The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-01-05

the family will have taken away thsir effects,
and set up for themselves. The South
owes 70 New York and Nsu England On,
hundred millions of dollars. CT which it j.
safe to say she win NOT pay over one fourth
and not that much the present season.
Large numbersof merchants and manafac.
tursrs will be obliged to go 70 the vail on &C
count of this reputation, and thousands o.
operatives thus be thrown out of employ
But this distress will be only temporary, fol
with the opening of spring not only these,
but thousands Of other laborers will go West
where they are needed, and where Southern
Reputation cannot reach Item.
OF course disunion is to be lamented; bul
conceding it to be fixed fact, there is no use
crying about it. Locking At it in a pecu-
mary light. regard it as > positive advsn-
tage to the Great West, whose interests have
SO long been trampled upon at the instance
and for the benefit of TIE South. There
will no longer be opposition to the construc-
ton of Central Pacific Railroad, which
will now certainly be built in q few years.
The bill now before Congress granting q
homestead of 100 acres from the public do
main, to all actual settlers. will Immediately
become law, which will at once attract to
the fertile prsiries of the West tens of thous-
ands of hardy laborers from the crowded
East, and also almost the entire middle class
Of the Southern States to whom the stmos-
phere of the new Southern Confsdsracy will
be uncongenial-it being the design to rec
ognize but two classes there slaves and
their masters. The fostering care of the
government would also be extended to the
Western manufacturers, and the speedy de-
velopment Of all Western resources-for the
West (soon to become the cENTRE), will be
the Strengthening. conserving power of the
government.
This will be called Calculating the val
ne of the Union" which many well-mean-
ing people very much depracate. So it is.
The American Union was the work of hu-
man hands,-iti is q human institution, and
like all human creations has value which
may be computed. The true Democratic
idea of government is that it should be
benefit and blessing to those who create and
sustain it and when it fails of accomplishing
that purpose it is the right of those interes-
ted, to make such alterations as they deem
proper, or substitute for it one or more gov
srnmsnts; and SO they may at any time
with perfect propriety calculate the vaIue of
the government under which they live.
have assumed that there will be pea
ceGble secession. I do so because ! believe
that it is the sentiment of large portion of
the Northern people, that it would be IN.
wise and criminal to attempt to coeres any
State. Civil war, of course, would
be the result-which would be enough worse
than peacsabls secession for the whole coun-
try. The only thing to be gained by it.
would be a few subjugated and desolaued
provinces, which would not compensate for
the damage and loss of life that would be
occasionsd. No, there will be no war
The South does not want 1.-THE North does
not want it 4; and the enlightened public sem
timent of the whole country is opposed to it.
The admission of Kansas will, we think,
be facilitated BY the withdrawal of q few of
the Southern States. leaving the Republi-
cans in the majority in the Senate.-a con-
devoutly to be wished for with
the admission of Kansas into the Union, and
the passage of the Homestead bill I think,
the emigration thither in the spring would
be very great, and bring about a return of
the ''good times" SO long looked for, and so
much needed at this particular time.
BELLEFoNrANEhio, o, Dec. "a, 1860.
South Carolina has made her exit, from
the Union, as far as formal declaration to
that effect can accomplish it. Witness the
following which was unanimously adopted
by her Convention, OF the goth inst:
I'VE the people of South Carolina in Conven-
ton assembled, do declare and ordain that the
dinance adopted by us in the Convention Of the
23d of May, l7TS, whereby the Constitution of
the United States was ratified; and all acts and
parts of acts of the General Assembly OF the
State, ratifying amendments to the said Constitu-
ton, are hereby repealed, and the Union now
.ubsisting between South Carolina and other
States under the name of the United States Of
America, is hereby dissolved"
The Convention is still in session labor
ing to perfect system which shall take the
place of the Federal Government, SO as to
prevent any disarrangement of business.
The mails are to be carried by an Express
company. and the revenue is to be collect
ed as usual, only the proceeds are to so in
to the State Treasury. All the arrange
ments are being made in. a business-liks
which precludes all idea of inten-
ton to compromise or be persuaded to
DON'T" ra.9 .4
Florida, Alabama. Georgia, North Caro-
lima. Lou siana, Texas ana Mississippi are
moving in the same direction; and it is
quite likely that in thirty days they too. will
have made their final exit. The feeling for
Secession is contagious, and the border
Slave States are fast yielding to it. In the
beginning of the difficulties they stepped
forward as peacs-maksrs and URion savers.
AZ l. Al.