Year: 1861

l "ii o'hoi lSopectS, perpetual ulsCOTu TtlSns III their ranks, and irreconcilable antagonism abstracts them. While the slavery issue is kept alive, these differences will only sharpen their appetites fon united assaults upon the South; but let that issue be fairly settled and every shade of opinion upon other questions will become the nucleus of sepa- rate faction, shivering the black republican organization, and leaving Lincoln without party to sustain him. Such men will make no such sacrifice willingly. They will maintain their aggressive attitude and i press 1t to it's legitimate conclusion, the | destruction of the slave States, on the one hand, or disunion and perhaps civil war, on the other. By that course only can their sectional power be preserved That being so, it is puerilc to go to them for concession-they wW concede nothiDg. If the South remains in this confederacv. she surrenders to black repubicanism The effect of that will be. that slavery will be fxedly limited and imprisoned with the States where 1t now exists. It will never be permitted to expand into the territories. At the end of a certain period, the entire habitabJe area of the slaveholding States will be filled with whites and blacks. After this fatal time of repletion, the increase of both races will still go on, with an accu- mulating ratio, from year to year, the increase of negroes predominatng in the most frightful excess. The overburthened land will groan under the number of those it must feed; but still their number will increase. Finally, Mere agiH Je c confict for supremacy of races and t{e Uacks aciU 5e erterminoted, or else Me aghae man must a6anaon his countryfore0er Co Me negro.

 This is what northern fanatics mean when they speak of "surrounding slavery with a cordon of free States, and confining 1t where it is, until like the scorpion ringed with fire, 1t shall sting itself to death.' This Is the platform of the black republi- can party-of the President elect; the plat form upon which the government is to be administered after tie fourth of March next; Me platfoym ot Me Union Are yon ready to accept it? Will you submit to it?

 South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama Mis- sissippi, Florida Louisiana and Texas have declared that they will not submit. One of them has already seeded. the others will most certainly follow We believe that Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Ten nessee, Missouri and Kentucky will be out of the Union within sixty days. Whether they Secede so soon or not, we hold that Arkansas should. The success of the black republican party has left about the Union nothing to make her continuance in it desirable; the secession of her sister cotton States appeals to all her natural sympathies. Identified with them in interest and feeling, she should seek their destiny, and permit nothing to delay her in reunting with them and building up government that shall first acknowledge openly, and then protect honestly, all her rights

 Is any further appeal needed in behalf of the immediate secession of Arkansas? If so, there is one yet to be made, which would reach to colder hearts than yours, and in- flame more sluggish blood than you possess The federal government--backel up by our black republican enemies, and by few southern trators vet more base, - Is about to resurrect the doctrine of King George the third and Lord North, and the tories of l716. As they made war on our toretathers, for asserting the unalienable right of self government so it proposes to make war on the seeding States for the same cause. Already the movement is begun. The wide awake clubs of the black republi- can party are mastering for another raid The Governors of black republican States are conspiring against us, and urging their people to be ready for the attack Members of black republican legislatures are advo- eating the appropriation of millions of dol lars to put their militia on war footing It | Is believed that orders will be issued, if they have not already been sent, for reinforcing the federal forts throughout the South, and thus attempting to terrify LIS into submission to abolition rule, and to what is soon to be a foreign and hostile government.

 Against this array, the seeding States stand firm and undaunted The gallant Palmetto Republic will meet the first shock Perhaps before you read this address, the blood of her sons will have poured out as incense to liberty. When that shall hap pen, the chivalry of the South will rush to her relief, and, for every drop of Carolinian blood, scores of the invaders of her soil will be sacrificed. Arkansians are too brave and magnanmous to be unrepresented in that struggle; they will not be- They will not only perform their duty towards Caro- lima, but towards every other resisting State. Missouri especially, surrounded as she IS by abolitionism, and more exposed than other States, must command the sym pathy of all onr people, and the fraternal | tribute of their arms and their blood when ever needed

 Arkansians will admit no title to their affections in u government that contem- plates the invasion of southern States, and sets on foot desolating war against them That government is not the Union which OFT forelathers made.-a Union of equality and consert. 1t is the Union they fought against,-a Union of tyranny and force. Let us initiate them, acting with the south ern States.

 Any delay orhesitation on your part will only serve to emholdcn your enemies and make civil war inevitable. In that case. they will regard you as sympathizing with them. The descendants of this generation, looking back to the great events of which we are actors, will charge to the account of southern Union men and submissionsts at least one half the blood spilled in the con test. Let no such innocent blood be charged upon Arkansas Let her promptly assume her proper place in the seceding column, and secure out of the Union the rights that have been wrested from her within it.

 In thus acting, we will be entitled to the Sympathies of the friends of genuine liberty throughoua the earth. We will have the good wishes of thousands of true men in the very heart of the abolition section. All such will desire our success, not as a victory over the North, but as victory against the. miserable fanaticism that has degraded the North and broken up the American confederation.

 If we seeade, and confederate together,-