Year: 1860

- ~ = = " ~ VI LL1lI SANlSNs


The whole country seems awake to
the question, and 60 where you will
the first intcrogatory IS: What of the
times--will the Union be dissolved? A
majority answer in the affirmative,
while few are disposed to hope, with
out the shadow of foundation for
such hope. Every mail is looked for
with ardent anxiety to see the current
ofevents, and whittier that current is
carrying us-whether the Ship of
State is to be safely moorcd in haven
of rest, or go down to rise no more
The waves arc now playing madly
around her and we know of no one
who can calm them. But the worst
scare is over. Men whose hearts al.
most sunk awhile back are now begin
ing to contemplate with composurc the
fearful result. They see that Black
Republican fanaticism is bent on de.
stroying our rights; and their late sue
cess, instead of serving to show them
the folly of their course and warning
them to dcsist, has only emboldened
them to gloat over our defeat in strug-
Cling to obtain the rights guaranteed
us by the Constitution. Common re-
spcct it seems ought to teach them to
refrain from Il jerring exultation over
a minority party, but, thank God, not
vanquished one. The South will not
submit to this triumph Of the Northern
anti-slavery faction, especially when it
is followed by actions on the part of
our enemy, which are repugnant to ev-
cry motive of peace and conciliation,
and condemned by every impulse of
'chivalry. We are led to make these
resnarks by reading extracts from sew.
eral Northern papers in which the
Southern people arc stigmatiscd as
bravadoes, and that they must be
taught lesson ofsubmssion and hu-
miiity. These papers openly declare
that a time has come to show the South
'how powerless and pusilanmors she
is and that our 'insolence' and 'braga.
docio' have been suffered long enough.
This mode Of dealing with the South
will have its effect, and we warn tho
Republicans now that it is the course
by which to unite every Southern man,
and thus united we opne that it will
be little harder to teach us humility
and submission than some in the North
seem to think. There seems to be an
immense amount of presumption in
many Of the Northern papers. The
New York Tribune, from which We
extracted in last weeks journal, is
one OF the prcsumptious sort 1t is II
paper of immense influence and edited
by brilliant light in abolitionism-
Horace Greedy. His paper seems to
look upon the Southern people as pal
troons, who make much fuss and then
skulkingly submit. What a mistake !!
We would advise its editor, row that
the election is past, to cease taunting
and irritating the South e it would
avoid the dissolution which many seem
to fear, Because we have mon in the
South who will c!amor for Union, who
are willing, epen get, to await an overt
act, still il will take but Il feather more
on the camcl's back to break it, These
Union men in the South revere the
Constitution, and while they admit
that it has been infractcd, still, for the
sake Of peace they are willing to trust
those who don't deserve to be trusted


But if you taunt them-if you jeer
thcm--thcy will become as strong for
disunion as Yancy or Rhett. And ta-
king this last view of it, we don't feel
like oLjecting to your taunts and jeers.


If they be the means Of uniting the
Southern people as a unit upon those
things which so deeply concern us; if
by your --cpithets and animadvcrsions
YOU cause the South.ons all to awake
fully to your villainy and dominecrng
E,naticism-wc say, jeer on, and our
prayer shall be Equality in the Union


or independence out of it,