to ojr ports; we making our own bread; thelr east and west arrayed against each other; in debt and no prospect of paying out; thelr credit ten per cent. under par, and ours above par for our fifteen million loan will be taken at one hundred and four cents on the dollar-what will they do?" Put that .peech in your pipe and smoke 1t. We heard it, and that, too, from sensible citizen.
 They have their stars, too. and like them, have no objection to see the constel- lation enlarged, but will live and dio under the seven if not another is added. Those who have held on to the glorious old Un- ion, with the patriotic hope of medtatng reconstruction, and bringing back the lost pleiad, may give that hope up. We distinctly despair of it now, if never be- fore. It is not question of stars any more, but only of stripes. The Southern Confectionery is not merely an accomplished but fixed fact-no experiment.
 The border States may behold the ques- tion narrowed down to thiS-a choice be- tween the stars and these stars. The Un- ion is already divided, and it is left for l them, now that their unsel6sh and self-sac- riicing efforts to prevent that catastrophe have failed to settle this simple question: on which side do their personal and social synpathies and industrial interests lie?
 3. We look with delicacy but closely 1 for latent spirit that has, in certain pa pers, been represented as existing very ex- tensively in the seeded States--a suppress ed spirit of discontent--the overawed mi 1 noritY. It may exist somewhere, but we l did not find it. Men who, to our personal l knowledge in December, went into seces- sion as q timid bather steps into water, l have fully committed themselves to the l Southern Confederacy as it has shaped It. self. Some had even gone to Pensacola, | and were in camp there. Others who did | not like the way 1t was done exactly, now l that it is dono, proclaim their firm adhe- renee and satisfaction with the present or ter of things Everybody praised the wis dom and moderation of the conventions 1 and the Congress- "Wh hat has become of the minority in your convention elections?" The answer was: "A few in Congress, l Stephens in the Vice Presidency rest absobed and assimilated. Many of them may, at future day, form the ralying point of an opposition party in the gov lenment which will do no harm, for every good government ought to have an oppo- Asition party But we are dgIe now. Here { and there fellow may shoot off squib to Greeley & Co.,, 1t amounts to nothing. | 1. Tn. feeling toward the border slave | States was various; not bitter, except ra- ther so in some instances, against Iennes- see, from which they seemed to think they had right somehow to expect different showing from what has been made thus far. Generally they reason thus: "lt was better for us that they did not come of when we did. They ale our friends, and by the position they took up at an early day and maintained, have done the part of friends They said to the North, Stand off, and we were enabled to organize compact ly. and without moestation. To please them and hold them on, the North has pur sue vacllating policy, dividing black republicans, and alfording the best condi- tions for our success. The fruit will fall when it is ripe They will finally be with us in form, as they have been with us all the time in fact"
 5. The army-they are mastering strong down there, and no mistake. Besides the regiments which each State has, the Fede- ral government is enlisting soldiers for one year, and also for three years, if not sooner discharged The amount of first rate arms, of ordnance and ammunition they have on hand is astonishing, for short notice. It is said the federal government has nearly 2O,- 900 soldiers at this time under orders.-- Companies were dropping down to Pensa- cola and Savannah. They did not make much fuss-only music enough to form by not stealthy, but rather silent in their movements There is an empty car be- hind-the conductor keeps it locked. By and by the reason appears; you reach station, and seventy or eighty uniformed men get on board. And such soldiers we never saw; sober as sentinels; oung men and middleaged, the flower of the land.- Friends and women see them off, waving handkerchiefs not wet with tears. No Hessian bands and drunken rowdies. We saw but one drunken man in the Southern Confederacy, and he was not too drunk to get from the hotel at Opelika, to the cars. Depend on it, if those soldiers have to fight, they will give good account of themselves in the day of battle. And if Mr. Lincoln heads the force that is to meet thaal, lie had better do as he did on his way to Washington disguise himself, steal march, and start the night before. The Virginia Convention and Southern
 Confederacy.
 RICHMOND, April 9.-In the convention, Mr. Wise's resolution, that Virginia con- sents to the recognition of the indepen- dence of the seeded States. they to be treated as independent, and that laws be