Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-02-21

i ..ro interpretations; if it were only to of of.o,a Mo more specifically what the consti- relI',a .sn nroperly understood, already con tuisD' But they have yielded nothing, talns aln.o5 nothing, promised nothing.
 prooppo'w pop .9 will allow the vote on the Critten-
 inoy ino:yolutions to be taken, they say, about den ed sSIV of March, perhaps, if it is taken at the ou and tbey stand pledged to defeat them al1 solid party vote. The Crittenden by "os;tion is another compromise; it will PIT ot protect us five years; and the South su,bt sv, not to accept it. ] cannot vote for ..n vour name. But they will yield noth-
 ln IL. tIat we can or ought to accept. We, ihs .hs weaker party to this irrepressible con ti' o:'. are made by the mouths of southern ns't ninsstuated men to present all the proposi- i:nns iina for compromise, with our humble tlolu arors to the deaf ears and stony hearts of PPi".k PPisok republicanism, and finally, to the art;fvinp sense of humiliation is to be lnGi n1ded the ignominy of failure, and the bit tsr @a consciousness of contempt.
 ~ Nothing short of secession could have oompelled the North to give us the guaran- ts tsss and security that we arc compelled to somand. Whilst Congress does nothing ao oaJ the border States, deluded by the peace "oucress and the idle hope that the Critten den propositions may be adopted, are al- low lowing the golden opportunity for efficient oction to pass away, Lincoln announces xbat he is opposed to any compromise and will execute the laws; and as an earnest of l bo IT ard for his secretary of state. His follow ers in Congress and out, pronounce for CO., ercion: the laws of the States, in violation E.of the constitution, and which annul the 5act of Congress passed to prevent the steal inc of our property, remain unrepealed; and Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Massa- Ichusetts, and others, tender to the incom- Epg President men and money to enable him llto s41,;ses.- s4},e <. .,,- :. : South.
 why should we put trust in them? s ffrney have violated the once sacred constitution and their oaths, what obligation, more sa cred and superior to them, can man devise? All pledges are met with punic faith, if in conflict with the northern policy and reli gious hostility. Their policy ia the ex- tinction of four thousand million dollars of southern property, and the freedom, and he equality wiM us of the four millions of ne- groes now in the South. All obligations have, and all future promises will give way before that policy.
 For thirty years the politicians have had this controversy in their exclusive charge; and all the time. while it has been going from bad to worse, and the constitution has been helpless to protect, and the Union has been to us mere hollow truce, treacher- | ous armistice, the praises of that Union and the glories of our flag have been vociferous- ly chaunted by those who were vigorously violating the one, and shattering the other into fragments.
 We have had compromises enough, eouivocating platforms enough, while in every contest the South have lost more and | more of their just rights, and more shorn oftheir strength. In every struggle against northern aggression, conducted by south ern politicians, we have been driven to the wall. Too often we have lost ground by their selfish ambition, pandering to the North for the sake of attaining high posi- ton: and too often has this, and the cre- dulity and timidity of southern men sacri- feed southern security and equality in the Union.
 At last, thank God, the people of the southern States have taken the matter into their own hands; and have faith in them. They will settle 1t. They will have their just rights, peaceably if they can, forcibly if they must. Heart and hand, with my whole soul, through every trial, am with them. as 1 am of them, until the end.- Urged by their ablest and purest public men, these people are taking charge of theil own interests through their State govern ments: and as result we see that for the first time, since 1769, the South is reso- lutely and successfully maintaining her rights and equality against the great :" ire pressible conflict Whatever difference of opinion among our public men there were originally, in regard to separate seaes; there are few of the brave and the true, who do not say now to the States who have gal lantlv flung themselves into the breach "God speedr' Stay not your hands , until the work De done. Halt not nor pause until you have vindicated your power te protect yourselves until your security anc equality are perfect and reliable" l The northern States are alarmed. They feel the truth of the significant remarks o the London Times, that if the border States unite with those that have seeded, and form a new federation, 1t would be the real United States. so far as territory present and prospective is concerned, and reduce the North to what our ancestors would have termed Ca rump," with future hardly greater than that of Canada, a morrow slip of country as struggling as that of Prussia, and ready soon to fall to pieces; im phich future separation of the territory North, we are to find, and in nothing else perhaps, perfect peace for ourselves and perfect se- curity for the future.
 Even the present reluctant admissions oi few of the people of some of the northern cities, would never have been obtained, if the southern people had not put Congress Gin which they were powerless) to one side, and themselves assumed the conduct of the controversy; and if they were now to halt, and again commit it to Congress, to calculating friends and timid compromisers, the patched up truce would soon be broken, agitation for the repeal of all concessions would shake the North, the statesmen who had conceded anything would be swept out of power, every unconstitutional law would be re-enacted, every trace of our equality obliterated, and we should have again to resort to secession, under increased disad- vantages, and far greater hazard, while all the world smiled and anticipated for us a new defeat.
 It sounds well of no Arkansiau to lo- proach the States that have adopted sepa- rate action, aside from the fact that the complaint will be found to come invariably from the very men that will show them- selves, if not already well known, to be op- posed to action of any kind. Arkansas made no effort to cooperate with her sister | soi1tharn Stotae tb0uoh invited tO do so