Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-03-22
Southern News.

ne event IN llselI, ~ ol lar lOos i"i
portance than its progressive and evident
ly final results. 1t is the peaceful wedge
that must complete the separation with
out resort to arms. Pickens and the
other forts of the Gulf must follow the
lead of Sumter, and the very act of
abandonment involves the necessity of
our rjqh to separate independence, and
the duty of the old Union to recognize
and respect it. Such recognition at
home will fly to the ends of the earth
and in a brief season we shall stand
honored and respected amongst the ma
tons"
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle says:
Some Of the people of South Caro-
lima appear to be getting sick of separate
state secession and forced loans, and are
moving from the State with all possible
haste. Messrs. Farr, Cotter and Burns,
with Their families, thirty-fve negroes,
twenty horses, wagons, carriages, &C.,
we're found on the Admiral last evening
on their way to new home near the
mouth of the Arkansas river, There
are saio 10 be many others in the Pal
metto State WHO will follow their exam
pie, and leave as soou as possible"
On the other hand, many families are
preparing to migrate to the Southern
Confederacy. The Richmond Dispatch
says;
8" We are informed on reliable author
ity that at least thirty families, ~ sin
gle county of Amelia aad as ma as a
hundred in Mecklenberg, are preparing
to cmigrate to the South, in the event
hat Virginia decides 10 become the tail
of thu Abolition Confederacy, Even in
Western Virginia, we have heard of sew
eral true Southern families in one county
who contemplate removal"
PROPOSED EVACUATION OF Fort
SUMTER.--The Charleston Mercury, al
ludes as follows to the announcement that
the Administration intends to withdraw
the troops from Fort Sumter:
"The intelligenc uained IN our
column to-day viii g,atity our
readers. Sumter is to be GUS without
fight. All will rejoice that the blood of
our people is not to be shed in our har-
Dor in either small great degree. To
those who hay troub- themselves with
vague fears of war on large scale, and
the horrors Of war extensively, the relief
will be as great as the apprehension has
been grievous. For ourselves, notwith-
standing all the Northern thunder, we
have never been able TO bring ourselves
seriously to believe in the probability of
any more than few collisions, sufficient
10 show that we are in earnest and COM
petent to make good our position Of III
dependence against our would-be masters.
These gentry hold our valor light, as
also the honesty Of the determination OF
the Southern people to be quit Of them
and their imperliaent and detrimental
interference through q government in
common. 1t may, perhaps, yet be nee
essary to instruct them little in these
particulars. But it appears that for the
present, under the circumstances in this
case, they are inclined senslby to dis
penoe with experiment and It's teachings.
How far this discretion will reyivify the
hopls aud stimulate the efforts of the re-
constructiouists throughout the South, is
matter to be discovered by observation.
The temper and intention of the North
cru people has now been SO thoroughly
developed and exposed to the eyes OF all
those at the South who will see, that we
trust that the Union-menders are TOO late
| in ,,eir attempts upon the virtue and in