Gazette and sentinel., 1861-02-16
The Times. as we Understand Them.

minds stored with the record and FORMING
their own conclusions, We will endeavor t
give them a skeleton view Of The times, "a.
We understand them.
10 begin then, the time are c%ertsinly look
ing up. The sun Of our prospects and our
hopes, of whatever character, is brighter al
this time by many, many rays, than it was 9
few short weeks back. We may take the
prices current Of our great staples as the best
barometer to determine such things. Cotton
and sugar, which had fallen off in price Ut
the commencement of the political excitement
which now agitates the country, have lately
sprang up again, and there seem to stand
We are no prophet, but We nevertheless pro
phecise that those prices will not again fall, il
they do not rise; the last is the more proba
BILE. The rise of a fraction or so in such com
mod ties, at y time when nationalities in which
We are interested are beng sundered and ere
ated, speaks millions IN favor Of our side Of
the question.
The Truth is, the cause Of Secession is in
the ascendant-and in the proportion that We
here in the South are becoming more and
more united in a matter in which division is
disastrous, our enemies at the North are be-
coming less harmonious in their councils, and
begin to doubt the "bigher law" axiom of
sticking to the ''nigger" IS better than stick
ing TO the Constitution, or sticking to ones
work-thus breeding dissensions and high
words among high and low, while the friends
Of the South are getting stronger every day.
Hitherto, We have noticed that the success of
a great political party greatly advantaged and
prospered its supporters generally; but in
this instance Of the late Black Republican
success. 1t was honey to the lips" but bitter,
very bitter to the bowels-ss needs must be
when a man has discovered that be has ballot.
ed away his bread. II is from such a state of
society, growing out of similar causes, that
anarchy springs.
The hopes that were entertained a short
time back, thst all our difficulties would at
length be ended by q restoration Of the Uni
on under 1appIer auspices aud with safety to
our rights in future, are now ~dissipated. The
Peace Conference will result in nothing. This
to be the general opinion. In such
case Vrrg MIA will link herself to the Southern
Confederacy. We may be sure that all the
other slave States Except perhaps Maryland)
will follow VIrginis-and IN this category We
10 not place Tennessee last.
As We become closer united upon the posi-
hon which our State has assumed, confidence
increase, and business again proceed as
Usual and as each new State is added TO the
Coniederacy that now exists, so will grow in
and brightness our hopes and future
prospects.
Our eyes are not blind to the fact, as pre-
1'ously in,in.aled, that the spirit Of discord
nd OF anarchy is every day becoming more
and more powerful among the PEG
lie Of the Northern States. We See il in the
Of discharged workmen, thrown
'ut OF employ through Southern resistance to
>orthern tyranny, and in the thousands upon
thousands Of murmurs,
Not loud bat deep"
Fhich come from the breasts Of those men and
heir starving families against The authors Of
he r distress. We See Il IN the downfall Of
he abolitionlrts, who are now driven from
Pillar to post" in their attempts to get up
leetings, in places where q short time back
would have been rs much as q mans life
'as worth to say aught against an abohtion- ,
It. And we see it in the stoppage Of their c
anufactories-in their dismantled shipping
in their long lists and earnest prayers to j
Representatives to yield all and bring G
ack to them their prosperity aud their bread. !
D all this and u thousand other matters do G
e see and do we read the doom Of the Nor. U
lern States. .
While the aveneing hand OF the Just is thus -
the mantle Of Nessus over the peo- !,
lie Of the North, we here in the South NAV :,
ongralulats ourselves that we have "passed
YER Jordan" with a pocket full Of rocks" b
here are bright skies and SUNNI. lands and a
eng the wealthiest, it alone remains with US v
become the happiest, the most prosperous a
I'd the most powerful nation that the sun of .
esven ever shone upon. Let US nop look, .
1t North, but towards the Gulf VI Darien. u
--o-~
MExIco.-The latest news from this 81
country states that Miramon and Ia
s advisers had been bsnished, and even with
the former had to escape the couu-
, secretly tosavs his life. The Papal Nun. Ct
was among the expelled. o
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