Gazette and sentinel., 1861-02-09
From the Moh.e Ad ertiser.
The Flag Of the South.

We anticipate that the selection of
an appropriate pattern Of flag for the
standard of the South will be attended
with a vast deal Of controversy. The
Legislature of South Carolina was busi-
ed for two or three weeks in deciding
upon the pattern even of a state banner,
a comparatively unimportant affair !:
unless indeed South Carolina does not
intend to honor the other States with
her association in the Confederacy-
Her cavalier treatment of the Virginia
Commissioners would seem to Indicate
that she intends to be exceedingly choice
IN the selection Of hCr company, aui the
result may be that the other States.
will be so choice i'll their selections that
she will either have to come in as they
may dictate, or stay out in the cold
Inns Is no time, we submit, for a Suu,h-
ern State to give the cold shoulder To a
sister, and injuriously repel her because
she Is not just yet prepared to take tx,
actly the same view of matters. The
other Southern States should be concil-
lated and coaxed TO come to those which
have taken their final position, for such
"a course Is more auSpIciOus Of results
than the attempt to Dragon. But we
are wandering from u purpose.
South Carolina has finally disposed of
a welghty matter and adopted her style
OF taS. 1t is blue, with "a golden PAL
metto, upright, with a white oval. in the
centre, and a white crescent in the up
per flagstaff corner" This is pretty
enough state banner, and South Caro- |
Inns may think it just the Thug for a
national flag, accounting herself to be
the hub OF the nation. But its emblems
are OF merely local Significance, and it
has no grandeur and comprehensiveness
OF design to render it u suitable nation
III banner. The star" dear to all of
US OF these States, is excluded, and al
the crimson hue, which is one of the
coiors We have always fought under.
we are an ardent advocate of the /
southern Cross pattern, and fancy we
already feel d patriotic devotion to IT,.
It's eminently appropriate. 1t is grand
aud simple, and would be the most gor-
Scous banner which houts the air in any
cline, not excepting the st. Georges
Gross OF England. The cross is the
emblem, and we are a Chris
tan people and the Southern Gross"
Is slgnlhcent of our designation as
The south" and of sunny latitude.
The Hag should be Of rich crimson, the
cross Of blue, the short arm running
entirely across perpendicularly, and the
long arm the entire length horizontally
the blue field of the broad cross bla-
with the white stars of as MANY
States as acknowledged the flag their
standard. This would consti-
ute the magnificent flag of the South
'rn Cross" Il banner without COMPARE ,
Tor simple splcndOr and significance
no calico pattern work about. it-and
the attention aud admira- {
ION, II not the sympathy and respect.
Is we trust il will, however. of Chris
IAN peoples everywhere. 1t retains all ,
colors of the lately loved flag of the 9
ate Union. The revenue flag" could ,
'ear a shOrt-armed cross, not reaching }
he margins. The Union Jack" could :,
re simply a blue flag with the stars =
tuddlnG ii in the shape of a cross, with !
% crimson in it. Let the Southern / i
ross" be the flag of the South. VIII h
ot o n set up a large and SPLEEN i,
I'd specimen Of this flag after the above .
%attern, to show how it looks? :.
Let us have the Southern, Cross d
amer by all means.--[ED GAz. & Sen. u