Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1861-01-11


than ALLEVIATE their mutual good feeling
and destroy the ligament OF sympathy that
should ever continue to bind their COM
mon destinies together. Our object is to
induce the cotton States to go into a con-
ference with us SO as to present our grie-
vances and exact redress. A weak and
timid expression ofloyalty from us to the
forms of the Constitution, in the face of
their repeated infactlon by the States Of
the n ortifii, yillhidrive them from any in
tention which they may possibly have
conceived of going into council with men
who show themselves insensible to a prop
er appreciation of southern rights and
honor
There is further evil resulting frem these
demonstrations, which the journalist, above
all others, cannot fail to mark. It is III
the wilful misinterpretation and base per-
version to which they are subjected by
venal and INSCRIPTIONS press. 1t is
matter of frequent comment that the Black
Republican papers throughout the past
campaign strived to show that the seces-
sion movement was all braggadocia and
and buster, ''full of sound and fury, sig
nitying nothing"-that the triumph of
their ragged and beggarly faction would
serve to give peace and quiet to the coun-
try, and impart stability to the financial
and industrial world. Since accomplish
and hypocritical utterances, their daily
labors are confined to gathering up ac-
counts of Union demonstrations wherever
they are held in slave territory. and at the
same time diligently suppressing every
thing that savors of resoluteness in resist
ance to the incoming Administration. In
this manner the minds of the northern
masses have actually been kept blind as to
the actual State of Southern feeling
They have been taught, and believe to- day
that ''the South can't be kicked out OF the
Union"-that her loyal yeomanry will
continue to submit to the aggressions Of an
insolent and sectional faction, until, like
the sluggard amid the confagration of his
own household, they will become the un-
conscious victims of their insidious en-
croachments. Songs to the Union at this
late hour will only serve to strengthen
these false convictions, and thus embolden
the mi.rions Of abolitionisn in their unholy
crusade against the institution of slavery.
We have seen many instances OF their
growing insoence since the achievement
of their recent victory. We have heard
Seward announce a.-A--l--rr ttnot che III
umph was but an earnest of the ssat2e1Uers0l
over the country We have heard Trum-
bull, at Springfield, speaking as an oracle
of Lincoln, say that we are hereafter to
have 'sno more Dred Scott decisions, and
no more slave States" We have heard
Sumner, flushed with the spirit engender-
ed by success, recently utter the diaboli-
cal sentiment that s'while slavery contin-
ues to exist, aqasu1rection is a sacred du-
ty I" Thurlow Weed harps upon the
| ''odiousness' Of future compromises with
the South; Wendell Phillips boasts Of a
President having been elected for the first
! time ssby the sl0ue :" and Horace Greely
advises against yielding further to the de-
mands of the ''slave power" Is this, then,
| a fit period for rs to be giving encourage
ment to the daring insolence Of abolition
ism by ebullitions of affection for the I'm
lou? Ought we not rather to renounce
any particular fancy that we may have fol
past prejudices, which may have become
SO deeply imbedded in our hearts as no
to be easily eradicated, even when oul
honor and interest demand it? Let US
discard the thought pursuing any course
that will! awaken past dissensions or shar-
pen past animosities among us, determined
to go into the ''eonfict" that has been fore
ed upon us, not of our own seeking, ant
present an unoroken phalanx of fearless
free.nen, who will not shrink from the
performance of their offices, whether fo
veal or woe, In the open declaration
and the manly maintenance of southern
rights we desire to see none lag behind.
/ ''He who dallies is a bastard;
| He who doubts is damned"
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