The constitutional union., 1861-04-05


 ton are now before the people of Arkansas, and must be settled by vote of the State, in August next If the popularvoice then pro- claim in favor of secession, the Convention ot our State will assemble and declare Arkansas severed of her connection with the Union pre- sided over by MT. Lincoln; but if it decide for cooperation, then Arkansas will remain In and add her assistance to that of what we call the border slave States, in order to adjust in some manner yet undefned, the difficulties which now obtain between the free and slave States, in regard to the right of holding prop erty, undisturbed, in the African race. These are the points to be settled in the approaching election, blythe citizens of our State, and to do so with discretion and judgement, the pres ent aspect political affairs should be well ob- served. and the real condition of our country be known.
 Mir. Lincoln now occupies the Executive chair of the remains of the old nation, and Arkansas numbers one of the States over which he has control. He was elevated to the position of President on the platform ofa party which denies, in a moral and religious point ot view. the right to even hold slaves in the States where it now exists, and emphatically declares, in legal point, that such a right cannot be exercised in the common territories Of the country. These are the tenets of the polltl- cal party which placed him in power, and It Is well known that hardly corporaps guard of his sunporters cast it's vote South of the great dividino line. On the fourth of March last, tbis :. head and front" of his party, on the occasion of his inaugural ceremonies at Washington, spoke to the people of this coun- trv in m address. He denied the power ot tbe Supreme Court to settle the question ot carving into and holding slaves in the terrl- tories. and lodged it in Congress; he insisted upon the recognition of the free negro as CO., equal in citizenship with the white man, under this Illustrating circumstance when the State of Ohio regards a negro as possessing all the rights and privileges of white citizen, all the rest of the States must do likewise, if they desire to be governed by the Constitution as he interpretsit
 Dissenting from NIT. LINCOLN, his plat form, and his entire party, as regards then moral, religious and legal views of the slavery question, seven of the Southern States have announced their unwillingness to live under a government entertaining such opinions o1 their institutions, and declared their determl nation to exist separately from it in an lnde pendent Confederacy, composed of State whose interests are identical, upon the subjec of slavery and all others. These seven State have formed their Constitution, elected thel President. Vice President and other officers and are putting together all the machiner. which they think requisite to carry on thei government. That they have discarded tn idea of ever returning to the old Confederacy the speeches of their leading men and com plexion of their newspapers fully indicate How the project of these seven united South ern States is regarded in Europe, can be see. esee. ' 4th of March, Mr. GREGORY, in the Britis House of Commons, "g gave notice that O an early day he would call the attention C her Majesty's government to the expedienc of prompt recognition of the Southern Con federacy of America" The London Time of the 8th of March, in a leading editorial remarks, " the legislation of the North wi bring about considerable modification 0 British relations with America" This paper which is undoubtedly the weightiest sheet il Britain and never speaks unadvisedly, says in addition, that the tariff system of the Re pubicans, as recently modified by the dirt, abolitiOnist MORRILL,, from Vermont, "cut off the North from the sympathy of it friends, and will divert European trade iron Boston and New York to Charleston ant New Orleans" And Monsieur GILLAIRDET of The Paris Presse, who is no inconsidera ble reflection of the abolition feeling O France, thus writes of the Confederated States " The Southern COnfederacy, by prohibiting the African slave trade, has forestalled the moral opposition of Europe"
 This is the condition of affairs as regards the Republican President and Southern Con- federacy at present. But there is more to be said and thought of in regard to this subject, which We will endeavor to write about next week, and subject to the consideration of our friends and readers.
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