Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1863-02-20
WHERE WILL THE WEST GO.


paper OF the Sth inst, copied from the Prov
idence RHODE lsland) ''Post," That paper
calls it a ''most extraordinary article from a
new England paper" 1t does certainly express
opinions whcih finding their way through
the w estern Democratic papers, and which
no doubt are growing both in strength and fre-
quency.
WHERE WILL THE W EST Cow sndell Phil.
lips, in his recent political add ress here, ad-
mitted that the West was even now preparing
to go with the South. One could hear talk Of
it all through the We estern country. The West
did not love the East. II did not love negroes
1t did not love high tariffs. If disunion becomes
fixed fact, the West would follow the South.
New England and New York would be left out
in the cold
Our belief is that New England alone will
be left out in the cold. We said years ago,
that if separation came, new Confederacy
would follow, and that it would not embrace
New England. We have not changed our
belief upon this point Indeed, it is every day
strengthened and We entertain no doubt that
the West itself would object to company
ift should be offered. -
New York will belong to the new Repu blic,
if one is established. Certainly it will seek to-;
and we see DO reason why both South and
est should not unite in desiring her presence
But New England, with her AboIitionism and
her political priests-the hot-bed of all the
isrns, and the author Of oar great calamity,
the everlasting beggar of protective tariffs
will be objected to, and will be excluded. The
old Union once gone, it can never belong to an
other, unless. perchance, it finds for herself and
is forced to accept the same condition OF de-
pendency which she is now preaching for the
terms OF equally.
And this is the final end to which this Admins
traton is now driving Us. It is every day rem
dering a restoration of the Union and
more difficult. Instead OF acting upon the re-
cent expression of sentiment by the people at
the ballot-box, it is defying this great source
of power, and exhibiting the utmost contempt
for popular condemnation. Lincoln, the Presi.
dent, is represented rs saying that he would
sooner die tn housand deaths than withdraw
his Abolition proclamation, and attaching
far more Importance to the result of the cleo.
tion in Missouri-a result secured by his hire.
lings at the point of the bayonet, and by ter.
rorlsm which kept more than two ffths of all
the votef8 from the polls-shan to all the 9th
or elections which had taken place during the
war;
He reioiced over a verdict .hus shamefdlly OBJ
tanned in State where he desires to introduce in
poetical shape the FIRE brand of emancipation,
and spruns with contempt the honest condemna
ton of his condust which comes to him with the
endorsement of fifteen millions of northern people.
He removes the ablest Generals in their army, with
no other than political motive, and declare his de-
termination to throw out every officer who daress
cr1ticise his conduct. He empties Forts Warren
and Lafayette of political prisoners without word
of apol ogy or explanation to their victims. and
without the moral courage to rescind the uncon-
stitutional order under which they were and 9TH
ers probably willsbe arrested. He throws hlm..
self body and soul into the embraces of the Gree
lys and Loveioys Of the party which defend him,
and defies the honest men who have supported the
calamity to which radicalisTn is tending. ~s.ss
This is our position. The hope of The Union is
every hour growing fainter, until majority Of ths