Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1861-01-09
ALTO. CHEROKEE Co. Dec. 10, $50.

Messrs. Pryor and ,S'oindels:-
Politically, this great country is
standing straight up. The foremost
are not ahead of us in readiness and
determination to seek ,rithout alter
n0tjre or delay, the lawfW and sure
remedy of secession. We are ad-
dressing the people in every election
precinct, upon the pregnant .qucs-
ton" what can, what ought we to
do to be saved. Everywhere, with
one voice and mind and one heart,
the reply is, "let us seccde no'c!
now!" We say now because we
have read and heard, and ,ce reject
the er-cathedra teachings Of few
of our good and true, but much de-
luded friends, who talk of our effort
to obtain in advance and in lieu of
secession, by means of southern
convention, or some other plaster
ing and time tinkering process,
guarantees for our rights, by re-
peal, er- contractu, Of the laws of
certain States, which nulify the Flu
gitive Slave law, and the correspon-
ding provision of the late Constitu
tion Of the United States. Now, if
we follow these teachings, the inevi
table result must be utter run to the
south, by blighting the last hope Of
her salvation. l will state, without
time to illustrate, a few Of
the reasons upon wMch we ground
this opinion. 1. The course pro-
posed would distract and break up
what alone has been so long wanting
for the assertion of our rights, and
what terrible impending calamity
has at length brought us ga united
south" for at last ,oe hare this great
moral lever, and, realising the un-
satisfied wish of Archimedes, if we
are true to ourselves. We have the
fulcrum, the great heart of the south,
upon which to rest and work it,
notwithstanding few (border)
State, and despotic individuals may
for a time, tremble in the breese Of
false, because, timid policy. 2.
This compromising course hitherto
the cause of call our woe," would
lose us "the occasion" which never
can come again, and find us with
the same relative power for compul-
sorry redress-the only means OF
safety which experience Of the past,
observation of the present, and the
chances of the future allow us to
rest our hopes upon. We have the
incincible strength of a just cause,
and pe are ready! Procrastination
is not only the tkief of time, but of
strength.
mYou must note beside,
That we have tried the utmost of our friends
Our e reasons y are brim full, our cause
is ripe;
The enemy encreaseth every day,
We at the height arc { asked to decline;
There is tide in the affairs Of man,
Which, taken at the food, leads lon to tofortune;
Omitted, all the voyage Of their life,
Is bound in shallow avs and in miscries.
On such full sea are we now Of late,
And we must take the current when it
serves,
Or lose our dventures.-BRUTUs.
To which. Cherokee adopts the
reply of Cassius;
"Then with your will 60 on,
Well along ourselves, and meet them at
Philippi."
3. But, perhaps, the worst view
of this tinkering policy is its utter
want of any ground upon which to
base a chance for any sensible, or
useful result. Suppose against all
reasonable grounds of Espe, its ad-
yocates were to succeed for the
nonce, in obtaining the repeal of the
obnoxious State laws. and engrait
ing in the Federal Constitution
whatever saving clauses they might
dictate. can we hope thatthey could
repeal the adverse public sentiment
or the puriured judicial mind Of the
North, or abrogate its fanaticism