The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-02-12

SOUTH CAROLINAS NOSE Our OF JOINT.-A
New York gentleman, while en- route from
Charleston, stopped for short time at Whining
ton, N. c., and at one of the hotels the CONVEX
sation turned upon the secession of South Caro-
lima. The village orator said he had an effec-
tual remedy for the present difficulties, and
that was, by an amendment of the constitution,
to let South Carolina 60 out of the Union
and come into it as often as she pleased. We
fear she will not be INDUCED with that privilege
now. The new Southern confederScy has already
used her up. She has lost her Independence.
1t has been swallowed up in the superior power
ard authority of the United States South. She
cannot now make war or peace, or send ambas-
sailors, or attack forts. She must do as she is
ordered, or be squelched; and this time she
cannot get out of the Union. She is surround
ed on every side, and Fort Moultrie or Fort
Pinckney, or the batteries on Morris Island, or
even Fort Sumter, if she had it, will avail her
little against land attack from the confede-
rate army, should she attempt to nullify the
laws of the Union or proclaim her indepen-
dence.
The statesmanlike manner in which the
Southern confederacy at Montgomery have
formed the new government presents striking
contrast to the mad proceedings of the Pal
metto State. 1t commands the respect of the
whole country North and South, and will COM
mand the respect of Europe, and the indepen-
dence of the confederacy will be acknowledged
by all; while South Carolina and her gas
conade will be heard of no more. The
glimmer of her little Pickering candle will
be lost in the effulgence of the sunlight
of the Southern Union. We pity her sorrows.
What will become Of her now? In avoiding
imaginary evils she has fallen upon evils she
knew not of. 1t is out of the frying pan into
the fire. She can no longer strut about with
little petty, brief authority, and she must be ex-
ceedingly civil to the new federal power. If
she should again kick up her heels, and send
the forts, the Southern President would arrest
him for treason as quick as lightning, and have
him hanged, instead of parleying with him like
poor Buchanan. For JEFF Davis is a man of
pluck and a man of power, a man of talent and
q statesman.
We perceive, from her great organ, that she
is already grumbling. Things at Montgomery
rial population of Charleston. In leader
headed 1.-THE Danger" the Mercury of Friday
last, says
II is evident to those who have watched events that
the future OF the cotton States balance aud
will go up down according to the pursued by
the members of the Cotton States Convention
sembled at Montgomery A Southern corfederacy or a
OI1 fhp nit And
the policy Of that body tends to other OF these
results good evil remains in store for people,
For ourselves, we look upon reconstruction Of the
Union inevitable destrucon-n the language OF
Seward, the "downfan OF slavery
Pray do not be in such hurry, little game
cock. You will get one of your wings clipped
and your two spurs cut, and log tied to
your leg, time enough, and if you should
futter about in your new condition you
will hurt nobody but yourself. The Southern
confederacy is an accomplished, fixed fact.
and henceforth South Carolina is q cipher.
THE people of the cotton States" quoth our
contemporary, "are fully prepared for
Southern confederacy, and expect nothing
else. We warn the public in time that
their eyes may be open to the danger. We
trust that If such an effort is made at Mont
gomery, as there is reason to believe will be
made, there will yet be sufficient sincerity,
manhood and craftsmanship in that body to
put down the insidious proposition, under
whatever plausible pretext it is professedly
proposed" The Congress only met on the 4th,
and at the end Of four days, because they did
not precipitate their work, but took sufficient
time for deliberation, unlike the laundering
politicians at Charleston, the Mercury breaks
ont into strain of invective. But they have
done their work well, and finished it off in a
week, as the impatient Mercury would have
seen had it waited for another day or two.
South Carolina is now fast, and cannot fly off
at tangent. She is put upon her good be-
havior, and Eust beware Of treason against the
Southern confederacy. She can neither get
out of that Union nor into the Northern con-
federacy, nor stand as a lone star with her
palmetto flag in the wind. The stars and
stripes must be obeyed this time. Alas for
poor little South Carolina.
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