Year: 1861

Cabinet, probable resignation OF the PrcSlden


and the stormy debate in the Senate on Mon


day, taken in connection with thefpreparaton.


being made all through the country, North as


well as South, for Revolution,-it would be


worse than folly for any sane longer tc
affect to believe that there is the least posi-
BILE hope for the continuance Of this Govern
| ment as atpresent organized Sadly as we
| feel over the result candor and common hon
esty compels us to make the admission that


the United States Government is at an end,
and all the horrors of Revolution are hanging
over this people.


Congress has or is about to break up in @
general row; the Cabinet has fallen to pieces,
and our unfortunate President, instead of look
| ing the awful responsibilities of his position
in the face, is said to be under the influence of
q continual nightmare which keeps him in
| constant dread Of assassination, and we should
not be at all surprised if the next mail were
to bring the intelligence that he had fed from
the federal city as Louis Philippe fled from
Paris ten years ago, to escape the vengeance
| of an indignant and outraged people. 1t is
now very evident that he never possessed the
moral courage, the ability or the common hen
esty requisite to preside at the head Of this
| great Government.


We warned the people cf this condition Of
things last summer through these columns and
from the stump; we told them that bad men,
North and South, had determined on the de-
struetion of this Government, and that unless
they prevented it at the ballot box Reqolu-
tion would be on them before they knew it, and
that when the crisis came and the South called
for her true friends James Buchanan and John
O. breckenridge need not be reckoned as among
them. What is the sequel? Why Buchanan
has gone over to the North soul and body,
boots and breeches, while Mr.. Breckinridge is
said to be counselling for q middle States Con
federacy, which project proposes the taking in
Of New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois,
and New jersey while the Gulf Cotton States
and the extreme Southern States are to be re-
jected! Is this the gallant Breckenridge which
the South voted for? Is this the man whom
the dsunionists, bent OH the destruction OF the
best government upon earth, met at Richmond
to section@lise2 Douglas, they said, was not
true to the South how stands the gallant





fcderacy now, when the necessity OF such a
course is forced upon US


But these things are past and let them go
We are now in the desperate throes Of 4 gen
cral Revolution and the cry to arms to arms.
should ring throughout the Southern States.
We urged the arming Of this State fifteen
months ago when the meana could have been
!,
could see no necessity fUr such a step then,
and hence oar present detenceless condition.
And when the Legislature met in November
instead of proceeding at once to place the
State in proper state of leftnce they wrangled
for SIN weeks without doing single thing tor
the benefit Of the State, when they adjourned
for IS long days at the very time when the
federal Government is going to pieces ard at
time when every hours delay gives the
ENEMY advantage. That the North expects a
general conflict and is preparing for it the
following despatch from Boston abundan tly
proves:


'.BosroS, Dec. 80, 1860-Thcre is no disguis-
ing the fact that massachusetts is ready to re
spond promptly to any demand made upon her
for troops to sustain the Union and the laws.
learn to-day, from the highest authority, that
seven thousand troops can be put in marching
order in twenty-iour hours notice, and that one
hundred aud forty-fivc thousand men are en-
rolled in the militia of the State. OF this nun-
Der twenty thousand could be easily mustered.


The financial resources Of Massachusetts We're
never in a better condition for such an emer
gercy, and the people enthusiastic to be en-
rolled.


Adiutant General Abbott, Of New Hampshire,
arrived here this afternoon from Washington,
and left Immediately for Concord, with the in
tention of recommending to Governor Goodwin
that the Granite State be Immediately put upon
war footing.


Considerable excitement exists in conse-
Qucnce of the reports that the muskets removed
from the Springfield armory have been distribll-
ted over the South. Mr.. Whitney, Collector
of this Port, late Superintendent Of the Armory
at Springfield, returned from there tonight,
having been there, it is supposed, with refer
ence to the report from Washington that twen-
" thousand muskets have recently been taken
from the armory and sold to Virginia,


The feeling IS deep and not to be minister
preted. There is mistaking the fact that
Massachusetts is in earnest in this crisis. The
merchants are plucky, and the name of .Ander-
son is uppermostin every conversation"


Here people of the South you have the Abo-
liton programme; they mean to fight and mean
to fight to the bitter end. Shall we arm our
selves for the conflict and defend our rights and
our honor, or shall VIC lie upon oars AID
suffer ourselves to be butchered without resist
ance. Whatever is to be done must be done
quickly--our Legislature is a slow coach at
best, and when they meet next Monday instead
of passing bill to arm the State at once, it is
more than probable that six more weeks will
be consumed in bombastic debates which viii
amount to nothing.


In view Of these facts we have suggestion
to make: Let public meetings be at once held
IN every town and village in the State, and in
every Captains precinct, and let companies be
formed of men who are able and willing to arm
themselves who shall at once arm, equip, drill
and prepare for active services, and hold them
selves in readiness for duty when called on by
the proper authorities. Then when the States
appropriation is made, if IN the fulness of their
wisdom the members of the Legislature shall