New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-22
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There can be little doubt, now that Tennessee
4 will soon be by the side Of her Southern sisters
We learn through various sources that the feeling
for secession is daily becoming stronger all over
1 the state Tennessee, though like Virginia and
| kentucky, somewhat slow to move, is now putting
herself IN the right position, and will assuredy he
IN alliance with the other States which will copsti
| tute the Southern Confederacy. The submission
and coercion speech Of the dirty demagogue. John
son, who misrepresents her in the Senate, has
aroused the patriotic and Independent spirit of the
people, and they are preelarning their sentiments
| ia terms Of most nnmistakeable emphasis.
The Hon. Scion sBorland, editor of the Memphis
Enquirer, writes from Washington CITY to his
paper, and states that the issue is now whetbar
Tennessee, in the inevitable separation of sections
will go with the North or the South. There can
be no doubt about the way Tennessee will answer
such question as that. From Col. Borland,s let
ter We make the following significant extract:
While as painfully regret the state Of things
winch IS now upon US, as any man can trust am !
II liaeie alarmed go It's consequences as any man
ought 70 6e, and am just as little disposed to be
the alarmist Of others but looking the facts in the
faces seeing them as they are (not as would have
them to be- and dealing with them as such, I can
no longer hesitate to say to Tennessee and thronoh
her to the whole South for what the warning nav
be worthsoaf' is at you door, lose not al, ho,t,.
III preparing fofitt
Since my last, our Representative Mr. Avery. ana
Mr. John Y. Wright, of the Seventh Congressional
District. have eaehis issued an address to his consttu
ents They appeared in the Constitution of yester |
day, and sent you copy of it containing them |
u order that they might be published Id our paper:
MT a very first to be followed by Mr. Wright's.
agree with them fully in the views they present.
Tits true heyond question, as they say that Tie
present Union is already dissolved and, that be.
FPS SO, and all hope Of demonstrating it being lest
the only issue for Tennessee now to decide, Is
whether IN the inevitable separation Of segtions.
she viii go with the South or with the North. The
question which this presents is answered in stating
~ AS 20 Andy johnson. Emerson Ethridee. and
the few who, in the base hope of getting ofceenn
Ger Lincoln, sympathize with them in Their BLACK
Republican proclivties, let them emierate. before
tls fate Of the Tories of the Revolution overtakes
them Bat as for Tennessee, as a State. and nine
hundred and ninety.nine ont of every thousand of
her people, We are all Southern in principle, in in.
terest in honor, in feeling, and III destiny. AZ
such every man is expected to do his duty-and
woe 20 him who fails to do it. Time was when we
might fairly and safely differ among ourselves upon
questions OF policy. but that time is now past: The
sslie uponps is one Of life aud death; and to doubt.
now. which side to take, is to be damned. Tie
enemy y at our door, and he who is not for Us is
against us. - -