The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1861-01-05
SECESSION.


does not like the idea Of Southern seces-
siou. Itsays: What madness possesses
the South, that her people suppose that
such things can he consuminated in the
face or day, and not IN due time awaken
4 feeling that will wipe out slavery every.
where. as with a sponge, leaving nothing
hut blood stains and ashes in the place
where ii broodcd. p:., Ill
T.. HARp TnEs. TIE Montgomery ADDER
fiser thinks that secession will not mater
tally lessen the prosperity Of the cotton
States during the winter. Itsays: One
or the arguments that win undoubtedly
be used by the submissionists In the bor-
der States, In order 70 persuade the South
TO lcquiesce III the ruinous administration
Of Lincoln, will be the stringency Of the
money market. No argument can be
more faIIacious. The Southern States
will secede with her crop in her own
hands. Five millions OF Englishmen and
two millions Of Frenchmen depend npon
this. crop for their bread. OF course,
when we separate, there will be q tenn.
porary and slight depreciation Of proper
w II will affect only those who have
run into debt for articles Of luxury and
extrayagance. The hard working man,
who has bought land and negroes on a
credit, will find that both land and ne
rroes will steadily increase ID price, SO
soon as the slave property of the South
il. 6y secession, put under the care of a
slaYeholding government. and he will, Of
course, become gradually richer. The
North will suffer; perhaps our friends
there, few though they be, will suffer as
much as the Abolitionists, but we must
take care Of ourselves. FIT; I. 1::... +
" PrBIIc SENTIMENT IN ALABAMA, The
Mobile Register Is Publishing extracts
from the private correspondence Of its
editor, for the purpose Of showing the
state Of public sentiment in the interior
counties Of the state. One correspondent
writes: THE South Is in no danger If the
states will remain in the Union four years
longer, OF at least until We have better
cause for withdrawal than now exists, aud
the South can never be united uutil there
is better cause, and suppose that their
great men know that, and that their
march may still be onward, the members
Of Congress are surrendering up the con-
troll Of that branch Of the government to
the enemy by resignation and secession
My life upon it, if the South will be true
to herself, and remain firm aud true in
their Official positions, during the admin
,istratioR Of Lincoln, that party will have
conquered itself without even q kick being
given it by the democratic party" An
other writes: II attended q large meeting
Of the citizens Of kemper county on yes.
terday, at DeKalb, OF all parties. All
joined ia the meeting, and there was but
one sentiment that preTailcd--all for i'm
mediate secession, solitary aud alone II no
cooperation could be had. I do not
know Of asubmissionist in all my aequaint-
. ance, Of any party. All are uniteesand
ready for tile conflict. r '.;> FL ss1.~ p.
SscRETARY FLoYD on SECESSION. -
Secretary Floyd writes TO the Richmond
(Ea.3 Enquirer, holding the right OF Sc
cesEiOn, but he would not exercise it until
every melns bad been employed to pre-
serve the Uniou. He fuyors u State
Conventions. .. - g..s s.. r. II, ~. r..
-, CoNcILIAToRY,- Hon. John NJ. Bolts
Of Virginia has written a letter present
sing his views as to the policy best calcn-
lated TO preserve the Union. He sng-
gssts the passage Of q law by Congress
making il treason for any individual in
the Northern States giving support TO
the notification laws on their statute
books, to aid rescuing slaves under the
fugitive slave law, and compelling any
State refusing to surrender q fugitive
slave, to make full indemnity for such
slave to his owner. :, . !. l.. :.
DEBTS DUE BY THE SoUTH TO THE NORM.
There exists apprehension in some
quarters that 10 the event of dissolution
Of the Confederaey, the debts now due
and TO become due by Southern iner-
chants and citizens to Northern houses,
viii be In some manner lost and not paid.
We presume that there is as much indi-
Hldual honesty and commercial Integrity
among Southern merchants and citizens
m among any other people and any acts
Of dishonesty will meet with the same
condemnation ut the South that they
merit and receive among honest people
everywhere. While the merchants and
. manufacturers of the North have in many
instances been shamefnlly derelict in their
duty to the South and to the Union, yet
such dishonorable conduct will never be
made the pretext by honest Southern
merchants for an avoidance OF n just OBJ
legation to pay an honest debt. Goods,
wares. and merchandise, !" purchased at
The North will be honestly paid for,
whether the Union be preserved or dis
solved, unless the North yacates the Oh
hgatlon to pay by making war upon the
south. The law Of nations has no better
established principle than that state of
war Iacates all debt, claims and con-
tracts existing between the subjects and
QUEENS OF the nations at war, The pay
ment OF debts due from the South TO the
North will depend solely upon the North.
IL that section appeals to war, to coercion,
and seeks, not 10 maintain but to aFeRge
we Union, then, it will become the duty
Of every citizen Of the South to seek for
eh means to intlict Injury of every kind
upon each and all Of the citizens of the
North. The effort at coercion, followed
ny war, can only prevent the North from
Receiving their Just debts. The people Of
tae South are able 10 pay, and will pay.
commercial reFulsiOn may aoatfone and