The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1861-01-17

NNf W NHll we NflNHfN ~ IHHff NHtfefh
r1nirhlIng PARTIES IN mfhy ififieis's
HHies Alplfanlt IN ihe tfssIieney seired
uf0n n Ha q weafun i9f gratifying iheif
ambition NJ agenNbr their dis,ppoinimehb
lhdff ihr shadow n iheif patronage. sia
cero ahollilanIfia h'cime more bold aud
abusive M advocating theif principle
The anlawfal and wicked business N et
ilelnf slaves fran their mmlefawas pushed
forward with Increasing le,l Mtn who
N ihe better days N the Iepnblic could M,
have obtained The smallest unles, ~etc
ele0iod 70 Congress upon ih, single issue
and ministers u lhe gospel desecned from
The pulpit 10 minpe religious anImoaity
with Ibe boiling cnuldron N political strife.
Nor wns this process confined ~ one side
of the contest Abuse always prosokoa 70.
elimination. ~ long ~ human nnture "
passionate, hard words will be- responded
10 by harder blows. And now behold the
result IN the halls where Webster and
Calhoun, Adams and McDuiHc rendered tho
very name Of American sintesmanship II.
lusirious aud revived the memory Of clsssi
cal cloqucncc, We have heard the ontporing
of both northern and southern violence
from men who must be namelcss In this
sacred place. and In the land where such
shareholders as Washington aud Madison
united will, Hamilton and Hancock in CO.
incnting the Union which they fondly hoped
would be perpctuatcd, commerce and mann.
iacturcs, and MI our great industrial and
governmental interests, are trembling on
the verge 81 dissolution; and m abolition
ism is the great mischief maker between
North and South, so il Is tho great stumbI.
ing block in the way Of peaceful settle
mcnt Of our difficulties. Its voice IL still for
war. The spirit Of concillintion and CON-
promise II utterly sbhors, and, mingling .
horrid mrth with ils madness, puts into the
hands Of the advocates Of secession the
very fans with which TO blow the cmbcss u
strife into flame. One man threw torch
into the great temple of the Ephcsisns and
kindled connsgration which = hundred
thousand brave men could not exsinguish.
One man iiddlcd and sang and made HE
courtiers laugh amid the burning Of Rome
and the abolition preacher "fecls good"
and overllows with mcrimcnt when he secs
our merchants and laboring men running
after their chests and the bread Of thsir
families "as IL MI creation vss after them"
and snufs in the southern breeze The scent
of scryilc and civil war. Oh, shame
shame that il should come to this, and The
name Of our holy religion be 30 bIasphemsd!
Let ~ hope, in Christian charity, thst such
men 10 not comprehend the danger that
stsrcs them in the face. Indeed, who Of
as fully comprehcnds Il! In the eloquent
words Of Daniel Webster, "While the
Union lasts wc have high, exciting, graft
flying prospects spread out before ", Tor ~
and our children. Beyond that ] seek not
TO raise the veil God grant that u ny
day, Mt least, that curtain may not rise"
A kind and wonderful Proyideace has 70
tempered the body of these States together,
80 bound and In,crlsccd them with CONNER.
cial aud social ties, 10 say nothing Of lssal
obligations, that no member can Be severed,
and especially no contest cen BE- wsged
among the members, without quivesIne
and anguish in every nerve, end stsGna-
lion In tho vital ruvrcnts az al. La ooo
% ..., hs Sio,,sd ont from ovr cn,;en. snd
,hs I moral sray;,a,ion which holds IN n
,Ls;r oryi,s viii he porslvred. n not after.
To- ds.,,oyed The I;v;ns exsmois of sue.
cessful secession for one cause, will ssgoest
the same course for another and usIsss
Goa a. ,e gives our public men ) wisdom snd ior.
hs.,.ncs n which the mast few YEAR ksve
sNorded too little evidence. tbs dissolslioe
~ M. t-n;or v;ll hs tho s;snai for ~ AZ.
in.erra.ion Of i,s elements. In such .
sh.o. h, us mot ast,er ovr,sjves that ve
shsll he IN entire pesso spd ssfe.y. NJ
coc,c., on whose perilous edss " sesn =
stand, cannot bs merely ssesiessl eae-
al the North on sss side, ssd III ~ gessh
on the other. Il II coslist shat viI1 ~
the plo,shsbsve Of divisioa shrossh evus4
State and ueishbovhood h The land. Az,
tfs@*t ess-s ~ 49, :.