The daily true Democrat., 1861-03-11

vernment. Ihere Delng tnrty-three HtateS to the compact, if one withdraws is the compact broken? 1 think so If seven withdraw is 1t not then broken? That be- ing denied-if thirty withdraw, leaving three behind, do the remaining three consti- ute he Union? Surely no man would answer that in the affirmative. Then the principle Is the same from first to last, whether one or thirty States withdraw - the contract-the agreement-the partner ship is dissolved. And each partner
 whether by his act or the act of his associ ate, Is released, and stands intact as he did before he signed the articles of agree ment If this course of reasoning is cbr rect, the question for Arkansas to deter mine, is whether she will join her sister States of the South, with whom she has q common interest and must have com mon destiny; or whether she will turn her eyes North to Missouri, Kentucky, Mary land and the eighteen abolition States for sympathy and protection. If the cotton States had formed one government, and the border slave States and the North another; when Arkansas asked for admission, to which government would she have turned
 her attention, seeking an alliance? Ger
 tainly not to the northern government wherein she must perpetually remain subor
 dinate! but to the southern, of which she
 would have been an equal. .
 Fifteen southern States have failed in the past to protect slavery-how then can the remaining eight accomplish that object by remaining in the Union? Secondly. the doctrine of coercion announced by MT. Lincoln, and indorsed recently by the lower House of Congress on the Branch amend
 ment, by a vote of 136 to B, leaves the whole question of secession or no secession barren field for argument. The doctrine of coercion now stands at the summit of the controversy. Practically with Arkan
 sas, the question Is, whether she is willing to contribute men and money to subjugate her southern sisters to the condition of con quered colonies If she withdraws, she Is lawfully relieved at once from the perfor- nance of this onerous duty. If she stays in, she must perform it, or rebel against proper authority, and this, when pressed to such a necessity l believe her people will do. Amendments to the federal con stitution are urged by some as panecea for all the ills that beset us. That instrument is amply sufficient as 1t now stands, for the protection of southern rights, if it was only enforced The South wants practical evi dence of good faith from the North, not mere paper agreements and compromises They believe slavery sin, we do not, and there lies the trouble.
 All oocEJor,, 1oet aud ,t ,s too 1o{a to repair it. The honor and sensibilities of southern men have been trampled upon and wounded until the two sections stand in undisguised antagonism. What house can stan divided against itsef? Let us then separate in peace if possible; if not, then let it be in war, for separation must come sooner or later, and our danger in creases in magnitude.
 But with the fifteen slave States com bined, as must ultimately be the case, hav- ing population of IF, 433, 5OS and compre- hending in their area 857 ,090 square miles having the exclusive control of the cot ton zone of the world, with the necessity on the part of Great Britain, France and other European governments of securing aliment for their cotton looms and spindles-the southern confederacy could not only soon induce peace at home, but exert an import ant influence upon the commercial interests of the world.
 The shipping, mining and manufactur- ing interests of the North could not con sent to loose, by incessant war, the advan- tages to be derived from peaceful and re- spectful intercourse with the agricultural States of the South.
 The burthen of taxation necessarily i'm posed upon the people of the new govern ment, it is said, must be onerous and op pressive. The expenses incident to gov ernment are proportionate to it's magni- tude The government of the United States, when first organized, was main tained for years at a cost of less than sev- enteen millions of dollars annually. The indirect annual tax paid by the slave-hold- ing States, upon foreign importations ex- ceed an amount sufficient to maintain and operate southern confedeincy.
 Cotton is King, and will open up the