Nebraska advertiser., 1861-02-07

Signs or the Tmes.-Day DaWning.
The signs Of the times surely are indi-
eaiiye Of returning reason. We assert
his in the face Of sensation kilograms,
abd the spouti1g of crack-brained politi-
Clans. We're they really induces to the
popular. sentiment or feeling, naturally
enough might we conclude there was no
remedyA"no balm in Gilead"-that all
was lost. Happily, however, there is an
appeal from such to q higher tribunal
the psopk-whsrea all Pouer exists, and at
proper times is exercised. Fanatical,
corrupt, traitorous, ga~sconading demago-
que political leaders, have about exhaust
ed themselves. The people, North and
South, whom they have duped, are waking
Up 10 a proper sense of their condition
aud danger. The working men-the
prsdacers-lhose most vitality interested
i'm me psfpet0ity Of The Union, are arou-
sing and uttering most solemn protests
against The suicidal course of modern Po-
lihcians. The politicians themselves have
become alarmed at the extent they have
carried matters. and are inclined to throw
of, as it were, abstract political issues or
questions, and look affairs square in the
face. Especially is this the case in the
South, where most the trouble now is.
The brief career of the Kingdom Of
South Carolina has failed to fulfil a sin
gle prophecy of those who have lead off
in deceiving her people, and they are
beginning to see It.
The following paragraph from the
Charleston Mercury Of the 10Th ult., very
clearly comedies the alledged fact that
many Of the bestfamilies are fleeing from
the mob rule prevailing there, as from a
plague.
The removal of many excellent fami-
lies from the capital is regretted, but no.
body proposes to stop them from mana
ging their own domestic affairs in their.
own way"
The unity Ct the slave States; offers
of treaties of commerce by great foreign
power; the flow Of milk and honey
throughout the Southern Confederacy,
have all vanished like thin air, and bank
ruptcy, beggnry, d%istrust, and fearful ap-
~prehensions, are taking their place. Not
single foreign vessel has entered Char
lesion harbor since her act Of secession.
Those laden with cargOes for that point
have gone into other pOrts-Savannah.
The bona fde people of other seeding
States, are suddenly waking up to the
fact that, under the pretence of seeking
to secure Southern rights. the traitorous
leaders are placing upon their necks the
yoke Of ~atrocious military despotism.
During the sitting Of the Alabama Con.
v%ention, the people Of North Alabama no
tilted that body that if it dared to make a
new government for the State, without
submitting their action in the premises to
the consent of the people, they would re-
sist its authority by force of arms
AT Winchester, Va-the home of the
.'chief Of Sinners Senator Mason, who
declared upon the Senate loora few days
since that the South neither asked nor
desired concessions or compromises-the
largest meeting ever convened in that
place was held Oh the 9Th inst, at which
the following resolutions were adopted:
That the dismembermont of the Union would en-.
tail upon us a longer and blaeker train of woes than
has ever yet, ia the Providence Of God, afflicted any
That the trouble has been brought about by the
wnnton and wicked fanaticism of the North, and the
gdsconading folly and sinister selfshness Of the dem
agogues Of the South.
That experience win not have demonstrated the
impractibiiity Of maintaining the Union.
That we recognize the government Of the Federal
Union. within the sphere Of its appointed duties and
delegated powers as positive, potential and para
MONTH It's authority over every individual citizen
OF the nation; and entitled 10 the good faith of State
Obligation under the Constitution and the laws.
ThatnO State. or combination Of States, Of the
federal Union. can absOlve herself from her duty to
he reo-States under the Constitution, except by the
issue Of q revolutionary appeal to the God ofnatiSns
on the merits other cause.
That, as the hasty and precipitatec course Of South
Carolina has been, ~avowedly, predicated upon the
Intention 10 make the ruin Of the Confederacy re-
NEEDLESS. rather than to redress her wrongs in the
Union: and is eminentlys calculated to involve all
the aavebolding States in the desolating woes of a
civil war, without the exercise of their discretion
rs to the mode and measure ofmeeting the exigen-
CIV: therefore We deprecate her conduct as ill-advis-
ed, unjust, and disrsspectful to her sister States Of
the South.
This notable meeting broke up with
three cheers for jackson, three for Major
Anderson, three for Gen.. Scott, and nine
for the Union,
We might ill our paper with such
Union sentiments thrown to the breeze
by the people from every State 'in the
Union. But this is sufficient to give an
idea of the true feeling, when we get
outside the circle Of politicians.
We may have a hostile brush between
The infurtated traitors and the general
government, before the wave Of treason
is entirely checked; but we very much
doubt It. It is life or death with the dis
..-. 49,, 80 a. hn traitors or