Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-01-31

embrace with pleasure this opportunity of de. ciarlng My disqpprobaon of the clause of the con stitution which denies to a portion of the colored people the right of suifrage''
 " True democracy makes no inquiry about the color of the skin, place of nativity or any other circumstances or condition. regard, therefore. the exclusion of the colored people, as body from the elective franchise, as Rc,patibe with true de- mocratic principles
 And further, he says with great empha- sis and explicitaess of expression:
 " That no man IS good enough to govern another man ,oiou Me others consent say this is inc load. ing principle-the SHEET ANCHOR of American re- publicaaism.'
 As embodying our views fully on the subject involved in the foregoing ouota- tions from Mir. Lincoln; we bee leave to in- troduce the language of one of Alabama,s 6 most able and patriotic statesmen. the Hon l.. r. Walker in letter addressed bv hin, to the Hon. w. II. Forney of the same otate' so lar as It IS applicable to the affairs of our State: " The tide of fanaticism never rolls bacIwar1s flow can 1t in this instance? These neonIo aro honest Tn their madness. It is their relioion IT. brooks no opposition and needs no appeal. With them the crusade against southern life and sontb. ern lhsetutlohs' IS crusade waged by civilization | o: ~ ger .. .,, -py christianity against heath- enlsm-and It will never pause, much loss ceasa II tnls Union lasts, until Mir. Seward save tboro snail not be lett single slave to stand mon Ana rcan soil No it shall pass as MT. Seward adds
 'hrohgn ana through, and through from Maine to 'ie uuii ol heXico, proclaiming wherever it goes umVersal emancpatlon and universal sufffage
 The truth is, to put it plainly. this whole srh. Ject has reached this simple proposition-shaU mo- yoeS 9ooerh whlte men, or white men govern mo- groes Was this Union made by white men for white men, orby white men for neuoes-that's inc question we've got to decide now
 | :. In this contest the North can, without danger | to itself, take the side of the negro The white population overwhelmingly predominates in the northern states, and always will in the proportion or hundred to one No northern State runs the nazard of being dominated over by the negro race But how is it with Us here in Alabama, and in most, It not all, of the southern States excluding from the list, Delaware, Maryland and Missouri? Re- member now, that universal emancipation and uni Versai suffrage go together. When this point is reached and the ballot is free alike to black and Wnte-my God. the infamy of such a possibility ! Which race will have the numerical strength in thls State, the strength to rule, and govern, and hold in subection1
 nIhe census oI 1862, soon to be published. an swers this question There are 90,349 white men entitled to vote in this State, as shown by the re- cent eiectlon There are not less than l l5 00O ne- groe fellows above the age of 2l. Submit then. Ii you dare, for single day to the administration or man who proclaims this doctrine of universal emancipation and the rrepressible conflict nyoly- ing all that free man holds most dear, is soon ended. First, our property, then our liberties the sacred purity of our dauchters-tbe noble spirits of our sons-he whole social fabric of south ern clvlllzation-the highest and best ordered and most perfect embodiment of human government the world has ever seen, will pass away forever to lVe-and such life!-only in history, as a tes l tlmony ot our madness, or our foy or our crime rci, call it?
 " No; with my voice, the possibility of this evil snail never impend over In all great political crisis, delays are always dangerous. Delay now is destruction. If we would live as reemen we must act as freemen. For twenty long years Mr. Cal nouns warning voice has said, prepare, the evil days are coming. They have come at last and although we spurned the prophet and dsregarded the prophecy, let have the manliness at least to acknowedgeits fulfllment, by doing our duty now that the prophet and prophecy have passed into his tory"
 But passing all this, events, since the fa tai sixth day of November last, have hur- red on with rapidity as unparalleled as unexpected, and whatever men may think ot the justice and right of secession it is in re, gard to six States of this Union, no longer an open question, but a fact accomplished. And now, there remains for Us but the sim pie question, shall we too seoede and unite with the Southern States in the formation of southern conlelleracy, or shall we by remaining in the Union, be the friends. the allies, the aiders and abetters of black repubilcansm, force ourselves and our State into position of hostility to the se- ceding South? We must felow-eitizens. inevitably do one or the other, there is no middle ground. Either we are for the South or we are against it. Those States which have seeded will not come back without a recognition of rights and the enactment of guarantees for their protection which this union loving black republican party have time and time again the present winter refus- ed. Those Otates are even now preparing to form contederacy, ard the fourth of March Will, lnfalllby see them united under new government. On the other hand, place Mir. Lincoln and the black republican party in power, with the whole force of the govern. ment under their control, with every north ern, and one half the southern States sub lect to him, and think you he will, believ- ing as he and his party profess, that seces- sion Is rebellion, and that it is the duty of the Federal Executive to repress it, that he will fail to attempt coercion. If so you ter. rbly mistake the party and the man. From the hour the ordinance of secession placed South Caroline without the Union, the re- publican congressman have clamerously de- manded coercion; abolition and republ- can newspapers have sung peans to the Union, and demanded coercion. Their Go vernors and State legislatures have demand | nd tan1 tho,, I ney with which to do it. Even Lincoln has spoken, proclaiming it the duty of the general government to coerce the seeding States, and that, let Buchanan shrl1 that duty as he may, Lincoln and his invincible blacks will execute it to the letter.
 Fellow-citizens, this party are pledged to the destruction of slavery, and what fairer opportunity could the very demon of abo litionism itself ask than thusto precipitate a contest in which one half the South would be it's ally against the other This would indeed, be in the words of Lincoln " com polling slavery, as the scorpion surrounded by fire, to sting itself to dcath" We beg you then, to bear in mind that your only hope of peace is in a united southern move ment, We repeat it, six States have gone out, and we and every other southern State must go with them if we would have peace.
 It will be urged upon you fellow citizens, that your interests are with the border States, and that in consequence it is your duty to wait for them; that they will not go with the South but will with New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana Illinois, and we suppose Michigan Wiscon- nd II Kansas, form that heaven of designing abolitionism, the MIDDLE CoEFEDERAoY. Have men gene mad, that they should even dream seriously of so wild a project? Why dissolve this Union, but to avoid the strife between abolitionism and slavery, but to i secure our interests, our homes, our honor