Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-02-28
From the Batesville Southern Aurora. Evils of Procrastination.

 eracy is no longer enveloped in clouds of doubt and uncertainty, but on the other hand, its existence is now merely ques- tion of time. An memorable chain of cir cumstances of the past few weeks, has shown, that republic composed of major ity of the slaveholding States, must, and wiH be formed. Attempted coercion will hasten it. Compromises will stay it, as pebbles stay the mighty ocean tide.
 The secession of seven powerful and wealthy States is an accomplished fact. To think for moment that these States will be lured back into the deadly embrace of abolitionism by the glittering bauble of a frail and unsafe compromise is absurd To believe that these brave people will be in. timidated by the idle threats of coercionists, IS clear evidence of idiocy.
 The construction of this southern republic is clearly beyond prohibition by earthly power, for
 "A part of the host have crossed the flood
 And part are crossing now''
 In view of these acknowledged facts, we ask in all honesty, why sEouldtRe pc ople of Arkansas longer delay and doubt? Why should they still finger in the delusive sun shipe of hope?
 We must deal with facts as we find them, and not as we would have them. The North evinces no disposition to offer con sessions that will or ought to conciliate the South. Compromises have been the bane and curse of our section, and we should no longer depend on that broken staff.
 If the people of the North were to wipe out all the offensive and obnoxious laws from their statute books, they would have just begun. Their great task is to remove and eradicate the deadly hate they bear us, and to place in its stead fraternal love and brotherly kindness. When this is done the Union will be planted upon a basis enduring as the rock whereon the temple of eternal truth is built.
 But this they will never do. The walls of hatred that divided the northern people from us are immovable as
 'Gates of burning adamant."
 The question at issue is not, shall we preserve or dissolve the Union? A disslu. tion of the confederacy is already accom- plished, and we must now join the black republicans of the North, or else go with the sunny South.
 The issue is so plain, that no one can doubt as to his duty No man born upon southern soil, who has burning upon the altar of his heart one spark of devotion to the land of his nativity can doubt or hes- tate between joining the black cohorts of abolitionism, and the legions of the South.
 Nothing can be gained by hesitation, doubt, or delay. The sovereign people of Arkansas will soon be called upon to shape the destiny of the State, and no one can blind himself to the palpable fact, that we must now withdraw from the Union, or else be chained, like captives to the car of black republicanism. Let the freemen of the State choose between them. To falter or hesitate would be our run-to ioin an accursed abolition government is worse, far worse than death. What power will this State have to guard and protect her rights, when a ma ajority of the slave States have seeded and left the government in the hands of abolitonists? Absolutely none. Freemen of Arkansas, look at this question calmly and deliberately. This inability to protect your rights will prove your ruin. When the letters of abolitionism are fast ened upon, your time of troubles will have come, Large slaveholding planters, the bone and sinew of the land, will forsake your State as men desert sinking ship cities and towns will decay-real estate will depreciate in value-works of internal improvement will be abandoned, commerce and trade will be paralyzed. Desolation will pass over the State like simeon of the desert, and soon the people will begin to groan and stagger beneath the galling fardel of black republican oppression. Worse than this, every moment we delay, encourages the black republicansto hiss their blood thirsty myrmadons upon the unof- lending citizens of seeded States, and to butcher and slaughter them with fire and the sword.
 Think of this, and hesitate no longer. Worse, far worse evils than these will result from submission and delay. In after time, when the people of the State aie- -smarting- beneath the sting of wranx and oppression, they will resolve to throw off the black republican yoke. The coer- cionists will then have complete control of the government, and we will be cut off from the sympathy of the cotton States.
 The dark and vandal host of the North will march upon us, and at their coming, a myriad of bright toledo blades will leap from their scabbards, and then will we be plunged into the horrors of civil war, war that would bathe the virgin soil of our State in the blood of her sons, a war so terrible that the soul dare not contemplate its gloomy horrors. No one can foretell what would be lhe final result, perhaps the ruin and subjugation of our State. All of this can be avoided--not by base and