Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1861-02-14
Slips from Prentice.
lCut from the Louisville lKy-) Jonrnal.l

Alabama has declared for Secession, but
that portion of the State called North Ala
bama makes the most vehement opposition
to it. Is North Alabama to be coerced
Isn't Secession revolution, and doesn't the
right Of revolution belong as much to tie
people of section Of State as it does
to the people Of a whole States
4 We have no doubt that we can safely
Announce that Mississippi as a free, sover-
leigh, and independent State has taken her
rank amoung the nations of the GARTH
| Vicksburg SIN, Jan. 10.
! oh, yes, and what tremendous show
she makes by the side of such inferior ;la-
tions Of the earth as Great Britain, France,
Russia, and Austria.
| Mississippi having seceeded, we advise
her to adopt the pelican flag, for ornitholo-
lgists describe that bird as having large,
wide, and very much depressed bill.
! We hope our good friend Mississippi
won't let Great Britain hear that she is out
of the Union. Britain might make her
lpay those repudiated bonds.
| South Carolina thinks the garrison in
Fort Sumter an insult to her. But it
seems the Insults not to be withdrawn.
! Men in these times exhaust all their
strength and zeal in getting Office, and SO
have none for the discharge Of their duties.
The Memphis Avalanche, inquiring how
Tennessee will 90. exclaims, s'Under which
King" We think we can answer for
Tennessee that we won't enlist in the ser
vice Of any skiing" at all. She is Of diff
ferent way of thinking.
In the event of the dissolution Of the
Union, questions growing out Of the nayi-
Igation Of the Mississippi would be as GER
tain to produce war as the contact Of fire
and gunpowder is to create an explosion.
The New Orleans Crescent thinks that
s'the tariff ofthe Southern Confederacy will
be much lower than the existing tariff"
What do you guess the duty on sugar will
be, Mr.. Crescent? And how do you think
your sugar-planters will relish the changes
Won't they be as sour as their sugar is
lsweet?
| We believethat there isn'tinall the country
la Secession paper that expresses the slight
lest dsapprobation Of the seizure and CON
Ifiscation of Government property by States
processing to be out fthe Union and States
protesting to be in the Union.
Having violated all her Constitution OBJ
legations, South Carolina has now repudi-
|ated all her honest debts. A bill has pass
III Lo4l l. b,,.o- & A. oe.;.l a4,,no i
all debts TO citizens of non-slaveholding
States null and void.
Itappears that the Convention of Geor-
Igia, like those of South Carolina, Alabama,
and Mississippi. graciously decides, whilst
Withdrawing from the Union, to have the
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Government carry her mails for her at
her own expense This is certainly pretty
sharp practice. Would a refusal on the
part of the Federal Government be regard
ed by the seeding States as an act of re-
lbellion? Would it he thought punishable
as treason to the sovereignty Of South Car
lolina & Co?
j The men who to-day are the most .exul-
tant, the most jubilant over Disunicn or
the prospect of it, are the Garrison and
Wendell Philips Abolitionists. They are
Iincomparably loader and more boisterous
in their glee than Yancy and Keitt and
Rhett have ever dreamed Of being. They
will gladly participate in any festival which
the Cotton State politicians may get up
in honor of the revolution. Shall they not
have tickets Of invitationl
Gov. Piclsens publishes |. notification in
the New York papers, that all trading yes
flsels, not having United States troops or
munitions on board, are invited to Charles
ton. Such vessels will no doubt be mighty
likely to seek a port where all the light
4 houses bave been darkened all the buoys
removed, and the hulks Of old ships sunk
lin the channel to obstruct navigation.
i The Secessionists take the Federal Gov
ernment's Notifications by force, capture
its revenue cutters by force, drive away its
transport ships, seize its arsenals, arms and
ammunition by force, and then cry aloud
labout the atrociousness of the idea Of the
employment of force between the Federal
Government and themselYesl
| When we see low many of the persons
whom in years past we have denounced are
,igoing nobly for the Union, and how many
Of those whom we have praised are going
bitterly against it, we are almost half tempt
ed to resolve that we will never denounce
Tor praise anybody else as long as we live.
--nusr r=n----
4 GEThe lead shipments from this re-
gion during 1860, foot up in round num-
bers about $4,000 pigs to-wit:
From Dunleith. bv Railroad. IO.29S pjos.