Gazette and sentinel., 1861-01-12
The Vote of Iberville!

by the vote recorded TO day, we are glveI
to understand that Ihcrvrlle ~suStains the prin
ciple Of Secession and s1odJdtS State action
as a necessity paramount above all other con
siderations, in view of the fact that a s~ectiona
President has been elected upon the principle
Of annihilatOn Of the institution of slavery
in the Union, and eternal antagOnism against,
and war upon, the r gifts and interests Of the
slave owner till that consummation is accom-
plished! Is such a ruler, entertaining such
ideas of wrongs and tyranny against a portion
Of his people, and pledged to a programme
for Southern suhjugation, to be allowed to
inaugurate his rule over our fair State, as an
integral Of his Government? Never!
As Iberviilc has spoken, so will speak in
our ~Opinion-and judging from the character
Of the election returns so far-a majority Of
the parishes and people of Louisiana.
From all the indications now presented
from the tone and manner, the threats and
sneers of Black Republicans in Congress, and
their proud Indifference to Southern wrongs
and even defiance to Southern action-by the
language of their PresseS-the episode exor-
nations that come from their pulpits, in praise
of the Union and in dissertation Of 'manacled
humanity"-by the 'coercive" sentiment that
awakens the patriotism among their masses
by the unyi ldlng of an iota OF the Black
Republican principle and programme on the
part of the President elect and his advisers
and last though not least, by the wild hal'a.
lujahs and booming Of cannon in honor of
Anderson spiking his guns and fleeing to n
saftr fcrtress!-all, all are but additional in.
c%entjvos TO the grand one, that an Abolition
President was about to take his seat-all pling
fast upon each other, and urging South Caro-.
lina's sister slave States, in the name Of a
common cause, for their honor, TO- the sake
OF humanity, and the ties Of a kindred int.
terest and a kindred sentiment, to hasten their
acts of secession.
Already are Florida and Mississippi taking
up their line of march in the wake of South
Carolina. Alabama will follow next; then
comes GeOrgla-and then next will LoniS ana
have TO say whether she will or not, take her
position in the line of Seeded ~Statcs-trust-
Ing TO God and a just cause, her future
Texas and Arkansas, we may rest assured,
will go next, aud soon. The former, now,
would throw her destiny back upon her Lone
were not another State to
her ont of the Union.
BY the tim these great events are fully &C.
complshed, we may expect to hear the rum
bling of pOrtentuous thunder among the glens
md mountains Of the border slave States
Missouri and Virginia, even now, are taking
he preliminary steps to assert their indepen.
The latter assemblies in Convention
lext month, when, there is no question, her
let of secession will follow. North Ctrolina
'lainly shows her future by the recent act Of
iov. Ellis. in taking possession Of Fort Macon
nd other forts. The resolutions Of Critten
len being met with scorn on the part of the
Republicans, has aroused the Ken.
uckians from their unnatural apathy in a cri-
IS like the present, and soon their "war dogs
'll be bowling" And gallant Tennessee,
is Indignation aroused by the traitorous Ian
,uage OF her Senator, IS now demonstrating
her Legislature that her future will
e with the South and its destiny. !
What better go operation" or concert Of =
ctIon could have beeR desired among the {
States than this we have thus faithfully j
1t is the natural bursting out of !
Ne Same sentiment, in a manner justified by }
heir position, which animates the hearts OF a d
rave people everywhere, and which mutually :
mites in a common cause, as naturally as :
alter flows to the ocean, :,
All hail, then, the action Of Tberville on Il
last! She not only carried out vic. +
and by a handsome majority the prin- il
pie of separate and determined action by a il
State, when its rights are invaded t
I'd vassalage or independence the issue, s
ut in the persons Of Messrs. TABBor, JOHN l
roS and BUTLER, il has chosen a delegation :
the Convention, which, in point of ability, =
aud position, will favorably com. Ii
ire with any other, and to which the inter. Il
It's Of our State and parish may be conf C
entity eonfded. h
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HoN. j. P. BENJAMIN.-We have, says V
Delta, seen a letter from the Hon. j. o