New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-02-08
s5rhe Fsrewelr or Georgia.

In the Senate, on Monday, 2Sths ulf., Mfr. liver
sent to the table of the President to be read
the Ordinance of the State Of Georgia, whereby
abe declares herself politically disconnected with.
the remainder of the#United States, and 10 hive
resumed her independence The Ordinances Was
read by the Clerk.
Mr.. Iverson said that by the operation OF This
Ordinance, Georgia is no longer one of the United
States of America. She had withdrawn FROM the
Confederacy, and taken her position ance more as
free and Independent State. This she did under
the conviction that her safety, interest and honor
demanded it. Her opinions have been gradually
tending in this direction for the last ten years. and
recent events have confirmed her in II The Con.
vention of the State has passed an 0rdinahce sg
Secession, and Georgia is now one Of six States
which have discovered their connection with tha.
Union. Affairs are in progress TO form 2 GonfedeT-
powers to declare war, conclude peace, InEI9
treaties, and to do all other acts and things that
independent people may of right DE-. Prosisian
will be made to admit other States into This Con
federacy, and it is believed that at length al the
saveholding States will form 4 Confederation far
more homogeneous than the present one. This act
of Georgia, in seeding from the Union, and seeE-
ing new relations, met the approval Of his we'll
considered and deliberate judgment, and as one Of
her native sons, he should be with her in all her
| fortunes, of veal or woe, to the last.
| You, Senators of the United States may aeqas-
esce in the new Confederation, and thereby main
tain the peace and keep a goai anderfand ding, eE
you may make war. If you wiz, edge our
Independence, you can have an equtah bic division OH
the public property, and we of the South will bear
our share Of the public debt. But if you make
war, we will keep all the property in onr hands,
and will never pay one dollar OF the common pub
| lie debt. daughter on the Republican side.
The first Federal gun fired will cancel eYery pub
| lie and private debt. We care not in what form
you may make war upon us !; no matter whether IL
be the collection of revenue or any other we shah
treat it as an act of war. You may send troops en-
land, you may send ships on the water but no mai
ter what is the form Of your aggression, 81 yhas
the shape in which you attack us, we will fight
you. You boast of your strength, bnt remember
the race is not always to the swift nor the battle
to the strong;'' you say yon have one hundred
thousand armed.troops so have we, and It viii tsse
you one hundred thousand and one hundred nls-
lions Of dollars to keep up the war for a year
You may, indeed, overcome us, you may brrn ZIP
our cities and towns, murder our wives and ehii-
dren, but you can never subjugate u.s. Yon may
whip us, but we will not stay whipped. AL fns
| means of coercion you may adopt agaiIlst rs VIII
not subdue US to your oppressive and aeeuTsed
yoke. You may send ships Of war and hloekaes
our ports, and deprive US OF our commerce. as y
you do you will ind there the fleets Of other nsl-
lions who will dispense your ships and set rs tfee
The 6rst Federal gun fred will bring all the South
d ern States into one Confederaey, even including
g Maryland laggard as she may be af the Present.
/ moment.
of the Government War will prevent that forever.
! But he would not say that, II war be reIrame@
from the Southern States would not hereafter ass
ten to reasonable propositions for
Let the North make such propositions and re VII
consider them The people Of the South love The
Union, and when they see returning sense o.
s Justice on the part oi the North and when they
are offered guarantees for equality, they may re-
consider their present action For himself, inlE-
yfduaily, he would never agree to reeonstructOnr
OF to formation ef new Union. The rahicon il
passed. SILL his individual iudg ment may be OYER
! ruled, and his State may choose to enter q new
! Union with the States Of the North, hui this Wpuie
not he until the States of the North has faEn asd
s guarantees for equality and made provisions "a
I the protection Of slavery. In retiring now ffns'
{ the Senate, he wished only 10 express thanks ia
the uniform ceurtesies that had been EXTENDED %
him by all these with whom he had enjoyed of6csz
q Intercourse, and in wishing them, each ana aa
a peace, length Of life, prosperity and happ5nezs
would bid them AL farewell. ssAsss