Year: 1860

frank in the avowal of their purpose, and
in their efforts to accomplish it, Herein
they are better than Phillip. We encour-
age them by apathy and bouuties; and here
in we are worse than the Athenians.


NO. III.


have shown you, people of the South,
what you have to expect from the Union in
the future. Let me now inquire of you,
why you desire longer continuance in it ?
Do you deem it any honor to be associated
with people who have no respect for you
nay, who hold youin sovereign contempt?
They have pushed aside your Gospel min
listers to make way for negroes They have
twitted, insulted and bullied your members
of Congress. They have abused every
President who respected your rights, aud
every court that does not acknowledge the
negro to be the equal of the white man.
They have done e cry thing that detesta-
tion aud disdaiu could suggest, to humble
you in the eyes of the world. BY your self
respect, by your pride, by ,Jur honor, then,
I ask you, why do you desire to fasten your
selves to this body of death any longer p
Do you say, "for reverence of our fathers
legacy; for the glory of our great and
widely extended country; and for the
perpetuity of our admirable form of gov
ernment?" If you mean by "our fathers
legacy" the Constitution, they have de-
uouuced that with baptized lips, in terms
too profaue to be repeated, and they have
thrown its tattered fragments in your teeth.
Who gave your country its vast extent p
Virginia, Virgiuian, and Southern arms.
How much do you own of it? You tried
to plant your feet upon a strip of it, and
you were driven from it by arms subscribed
for in the house of God, by women, preach
ers, professors and students. And when
the high captain of this tangled COM
missariat turned his bloody arms from the
land OF purchase to the land Of the purchas-
er, they gloried at the alarms he spread a.
moug women and children-did all they
could to save his neck, placed his name in
the roll of martyrs, and consecrated the day
of his execution. How much of the ''glory'
of the country do you share? Most of it
belongs to you and your sircs by rights, but
you get none of it All that the world
knows of you, is from the reports Of your
enemies, and they debase you. If you
would throw off your servility, and assume
national character, the world seouM know
you, court you, fear you, respect you; but
you have clung to the rotten Union until
you have almost become stencil in the
nostrils Of the world Do you know the
true secret of Lincoln's overwhelming ma
jorities? I can tell it to you. Your speak
ers went to the North, and set up the old
yell, that the Union was in danger 1t
nauseated the Democrats, and inspirited
the Republicans. None of them believed
that there was either truth or courage in
you, and they determined to prove it. They
meant to hold you up to the eyes of the
world as specimens of slaveholding verify
and valor The Democrats, who had al
ways stood by you, knew that they would
keep down the Abolitionists if the South
would prove to them, by some unequlvocal
act, her determination to dissolve the I'm
ion, or to maintain her rights With eve
ry threatened aggression they warned the
people of its danger to the Union-said it
was grossly unjust, or unconstitutional, and
that the South could not and would not sub
init to it, 1t came, and the South bus-
tered little, and did submit to it. They (the
Democrats became ridiculous to their oppo,
nents, and lost confidence with the people,
Of course they waned with every recurrence
of these circumstances. until they expired
to rise NJ more. They regard you as the
authors of their overthrow, and they feel
towards you accordingly. You have, then,
no friends at the North, aud millions Of
bitter enemies. Why do you wish to con-
tiuue the connection Your enemies will
soon have every thing their own way You
cannot reach them through the ballot. box.
or in any other way ; but they can and will
reach you with whip of scorpions. You
have them for once under alarms, (thanks
be to much-abused little South Carolina for
IT'D but you will never alarm them again.
For several years to come their whole aim
will be to place you where you dare not
dissolve the Union. When they have you
hampered securely, then comes the long
promised visitation, with horrors unknown
this side of perdition. Let me not be mis-
understood. I cannot promise you an easy,
quiet, retreat from the Union. This break
ing up of governments is critical thing;
it is apt to be attended with much trouble.
But l can promise you much less trouble
than you will endure to remain in the Un.
ion. This trouble is certain-it is fore
ordained. The other is contingent So far
as | can see, if the Southern States will
move off in body, with one heart and one
mind, there would be no trouble at all. 1t
would be the most peaceful, quiet, blood
less revolution that ever was wrought; but
the history of revolutions leads me to dis
trust my own judgment here. As to the
whipping threatened, only keep Sumner off,
that's all we ask. A. B. LoNGsTREET.


THE NAvY.-The Nem York Herald of
Monday says:


awe learn from reliable sources that a
very great excitement prevails among the
officers of the navy in consequence of the
present state of affairs at the South, and
that so adverse are they to collision with