Year: 1861



 South are essentially democratic in our politics. We think each State s an independent govern ment and sovereign. and that all power is in the hands of and derived solely from the people, and that the people have the inalienabe, indeeisible, and unquestionabe right to amend after or abolish their government whenever they choose to do so They alone are the judges Of the time and the remedy, and how and when to apply 1t; for any one to say sovcro 5n State has not the right to secede, is to mv mind, sheer nonsense. It IS a right can't divest myself or my children of if wished to. Can any free man sell himself or children into slavery federaiist may deny the right to secede and he consistent, but democrat never can. Trace the Union feeling that is in the South to it's legitimate source, and where will it lead' Hard by the throne of Oll England. In the revolutionary struggle of our ancestors there apologists for British oppgesson-for the king of Englsnd--tor the good old consultation under which the colonies had prospered long; they could not secede from it. We all know the legacy their children inherited in name that ''sticketh closer than brother" h the of l8l2 Eng land had her sympathizers in the northern federaliats and their southern kindred Even in the recent Mexican WAT, some were found giving "aid and comfort to our foes. And now in this en- frightened day. in this, the greatest war that ever waged on southern American soil for principle, liberty and equality, we find some sympathizing with the North; apologzing for Lincoln, and sing ing paans to the glorious UnionM

 For more than forty years the South has en- dureI the taunts, jeers and oppression of the North with more than stoic torttude and patri- otc devotion to the Union. She has ycilded step by step, made compromise after compromise, in all which she got worsted; till the North, encouraged by her lberality, determined to make smash up of us at once by humliating the South in the eyes of the world by confning her labor in narrow limits, and making her tributary to northern glory ani aggrandizement. We'll, said they, crowd her so and pile it on 50 hard and fast that we will make her sue to Us northern lordlings for our cemency. Where is the proId son of the 5ouih who is worty of his nativity, that would tamely submit to such vile degradation. l would rather be a dog and bay the moon than to submit to abolition dictation. I would rather split this once United States into thousand fragments than

  black repub!icanisn. trust this same feeling now glows in the bosom of a large majority of the sons of Arkansas, and that next August we will be free, and unite with the homogeneous southern Confederate States

 What the Union men waiting for? What do they wantl What do you think Mas Abe will give us7 Are you expecting good bone to pick, frnrp tba may just settle it down in your minds to fare like old Mother Hubbard's dog-you'll have none. Before the northern and southern mind can har- monize, new direction must be given to the northern intellect Tie children and youth must be instructed in the true principles of the Bible. Ministers of the gospel who have correct views of its holy teachings should have access to their con gregations, and explain to their prejudiced minds it's true import and proper incoming. School teachers, from the South, would be proftaby en- poyed in newly educating public sentiment and our public stump speakers would do good work by speaking to the masses and ndoctrinating them in the principles of political economy and State rights about which the northern public mind seems to know so little. In fact, think the north and

 

 christian beneyolencc and political philanthropy; and whenever circumstances justify it. it should he Occupied" As the case now stands, it seems suicidal for Arkansas to remain in the United States. Seyen States already out, with overwhelming majority against us, how can we expect to get anything only as boon from the dominant abolition major tyl It is prcpostrous, and to my mind absurd. The national debt will increase expenses accumu- late, taxes raise, the tariff still go up, the North become more superclious and elevated and we will gradually be subdued into 'hewers of wood and drawers of water " for the great central govern rsent of the United States, with constitution re- modelled, and judiciary re-organ zed, all to suit the views of our northern task masters; meantime our whole State will be getting more and more used to the manaces, and instead of ipuriauriaq, will begin to laud. and by little and little become abotionized; for though we may now think such thing impossible, and may think that abolition is

 monster ofsuch frghtfuI mien,

 That to be hated needs but to be seen

 ' ct such is the ductity of the human heart. and convertability of our affections, that no odds how odlous thing may seem at first sight, yet

 Being once familiar with its face

 We first see, then pity, then embrace.