Year: 1861

Ihe sovereignty oi Aisr convention assembled. 0of .t- "a the federal government are oi saeh eh .'ae- ter, that the people ofthe State by sn over whelming vote for convention. declared that some definite step must be taken to SC. cure the rights of Arkansas in or out of the Union. The overwhelming vote fos con yention can mean nothing else than full adjustment of our rights in the Union or secession from it. Many of the delegates were immediate secessionists, and maJorl- tv of them advocated secession in case somet thing was not done by the foarth of March. That time has arrived, but 1t has brought no peace to the country. and the clnud that oathere1 above us still lours there Tn murkier gloom. The peace congress has failed completely. The plan submitted, though not even acceptable to the South, was voted down by the black republicans.

 The policy of Lincoln as foreshadowed in his inaugural is coercion. In view of these facts, we do not hesitate to say, that the people of Arkansas are overwhelming ly in favor of secession. The vote for convention proves this. The increasing feeling all over the State shows that the people are getting impatient at the degra- dation of submitting longer to the doml- neerine insolence of Lincoln and his myr- midons. We have seen the feeling Tn our own town, once so very conservatives Men here have declared for secession, who two weeks ago were the strongest Unlon men in the State We understand that the same feeling is going on in Scbastlan' in Jefferson and in all the counties border ing on the Mississippi. In some sections the Union men have come over CD ndSse, and we verily ,lieve that in six weeks suJpissionist would not be tolerated In a majority of the counties of this State

 In view of these facts, why does the con veption longer hesitate? Are we to be hu- initiated and disgraced as Tennessee has been? Are we to have revolution and an archv in our midst by the inaction of the only body that can give us peace and quletz The State is impatient, The people are satisfied that all hope of compromise IS at an end. They will soon begin to murmer at the inaction of the convention, which while ithesitates to act, has no hesitation about consuming four or five hundred dollars per day of the peoples money. Something must be done, and why delay longer?- There is point beyond which iorbearance ceases to be virtue. We believe that a large majority of the convention are good and true men, and our only regret IS that a few submissionists are allowed to thwart the action of this body, which, we are free to say. is the best looking and most intelli- cent collection of men we have seen for many day.

 Let us have action. The people are con- vinced that all hope of compromise is at an end. The convention must be convinced of it by this time. The change of feeling in Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina, as we learn by telegraph, will soon make the South unit Let Us not be the last to join our sister States of the South. Let us take proud and independent position, and not wait till we are driven out of the Union. For Gods sake, give us an ordi- nauce of secession. It is our last, our only resort-it is a necessity.