Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-01-31
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 ministers of depravity and of vitisted poli- tlcs. Our southern brethren vii! reason With us when we reason with them. No amount of finished and eloquent addresses will serve us in this emergency--no finely turned periods in speech-no resolutions. however patriotic and well ponted and con- sldered will answer the occasion. No com mission of individuals, however elevated. patriotic, and pure of record, will be of the least avail, unless the southern people are perfectly satisfied that they represent the pubic sentiment. When the conscientious oellef of the South can rest on the sincerity of our resolutions, addresses and speeches as representing the public mind of the North, and not till then, will come concord and unity. l have little faith in anything except that which goes towards creating or developing at home a pure, patriotic, elevated public sentiment. I have little faith in the meeting in this great commer- cal city, or in anything it can do, further than It IS evidence of public sentiment. The South are sure of the fidelity of the city of New York. (Applause.) 1t has becn true at all times, it has never swerved with its great and mighty patriotic majority. But the South have seen that the vote of the country is overwhelming, and rcraeysss the city of New York powerless; so far as It IS an evidence of the public sentiment of the State and city, it will have it's influence, and no further. But we must % further and must repeal the obnoxious laws on our statute book, and the repeal must carry evidence that it is not for mere temporniv purposes; that It IS not because our pecnl!nr, interests have been touched, but it musi Ill evidence that 1t Is a reflection of the : turning public sense, and that those Nlo would not see have been made to feel T. the returning sense and reason are req
 will be permanent. The free States
 be brought up to the consideration
 great publlc duty. The South have
 offended us. We cannot say that tie. have ever laid finger upon us. They hav,. not interferred with any interests belong to us as sovereign States But they resd Ii, our newspapers that their slaves have beel run off in numbers by an underground ra;l road, and they see 1t set down in deris;op that one more southern individual has been robbed of his property-one more slave, instead ot having been returned according to the compact of the constitution, has been run oil into the provinces of Canada, and insult and injury returned for consti. tutional duty. They have determined to bear these things no longer, and it becomes northern people to determine whether they will permit this state of things to 20 on, or whether they will make one last grand effort to sec whether this sentiment and evil practice can be corrected. You csn- not send forth stream by any natural process higher than the fountain.
 The South know it. They have no faith Tn addresses and resolutions that have not ther sources in the feelings of the masses of the people It is useless to say there is no serious trouble. I believe that South Carorlna will secede so far as the movement ot her convention can do 1t, on the 17th or 18th ot this month, and events must trans- plre, shortly after which will bring all cot ton States in association with her. and eventually every State which is slave otate' and intends to continue such, will go along together, unless the danger can be ar rested. Ihls IS as certain as the law of gravity, and he is blind man and mad man who cannot see it. All that VIC can now do IS to get time to convince the south ern people that there is returning senti- ment of truth and justice in the northern States; that the honest masses have been mlsled and have misunderstood this irritat- Ing question, as l believe they have, md upon proper consideration will 90 back to thelr duty as members of this confederacv, and will welcome back our southern breth- ren to the great family of political, social and moral equals. Applause Our con- stltutional and federal laws, repeat, are well enough. Our obnoxious State laws should be repealed, and in their place a pub lie sentiment should be set up and born. alott, as the great law-giver of olden times set up the brazen serpent, that every one who had been bitten by aboltionism may look on 1t and be healed. Great applause1 wlll close as begun. did not intend to take part in this meeting l havc no particular views but what have often re- peated, and my hope is that by this respec- table meeting Q public sentiment may be drawn out If it be as just, conservative and beneficial as we believe it to be, we may then properly so represent il to our southern brethren, and no longer be mis- understood. Look the danger fully and squarely in the face We must not put too much trust in meetings, in Congre.S in legislation; but if we would remain x united people we must say that however wrong we may have been, however much error we may have committed, we have reconsldered our conduct, and are satisfied that we must treat the southern States as we treated them on the inauguration of the government-as political equals When we have done that we shall have done our whole duty, and perhaps this glorious gov ernment may still go forward to the frui- ton that awaits it. Loud applause EXCITEMENT IN THE CITY-AN ALLEGED NEGRO THIEF ARRESTED AND TAKEN TO AR. KANSAS "VI EFT ARMS. ."-In last Monday's Avalamche we gave the particulars of the arrest of man named Alfred Jackson, al,os Frank Rose, who, it is alleged, stole negro from Mir. John H. McGavock in 1S53.-s The negro was recovered and Jackson lodged in jail, but succeeded in effecting his escape. He was re-arrested here last Saturday week, as before stated, and placed Tn jail. Saturday two men from Arkansas