American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1863-01-09
WHERE WILL THE WEST CO.,

WHERE WILL THE WEST CO..
The following article we find ia a
Fneinnasi paper Of the lsth ult., copied
pm the Providence (Rhode Island
Ost. The paper calls il most extra
binary article from New Enolana
! per" IL does certainly xprcss opin-
|ps which are finding ileir way through
+ Western Democratic papers. and
|bich no doubt are growing both in
length and frequency
Wendell Phillips. in his recent polit-
j address here. admitted that the West
"a even now preparing th 20 with the
buh. One could he~ talk of it all
rough the Western country. The
gest did not love the East II did not
|ve negroes. 1t did not love high tar
j. If disunion becomes a fixed fact.
l. West would follow the South. New
lngland and New York would be left
& in the cold
Our belief is, that New England alone
bl be left out in the cold. We said
tars ago. that If separation came. a
~ Confederacy would follow, and that
! our belief upon this point. Indeed IL
every day strengthened and we en-
+rfain no donbt that the West would
ieet to our company if it should be
[6ered
New York will belong to the new re.
lbic if there is one established. Ger
Sinly it will seek to 4; and we see no rea.
b. why both South and West should
pt mite in desiring her presence. But
lev England. with her Abolitfonism
#nd her political priests-fhe hot bed OF
I the isms. and the author of our great
[alamity-the everlasting beggar of pro-
kctve tariff~-will be objected TO. and
4 I'M be excluded. The old Union once
4 one. it can never belong to another.
I Mess. perchance. it finds for herself
nd is forced 10 accept the same condi-
on Of dependency which she Is now
|reaching for the South No other sec
on will want her on terms Of equality.
Aud this is the finale to which this Ad-
Illustration is driving US. It is every
az rendering restoration of the Union
hore and more difficult. Instead of act
BE- upon the recent expression of senti-
,eni by the people at the ballot box, IT
defying this great source of power,
| nd exhibiting the utmost contempt for
'opular condemnation. Lincoln, The
President, is represented as saying that
would sooner die a thousand deaths
ban withdraw his Abolition proclama
on, and as attaching far more impor-
.nce to the result of the election in
tissouri-a result secured by his hire
ngs at the point of the bayonet, and by
! terrorism which kept more than two
3hhs Of the voters from the polls-than
! all the other elections which had taken
lare during the year.
He reioices over a verdict. thus shame
blly obtained. in State where he de
res to introduce in practical shape
BE- irebrand OF emancipation, and
ourns with contempt the honest condem
#.lon Of his conduct which comes to him
9th the endorsement of fifteen millions
northern people F! He removes the
bIest generals in the army, With no 9th
than a nolitical motive, and declares
Is determination to throw out every off
fr who dare criticise his conduct He
Snpties Forts Warren and LAFAYETTE of
sDIilical prisoners. without a word OF
biology or explanation of their victims.
hd without the moral courage 10 rescind
BE- unconstitutional order under which
kev were. and others probably will be.
crested. He throws himself. body and
bull. into the embraces of the Greeleys
hd Loveioys of the party. which defend
bm and deiies the honest men who have
Imported the government. to change his
{licy or avert the final calamity to
Shich radicalism is tending
This is our position. The hope of the
MON is every hour growing fainter.
phil majority of the people of the
orlh at last look upon separation or
Evolution as certainty. We have al
WED personal rights and States rights
be trampled upon-we have allowed
e country to be flooded with a currency
3hich. FIVE years hence. will not be
oEth the paper upon which it is printed
E have submitted to taxation. such as
mericans never dreamed--we have
Tered up hundreds of thousands of val
fhle lives. And what have we gained ?
thy. so hopeless is our cause to day.
lat the people of the West. as Wendell
phillips truly said. are making their
Engagements to follow the South. They
fll fellow the South and so will the
Fiddle States. if the Union is sundered !;
fd that twill be sundered if the Pres
ent adheres TO his determination to make
Ris an Abolition war after the first of
fnuarv next, is as certain as the sun
Plnes in the heavens.
Another Report from Burnside.
We published yesterday, says the
|emphis Appeal of the 9th. Burnside's
icial report Of the battle of Fredericks-